Hog Farm Bus
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Since off-duty police officers were banned from providing security, the organizers hired someone else. They hired members of a New Mexico commune known as The Hog Farm to keep the peace. The Farm formed what they would call the “Please Force”, who enforced their will by spraying patrons with seltzer water.
That’s probably the most hippie thing ever, but so was the food shortage due to the munchies. A local Jewish community center got 200 loaves of bread, then took 40 pounds of cold cuts, two gallons of pickles and made sandwiches to the hungry concert-goers.
