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If you are planning a BBQ with friends and family, do not…I repeat…do not make a Facebook post alerting everyone or SWAT will show up (helicopter and all). I don’t know why this guy is complaining, in Texas, it’s not even considered a party until the SWAT helicopter arrives. :D

Riot police stormed a 30th birthday party for just 15 people and shut it down, thinking it was a rave because it was advertised on Facebook. Four police cars, a riot van and a helicopter were involved in the swoop on Andrew Poole's gathering for his family and friends.
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a rave? if there was a chopper wouldn't they have been able to tell there weren't thousands of e-tards in the backyard?
 
Why in the world didn't they calmly go in there to analyze the situation before making a decision as to whether or not to shut the party down, which hadn't even started yet. :confused: Makes no sense at all.
 
The UK is good at overstepping it seems. They never seem to respond "just right". It's either too much or too little. Shame, really.
 
either the whole story isnt being told here, or im sure glad I don't live in the UK cause damn burgers are expensive!

Mr Poole said he spent £800 on food and a generator.
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Read this and thought it was American. Then realised it was good old Blighty. :D

I'm frankly shocked the police got there before the Health and Safety Executive!
 
This is ridiculous.

Made me lol:
'We were nowhere near anyone. We weren't even playing any music. What effectively the police did was come in and stop 15 people eating burgers.'
 
I've heard someone say that the UK is becoming a police state and I thought they were just joking or exaggerating things. After reading this story though it seems like maybe they weren't.
 
Damn. Well I guess since they did not find a huge rave going on and they had already busted out the chopper and all....LOL! 15 people.
 
It would have been nice to see how it was advertised. I doubt "an all-night party" was the only trigger.
 
Oline61 said:
Mr Poole said he spent £800 on food and a generator.
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what did he buy one just for this? If your only having a modest sound system and a few lights you can rent one for very little. Atleast in the states. I love it when people try to spin things off as if they wernt planning on doing something.

From reading between the lines my best guess of what actually happened is that the swat team got their way to early when just the people that were setting things up were there and eating.
 
ElGuapo242 said:
Damn. Well I guess since they did not find a huge rave going on and they had already busted out the chopper and all....LOL! 15 people.
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These "Good guys" should had gone hunting or something. Perhaps a visit to the local Burlesque house would had calmed their desire to gut the party goers innards.

I mean do something guys. There is no more Tower of London and no Heads on a Pike to enter-taint the little creatures.
 
anyone want coffee and donuts ? i'll leave them on the front door and we can party in the back LOL :D
 
Aku12 said:
what did he buy one just for this? If your only having a modest sound system and a few lights you can rent one for very little. Atleast in the states. I love it when people try to spin things off as if they wernt planning on doing something.

From reading between the lines my best guess of what actually happened is that the swat team got their way to early when just the people that were setting things up were there and eating.
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What you think they were going to start making E or something?
 
I thought that guy was Jason Statham.

Then I realized it wasn't him when the police got their way.
 
The important thing, is that once you devote yourself to a course of action, you cannot, whatever you do, call it off or admit it was wrong. You just have to brazen it out. I have personally never met a police officer who would admit they were wrong, also it is very rare for a politician to admit they screwed up.

Incidentally a comment on the page caught my eye pointing out, quite correctly, that we do not have a copy of the facebook message, and as such it could, I stress the word could, have been a completely ridiculous message. admittedly they should have checked it out first, but hell, when you have a helicopter and a bunch of people wearing body armour waiting around, who wants to sit around "investigating" stuff?
 
Wow, I respect the law and all for the most part but a riot helicopter due to a Facebook post about a Birthday party? That was just a tad bit overboard there with the riot police showing up.
 
What they don't say is actually how the event was "advertised". What I really want to know is how the police were privy to it since events on Facebook tend not to be public.
 
What exactly is illegal about this? I mean raves can mean anything and can be done without ecstasy. It's kind of bullshit when they have to send a helicopter to end a rave.
 
Aku12 said:
either the whole story isnt being told here, or im sure glad I don't live in the UK cause damn burgers are expensive!
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Actually, beef is very expensive in the UK. Getting good beef is even more expensive. My brother in law is from the UK and when he, my sister and their daughters come over to visit my brother in law practically eats nothing but beef while he's here. This is because it's practically impossible for them to afford even decent beef over there. It also helps that the beef my family gets is from the family farm and better than almost all your store bought beef and my dad is a lot better with a grill than most.

 
Damn that's pretty cool, I want a birthday party with a swat helicopter. :rolleyes:
 
Am I the only one that feels this was rather invasive/ intrusive that they even knew about this? I'm opposed to social networking sites.. and pretty much you're sacrificing your privacy on them, yes; But the police really don't have any right to be searching through FB for people planning parties IMO.
 
I would have told them to screw off. If they want to arrest me for having 15 friends eat burgers in my backyard, it would be worth it for the money I'd get when I sued the balls off of that department.
 
What the hell, this is just ridiculous and way over exaggerated with a raid like this including a helicopter. Those officers must have felt pretty dumb in the end.
 
'We were extremely concerned how the event had been advertised on the internet as an all-night party,' a spokesman said.
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^^Oh fucking hell...OH NOES AN ALL NIGHT PARTY *GASP* :rolleyes: That's bullshit.
 
Enduring_Warrior said:
You all need to stop joking around and read 1982.
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whats this 1982 of which you speak? Never heard of it, or are you referring to Gorge Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four?

then yes the UK is quickly going that way, the US is not that far behind.. I wonder when they will start installing the cctv to look for the "terrests"?
 
I'm betting the cops knew once they arrived they got it all wrong but are too proud to admit it so gotta keep playing along. I'm sure there are some local laws or policies regarding how many people may gather at one place etc and they haven't broken any of those law, so the police effectively intervened with something that hadn't occurred... Guilty before any crime has been committed..
 
Glad I don't live in the US and especially not Texas. What a police state... :eek:
 
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