Drunk drivers are always good for suicide. 😉

Kamikaze drivers?

TBH even the cheap China ones don’t sound too bad, I was at one point using two ready built units (with the harsh piezo tweeters disconnected) as subwoofers in my studio/workshop but in the end decided they were way too loud for a small space (although I’ve only got neighbours on one side of my house they often have grandchildren and a dog staying overnight).

be aware though that the cops consider that any group of young people who are willing to sacrifice what appears to be a few hundred or thousand quids worth of property at the height of an economic depression are obtaining the cash for this by illegal means and they are subjected to some fairly full on investigations; and if they happen to be unemployed / on benefits there is a very good chance that some of the ringleaders may even be sent to prison – this happened to friends of mine a few years ago.

OK prison might not yet be as harsh as it was during the 1960s to 1990s (though young offenders units have always been unpleasant) but its often said “a prison sentence starts after your release”. Its a lot harder to get a job round here with a criminal record or even being suspected of being “dodgy” and CRB is only one way of a prospective employer finding about peoples pasts. I am lucky myself to have the career I have with my past!

BTW Daftfaders comment (though he lives in London) is actually a case of “many a true word said in jest” – another reason used to justify the zero tolerance policies is that unlicensed events are held in remote areas and attract a lot of young/new drivers many of whom are under the influence of substances and/or sleep deprived – some often just about get through the rave without incident (as they are still buzzing and kept awake either by drugs or simply the enjoyable party) but are involved in fatal RTCs at the start of the following week especially on the Monday or Tuesday journeys to and from work. I’ve also personally witnessed a sleep deprived driver roll a 4×4 vehicle (unfamiliar vehicle, borrowed from parents?) at speed, although thankfully no one was killed a young lady in late teens who was a passenger in this vehicle sufferered minor but irreversible injuries which will plague her with chronic back pain for the rest of her life.

I also am originally from London and more recently lived in SE England until 2006 though moved to East Anglia for a work opportunity.

The zero tolerance policy (which is being extended to all parts of England outside London and cities) started about a year before before I moved to this area and didn’t arrive out of nowhere. It would not actually make any sense at all when local politicians (albeit closer to Ipswich) try and put across a image of Ipswich and Suffolk as “centres of the creativity and arts”, and also complain that “creative young people are lost to London”.

Unfortunately, the harsh realities are the “creative industries” and “night time economy” do not bring in as much cash as normal industry and/or the maritime economy, and those supportive politicians and organisations (though decent enough people if a bit naïve and overoptimistic) simply do not have as much power as they think, especially when everyone increasingly thinks about money first.

So outside a small minority of younger people and fewer still slightly older people in my age group who have not forgotten what it was like to be young, many current Suffolk residents feel they can do without the perceived costs (in council tax etc) of “subsidizing nightlife and arts” (which is why there are less problems with unlicensed events in NL – the “underground” hardstyle music popular at Norfolk raves is virtually mainstream pop music just across the North Sea). In reality it costs far more to close down UME’s with riot cops and prevent music events than to license them, but even in NL people complain about “their taxes being spent to give in to criminals”, and many people from NL and other “tolerant” North European countries actually move their businesses and investments to East Anglia because of this!

Added to this you get folk who are about the same age as us but are think its “smart” to keep their jobs in London so often have to get up at 05:00 for the train and/or work late evenings/weekends, and they are the kind who go to bed at 22:00 every night and call the fed on any rave or anything else noisy that is keeping them awake (some in mid suffolk called the feds on Chinese geese from a local farm!)

precision device pd1850

Have you got this build and put it to the test yet?