Aussie Festival Punter Gets Too Turnt, Pays $2k To Have Cars Towed Home

Imagine this: you’re a cashed-up Aussie party promoter attending one of Australia’s best boutique camping festivals. You’ve spent several days getting turnt and shudder at the thought of having to wind down the festivities.

Now imagine you drove up to the festival in two pricey SUVs and have no reasonable way of getting them back to your home base in Sydney. What do you do? If you’re anything like Christian Avant, you get them towed home.

Avant, a Sydney party promoter who made headlines after one of his boat parties was raided by NSW Police, was having so much fun at the recent Lost Paradise music festival that he decided he didn’t want to make the nearly two-hour drive home.

Avant came up with a solution that we can only assume was inspired by asking himself, “What would Tony Stark do?” He decided to fork out $1,000 to have the two cars towed all the way back to Sydney from the Glenworth Valley on the NSW Central Coast.

Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reports Avant loaded his friends into a 15-person Hummer, which also cost a cool $1,000. His extravagant travel expenses didn’t end there. Avant missed the Hummer and forked out another $260 on a taxi back to Sydney.

“Everything is such a good idea at the time,” he joked on Facebook. “We still had 48 hours left there at this point but nobody showed any signs of putting the brakes on. So it was a no brainer hahaha. We didn’t want to have to deal with the cars and it was kind of a burden to our fun so we offloaded them.”

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