Crazy brawl at the Big E spills into the Colorado Ski Shop

[JimG.]

No, Vail still sucks.
I saw your comment before reading the article and I first thought that some angry skiers started trouble at a Vail booth at the BigE. But the actual incident makes more sense.

Didn't mean to imply Vail doesn't suck.

The day Vail doesn't suck will be the day this forum dies.

 

[jimk]

Didn't want to sound politically incorrect, but when I first looked at this thread and read the link about guys starting a rumble to create a diversion for theft I thought of this angle.

I grew up with some of the Stanley clan. They are Romas (gypsies).

 

[ctdubl07]

This was the second "gypsey" event of the week....a group, using children, started a diversionary event just a few days prior and then started pick pocketing as if it was a plaza in Euro.

The Big E also sells a significant amount of liquor and when that is mixed with the class of individual that lives in the greater Springfield area, fun ensues.

By attendance, it's the 3rd largest "fair" in the US.

When you think of these big Ag fairs of old, it does have a dwindling "agricultural" showcase side to it. Sadly that, as the family farm industry has gone, is barely holding onto any presence anymore. It was what my kids always like to go see.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

This was the second "gypsey" event of the week....a group, using children, started a diversionary event just a few days prior and then started pick pocketing as if it was a plaza in Euro.

The Big E also sells a significant amount of liquor and when that is mixed with the class of individual that lives in the greater Springfield area, fun ensues.

By attendance, it's the 3rd largest "fair" in the US.

When you think of these big Ag fairs of old, it does have a dwindling "agricultural" showcase side to it. Sadly that, as the family farm industry has gone, is barely holding onto any presence anymore. It was what my kids always like to go see.

we went to the blue hill fair near ellsworth maine on our summer road trip and it was the old fashioned agricultural fair you describe

apparently this particular fair was the inspiration for charlottes web

tons of livestock and produce on display, in addition to the carnival shit

 

[2Planker]

In NH we like the Deerfield Fair.
Fryeburg Fair is HUGE but is a real hoot for people watching

 

[SenorQuesadilla]

Seems like a lot of shots taken at the people of Springfield for an incident where the two people arrested were from hundreds of miles away.

 

[EdwinSimmons]

Damn, that's messed up. I remember last year, some kid got

 

[kbroderick]

In NH we like the Deerfield Fair.
Fryeburg Fair is HUGE but is a real hoot for people watching

Fryeburg will have metal detectors this year. Pro-carry people are bitching all over the Internet, despite it being an enforcement change, not a policy one--the Fair has banned weapons for some time, but they've done bag searches in the past rather than used metal detectors.

The comment that got me was "I'd feel better if I knew everyone was carrying."
Really? Have you been to the fair? I know plenty of people who carry, and I'm fairly confident none of them would consider it a good idea for everyone at the fair to be carrying.

We can go back to bashing Springfield now.

 

[bigbob]

In NH we like the Deerfield Fair.
Fryeburg Fair is HUGE but is a real hoot for people watching

I will probably addend both. Deerfield is about 20 minutes from home.

 

[Terry]

I live 5 mins to fryeburg fair and avoid it like the plague. I will be working right across the street clearing a house lot next week up behind the camping area. There are some local shortcuts to bypass traffic.

 

[BenedictGomez]

When you think of these big Ag fairs of old, it does have a dwindling "agricultural" showcase side to it. Sadly that, as the family farm industry has gone, is barely holding onto any presence ananymore.

I was a 4H kid, so true. Even though the area where I grew up is still rural so many farms were replaced by McMansions. The annual fair is probably 1/5 the size of back in the day.

And i hate to sound like the old man yelling at clouds, but i also don't think kids (or parents) have the stomach for it anymore. I used to get up at 5:30 to milk the animals 7 days a week. People now are like $=@& that!. Taught me about work & responsibility though.

 

[drjeff]

I was a 4H kid, so true. Even though the area where I grew up is still rural so many farms were replaced by McMansions. The annual fair is probably 1/5 the size of back in the day.

And i hate to sound like the old man yelling at clouds, but i also don't think kids (or parents) have the stomach for it anymore. I used to get up at 5:30 to milk the animals 7 days a week. People now are like $=@& that!. Taught me about work & responsibility though.

Living in a rural area that still has numerous working, primarily dairy farms, as well as having some of my patient base that either own and run their farms or who are part of the farming lifestyle as either their primary or secondary occupation, I can say that yes, there still is some interest in the farming way of life, however it tends to be a situation where the younger generation getting into the business almost always is from a family where mutliple generations before them were in the farming business. It's not a lifestyle for everyone by any means, but anecdotally the ones that I know seem to be quite happy with their lifestyle they have chosen

 

[IceEidolon]

It's also very difficult to start in that business if you lack any of the following:

Sufficient land to begin immediately at scale
Facilities and equipment
A variety of "good enough" skills and experience from electrical to mechanical to fabrication to veterinary and animal husbandry to financial and bookkeeping
A local support network of similarly skilled and equipped individuals

I honestly don't know how you'd get started in anything commercial ag without growing up in it and inheriting a working or recently abandoned farm. Agro tourism, maybe, but not a full on commercial first dairy farm.

 

[drjeff]

Just saw the official post.. The Big E drew just under 1.64 MILLION people in its 16 day run this year... It's unlike any other fair in New England by far!

 

[2Planker]

Just saw the official post.. The Big E drew just under 1.64 MILLION people in its 16 day run this year... It's unlike any other fair in New England by far!

Fryeburg is better. 300K attendees.
Less commercial than Big E.
You can also play the Ponies Tues-Sat.

 

[1dog]

It's also very difficult to start in that business if you lack any of the following:

Sufficient land to begin immediately at scale
Facilities and equipment
A variety of "good enough" skills and experience from electrical to mechanical to fabrication to veterinary and animal husbandry to financial and bookkeeping
A local support network of similarly skilled and equipped individuals

I honestly don't know how you'd get started in anything commercial ag without growing up in it and inheriting a working or recently abandoned farm. Agro tourism, maybe, but not a full on commercial first dairy farm.

to your point:
9/30 Barrons 'The Numbers'

96% decline in. number of US dairy farms from 1970 648k too less than 25K.

 

[BodeMiller1]

In NH we like the Deerfield Fair.
Fryeburg Fair is HUGE but is a real hoot for people watching

Fryburg is a solid fair. A lot of folks don't go to Hopkinton, too many people from other places bringing the fair down. Pick pockets get hurt as well as their mobs.

 

[BodeMiller1]

to your point:
9/30 Barrons 'The Numbers'

96% decline in. number of US dairy farms from 1970 648k too less than 25K.

And my price fixing class action against the milk industry gets thrown out? I guess cows can't organize.

 

[BodeMiller1]

Just saw the official post.. The Big E drew just under 1.64 MILLION people in its 16 day run this year... It's unlike any other fair in New England by far!

Family went there in the 1970s. Never went through the gate. Six flags no way, too many f'd up tards.

 

[BodeMiller1]

Demolition derby used to be fun. Now with the tards driving cars. Not so much. Tue dar