lemonzorba wrote:
i’m not sure what happened here, the police attitude changedquite dramatically from what i heard. when i left around 5am, the police took the piss out of me for leaving early! they were very relaxed about the whole thing, but then when a friend of mine was leaving around 3pm there were mounted units preparing to go in.
yep that is a bit rum, as during an ill-fated party in Suffolk the cops made it clear right from the start that they would stop the event somehow – even the normal uniformed units were not at all friendly and said they wanted the event to stop there and then.
Some months later I found a paper on their freedom of information website link that showed that the cops , council and CPS had become determined to seize a rig following the event where a police car had been trashed..
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i’m sure when you have got big multiriggers it makes comunication with the police much more complex and it is more difficult to speak with one voice. especially true when everyone is a bit messy.
I don’t think by that point they were prepared to negotiate – but normally there is at least a PA announcement from the helicopter (and the time of this is often logged).
I expect the helicopter would have flown away to stop people who have watched too many action films trying to pelt it and raining down missiles on everyones heads in the process, or they were worried about laser pointers / lights being used to “blind” the pilot as this apparently happened at a East Anglian rave (the cops share info about all these incidents)
