19-07-2009, 10:26 AM
Riot police raid birthday barbecue for ‘all-night’ Facebook tag
Austin Modine
The Register
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Riot police stormed a man’s 30th birthday barbecue for 15 guests because it was advertised as an “all-night” party on Facebook.
Four police cars, a riot van, and a force helicopter were dispatched to a privately-owned field in a small village near Sowton, Devon in the UK on Saturday, ordering the party shut down or everyone would be arrested.
Andrew Poole, a coach driver from Sowton, said his birthday barbecue was busted up before they even had a chance to plug the music in, reports the BBC.
“What effectively the police did was come in and stop 15 people eating burgers,” Poole said.
The event was shuttered under section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which grants police powers to remove persons attending or preparing for a “rave” (defined as playing amplified music “wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats,” during the night).
Austin Modine
The Register
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Riot police stormed a man’s 30th birthday barbecue for 15 guests because it was advertised as an “all-night” party on Facebook.
Four police cars, a riot van, and a force helicopter were dispatched to a privately-owned field in a small village near Sowton, Devon in the UK on Saturday, ordering the party shut down or everyone would be arrested.
Andrew Poole, a coach driver from Sowton, said his birthday barbecue was busted up before they even had a chance to plug the music in, reports the BBC.
“What effectively the police did was come in and stop 15 people eating burgers,” Poole said.
The event was shuttered under section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which grants police powers to remove persons attending or preparing for a “rave” (defined as playing amplified music “wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats,” during the night).
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
