http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Facebook_police_raided_my_family_barbecue&in_article_id=704672&in_page_id=34

Good job those resources didn't have to be applied to anything important eh?

You can't make that up! What geniuses 😆

chin meets floor.

800 quid on food for 17, bloody hell the fat gits… 😆

dick heads

You don't spend £800 on a family barbecue. Why do you need to hire a generator for a BBQ?

All sounds a little suspect to me, and am guessing that there is more to the story than meets the eye..

and why would you have it in some remote field?

Hmmm… reading between the lines.

– Not near anyone, so I suspect not in the garden then.
– £800 on generator and food? That's either a pretty big genny or a shit load of food. If a big genny, then suggests not in his garden. Shit load of food suggests more that 17 people (even if they are all fat geordies!)
– Who the hell advertises a family get together for 17 people on Facebook?

Nah, he's been owned good and proper.

If we take that story at face value then it certainly lends weight to the theory that the police are invariably ridiculous when they aren't terrifying.

But I want to agree with funkynick that it simply can't be all there is to it. 😯

I agree with coyote – sounds like a helicopter was waaay overkil, but this was a bit more than a BBQ for 17 people

great, looking forward to our 'disparate AV freelancers mini festival type thing'

there'll be a lot more than one gazebo and it's on facebook 🙂

so far:

12m marquee
mobile bar trailer
BIG genset
BIG PA
flashy lighting rig
hog roast

bring on the rozzers 8)

he should be locked up for having that "sweet tribal" all over his arm…

I can't help but think that the police would be better off responding to a complaint by a real person about something that is actually illegal or antisocial, rather than trying to pre-empt such things by scanning social networking sites. Pretty much every social event organised on such places has the potential to turn a bit lairy.

Prime fillet steak maybe

Well said Mr_A.

Surely getting a 'Community Support Officer' to pop his head round and see there was no flatbed trailer with an enormous sound system on, might have been a more proportionate response.

At the end of the day, whats wrong with having a party in a field anyway? It says a lot about the feds impression of the public that they immediately assume its going to end in a riot. Or perhaps thats what they were after? Getting a chance to use their new tazers?

TaserTaserTaser 😀

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x74918_theyre-not-people-theyre-hippies_fun

im assuming someone must have tipped the rozzers off
so i suspect either a landowner or local resident did complain

I'm a bit worried about the next HTN…!

quick i'm being photographed as ''outraged pillar of community''

where's my shirt and tie? what, i don't own a long sleeved shirt…. oh well, best not bother doing the tie up either….

nice tat 🙂