dib dib dob, we will do our best….
i have to say the above does read like a cubscouts guidebook, but it is also well important..may seem like ridiculously obvious, but i have seen people get in trouble by forgettin the above and gettin into genuinely shit situations. not fun, shit.
yea, thats right i said shit, what are you gonna do about it, arkaila?
well I guess you can dig the latrine :biggreen:…… [that’s another issue I forgot to mention – the contamination of surrounding lands by human waste]
seriously though I was driven to write it because at about half of all last seasons parties at least one ambulance was called out to each one, and there was even an airlift of an injured person by the TVP helicopter!
Most of the casualties were slips/trips and falls, usually from tree climbing or badly designed improvised swings, but a number were due to injuries sustained during acts of violence, and this was as much at “bumpkin” parties as at London.
Each one of these callouts costs the local NHS trust hundreds of pounds just for the ambulance, I have also been advised by reliable sources at my local NHS trust that because of the number of Ambulance callouts, the staff there are becoming concerned about health and safety at unlicensed raves and have been talking to the Police and local authorities…
this is also a reason why the authorities are getting a bee in their bonnet about PELs – the license is also a way of checking that that medical care has been thought of and provided (usually through St Johns Ambulance or other private ambulance services)
And there has been a worrying trend of people bringing air rifles and BB guns to raves 🙁
I also notice a lot of people actually don’t have much knowledge of the outdoors these days – that may actually be because they no longer go to Scouts or Guides – hardly surprising as these organisations are now rather anachronistic and bogged down with colonial/imperialist dogma, paramilitary hierarchies, traditional gender roles and daft uniforms.
For the kids there’s actually the Woodcraft folk nowadays who teach postive stuff about the environment but there’s no uniforms and colonial master race bullshit – but most of us are too old for them ….
So I guess we do have to teach people how to deal with the outdoors – perhaps by leading by example as elraveon says.
