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Wise up! Old Bill (and "antis" getting smarter…) Every so often, my local paper runs an article on the Police awards ceremony. This, as you may expect, is where the "British Bobby" receives commendations for various brave and helpful things for society.
Its usually things like talking down mental patients from jumping off car parks, helping the Fire Brigade to save old ladies and small lap-dogs from fires and road crashes, going to the local schools and telling kids to be careful when crossing the roads and not to nick sweeties from the corner shop.
Now I guess most of us don't have a big problem with the above; for one thing cops are at least doing what they are supposed to be doing rather than hassling partygoers!
But one particular award caught my eye; a PC received an award for "assisting in migrating computer programmes to Windows XP!" It appeared from the article he was quite intelligent, to the point of knowing a fair amount about databases and even programming; it would not surprise me if he was a fairly new entrant to the force having previously been employed in the IT industry (where I live there have been loads of layoffs in the high-tech industries).
I think this incident does show that cops (UK ones at least) are getting smarter; not only do they know about boards like this, (as was shown a few weeks ago) they do make use of the surveillance information that has been gathered on the party scene for the last 12 years, and that this information is being transferred from the "legacy" (old) systems, shared across forces, and trawled for "cross links" between other local intelligence databases. IF anyone wants to know the level of surveillance, look at Tash Lodges site -
However; its not as bad though as many think; otherwise about 80% of the regular party people would be in prison!
Remember this: parties are not illegal. And in most parts of the UK, posession of small amounts of drugs for personal use is not seen as a major offence (there are way too many people doing it to be able to nick everybody!) What does appear to be going on (and this is from personal experience) is that the cops are using their surveillance info in a "smarter" way.
Those party people who don't really do anything else bad are pretty much being left alone. Their movements to and from parties are monitored.
However, anyone who is involved in any other form of criminal activity is being "winkled out" from the party goers and dealt with accordingly.
Those who commit robberies or burglaries to get money for their involvement on the scene (and sadly, this has been an unwelcome facet of the UK club/party scene) are being targeted; and if they are involved with a party crew (even as hangers on) there is a big danger that cops being what they are, the whole crew becomes "of interest to the police" (I have personally seen this happen to crews I have been involved with). The "gangsta" lifestyle will only get you to two places; the cemetery or prison!
Damage to buildings is increasingly being monitored; many building owners in cities have complained bitterly to the police about their buildings being trashed - whilst most party venues are semi-derelict, on occasions crews pick a warehouse "between lets" which is actually being prepared for use by a business! Also noise nuisance - the cops actually only bother dealing with parties when locals complain; venues must be chosen carefully to avoid this. Some industrial estates are nearer residential areas than you may think, and even if heavy work is done there it stops when the business day is finished. However, there are often abandoned warehouses which were formerly used round the clock for heavy industry; these are quite deliberately situated as far away from housing as possible! (Beware of new housing estates though.)
I've left the big one till last- traffic offences. This may be due to the increasing trend to use traffic police to video cars coming out of party sites (their patrol cars have cameras in them); but if you are driving to a party without tax, license, insurance etc the cops will get you these days..
The positive thing is that 90% of people at parties are actually decent people - very socially and enviromentally concious; and unlicensed parties themselves are in fact far less of a social problem than the violence that occurs at licensed venues these days (and even the cops know this!). But just a few idiots can (and sadly do) bring things on top for a whole party scene...
Its worth realising that our scene is no longer "secret". It has been going for 12 or more yers, and is now coming under increasing scrutiny and judgement by wider society. (The Police only basically do what Middle England tell them to...) Those who may oppose or hinder us are getting smart; its time for us to get smarter!
antiworld was rocking had a brill night,
no attitude all night,
brill music, good decor and sound was avin it large
looking forward to the awakening :love:
Swindon 3rd week in a row! Hahaha talk about rinsing a venue! Shame its getting knocked down next week! Shame the weather was sooooo bad! fair play to the crew thought they had a really nice sounding stack! Shame it was so cold cos this prolly woulda been a phatty. Ended up leaving well early (about 8) just cos we couldn't be fucked with it. Lets hope for slightly better weather next weekend although that shouldn't matter to much anyway!
party @ the piano place (wales) Did anyone hit this party ??
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6943774.stm
Any update on how this guy died ?
Shame this happened I hope it won't put the owner off having more partys, apart from that it was a amazing party great tunes and a diverse crowd.
Anyone know if the videos that those TV/camera helmet couple took are on the net ?
Did yall see alien, that was a fucked up thing to see when comming up.
Also I lost my rave blanket :( that thing had seen many a rave/freeparty.
Halloween party sheffield club shhh
Ace venue an wot a nite:crazy_dru raaa :bounce_fl ....toilets were lets just say grim,,,,,but if they fix that it is a perfect venue,,,
3rooms Fantastic music allnite til erm ......10.00 i think we went to ...nice to meet you spark plug...x thanx to everyone who played,an organised....had a fantastic nite !!!!!!!!!!!!!:group_hug
Quality free party Hi folks, Found this video of a party i went to ages ago, Does anyone remember going to this? also can anyone ID this tune for me, It's fucking quality!
raaaraaaraaaraaa
[yt]26R0jJx4FJo[/yt]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26R0jJx4FJo
Halloween Headcharge Sheffield Did anyone go to this last night? I enjoyed the techno, Aaron Liberator did a fantastic set, proper banging!
Am disappointed by the toilet situation though, the ladies and mens toilets had overflowed so the contents were all over the floor :yakk:
Last time I was at the club (different part of the building) the ladies toilets had no doors on the cubicles! so I ended up grabbing the decor to make curtains for the toilets! :hopeless:
I hope they sort it out
Also I tried to get a vodka and coke but the barman was convinced the Bacardi Rum was Vodka! It took a while for 3 of us to tell him that it was rum NOT vodka!
:crazy_dru
apart from that the atmosphere was greatraaa:bounce_g::bounce_fl
Halloween Norfolk Barn Party Phat party, loadsa sound ppl (although my mate got punched and left down the track:crazy_diz ), fukin phat stack, mosh and tunes! Great location and best of all no police hassel. The party finished at half 4 just as it started gettin dark.
Who else was there?
The Awakening wicked night
had to close early cos not enough ppl
tunes were top notch, vibe was most excellent and welcoming, and had a good night, met quite a few ppl off psy-forum.co.uk
had a terrible hangover, was on dancefloor most of the night
peace
:love:
Briston Hall Party well what a strange fucking night this was, sorted out to go to a hall party that was in aid of the stack getting a new lighting system, all was going fine until about 12/1ish when my mates said the pigs turned up and asked for the music to be turned down, naturally the only response was no, the owner of the building turned all power to the sockets off and turned the lights on, fights broke out, and then eneded up walking home with my mate alex for the next 4 hours, in this time i spent quite alot of time on the phone to my mum and trying to make ciggys (many of which i ripped to bits or didnt have enough spit to lick the rizla,) we even had time to crush a disco biscuit in the middle of the road and partake in some l8 night sniffing activities (I SAID SNIFFING NOT DOGGING) now just chilling at home and putting the world to rights,
ps had more fun tripping on the way home at this suposed hall party
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