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peaceful hippies at local rave attacked by........
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........bored police with nothing better to do on a saturday than dress up in riot gear and go hippie bashing! Boy what a weekend, I got the train up to essex yesterday morning for a mate's birthday party, we stopped by at a 3 day outdoor rave event on the way to try and score some drugs, walked a few miles to get there so we hung around for a bit, met some people we knew and were just catching up, it was a really nice festival atmosphere, maybe 4 or 5 rigs pumping out a bit of techno, weather was good and 500 or so crusties were making the most of it.......
anyways then we had a call from a mate in my local town (saffron walden), he told us a bunch of police were loading up at the station in vans with riot gear and getting ready to move somewhere, we'd noticed a big police presence in the area on the way and there were helicopters hovering over real low the whole time, we thought it was unlikely anything would happen as the whole thing was so peaceful, but we figured it wasn't worth hanging around so we got our drugs and left......as we walked out they were curtaining (sp?) off the whole area and not letting anyone else in, so we warned our mates who were still at the festival what was going on and went on our way.......we went past the local rozzers when we got into town and sure enough there was 11 meatwagons and a few dozen police in riot gear outside the station, it was so surreal to see all this is out in the middle of the country, the most uneventful small town dullville and they're pulling out the riot gear
we got a phonecall a couple hours later from someone still at the rave saying the police had rushed over the hill in riot gear to try and shut the rigs down!......a bunch of normal people, just having a good time out in a field in the middle of nowhere, mostly kids and families but the police didn't even approach rationally they just rushed out in riot gear i mean what the fuck.......
so obviously there was a bit of resistance, the rigs were turned off and then back on again, so what was the police response? 4 more waves of police in full riot gear, now there was a few hardcore hippie ravers but the crowd was mostly adolescent youth and families there with young kids and babies, but that didn't stop them, fucking tossers, and then they started teargassing people!......i don't pay my taxes to get teargassed when I'm out having a good time, ffs what is this country turning to? the actual rave was a few miles away from any residential area so there wasn't any real disturbance, it was in its second day and growing a bit and what tipped the police off was a copule of disgruntled neighbours moaning that some people had parked all down the access roads and some in the resident spaces :eek: none of this makes any sense it's like they were all just bored and fancied some weekend overtime.......
just ranting really because i still can't believe what has happened, there's gonna be an uproar because this is such a small town and this was such an over the top reaction, i was there for a few hours and the vibe was so mellow and laidback, not your typical techno rave i suppose but it was more of a mini-festival......parents are gonna find out their children who went out camping for the weekend got attacked by police with teargas and they'll want to know what happened, apparently there's a new superintendent who's been 'cracking down on crime', i guess because there's not much crime in the first place he's resorted to cracking down on fun, i hope his head rolls for this.......and the riot police who followed the orders are just as bad, motherf**kers the lot of them. this whole country is quickly turning into the US, home of democracy and land of the free, where even some hippie civilians out in a field on a bank holiday aren't safe, what a fucking disgrace.
ETA: i've just seen it on the bbc news, i love the spin they put on it......story.
anyways then we had a call from a mate in my local town (saffron walden), he told us a bunch of police were loading up at the station in vans with riot gear and getting ready to move somewhere, we'd noticed a big police presence in the area on the way and there were helicopters hovering over real low the whole time, we thought it was unlikely anything would happen as the whole thing was so peaceful, but we figured it wasn't worth hanging around so we got our drugs and left......as we walked out they were curtaining (sp?) off the whole area and not letting anyone else in, so we warned our mates who were still at the festival what was going on and went on our way.......we went past the local rozzers when we got into town and sure enough there was 11 meatwagons and a few dozen police in riot gear outside the station, it was so surreal to see all this is out in the middle of the country, the most uneventful small town dullville and they're pulling out the riot gear
we got a phonecall a couple hours later from someone still at the rave saying the police had rushed over the hill in riot gear to try and shut the rigs down!......a bunch of normal people, just having a good time out in a field in the middle of nowhere, mostly kids and families but the police didn't even approach rationally they just rushed out in riot gear i mean what the fuck.......so obviously there was a bit of resistance, the rigs were turned off and then back on again, so what was the police response? 4 more waves of police in full riot gear, now there was a few hardcore hippie ravers but the crowd was mostly adolescent youth and families there with young kids and babies, but that didn't stop them, fucking tossers, and then they started teargassing people!......i don't pay my taxes to get teargassed when I'm out having a good time, ffs what is this country turning to? the actual rave was a few miles away from any residential area so there wasn't any real disturbance, it was in its second day and growing a bit and what tipped the police off was a copule of disgruntled neighbours moaning that some people had parked all down the access roads and some in the resident spaces :eek: none of this makes any sense it's like they were all just bored and fancied some weekend overtime.......
