Omeba Pissflaps wrote:I dont care about the drugs thign at all, but the police presence is really gonna ruin the feel of the festival for me. Glade has allways been like a happy community, where everything has been riendly and free. Now i worry, it may feel like just another festival. It was enevitable but this hole thign has sucked the pre-festival out of me... gabba

Woah there, you have no idea what its going to be like until you get there.

Chillax

teknon0tice wrote:Wish NWA was playing.

If things turn out to be nasty i wouldn't be surprised if that little number gets covered at some point...

Hey,

Once they busted the few drug users/dealers that might or might not come to glade, i suggest they use all their power, no not to catch tents thieves... but most of the tents are legaly "enclosed space" and as such should be non smoking, so get your riot gear and fine any one lighting one, should be VERY good for the stats...

JESUS, if you lot just stopped talking about drugs all the time wouldn't have this problem would we? Why draw attention to ourselves? drug talk is for kiddies

I'm sorry, I'm not talking about drug, I'm criticizing the stupid (in my view) approach of the police chief thinking that:
1) There is a (huge) drug problem at Glade, which in my 3 years glade experience is not true. Of course there some people using drugs, but not more than any other festival/concert (and probably any school or office).
2) General thinking of police chief that anyone listening to electronic music has to be considered as a drug user.
3) Completly ignoring all the other crimes prevention/repression at Glade, when the tent thieves is clearly a proved and recurrent issue (probably not worst at Glade than any other festival/gathering of this size, but still a concern for the majority of people going).

On the positive side, I suspect that, without saying it, he admits that desorderly behaviors and mostly binge drinking and the resulting fights (as you can experience at Reading festival for example) is a non issue at Glade. The same is also valid for the total absence of vandalism/depredation in the surrounding area, the fact that no one drop litter out of the site (ever been on the road between reading festival and the station???), etc... etc..

Of all the festival I have attended in UK and Europe, clearly Glade is the cleanest one (thanks to litter pickers and good behaviour of the public), the most friendly one (saw one small fight between 2 people in 3 years).

But of course I suspect the police chief feels a lot more at home and safe at a football match

SparklyFairyType wrote:Well he was talking about possible terrorist attacks in West Berkshire...lol. Could be propoganda.

Nope. Did you not notice the airfield next to the Wasing estate? There are reports slowly coming in that Al-Qaeda have been using it as a base to conduct cloud-seeding experiments in the Berkshire area...

~Pev