UK : LDN/N : Cops object to TENS application for *legal* Edmonton warehouse rave This predates this weekends shenanigans - however the cops are quoting Scumoween as a precedent for disorder.
Also I am not sure what music Mr Edwards is planning to have for these events but if its grime/urban I don't blame the Met for being a bit more wary than other "friendlier" raves.... there is loads of beef at these events and the people doing them are also holding "squat" parties because they are being refused licenses..
POLICE have objected to a series of warehouse parties planned for a disused furniture store in Edmonton.
Vincent Alfonso Edwards, owner of the former Allied Carpets, in Eley Road, wants to hold a series of Christmas parties from Thursday, December 9, to Sunday, December 12, going on until 5am on some nights.
He has asked Enfield Council for a licence to hold the ticketed events, but is facing opposition from Enfield Police who fear the parties may break down into disorder and violence.
PC Martyn Fisher has lodged a formal objection, claiming the organiser has given no notice of security arrangements or who the acts and DJs set to perform are.
He argues the warehouse can hold more than the 499 people allowed by the licence, and warns there could be a repeat of violence and disorder seen at a warehouse rave in High Holborn in October, when police officers were pelted with bricks and bottles by revellers.
He adds: “It is obvious that should this application be granted, there is potential for serious crime and disorder at the venue.”
Mr Edwards, PC Fisher, and a panel of Enfield councillors are meeting this morning to discuss the application, and whether a temporary events notice licence should be granted for the event.
http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/8712537.Disorder_fears_for_Edmonton_warehouse_party_plans/?ref=mr
UK : East : Definition of prudence in Essex thats a definition of prudence you don't normally find in accountancy textbooks :laugh_at:
They invited her in for a drink and played drinking games before she performed oral sex on three of the men.
"You had sexual relations with them and played some kind of sex game," said Judge Goldstaub.
"One of the males – a prudent gentleman – recorded your consent on his mobile phone, including your image.
"But for his doing so he would have been very likely in deep trouble."
A MUM-TO-BE whose lies wasted hundreds of hours of police time has been jailed for crying rape.12
popo at partys ever since i saw undercover police with dreadlocks ect at waveform festival ive been paranoid as hell thinking that someone might try and deal to them.
and since they now have a new section which allows them to stop search people with no reason i get even more paranoid
am i just being paranoid or are they actually going to any extreme they cam to pick of psychedelic terrorists?12
UK : East : Sudbury Council windows busted by lump of dough! Just two days after the incident last Monday, the clerk’s office was attacked for a second time when a large lump of dough was hurled through another window.
Mrs Brotherwood said: “We were beginning to wonder if there was a vendetta going on. I don’t know who or why someone would be out on the streets with a large lump of dough or why they would decide to throw it at the town hall.”
:you_crazy :laugh_at:
doesn't say much for quality of the local bakers though... :laugh_at:
Sudbury: Vandals target town hall - News - Evening Star
DJ jailed for trying to sell drugs at GuilFest "A DJ from Aldershot who tried to sell cocaine to an undercover police officer at this year’s GuilFest music festival has been jailed. Geoffrey Lemington Mitchell, 40, of Beech Close, was volunteering in the Funky End Dance Tent on July 17 during this year’s three-day event when he told the officer he could “sort her out” with the drug.
At Guildford Crown Court last Friday (October 22), Mitchell pleaded guilty to one count of supplying a class A drug. He also admitted a second charge of possession of cocaine but denied he intended to supply the drug.
Prosecutor Jill Beale said: “An undercover female officer working at the festival started chatting with the defendant and another man, Wesley Lazarevic, also from Aldershot. “When they were within a restricted area within one of the tents, Mitchell offered to sort her out with some drugs.” The female officer, who called herself Tina, handed over £50 for 0.87g of cocaine, and Mitchell was arrested shortly afterwards. When police carried out a search, a second wrap of 0.68g of cocaine was found in his trousers. Mitchell has previous convictions for possession of a controlled substance and burglary, and was given a drug treatment and testing order in 2001 for possession of a class A drug..."
