Rave escape- coping with tear gas

[Damien1138]

Wasn't it Damien who was posting about the cops raiding the place he was playing at not so long ago?

Jesus mate, LA sounds like Beirut.

LA is like the jungle BOH BOH

[JesC]

Welcome To The Jungle Baby!

[wrong chris]

damn it feels good to be canadian.

[Str8upDrew]

It's not just LA, in Dayton, OH a few years back i was playin a party and in came the tear gas for what seemed like no reason at all. Then when i was packing up to leave one of the assholes maced me. He did eventually apologize, after i threatened to press charges.

[Damien1138]

Ouch, mace to the face is no bueno

[djhipnotikk]

still should have sued him.

[cmcpress]

Seriously? I thought for sure the rest of the world has had it's share of rioting. What about containment at 90's UK parties? or Sensation riots? Is LA really that fucked up compared to the rest of the world? JesC? Back me up here ><

In the early days of UK rave there weren't much OTT police action - at the start the police couldn't really do anything as the ravers were always one step ahead - mobile phones with last minute meeting places. Although there were plenty of soundsystems that were shut down, mostly there wasn't as much agro - the cops were a bit more respectful and ravers were usually too blissed out on doves to cause any trouble.

Take Castle Morton - that was a fucking awesome rave but the cops didn't have any choice but to let it continue -there were 25,000 people there and there was no legislative precedent so the cops couldn't move fast enough. After that came the Criminal Justice bill and the rest is history really. Cops tend to contain these things, seize soundsystems and then let the crowd naturally disperse.

In Manchester at the squat parties at Otterburn close they tended to be afraid of going in as the hippies outnumbered the cops and it was more or less restricted to that squat.

I'm not sure if CS gas is legal for the cops to use here. At the same time - there are few people at an early Rave who would have challenged the cops - it was more a case of "fair cop guvnor", maybe a bit of argy bargy but not the same mass anti-police sentiment there is now.

[midian]

It's not just LA, in Dayton, OH a few years back i was playin a party and in came the tear gas for what seemed like no reason at all. Then when i was packing up to leave one of the assholes maced me. He did eventually apologize, after i threatened to press charges.

I would have sued... thats beyond bull shit.

[Str8upDrew]

Yeah, i was thinking about it. But cops only make like 30-40k a year, and god knows the department would have said it was his actions so it wasn't their fault. No since in ruining the guys life over one mistake right.

[Rumblejazz]

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