There’s a sort of unspoken code between punters at concerts and festivals. It basically dictates that even if you don’t know a person, you look out for them. If they’ve fallen, you pick them up, and if they’ve lost something, you help them.

Torches on phones were invented for this very reason, and if you happen to find a shoe or a wallet without anyone to claim it, you chuck it to the front for the person to retrieve later or hold onto it and hand it to lost and found later.

This can be a little tricky to do at a giant festival like Splendour In The Grass, so the days following Splendour often see dozens of good samaritans taking to the event’s official Facebook page to let people know they found or lost certain belongings.

But nowhere has the unspoken code been more evident than in the case of young Coolum native Pat McCulkin, who recently took to the official Splendour Facebook page to despair about the loss of his beloved bong and received a groundswell of support.

“Alright here’s the deal, got full stitched up last night,” McCulkin wrote. “I was just cookin along, not a problem in the world. Thought I’d head back to camp after flume to hang out with billy Wong, and to my absolute disbelief some full scumbag had come past and nabbed me billy from camp and left me high and dry.”

“Now we’re stuck in the fucking camp site punching cannies. Cheers mate.” In an incredible display of camaraderie and support, the Coolum resident’s post has received more than 4,000 likes, over 150 comments, and has been shared around Facebook.

Whilst we don’t condone illicit drug use at Tone Deaf, we think there’s few things scummier than stealing people’s property from their festival campsite, so we hope the thief returns the “billy” to its rightful owner soon.

Then again, it’s possible McCulkin simply got really high and misplaced the bong. Regardless, he should’ve taken a few pointers from this 2014 Splendour punter slash ingenious inventor, who came up with the infamous ‘gumboot bong’.

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