"...You say you took two wraps for your own personal use, used one wrap and you noticed others being arrested around you, so wanted to dispose of that wrap. To do so you chose to sell it.” He said that the offence of supplying drugs was so serious that it warranted a jail term. Lazarevic is expected to serve half of his two-year sentence in prison and the remainder on licence."
DJ jailed for trying to sell drugs at GuilFest - News - getsurrey
he got 2 years!!!! I assume that is to justify the cost of the undercover work, he has a bad record or just bad luck. 2 years for selling one wrap!
Books, literature and any other published material on the Criminal Justice bill. There may be a similar post somewhere on the site, but I failed to find it if there is one.
Basically I'm doing a piece of research on how the rave scene influenced the criminal just bill being brought in, and how it has effected the scene.
It is in the form of a literature review, so I need to find as many published sources on the subject as I can.
Can anyone suggest anything? I've found a few bits an bobs, but mainly about about what happened years ago. I'd be very interested to know if anyone knows of anything thats got info on the recent years. It's probably very unlikely, but would be amazing if anyone could suggest anything.
Cheers in advance.
‘It’s all about responsibility’ – but whos? I really cant believe this....
Whatever happened to personal responsibility ??
- and taking such for our own choices - whether legal or not.....
As adults it's our choice what we put into our bodies -
I personally think we need to live with the concequences if we know the risks (ie - who takes meth with out realising it may fuck you up ?)
responces people?
what do you guys think?
Former meth addict sues dealer
It’s about taking responsibility, she says
Tessa Vanderhart, Staff
The first time Sandy Bergen tried crystal meth, as a “vulnerable” 18-year-old, she became addicted.
Three years later, Bergen is taking responsibility for her drug use by suing her former drug dealer.
“I’ve taken responsibility, and now we’re turning it on him to take responsibility,” she said. “The justice system works very slowly, and this way I can have a voice in this. I can make him answer for his actions.”
The resident of Biggar, Saskatchewan, and her family are involved in a lawsuit that will determine precisely who is responsible for Bergen’s overdose last spring.
Bergen’s lawyer, Warren Smith of Busse Law firm, said that the civil case will substantiate that Sandy’s dealer was negligent, and sold the drugs with intent to inflict mental and physical harm.
He compared the lawsuit to suing a toy company for negligence in manufacturing, or tobacco companies for intent to harm.
In addition to recompensing the harms done to Bergen, Smith said that the case will also recoup social costs, such as the cost to the province of Saskatchewan for Bergen’s hospitalization.
“There’s a reason why drugs are illegal: they’re illegal because they cause damage, damage that society already bears,” said Smith.
Stuart Busse, of the same law firm, said that the lawsuit is based on the dealer’s actions being careless and for personal economic gain.
Busse noted that Bergen is also suing the grandmother of the drug dealer, on the basis that she facilitated his actions.
“This isn’t just where she went and bought drugs off the street — we’re a small town here, they went to school together,” said Busse. “He caught her in a vulnerable point . . . it isn’t just a voluntary purchase by her.”
“They have all sorts of ways to manipulate you,” said Bergen. The most effective: addiction.
“As an addict, I had a diminished capacity to make the right choice. I was a very sick person.”
“Crystal meth makes your heart as hard as a rock,” she said.
Before Bergen overdosed, she had been sober for two months, and had not taken meth for eight. In May 2004, she was due to testify in court, in regards to a sexual assault that she had been subjected to a year earlier. At this time, Bergen was again approached by the dealer who had first introduced her to the drug, and she finally gave in.
“I knew it wouldn’t make anything better, but I decided to do it anyway,” she said. But almost immediately, she became violently ill.
It felt like someone had “jabbed a pencil through my brain,” she said, and she began to vomit blood and turn blue.
“It looked like I was dying — I actually was, but they didn’t know it at the time,” she said. She took the meth at 9 a.m., but didn’t make it to the hospital until 3 p.m.. Even then, it was hours before anyone realized that she was overdosing on crystal meth — she was too ashamed to tell the doctor, in case her father should find out.
Finally, she collapsed. Bergen was in a coma for eleven days. Her body puffed up to three times its normal size, a lung collapsed, and 17 bags of IVs were put directly into her arteries, as her veins had all collapsed.
