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Police targeting illegal raves
Saturday, 15 April 2006, 12:51 GMT 13:51 UK
A crack down on illegal raves is underway with extra police officers on duty to carry out patrols in potential trouble spots.
Some planned events in Suffolk were foiled ahead of the Easter Bank Holiday and in Bury St Edmunds several arrests were made as an event was being set up.
Suffolk Police are asking people to make early reports of suspected events.
Supt Mike Shields said some events have been stopped before they got under way but they know others are being planned.
Police say they will search anyone attending a rave for drugs and will seek evidence of illegal drinking.
“We are taking this operation very seriously because of the dangers to public order and the welfare of those taking part,” Supt Shields said.
fukin police :rant: ..fuck ’em in their law!
“We are taking this operation very seriously because of the dangers to public order and the welfare of those taking part,” Supt Shields said.
illegal drinking? what is that? do they mean the illegal sale of alcholhol or is it an offense to drink outside now?
the nanny state advances furthur. “dangers to those taking part”? surely people can take their own risks? it’ll be fat people arrested for being unheathily overweight next. maybe they should arrest ugly people for visual pollution, or to protect them from rejection or ridicule? or tall people should be imprisoned in case they bump theri heads? its all for their own safety!
knowing how the cops here operate, probably both (they can declare exclusion zones).
Suffolk is becoming Britain’s Singapore. (It even has the ports!) The dilemma for anyone slightly “alternative” is that otherwise the place is cleaner and safer than many other of the regions of the UK, but it is an uneasy peace achieved at the expense of freedom, and a lot of the actual crime that happens here is (as Biotech mentioned in another thread) merely commited out of sheer boredom.
if you are not prepared either to spend money or to go to bed at appointed times there is fuck all….
and brighton. but not in teh freeparty wilderness. i hadnt realised that cops could just proclaim new drinking zones wilynily as gl is asserting.
cops can use a mixture of the new anti-social behaviour laws and the CJA to lock down any area and regularly do it even in rural areas now when they see large groups of youths about.
its also common in London to use CJA/ASBO against grime events because people often end the night by spilling out into the street and having a large fight including bottles cracked on heads etc so its used to move people on.
the tactics aren’t even a secret, they are in all the local papers every week. Worst thing is that the “normal people” still say they are frightened to go out late at night, 71% of older residents interviewed by a local paper said they were frightened of Ipswich town centre in the evening.
Having cycled through there late at night the only thing I could think of to be scared of may be ghosts or UFOs; as there are hardly any people about after midnight.
fucking hell, you gotta laugh or you’d cry eh? why are all these people so scared? guilty concionce i recon.
Not entirely sure if this is true, as all the bury party heads I know were in Peterbrough! (Must be the new generation!)
Police say they will search anyone attending a rave for drugs and will seek evidence of illegal drinking.
“We are taking this operation very seriously because of the dangers to public order and the welfare of those taking part,” Supt Shields said.
Originally Posted by USE
illegal drinking? what is that? do they mean the illegal sale of alcholhol or is it an offense to drink outside now?
Illegal drinking is at the heart of PEL, and you are illegal drinking if buy booze off of someone who dosent have a license. and if you dont understand the law and admit buying booze at a party(unlicensed) you and the party are now illegal.
I’m not sure about loads of people being nicked, but I did hear that some events in the area were stopped and their people all herded towards this place…
I think that area (which is practically the midlands) was “sacrificed” to keep the rest of East Anglia quiet.
there is a worrying development here in a lot of respects
IMO both free and even licensed rave events are being forced further and further into remoter areas… its cool for the Scots and Welsh (and their terrain makes events easier to put on as you can hide away in valleys where no one its bothered) and those in the Midlands
but here in England its becoming either Londonistan and mix it with the gangstas and haters or the middle of fucking nowhere and even then the locals whinge…
exploring new areas/travelling is fun but its also tiring – the biggest paradox is that what was once a bit of local fun that anyone could get to ( suffice to say a few of the “weekend cyclists” around rave areas liked a rave or two as well ) is now becoming a massive mission only for the most dedicated who have access not just to motor vehicles but even more spare time and spare cash.
hows everyone gonna cope when fuel prices keep rising as well?
had a nightmare on the rave front over the bank holiday weekend down in sussex, there was meant to be a multi rigger on, and i was meant to help out, but our logistics man had been abroad getting mashed and couldnt get his shit together, which was gutting, but i thought thats one less bit of responsablity. id almost forgotten what it was like just going to a rave. so we get in the car at midnight and head to where the party line’s taking us, but we get there and the police had blocked all the roads. with a “police accident” sign, of all things. fucking liars.
we stopped nearby where some other people had gathered, sharing useless bits of info like “i recon its that direction, cant be more than three miles, lets walk it”, when they had no actual clue of the terrrain or even the direction. i was in my gilrfreinds car, and we were nearly persuaded to take a dirt track, but i inspected it, and we would have bottomed out. we circle the area a few times, try and find a petrol station with a decent map, but eventually give up and go home at about three thirty.
get back home, managed to ring a mate who was there, and he said the party was relocating to somewhere miles off. my lady was already asleep by this point (girls, eh, lamers) so we werent gonna get there. my mate steve who was with us managed to convince someone else to give him a lift, but once he’d sobered up. i went to bed, the first time ive ever not actually got to a rave i was heading for. woke up the next day and i turns out steve went at midday the next day, only to see it closed down by the filth at half two.
lame.
Convoy alert stops illegal rave
Tuesday, 2 May 2006
Lorries were travelling from across the country to the Downs…
Police stopped an illegal rave from going ahead which they said would have been as loud as 25 jet engines. Officers received intelligence that a convoy of lorries was travelling to an event for 4,000 people in West Sussex on Saturday night. Sussex Police said 30 lorries and vans had arrived at Steyning from Cambs, Northants and the Midlands.
More at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/southern_counties/4965036.stm
sounds like some ones gotta go on a site finding drive pretty soon. i’d hate to see the same thing happen to sussex as i saw in surrey. it feels like the heat is following me around. its a real shame as the most active rigs are the least community minded, and there is the excellent BASS which can help prevent these sorts of mistakes, but unfortunately not all brighton rigs are members. if we are a bit more adventurous with the sites, then the damage is minimised and the police are kept ignorant.
having said that theres also issues like may the first is a blatant start of the freeparty season. everyone knows, and we were all getting excited about beltaine coming up on here. not the slyest. also i beleive that the rigs met up at 9pm, which struck me as fucking early for a convoy to be about. i mean its hardly even dark then!
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