Testicle Festival canceled following deaths, attendance decline

[Ptah]

After 35 years of drinking, nudity, debauchery and tens of thousands of Rocky Mountain oysters, the Testicle Festival is over.

The summer festival in Clinton known for all things rowdy has also been known for generating its fair share of fights, drunken driving and fatal crashes. Now Matt Powers, owner of the Rock Creek Lodge where the festival is held every summer, says enough is enough.

“At the end of the day I have to be able to hold my head up and be proud of how I make my living,” he said.

Two people were killed and seven others injured during last year’s Testicle Festival when a man who had been kicked out of the event and put on a shuttle back to Missoula allegedly grabbed the wheel, causing the Jeep to roll. Donny Barlow, 36, and 33-year-old Vannessa Anderson, who also was known by the last name Batt, were killed in the crash.

http://missoulian.com/news/local/testicle-festival-canceled-following-deaths-attendance-decline/article_8113f1e2-17d0-581d-a460-c406899deaaf.html