“This drug just drags you down. I’m not supposed to be alive,” she said.
The first time Bergen tried the drug, it was provided free of charge by Biggar’s only dealer; she was high for five days, ending up in Saskatoon. When she started to come down, and as she watched a mother high on methamphetamine while breastfeeding her child, she was horrified by how fast and how quickly she had sunk. Still, she said, she wanted more and very quickly became dependent on the drug.
These are the experiences she shares to demonstrate the need for her to actively speak out and stop “enabling” the drug trade in her town.
Although the family stands to lose money on the lawsuit — judgments are based on the resources of the parties involved — the family’s main concern is getting their message out.
Bergen noted that the lawsuit may make it “uneconomical” for the defendant to continue to sell drugs in the town.
Bergen’s parents are also involved in the lawsuit, suing both the drug dealer and his grandmother for the adverse reaction they had to their daughter’s overdose.
Sandy’s father, Stan Bergen, said that his daughter was taken advantage of — and the dealer needs to be held accountable.
“We have to hold these people accountable for what they’re doing, not just to my daughter, but to the community,” he said.
“It’s not just about money: it’s about making these people responsible.”
He called crystal meth “a blight on society,” noting that drugs are a huge problem in the northern and western parts of the country, on reserves in particular.
“If you haven’t had anybody have a problem with it in your community, just wait.”
While Health Canada does not have the data to reinforce or refute this, new measures to combat the production of crystal methamphetamine indicate that the government hopes to be more active in fighting the drug. Territorial governments, as well as the provincial governments of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, are making some cold medications, often used to prepare meth, available only over the counter.
Due to the nature of the drug — crystal meth is very easy to prepare and uses household items like bleach and cold syrup — it is very difficult to determine how widely it is used. Carolyn Sexauer of Health Canada said that there is no indication that use is rising beyond the one per cent it is currently estimated at, but noted that the statistics available do not account for use among those who live on reserves or are homeless.
Georgina Bergen, Sandy’s mother, noted that meth is a problem in all small towns — but in Biggar, things are improving.
“The drugs in Biggar have dried up since we [launched] the lawsuit. It’s gotten a lot less safe to deal them here,” she said.
Bergen said that Sandy never had very high self-esteem — “so I could see where she could fall victim to outside influences.”
“I’ve seen her go from hell in a handbasket to somebody I can be proud of. I hate to say an overdose is a good thing, but in our case, it was.”
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UK : NW : Scally deliberately drives into 25 people outside nightclub and we wonder why the night time economy comes under scrutiny..
Up to 25 people were injured, two of them seriously, when a car was deliberately driven through a crowd outside a Greater Manchester bar.
People were standing outside Dali Bar in Rochdale when a Saab mounted the pavement and was driven at door staff.
The car went along the pavement for up to 200 yards before being driven away.
Two men in the car had earlier been refused entry to the bar, said Greater Manchester Police. The Saab was later found abandoned.
this comment from the Ambulance Service is worth noting too...
A spokesman for the Pennine Acute Trust (PAT) said they were treated in Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Royal Oldham and North Manchester Hospital.
Eleven others made their own way to Rochdale Infirmary and were treated at the accident and emergency department, he added.
A NWAS spokesman told the BBC that initial reports suggested the car had driven through a crowd of up to 30 people and described it as a "major incident".
"We do practise for these types of incidents, we mobilise part of our management team to organise the resources that arrive there," he said.
"One of the managers take charge and distribute the patients accordingly to the A&E departments to spread the load across the hospitals."
BTW 3 hospitals, 9 ambulances, all because of 1 scally's impulsive act - thats what a £600 license fee and £3.50 pint and £10 even to get into a townie club pays for..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11560271
UK : LDN/SE : Cisco rinsed in great Chinese takeaway aiyaaaa.. :laugh_at:
IT giants Cisco were shocked to discover that certain of their customers including "William Shakespeare", "Thomas Hardy", "Frank Lampard" and "Mr Fred" were actually fraudsters using false identities. Which was a pity - as Cisco had despatched up to £12 million worth of computer equipment to these customers to replace 'faulty items' following purported warranty claims under guarantee.
