Sniffer Dogs at Glastonbury

[Barking_Mad]

i dunno what a load of cack. Im going to go to my cousins house boat party on the Leeds/Liverpool canal. middle of nowhere. Great music, dj's and all the drugs you can muster

Canal parties are the way forward!

 

[Barking_Mad]

I got stopped many moons ago at the V festival. Coppers pulled us over in my mums car - asked if we had drugs in the car - we had a bag of weed. Said if we handed it over in the amnesty there would be no problem. So we handed i over and they then proceeded to take all our details down.

Me: "I thought you said this is an amnesty?"
Copper: "It is"
Me: So you won't be needing our addresses then"
Copper: "Yes we do"
Me: "So this isnt an amnesty then?"
Copper: "Shut up or we'll arrest you"

Wankers.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I got stopped many moons ago at the V festival. Coppers pulled us over in my mums car - asked if we had drugs in the car - we had a bag of weed. Said if we handed it over in the amnesty there would be no problem. So we handed i over and they then proceeded to take all our details down.

Me: "I thought you said this is an amnesty?"
Copper: "It is"
Me: So you won't be needing our addresses then"
Copper: "Yes we do"
Me: "So this isnt an amnesty then?"
Copper: "Shut up or we'll arrest you"

Wankers.

You believed a copper Learn the hard way and all that....

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

See the above. People forget that the only liberal bit of Holland is Amsterdam.

Hmm. Groningen. I had a proper good 'lost weekend' there once.

 

[pootle]

Is that some coastal place? I remember someone saying somewhere on the coast or near-ish was the 2nd best place to go other than Amsterdam if you had *certain* interests!

 

[J77]

Is that some coastal place? I remember someone saying somewhere on the coast or near-ish was the 2nd best place to go other than Amsterdam if you had *certain* interests!

Nah -- it's the place in the deepest North Eastern reaches of the Netherlands -- good places on the coast are Zaanfort and Bloemendaal just up the coast -- they have all night parties there in the summer.

Tho' I disagree that all Dutch towns ecept for Amsterdam are dour.

It's just you've gotta go to the right parts of town -- same with the Dam really -- if you've only ever been to the RDL, you've only seen the worst.

 

[Fuzzy]

Hello Tobyjug.

well spotted BMD. the advertisment bit in west country newspapers should have set my alarm bells ringing.

 

[hektik]

back to the dogs...it doesn't matter if they are bored with the "game" or designed to sniff a specific type of drug - they are only there so that the police have grounds for "reasonable suspicion" and therefore allowed to stop and search you.

they pull people out at random, on the basis of who they think looks the dodgiest/most nervous, and use the dogs as their "reasonable suspicion" - you can't really argue that the dog did or didn't smell anything.

a case in point - at one festival, 5 of my friends walked through with an astonishing amount of stuff they shouldn't have, and the police stopped me, who had nothing on him, but looks generally dodgy as fuck. if the dogs could smell anything (and my friends had a wide variety) they would have picked them up and not me.

 

[pinkmonkey]

I got caught at Glastonbury a few years back. We got searched going back into the festival from the campervan fields at about 5am one morning.

We looked utterly fucked to be fair.

When they found it (a solitary pill) they said, 'is that valium?' knowing full well it wasn't. I said, 'yes' handed it over and that was that.

My mate had a massive bag of weed in his hand, they didn't check his hand when they searched him! Guess we weren't the only ones tired and emotional!

 

[LDR]

Photo tickets, sniffer dogs, CCTV and bag searches are among the measures being taken to beat touts and crime.

After successfully stamping out gatecrashers, police and festival security have now turned their attention to drugs.

Sniffer dogs have been deployed at train stations and on coaches, while random bag searches are taking place at festival gates.

Police have also laid traps for tent thieves, erecting "covert capture tents" equipped with cameras.

Source.

They've ever got CCTV on site now. Fair enough to cut done on tent thieves but I wonder if they will use it for clamping down on drugs too.

Actually, I've just realised the cameras are inside tents not poking out of them. Doh!

 

[chymaera]

Source.

They've ever got CCTV on site now. Fair enough to cut done on tent thieves but I wonder if they will use it for clamping down on drugs too.

A police spokesman on BBC News 24 stated earlier today 71 arrests for drugs offences had been made inside the festival. I have as yet not been able to find out a figure for those on the way to the festival.

 

[lights.out.london]

Would YOU touch him?

 

[sleaterkinney]

Source.

They've ever got CCTV on site now. Fair enough to cut done on tent thieves but I wonder if they will use it for clamping down on drugs too.

Actually, I've just realised the cameras are inside tents not poking out of them. Doh!

Well the worst is that they have cameras on their shoulders as they walk around and a team back in a van looking, just in case they miss anything. And from what I've read they will nick you for anything. Don't they realise what a backlash theres going to be on this?

 

[phildwyer]

Don't they realise what a backlash theres going to be on this?

They don't give a toss.

 

[jæd]

A police spokesman on BBC News 24 stated earlier today 71 arrests for drugs offences had been made inside the festival. I have as yet not been able to find out a figure for those on the way to the festival.

Um... What's your great interest, Tobes....? Has young Master Jug gone down there...? Or are you a major dealer these days...?

 

[JTG]

Hmm... glasto's turned into virgin festival etc in most other ways so why is this surprising?

I got a bit fucked off (when as a much younger and more angry man) at v2000 when i blagged some tix, and then got told *exactly* where i had to pitch my tent. then i got told i had to drink virgin cola..... they had dogs there, fortunatly id left my stash in the car.

fast forward a coupla years and hey presto - im being told i have to buy budweiser at glasto (even backstage - tho that was at least free)....

the things gone to shit - everyone knows it. any festy that u have to enter some kinda lottery, spend shedloads on the mobile, or be super net-savvy - then a looks contest (ok im exagging a bit now) fuckin sucks tho... i hated it last time.... never again..

donnington - the metal one, is the dogs bollox now i reckon. download i think its called. now thats a party...

Sorry but you don't have to buy Budweiser or anything else at Glastonbury, there's still a decent choice of stuff from what I saw. It's very easy to exaggerate the corporate side of the festival - look! You just did! - but it's hardly V is it?

Anyway, saw three people nicked on the gate I was working at, though the Security guys in each case seemed pretty sure there was something to be found.