Woodstock was not like this...

[Clodfobble]

Last year, the organizers of WLB were fined a few thousand $ for not complying with safety issues,
..
The event organizers kept publishing on FaceBook that the WLB would continue,
except they would limit attendance to 2900, to avoid the need for
the "large gathering permit", which apparently kicks in at gatherings of more than 3000.

Is a permit more than a few thousand dollars? If not, these guys are dumbasses. Not your grandson's friend, who was just doing a job he was (presumably) paid to do, but the organizers who apparently couldn't figure out how to charge people a couple of bucks to get in. Maybe money goes against their dirty hippie mantra.

[Perry Winkle]

Sometimes money isn't the only barrier between having a permit and not. Politics often play a big part of it.