Party Vibe

this is the sort of thing people (not just cops) seem to routinely come out with in Gloucestershire – I’ve been raving there myself a couple of years ago and seem people who can easily outdo East Anglia for “yokel-ness” :laugh_at:

That said, I see no light relief in the fact that for all their rustic simplicity, the bumpkin cops still worked together across over 200 miles to ensure a rave didn’t happen. They don’t normally put this effort in unless its for major case/incidents.

Something has happened comparatively recently to make cops across the Southern UK consider illegal raves to be fairly serious criminality…

The cops could lock down the rave scene anywhere in the country with the kit and resources they have, especially as the “terrorist” threat is somewhat less than it was 3-4 years ago.

The cops could in fact have finished off the rave scene 8 years ago with their then available resources, and use of the then new legilsation such as asbos.

yet for whatever reasons they cut us a load of slack and essentially let us get away with it. whats going on in Southern England today means the parties what are still happening are pissing off enough locals for them to call the coppers and demand greater action – and/or concerned parents are getting angry about their kids overdoing drugs etc (I remember reading last year a lot of news reports about people overdoing ketamine in the forest of dean area…)