timid rabbit wrote:
yeah all true but when yr in the right bang in the countyrside not a house for at least 20 miles who are you anoying
obviously I don’t know the Northern scene that well but someone with a bit of clout must have complained for things to go that far.
We’ve not had a copper post on this board for 5 years….
your venue was probably owned by a prominent landowner or businessperson, or the dog walkers/ramblers in your area all made statements to the Police.
Many landowners/farmers/dogwalkers/randoms are often just “friendly” with ravers when they see a party in full swing because they are shit scared they will get beaten up if they dared to express disagreement when heavily outnumbered (NOT that most ravers would do such a thing).
And even if you clear up most of the rubbish there is always some left behind as well as the human shit.. :yakk: – so clean up costs are passed back to the landowner and the local Council.
Because of this, nowadays lots of “normals” don’t see a rave as harmless “robin hood” type mischief, they now feel that someone has been bullied and intimidated off their own land by a mob of people, and the locals think that grassing you up is “standing their ground and standing up to bullies” rather than being a killjoy.
Until attitudes change it is always gonna be this “stalemate” situation and no one is winning, not the landowners, not the locals, not the ravers, nor the cops..