just ranting really because i still can't believe what has happened, there's gonna be an uproar because this is such a small town and this was such an over the top reaction, i was there for a few hours and the vibe was so mellow and laidback, not your typical techno rave i suppose but it was more of a mini-festival......parents are gonna find out their children who went out camping for the weekend got attacked by police with teargas and they'll want to know what happened, apparently there's a new superintendent who's been 'cracking down on crime', i guess because there's not much crime in the first place he's resorted to cracking down on fun, i hope his head rolls for this.......and the riot police who followed the orders are just as bad, motherf**kers the lot of them. this whole country is quickly turning into the US, home of democracy and land of the free, where even some hippie civilians out in a field on a bank holiday aren't safe, what a fucking disgrace.
ETA: i've just seen it on the bbc news, i love the spin they put on it......story.
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*shrug*
Poor innocent hippies trashing other people's property, and then whining like little kiddies when they get turfed off the land.
Diddums.
How peaceful.
Who gives a toss what the atmosphere was like? They didn't have permission to be on the land and chilled out atmosphere or not it's still trespassing and the farmland will still be damaged. What if it was your farm and your livelihood?
Great.
you leave my country the hell out of this.
Although I do agree about the trespassing and the rubbish....
RageJunky, dunno where in Montana you are, but maybe you are close to Great Falls, there's a biggest collection of airplane models in the world there, it's on my list next time i fly over!!
So you're into model airplanes? That's cool.:yes:
Don't see that many riot police storming travelling peoples caravans and sites?
Not that I agree with the "illegal rave" thing completly it is a bit of double standards. I've been to a few raves in my time and to be fair most of them were harmless get togethers which ended in great spirits. And we tidied up after ourselves. But to go in with full riot gear and break it up seems a bit over the top in my opinion. Why not go in and open up communications first like other situations.
go raves tho'
Yeah it's just east of Route 15, I think west of where you are.
I am into planes period, it will be interesting how many rare planes they have, to be honest I will probably need a couple of days there... :thumb: (nerd alert hehe)
That's different - travellers are only committing a civil offence, not a criminal offence (trespass). (and btw I'm all in favour of an offence of criminal trespass being introduced).
In the case of a rave, revellers are committing a criminal offenceof some kind.
That's your version of events. The police's account, I suspect, may be somewhat different.
Like Fiend, Dis and Kermit, I have no sympathy for you.
You dont need riot police unless theres a fucking riot. Not to close down a bloody party.
*adds name to list*
Haha that aint no riot.
watch this- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPvuFOK3SEI
Either way, it ain't as 'peaceful' as the OP stated.
So peaceful that a police car spontaneously combusts?
Do I believe Jim V or a whingeing stoner? :chin:
Hell, I'm just going from the report in the paper doesn't mean it's the truth -
'The violence, which flared up sporadically until early yesterday, was sparked when a small delegation of officers tried to negotiate the break-up of the party but met "unprecedented and ferocious" resistance, police said. A police car was set on fire and nine officers were wounded during the clashes, with injuries to police including a suspected broken collarbone and a severed finger.'
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1859791,00.html
fair enough.
I expect that it is the truth though, or at least quite a bit closer to it than the illegal ravers' story.
great music