Woman says she was booted from Garth Brooks concert for using men's bathroom

Fox News.com ^ | May 11, 2016

[Kaslin]

A North Dakota woman said Monday she was kicked out of a Garth Brooks concert before the show started for using the men’s bathroom.

Samantha Bergh told Valley News Live that her husband took her to go see the country music superstar as a Mother’s Day gift. The concert in Fargo was attended by thousands of fans wanting to see Brooks.

“Right before Garth Brooks was to start we went to the bathroom. The women’s line was a good 100 people long,” Bergh told Valley News Live. “It was insanely long and there was no wait for the men’s so I just went into the men’s.”

Bergh told the TV station that when she came out of the bathroom a FargoDome security officer and a Fargo police officer were waiting for them. Bergh said she was sober and wasn’t rude to the officers, but was still escorted out of the venue.

[IamConservative]

This has been happening at big concerts for years. Women who have been drinking beer for hours and really need to go. Line at the ladies room backs-up around the corner and down the hall. They get desperate and crash the mens’ room. Most guys I know are actually OK with this.

Agree. Very commonplace. I've even seen women sidle up to the urinal, pull their shorts to the side and spray one in. I've also seen women give up and just squat outside by a trash can. The magic of alcohol.

[csivils]

“Who is at fault here, the desperate woman or the designer of the facility? The first time I saw the resourceful women using the guys’ restroom I chuckled.”

I’m not sure if it is just a Texas thing or if it is in other states, but there is a gas station named Buc-ee’s that is so proud of their restrooms that they have billboards advertising them 200 miles away.

The bathrooms are HUGE, always clean and the store is always packed. I have never seen a line outside the women’s restroom... I’ve never seen a line for the urinals inside the men’s restroom. Even when there are between 100-200 cars in the parking lot. It sounds like a Texas tall tale, but it is true.

After I took my wife/daughters there the first time, it was understood that all trips between major cities that had a buc-ee’s close to half way... would involve that as the designated bio stop. There is one between Houston and Dallas, and another one between Houston and San-Antonio. I think they opened one up on 290 between Houston and Austin.

All that to say that it is a design issue and one that can be solved, and Buc-ees is one example that shows it can be profitable.

[tacticalogic]

This has been happening at big concerts for years. Women who have been drinking beer for hours and really need to go. Line at the ladies room backs-up around the corner and down the hall. They get desperate and crash the mens’ room. Most guys I know are actually OK with this.

I've seen it where the line to the ladies room gets too long, and the guys will give up theirs long enough to clear up the backlog. Somebody will check to be sure it's clear first, and then half the line to the ladies room will move over to the men's room. The guys will get in line behind them, and wait at the door until the last one is out before they go in.

[bgill]

What, she didn’t go before she left home? Or did that extra large Starbucks kick in?

This smells of set up.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Maybe she should have borrowed her husband’s jacket and hat, and declared that for 5 minutes “she self-identified as a male”.”

Heck, she could have gone behind the bathroom, did her business n the floor and claim she is a cocker spaniel.

[dmz]

Not being allowed to use the mens restroom is as much for her own safety as it is for mens privacy. Glad she got booted.

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Exactly, doesn’t she know we men pee all over the floor, both at the urinals and in the stalls ... she could slip and fall on all that pee.

Safety first!

[abigkahuna]

eah, it’s like they all have to wear a uniform now. Cowboy hat, button down shirt, jeans, cowboy boots. Like the glam acts with spandex, make up and scarves. I would actually take the old glam metal stuff over new country for sure, music wise anyhow.

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I have been saying for more than 20 years that modern country music is just rock and roll with a twang. Horrible stuff...now if I am going to listen to a litle country I like that “Crying in your Beer” type of country...If I want rock and roll country then I listen to Flying Burrito Brothers or Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen...more authentic than today’s country music in my humble opinion...

[Ransomed]

Oh yeah, it’s either old country for me or obscure stuff. This new country is like tasteless pablum, just no edge whatsoever and not much to differentiate between one awful act and another. It’s really become a caricature of itself, at least from the little I have unfortunately exposed myself to by accident.

Freegards

[Uncle Miltie]

I was in the Fargo Dome Men’s Room when a woman did that about 6 years ago.

Several men jeered her as she cut in line for a stall. We hollered at her until she was done and left.

The Fargo Dome really needs to build more women’s stalls.

Which doesn’t excuse women’s awful behavior.

[floridavoter2]

True!

[blueplum]

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keep invading the men’s rooms, Ladies. Make those men stand in line - everywhere. The law will change soon enough if men have to stand cross-legged for 30 minutes, too.