On Thursday, July 27th three DC crashers drove 245 miles to Pittsburgh to attend Warped Tour. They were armed with fliers, crash synopsizes and bureaucrash T-shirts. The not-for-profit section was located next to stage Hurley - a lesser stage that still sported some awesome bands. The location was not optimal for crashing, as it was too loud to talk when bands were playing and people were not generally in the area when the stage was dark.

We shared the non-profit section with animal rights activist, Planned Parenthood and some global warming activist. In short, we were surrounded by democrats. However, they were all friendly, there were several smokers and one of the animal rights activists bought a shirt so we accepted them as fellow non-profit gurus.

There were three general responses to our fliers (Disclaimer: the following responses are based upon the perception of the crasher and may not be entirely accurate):

1. People who pretended to read them and nodded silently, usually smiling

2. People who must have actually read them because they then signed up

3. People who read the flier and were so interested that they moved on to our more dense literature - crash synopsizes.

People who took the time to read our crash synopsizes – which were basically blogs from operation Crash and Burn, Sweet Liberty and Rain on Their Parade – usually signed up and took copies of the blogs.

All in all, we had an awesome time and vowed to never remove our “sponsor” wristbands.