Has anyone else spotted this story from my homeland?
Few videos in this STV article that show the scope of this less than sweet (see what I did there 
) event
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Yeah but unless I’m not seeing something why on earth was the police called?
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It was on the national news last night.
The thing that surprised me was that they were allowed to use the name Willy Wonka.
As far as I know the Roald Dahl estate is very protective of their IP.
I seen this 
hilarious.
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Potential public order situation at a guess.
"We were just staying talking with people, others arriving and arriving and the crowd became angrier.”
Yeah I guess so just seems like the news picked it up because the word police was mentioned lol
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If they’d just stepped into their pure imagination it could have been anything they wanted it to be
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What was they thinking that there was an actual chocolate fountain with river? Maybe they needed to take some drugs before they entered
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Sucks if you bought tickets.
I don’t like the BBC following the cringe tabloid trend of including huge selfies of anyone involved. Really doesn’t add anything to the story.
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From the articles, it seems like 850 refunds were processed which is wild to think that many people thought it was going to be such a hit 
Have definitely been to kids parties that have had more of a put together display…
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+1 for that.
I have a particular dislike for vox pops. I want the news to tell me what’s happened and what it means. I don’t care what some rando in Stoke Poges thinks.
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Yeah but let’s be real what could they have been expecting? A magical Oompa Loompa
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The fact this thread is the first I’m hearing of this is why I always flop at the Guardian quizzes.
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I am now convinced that there will be a question this week on either this story, Willy Wonka, or Roald Dahl.
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850 Golden tickets ripped out of the hands of eager kids.
Fyre Festival 2?
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To be honest anyone who actually scrolled through that website and still thought “yeah, why not” deserves what they got.
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It was picked up by international press too, was pretty high up the NYT homepage yesterday https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/world/europe/willy-wonka-experience-glasgow.html
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