Surly Darkness Day 2013

I can only imagine that was the same guy who got into my truck and tried to find the keys to leave. He was a complete mess.

 

Talked to the guy this happened to. Pretty sure the couple who did this weren't there to buy Darkness

 

When I was leaving at 4pm I overheard some of the volunteers talking about a guy who was going to jump off the bridge if he was left alone - does anyone know what that was all about?

 

That dude got blood all over our table, dude is a mess every year. I just know him as the BLS dude.

 

I just have to say wow. What a well-run event by Surly and what an awesome time in line waiting sharing beers and meeting some great people. One of the best beer events I've ever been to. Can't wait for next year to do it bigger and better.

And hopefully someone will bring the Schmitt's Gay next year to tick off (you know who you are)

 

This was my first Darkness Day, and it was more than I had anticipated. Met some great people in our group (one spot behind Biglobo's truck) and had an awesome experience. Want to thank all the great Chicagoans and Ohioans for their hospitality and generosity. It made for a great event and something I look forward to doing in the future.

The highlight for me included this guy who wandered into the back of the SurlyFest parking lot, grabbed my co-parter in the front of our truck at 4 a.m., and told him, "the zombies are going to kill you." Then, he went to the car in the spot next to us only to find it was locked. Moving on, he got in the front of a Prius that had its keys in the ignition, started driving the car into the fence of the neighboring business, and had two guys who had waken up to a real-life nightmare screaming at him from the back of the Prius. Luckily, the individual I came down to Darkness with and the guy who was in the locked vehicle observing the situation were able to pull this inebriated individual out of the vehicle after pulling the keys from the ignition. Police showed up after he had already walked back onto the street and blended in with everyone else. Needless to say, Surly should name a beer for next year's Darkness Day along the lines of Blacked Out, Stolen Prius, or Zombie Preacher.

 

How about some Surly Fabulous?

 

LOL

 

Just told Todd "Zombie Prius"

 

I like Zombie Preacher. Fits with the theme.

 

That was me and my buddy in the Prius. Woke up and there was some guy driving his car. Wut? The Prius is a push button start, the keys were in the back with us and as long as they are within 20 - 30 feet of the vehicle, the car will start. Luckily no damage, and the guy got out without trying to drive off.

I'm not so sure the guy was drunk. When I was talking to him in the car trying to figure out what was going on he had this thousand yard stare, and was dead serious about the Apocalypse and having to "get out of there" or we were going to die. Could've been sleepwalking/dreaming/intoxicated, could've been on something, could've been a psychotic/manic episode, but he definitely wasn't right in the head. There are all those apartments just down the embankment from the parking lot, so he very well could've just wandered over from there.

I was able to get out of the car and open the passenger door and others helped get this guy out. When he got out and walked away he didn't really stumble or seemed uncoordinated, so who knows. The Surly nightwatch and the responding officers were great, responded right away, took statements and gave us their card and tore off looking for him. They didn't hassle us for sleeping in cars or anything, and took it pretty serious.

Makes for one hell of a story. And lesson - LOCK YOUR CARS

 

Dude is looking to escape the Apocalypse and chose a Prius as his escape vehicle? He was definitely drunk...

 

Then they could use that amazing unicorn design they were supposedly going to use for overrated. I still think it's cooler looking than what they went with.

 

I was sitting here laughing my ass off reading both of these posts. I don't know what the hell I would do in that situation, maybe just tell the guy to cool his jets and that Rick and Daryl were on the way to take care of the walkers.

 

Wow damn, I missed out having to work the next morning and unable to campout it sounds like...

I probably should throw public props out to the dude who cracked open a 1948 (brewed in 1934) bottle of Ballentine's Burton Ale and shared it with some of us hanging out by him. Darkness Day iz da shiz. Hoping to not be in the middle of a Beta Development Crunch during DD next year.

 

Zombie Preachers sounds like the perfect theme for next year's Darkness bottle artwork.

 

I'm going with side affects of mixing Ambien and a .20 b.a

 

The moment I can't stop laughing about is when some friends and I were walking back to our table and they stopped at one to warm their hands over a fire. I impatiently stood there for a minute then noticed 'hey man they had Cacaonut too!', only to have Ryan (copslovebeer) remark 'Dude, this is your table'. Nice.

 

This is the strangest part of the story. Two dudes sleeping in the back of a Prius??

 

Think about, great gas mileage in those things, perfect for the apocolypse.