Recommendations of the Editorial team
It’s probably every festival-goer’s nightmare. You come back to camp exhausted after a long day on the site and just want to lie down in your tent – but what you find is simply disgusting. If other festival visitors use their own sleeping space as a toilet, the weekend is over.
This apparently happened again at Rock am Ring 2026: In one Facebook group for the festival A visitor looks for people who observed the “perpetrator”. “Witnesses wanted!” begins her post. She continues: “While we were on the infield yesterday, someone pooped in one of our tents on B9. We are standing right next to the fence. Did anyone notice, hear, or see anything? This kind of interaction is terrible. We are waiting for attempts to explain.” But the reactions below are equally astonishing.
But there are also some commenters who seem to be very amused by the topic. A user then comments: “How can you just downplay such behavior?”, to which the person affected replies: “Something like that is really only funny if it doesn’t concern your own things.” Another user writes: “It’s clear that the male species here either thinks it’s funny or completely legitimate.”
Apparently it happens more often than you think
As absurd as the incident sounds, the problem at festivals is apparently not entirely new. Markus Kavka warned a few years ago in his festival column faced exactly this scenario – and gave a pretty solid tip: “Take a padlock for the tent. Not to prevent someone from clearing it out for you, but to prevent – be careful! – someone from pooping in it!”
Kavka reported at the time that exactly that had happened to one of his friends. “Apparently someone had decided that the nearest Dixikloo was either too far away, too uncomfortable or the queue in front of it was too long – so what could be better than leaving your heap in a stranger’s rooms in a relaxed manner?”
What may end up being a bizarre festival experience many years from now is, of course, anything but funny for those affected. A tent on the campsite is a retreat, sleeping place, storage room and mini-apartment at the same time. If there is a break-in, something is stolen – or something is thrown into it in a disgusting way – the festival fun is quickly over.
Insider tip at Rock am Ring: There are good toilets here
So the obvious tip remains: don’t leave your tent open, especially if you’re going to be on the site for a long time. And if you really have to go to Rock am Ring and don’t want the frustration of using a toilet: there are real toilets near the bowling alley on Ring Boulevard. You can even wash your hands properly at the sink there. This is not only more civilized – it saves others from a completely ruined festival weekend.
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