Party Vibe

those local yokels were lucky they picked what was presumably a smaller and friendlier group of youths. If they tried that with some of the main Bristol crowd at least some the ravers would fight back. A fair few people keep weapons in their cars and not everyone is fluffy and against animal cruelty either, dogs aren’t immune to blades or bats..

not always – even at larger East Anglian raves it was very common to encounter family groups there – bear in mind many people my age may well have teenage kids and more liberal views about partying/drugs than my parents generation did!

there is always a risk of vigilanté action from locals. However most daren’t even try although they want to because in most situations they will be outnumbered and lose. Prior to the zero tolerance clampdown in EA there were increasing attacks and counter attacks between locals (usually the younger sons of farmers) and ravers in the same age group, with violence and damage to property occuring on both sides.

actually I remember a couple of years ago a lad mentioning about how some random locals had tried to stop him and and his mates gaining access to a rave site -from their account of the situation it wasn’t directly outside but a few miles away and they weren’t farmers or anything – just young people the same age as them….

their driver punched the local to the ground and they went to the rave as before :laugh_at: I don’t normally like violence but FFS no one has the right to take matters into their own hands and deny another citizen the right to travel – if the locals were really that bothered their only right is to call the correct authorities…