LMAO.
Thats the way its ALWAYS been. They dont call themselves 88 acres of anarchy and have warning signs posted for nothing. I mean in almost every picture there is a decimated car in frame ... in almost every video there is a belligerent drunk.
It was always crazy shit.
EDIT: I went there during some festival in '09 during my first ever roadtrip. I saw a fight and a guy get cut with glass, a car was destroyed and lit on fire(dunno whether they bought junk cars to do this with or what, judging by your story maybe it was a random fuckers car). EVERYONE was drunk. It was a bunch of over the hill punkrockers acting like they were kids from what i gathered, i had a fucking blast.