If these 4 things happen:

Locations are chosen wisely, so zero (or the bare minimum) people are aggravated.

The party is respectful and police are dealt with in a decent (but cautious and wary) manner if they turn up and if necessary come to an arrangement like “pack up at lunchtime the next day”

A certain degree of organisation and accident prevention methods are in place.

Make sure the party doesn’t turn in to a MASSIVE multi-rigger or have thousands of people turn uP

…then it is much less likely you will get in to much trouble. It’s sometimes still a case of the current climate though. For instance, if a county has been done to death week in week out with crews generating many complaints and confrontations arising then the old bill might just come down on anyone hard or use sly tactics to get results. Such as telling a party it’s ok to carry on as long as they pack up at a certain time, and then when they comply the seize the vans at the exit etc.

ive been to parties where the surrounding area has been trashed and to be honest its normally only a small handful so whoever you are and whenever you can the next day try and help clear up, not necessarily help with the rigs equipment, but the litter that every party brings,

keep the party scene tidy 🙂

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o and ive played parties that have been busted (not necessarily shut down) before when its happened the organiser needs to speak with the police ive never really had an input even when im actually on the decks and the police have only come up to me to say turn it down or off for a sec but are normally very nice about it.

it might look like that but I very much doubt the cops are going to just let the incident go, even if they don’t get people immediately they will keep on with the investigations..if cops have bothered to turn up with enough force and resources to seize a rig there has clearly been enough “crime” committed for them to want to bring people to account for the event

they aren’t daft, they are going to think “now how come a bunch of mostly 18-30 something young lads can afford to just abandon a few grands worth of audio equipment?”

Plus they are still going by the mindset that raves are put on by organised criminal groups as a money making exercise, it is more likely they are going to suspect that if the crews can accept such a financial loss, they have “other sources of income” (i.e drug dealing or other forms of crime such as burglary/car theft and resale) rather than being just a bunch of youths wanting to have a bit of fun…

It is more likely to result in detectives going through the video footage they shoot at raves even more closely, checking the records of every vehicle that was present and who might be driving it and who is associating with whom.

cops already think free parties have links with local “firms” and the more criminal element of the traveller community anyway

Just because people don’t get nicked straight away doesn’t mean that doors aren’t being stoved in at 6am months later when everyone has forgotten about the party…

I would make sure he never found out about one of my parties again :you_crazy The last thing we need in the current climate is idiots winding coppers up for fun :you_crazy:you_crazy

💡 Why dont they just go and walk into a police station and try bottling the police?

That fucking well pissed me off!

My mate got battered cas he was in wrong place at wrong time .. and i saw an innocent girl get hit with a sheild ..

All because pricks where throwing things and it got the cops riled!!

people will justify it and say “yea but the police pepper sprayed ppl first” .. so fucking what .. dont escalate the situation, you are never going to win!