raj wrote:
this is a quandary:
do you include this kind of planning as standard and make it easier to prosecute the organisers as it is obviously well organised?
or
omit this kind of planning and risk these kinds of incidents being blamed on the ravers but make it harder to prove who organised the events?
this is always a risk with looking too “organised” but it shouldn’t have to be a matter of the crews having to nanny people..
its basic common sense TBH.
If you are doing anything in the forest or any remote area with your mates surely people should look out for one another; should a fire break out or other emergency occur after the initial (and understandable) fear people should try to ascertain where their friends are, get suitable help (from the Emergency services if required) and then get them all together to a place where they are safe and the professional responders can then be left to do their work unhindered.
Even if people are spangled on drugs they should still have some sort of survival instinct (I’ve managed to deal with all manner of situations when completely hammered).
Perhaps something which may have exacerbated this is that parties today seem to now attract a more dispersed crowd – a lot of people attend an event just because “its something to do” and may not even get on with other groups of people there (group politics, jealousy over girls etc) so they don’t talk to each other as much, sit in groups in their cars and no one therefore is quite sure how many people are actually at the event!
I also get the impression that this blaze broke out after the party was winding down so people were sketchy/on comedowns (definitely would have been a bit heavy to wake up to this sort of situation!)
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what worries me is that in an effort to stamp out these parties the authorities are taking us back to the days of alcohol prohibition and illegal bars – they are pushing a large section of the public, who happen to like dancing, into the arms of the organised criminals who will eventually be the only people with the means to hold these parties and who will care the least about the safety of the ravers or the public at large
this was already the case in the 90s – excessive licensing prices and cops closing down events at short notice meant that it was indeed only the criminal fraternity who were prepared to risk the cash investment required to put on licensed events.
