10 festival facts from Glastonbury

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2007

GLASTONBURY, England (AFP) — Here are 10 statistics from the Glastonbury festival on Friday's opening day:

-- 2,000,000 hits on the Glastonbury website

-- 148,000 people on Worthy Farm

-- 30,000 vehicles in the car park

-- 10,000 people arrived by train

-- 5,000 people an hour arrived Thursday

-- 4,000 kilometres (2,485 miles) of toilet roll if outstretched

-- 2,300 camper vans on site

-- 707 casualties reported

-- 13 thefts from tents

-- 12 people have attempted to jump the giant "ring of steel" fence

© 2007 AFP

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