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cannabis was recently down graded last year or the one before, so if the pigs get ya should be fine. you can smoke ganja in most cities walking about and noone says shit. my mates got busted growing and they just got cautions. drugs are rife in clubland, so the cops arent that fussed unless you are blatantly dealing.
the problem with freeparties seems to be a political one, as the authorities dislike us setting up and creating our own little society for a night, outside their laws. i think theyre just pissed off they cant control us.
to be fair, some forces are heavy, some are fine. the welsh police seem well sound, they were helping with the parking, and being generally freindly and polite to most people. only in some areas, generally where there has been conflict in the press (surrey), or the police are just corrupt (bristol) does the popo go mental.
the tek started saturday, i think, and lasted thru till monday or tuesday. proper long ting. the reason why there are no night shots is coz all the photos are amateur on amateur cams which are shite at night.
So your police force ambushes your events like Nazi stormtroops, and then CAUTIONS you when they bust you????? Damn, here in Arizona, canabis = prision.
About how many people were in attendence? The story said around 300?
And was this a daytime event? I didn’t see any pics at night…
They didnt ambush it they just sat at the entrances to stop it getting any bigger as they didnt have the manpower to shut it down properly.
Canabis laws over here are more lapse youll only usually get charged for large quantities or repeat offenses.
In reality there was over 1000….I think the BBC wales report said 3000.
Also it was a 3 day event spanning from saturday night to monday. So the only reason there are only daytime photos are the guy who took them got too wasted.
pretty funny reveiw by astra boy here: http://www.squatjuice.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=muddy;action=display;num=1117663521
if anyones interested.
Yeah we’re pretty lucky here in the UK as far as drugs go, it would suck getting locked down for a bit of dope……..you should pack your bags and come to the real land of the free 😉
Did you guys see the Wales Today news report 🙂 really funny and quite positive on the whole. Lets hope all our press starts to get this good.
land of the free? dont make me laugh. right wing pseudo dictatorship more like.
I thought you would be there, after all this party was on your doorstep :biggreen:
the Heddlu wouldn’t let us drive up so we had to walk 1.5 miles up that mountain…they may have been relatively polite but there was quite a bit of covert stuff like unmarked cars and some CID who may have even been from South Wales (Heddlu De Cymru) rather than Heddlu Dyfed Powys Police – from reading the news reports it seemed they got a few people and probably would have got plenty info as well..
sniffer dogs were present as well (Adran Cwn – Dog unit) at first I thought this was the sarges name and that Welsh cops got their name on the side of their patrol car!, then I remembered Cwn = Dogs
(literally- “department of dogs”, which conjures up images of rottweillers in TSG, collies on Swansea chav patrol, beagles and other hounds in CID and jack russells as PCSOs and in the control room 😀 )
was a brilliant party if a bit cold and windy at times (I said to my mate Wales is a beautiful place but they could do with turning the heat up and the wind down :biggreen: )
WTF? 🙁 was just about to say how trouble free this event was… (which large system BTW? there were quite a number of them 😉
they can also be technically legal if you have invited everyone privately (not public, so dont need a public entertainment lisence), if you dont wake too many people up (they can only serve section 63 if theres complaints) and if you dont cause any criminal damage. you can do a totally legal freeparty, but its well hard. most of native beats raves have been pretty legal, but it doesn’t stop the police comin to check em out, mostly just as routine. if they see you are prepared (have thought about health and safety, fire precautions, free drinking water etc.) they are quite likely to leave you alone.
the Heddlu wouldn’t let us drive up so we had to walk 1.5 miles up that mountain…they may have been relatively polite but there was quite a bit of covert stuff like unmarked cars and some CID who may have even been from South Wales (Heddlu De Cymru) rather than Heddlu Dyfed Powys Police – from reading the news reports it seemed they got a few people and probably would have got plenty info as well..
sniffer dogs were present as well (Adran Cwn – Dog unit) at first I thought this was the sarges name and that Welsh cops got their name on the side of their patrol car!, then I remembered Cwn = Dog
was a brilliant party if a bit cold and windy at times (I said to my mate Wales is a beautiful place but they could do with turning the heat up and the wind down :biggreen: )
WTF? 🙁 was just about to say how trouble free this event was… (which large system BTW? there were quite a number of them 😉
yeah dude there was no way i was gonna miss this party dude esp when its in wales. Yeah the little bit of trouble was on the Monday down on the central rig, i went back to the car to grab a drink and when i came back my mates said that some dude had hit 1 of the boys from CTN in the head with a piece of metal. Couldnt believe it since there had been no trouble all weekend then some fuckin idiot had to ruin it, cant c y they would of hit him cause he is safe as fuck. Not sure wot happened to the dude who hit him tho.
I hope he is recovering OK…..
in the context of other incidents that happened that night (unexplained damage to vehicles which were not “from the area”) I can’t help but wonder if it was an irate local who carried out this attack?
An amount of trouble is unfortunately fairly common at English raves in the SE (most prevalent at London), but usually it is gangs attempting to rob people (or to fight another gang) and there are multiple victims throughout the night, and more than one person committing the crimes. I am pleased to see I have not as yet seen any complaints of muggings at either this tek or last years Welsh event at Trefil/Ystrad.
From what you say it seems that this incident was isolated and targeted a single prominent person from a local crew, but was carried out in full view of witnessess, as if it was done to “teach someone a lesson” rather than relieve them of their phone/wallet/money…
And I reckon that even “chav” ravers would not have wanted to spoil the atmosphere of such a good rave by committing such an act.
Of course the locals could not fight the entire rave, but all it would take is one hot-headed coward who thinks he’s hard………
I went there on Saturday night. Didn’t even know about it, was just walking home from somewhere with a friend. We got talking to these 5 guys who got outa a taxi and were looking for it. There was one going on at Tippee Valley at the same time, it was kinda confusing but anywayz we knew where Betws Mountain was so we sorted them out. They took us with them and it was great. There was at least 1000 people there on Sat night and loadsa rigs.
Best I’ve been to…
so thankyou everyone who made it happen!
hi, can anyone give me info on this uk teknival? plz pm me…nice one!
er..it happened two weeks ago..read the post.
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