@Pat McDonald 553274 wrote:
I guess rig suppliers could spray them in KY Jelly or other grease to make them unclimbable.
Or station people on top with giant sized inflatable mallets.
Still, people have died at these events, and probably always will. Come to think of it, everyone who has ever been born, dies at some point, so I guess it’s kind of to be expected.
The thing that annoys me is the way the media cover things happening at illegal parties or with illegal drugs involved as a bigger incident then if the same thing was to happen at a licensed event or with legal drugs, something completely non illicit.
A perfect example of this was a rave held in my local cinema I used to go to when I was younger after it had been shut down. In the news paper it said something like “hundreds of thugs full of drugs with vicious dogs descended on the Odeon terrorizing locals. One woman who we spoke to was scared to go back to her car after going into a local shop.” Now thugs might be an excusable description of a few people who were there, as there was a bit of graffiti and some smashed windows, however there were no reported dog attacks or of anyone terrorizing anyone. The whole building was totally soundproofed so the noise wasn’t “terrorizing” the locals.
I know some ravers can look unapproachable to the average non-rave exposed person, but fear of these people comes from the concerned individuals own preconceptions (most likely from news paper articles like this).
You go to a football match, and a firm kicks off with another firm. It’s known and understood that the majority of people were there just to watch the football. When it comes to things like raves or drugs though, a few idiots break some windows and every single one of the however many thousand people there automatically become thugs, and their dogs are all of a sudden a danger to society!
I mean, yeah it is dangerous and stupid climbing on a rig, and is a lot less likely to happen at a licensed event as that’s not normally possible. but people die from doing stupid things everyday, it’s just the way things are. The same guy might also like to climb up bridges and do spray painting and fall, but that’s spray paintings fault right? He also might like to climb up apple trees to get apples and eat them and fall off, but that’s the apples fault right? I mean it’d be totally different if no one was climbing on the rig and it fell onto someone … but the fact is, it wasn’t the guy’s environment that mainly caused this, it was a direct result of HIS actions, however unwitting he was.
That party in the Odeon I was talking about was amazing though …. sooo surreal sitting in the place I used to watch films, looking down at the big screen with mad trippy visuals projected on it and people dancing on the little raised stage in front of it. People in the ticket booths selling drugs lol … funny shit.