The 'replacement' equipment was then being sold on by the fraudsters.
There really is nothing new under the sun! I remember 30 years ago doing due diligence work at a finance company which - it turned out - had lent to such prestigious borrowers as "D Duck" and "J Cryst".
Apparently Cisco called in the police when their internal auditors spotted the unusually high value of warranty claims and dug deeper. Police have arrested three men and a woman, all Chinese nationals, in London and Hampshire who are - no doubt - 'helping the police with their enquiries'.
David
http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn/news/2271132/cisco-rocked-12m-warranty-fraud
COICA – US/WWW. COICA
In the United States, a new law proposal called The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced last week, and there will be a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee this Thursday.
If passed, this law will allow the government, under the command of the media companies, to censor the internet as they see fit, like China and Iran do, with the difference that the sites they decide to censor will be completely removed from the internet and not just in the US.
Please see the following article from the Huffington Post for more information.
Stop the Internet Blacklist
And if you are a US citizen, please take the time to sign this petition
DemandProgress.org - Petition to Stop the Internet Blacklist!
Update: Also for US citizens, you can email your Senator from the following link and tell him or her your concerns about this bill
Tell Your Senator: No Website Blacklists, No Internet Censorship!
Update, from EFF's website: the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed the scheduled markup of the Internet censorship bill — a fantastic outcome, given that the entertainment industry and their allies in Congress had hoped this bill would be quickly approved before the Senators went home for the October recess. Massive thanks to all who used the EFF Action Center to write to your Senators to oppose this bill.
UK : 5 detectives speak out about their most memorable investigations This is a brilliant article - its not often you get to hear about the actual thoughts and emotions of the detectives.
The emotional toll of the drugs cases on both families and even the cops is worth reading - on one level a good case for drugs decriminalisation / legalisation - although the tenacity and emotional detachment of the SOCA chap is also chillingly impressive...
Police interviews: the cases we can't forget | UK news | The Observer
Advice Please: Putting on a free party in the South East Hello,
Very informative site, and a great resource in these times.
I've had a good search and read of the guides and others questions/experiences. I was hoping someone could give me some pointers regarding putting on a free party in East Sussex. I understand the security concerns regarding the open discussion of techniques on dealing with OB on then night, so would welcome anything more sensative discussed via PM.
The space is a disused industrial building, which has sat unused for over a year and is now occupied. We'd be expecting between 150-300 people on the night.
Also does anyone know any reasonable security who will do unlicensed events in East Sussex?
Lovely stuff. Thanks.
UK : East : Stowmarket "respect zone".. I half expected Ali G to turn up and open it :laugh_at:
The zone – the first in Suffolk – has been created at the Ipswich Street car park in Stowmarket, next to the Regal Theatre, and it is hoped neighbours will benefit from the scheme.
Starting this week, anyone using the car park will find that half of the spaces will be painted green and signs will be displayed to remind users to take extra care and respect nearby residents by keeping the noise down and not dropping litter.
Police have said there will be a “zero-tolerance” approach to anti-social behaviour in Stowmarket’s respect zone, which has been based on a successful project in Dereham in Norfolk, where trouble stopped completely.
‘Zone’ to cut down nuisance activity - News - East Anglian Daily Times
UK : East : Entire stock of Norfolk hair salon stolen – cops hunt bald man! A salon owner in Costessey today told how a raid on her business led to her entire stock, valued at £6,000, being stolen.
Mother-of-three April Akerman arrived at the Sheer Elegance hairdressers, in Oval Road, to discover four police cars outside.
She spoke of her relief that her colleagues had not been hurt during the burglary, which resulted the front room of the shop being left bare.
“This was my entire range of stock and they took absolutely everything in that room, but the first thing I felt when I found out was relief that the staff hadn't been there when it happened,” she said,
CCTV footage from a neighbouring bakers has led police to believe that the break-in took place between 1.45 and 3am on Thursday.
They have described a man seen in the area at the time as around 6ft tall with a bald head and wearing dark clothes.
Raiders strip Costessey salon bare - EveningNews24
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