Tarifa is right, all these things were happening back in the 1980s and 1990s.
If anything attitudes have improved on both sides, that could have been a lot worse, there were at least 14 police units on site (ranging from traffic cars to a dog van and some serials (“riot vans”). The cops were initially all set to stop the rave and some tense stand-offs occured earlier that night, and rumours that dogs were set on people at a meeting point.
At least no one on either side got hurt, although most of the people >18 years or their families who live round here will end up paying for the car in the end through their Council Tax.
The sad part of it is its only a very small minority who attend raves who do this sort of thing and I suspect they are responsible for the vandalism of vehicles other than police cars at raves.
Later in the night, some girls gathered up the scattered items from the police car and put them in a box for the cops to recover, and someone put a tarpaulin over the vehicle to try and deter people for wrecking it any futher.
A small gesture made in hindsight, but a lot of people present did not agree with the trashing of the cop car and it did change the atmosphere of the party a bit (lots of people genuinely felt a bit ashamed by it, plus they were worried about reprisals from the police.)
The cops who attended later in the morning actually seemed to accept that the bulk of people at the party were not involved with this incident, which appears to be being treated as a separate crime to the rave itself..
People do need to choose their friends a bit better though, otherwise the scum is going to give everyone a bad name.
