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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?


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 11:29 am
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You can't make that up! What geniuses 😆


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 11:41 am
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chin meets floor.


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 11:43 am
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800 quid on food for 17, bloody hell the fat gits... 😆


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 11:43 am
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dick heads


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 11:43 am
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You don't spend £800 on a family barbecue. Why do you need to hire a generator for a BBQ?


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 11:45 am
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All sounds a little suspect to me, and am guessing that there is more to the story than meets the eye..


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 11:50 am
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and why would you have it in some remote field?


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 11:54 am
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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.


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 11:54 am
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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 [i]can't[/i] be all there is to it. 😯


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 11:55 am
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I agree with coyote - sounds like a helicopter was waaay overkil, but this was a bit more than a BBQ for 17 people


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 11:56 am
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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)


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 11:58 am
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he should be locked up for having that "sweet tribal" all over his arm...


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 12:05 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 12:06 pm
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Prime fillet steak maybe


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 12:08 pm
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Well said Mr_A.


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 12:10 pm
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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?


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 12:20 pm
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[b]TaserTaserTaser[/b] 😀


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


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 12:26 pm
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I'm a bit worried about the next HTN...!


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 12:27 pm
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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....


 
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nice tat 🙂


 
Posted : 19/07/2009 8:42 am