@joksgez 526433 wrote:
i hear boomtown is full of scallies is this true?
it has a reputation for being “more tolerant for drugs” than the other “hippy” festivals as festival hippies are getting older these days, half of them are older than me, and are now para about their teenage kids being exposed to the same drugs they did themseves in their youth :crazy:
so if there are genuine problems the problem might be said scallies feel they have a free reign because the crowd are on drugs and won’t grass to security or coppers, unlike a festival full of middle aged Guardian reading hippys who still believe in the rule of law and democracy and turn a blind eye to the stewards detaining a scally with eco-friendly appropriate force (bashing them a bit with one of them whittled sticks that hippys like making?) and handing them over to the friendly politically correct bobby…
but it need not be full of scallies if whoever is promoting/organising it employs stewards and security with both cojones and brain cells (its not impossible to have both). Also if the local bobby has real criminals to deal with then they might not be so bothered about nicking people for being full of pills and powders unless they are driving…
on this note nearly all medium size festivals have a traffic control where the cops check for DUI, safe driving etc… (they do use them covert cars with the cameras in)- its partly a way of training officers in a less confrontational environment, but given they will attract young/new drivers often on their first long drive with passengers I can’t really blame the old bill for doing this..
