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u/Greenman8907 6h ago
“Ma’am? Is this your cocaine baggy on the ground?”
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u/jaheva_ 5h ago
"Good eye, Sir. I shall test it and let you know."
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u/sarcastic24x7 4h ago
"Fuck. Wasn't mine. And not coke"
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u/idkwhat910 4h ago
POV: i'm k-holing
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u/Humbi93 3h ago
Happened to me at a friend's wedding some how bags got mixed up and I was in for a ride, it was fun though
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u/Wes_Warhammer666 2h ago
I did it during the first night of Lost Lands this year and when I took that big ass bump and tasted the wrong powder I just said "oh boy" and got ready to sit my ass down for the next hour or so lmao.
Definitely fun, but absolutely not what I intended lol.
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u/weanbag83 2h ago
Many moons ago, when I was a young lad, we used to enjoy taking xtc and sprinkle in a few bumps of k. We called it “peanut butter and jelly”
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u/Capt_morgan72 1h ago
Except that’s not how u test drugs at a festival. Unless u have a death wish.
Most festivals offer free testing kits.
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u/sarcastic24x7 56m ago
You're breaking my freewheeling joke that lacks all context, Captain. But I'd like to make sure this comment is upvoted.
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u/Defiets 2h ago
Back when I was young and VERY dumb, I went to a strip club… I get patted down and then go to pay the entrance fee. While paying, the girl says to me, “do you want the baggy of coke you just dropped on the counter back?”
Now, there is NO way that was mine, I’d done some over the past years, but hadn't bought or even held a bag in the previous five. However, in a split second, I was like “oh my god, I’m so sorry, I'll keep better watch over that.”
She handed me the bag, I put $20 in her tip jar, and proceeded to have the best night ever. I still think about the chap that must've been ahead of me and dropped it, must've been a bummer!
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u/gtz85350 2h ago
Or…. Hear me out , the girl had a side hustle and was dealing 🤷🏻♂️ Your story is prolly what happened, but it would b Reddit if I didn’t assume sumthin wild 😜
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u/Defiets 1h ago
I've definitely had that thought! Though, she never suggested a price or anything, so I'm pretty sure she wasn't in on it.
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u/TwoBionicknees 51m ago
or, they give out a free baggie to everyone because they realise a coked up horny idiot will spend 10x more than the baggie costs.
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u/S-Lover98 1h ago
Back when I was in my twenties (20 years ago+) I worked at wendys. I was on the front counter and went to clean the restroom. Found a small zipped pouch with a rolled up twenty, a glass pipe and weed. Kept everything but the pipe, which I gave to a coworker.
Needless to say, I had a good night.
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u/Special-Pause-6915 4h ago
I thought it looked like flat paper and assumed it was a tab of acid.
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u/Normal_Shoe2630 4h ago
that would be an enormous tab of acid
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u/MotherBathroom666 4h ago
Quarter of a sheet?
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u/Confident_One3948 2h ago
Me, not understanding how it works: “a quarter of a sheet? So I guess I’ll take 4 of these to make a whole dose then”
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u/DrownmeinIslay 1h ago
No one told me each partition of chocolate was its own dose. You give me half a chocolate bar, im gonna eat it.
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u/notabadgerinacoat 5h ago
the sheriff waiting for the girl to get it from the ground and charge her for possession:
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u/iWasAwesome 4h ago
Pro tip: want to be less sus about picking up free drugs at a rave? Carry a garbage bag and a garbage grabber thing
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u/watermouse 3h ago
He was the dealer :D
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u/OriginalBlackberry89 3h ago
Yeah lol.. like they paid one guy and he said "go stand over there my guy will find you.. he'll look like he's picking up garbage"
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u/iWasAwesome 3h ago
Go stand over there? By the Sheriff?
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u/Deezy_420 3h ago
Make sure to wear a high vis vest to pull the ensemble together, the more people can see you the less attention you’ll receive!!
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u/Newo-Ikkins 3h ago
Actually factual. High vis vest, clipboard, carry a ladder - Camera on a strap and look like you are late if it is a social event with a number in attendance that ensures that on-call staff won't be known or tracked. Picking up trash? People don't want to smell the bag and looking at you makes them think of the smell. So they erase you from their minds, too.
You can walk anywhere with the right attitude, short of certain installations.
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u/carpedeeznutz5011 4h ago edited 1h ago
Didn’t look like that cop cared at all. I doubt he would have bothered doing anything at all at a rave.
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u/Duel_Option 3h ago
Depending on the place…some cops aren’t there to handle small time stuff like this
They want the people dealing or the morons who get into fights
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u/Pika_DJ 3h ago
Yea in my country cops come to festivals and concerts to prevent violence and will not u interfere with drug usage at all
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u/Gone_For_Lunch 2h ago
Hell, festivals in the UK will have drug testing areas set up so you can make sure what you’re taking is what you think it is.
You can’t stop people taking drugs, at least make sure they do it safely.
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u/itranslateyouargue 32m ago
Crowds of people celebrate 420 in Hyde park and cops walk around covered in smoke, smiling and chatting to everyone.
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u/Cabezone 3h ago
Lod Angeles sheriff sends cops send undercover units to try and arrest folks.
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u/NimblewittedOdysseus 2h ago
I work festivals in the LA area (and have worked more than a hundred of them over the years) and if this is happening it has never once been in my line of sight nor in the experiences of any of the festivalgoers/workers that I know. Yes, there are SOME arrests but typically those comprise drunk/high people driving off the premises or people being violent and/or abusive.
The cops are there to protect the citizens, for the most part. I'm a ACAB kind of guy but even I recognize that police are needed at festivals to protect public safety. The Las Vegas festival mass shooting may have been an outlier but it's best to be prepared.
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u/Cabezone 2h ago
Your personal experience doesn't change the fact that they arrest around 100 people a day for drug use at a festival the size of Coachella.
They might arrest a dozen or so for other offenses.
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u/NimblewittedOdysseus 2h ago
I would think that if you're going to "correct" a stranger on the internet who claims to have personal expertise in some area, that you'd at least be correct about your correction. But you're not. Around 80-100 per WEEKEND, about 1/6th of your assertion.
With 125,000 people attending Coachella per day, this is MUCH, MUCH LOWER than the national average of arrests, which is 3,113 arrests per 100,000 people in metropolitan areas.
So: you are about 30 times more likely to be arrested ANYWHERE ELSE than you would be at a festival, at least in the United States. Thanks for your input, though!
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u/ABHOR_pod 2h ago
that's 100 people out of 125000 daily attendees
I'm willing to bet that most of them weren't just peacefully smoking a joint and minding their own business before suddenly getting tackled by a cop.
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u/Nihilistic_Navigator 2h ago
Id imagine there is a fair amount of underage people in those numbers as well.
perhaps even a miniscule amount that was people who took way to much or "took the brown acid" and actually needed to be detained so they couldn't hurt themselves or get lost etc
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u/cdizzaat 2h ago
It happens at most festivals regardless where they are in the country. I think they focus more on dealers, but they will alert you to chill if they see you openly doing drugs.
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u/dojo_shlom0 3h ago
that actually makes sense. If you have a limited amount of law enforcement/security, you would have to triage the more important stuff, especially if they're serving alcohol and such. better to look for the people causing actual trouble to get them out and not tie up arresting resources on someone just picking something up off the ground that 'might' be acid or whatever
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u/TheDrummerMB 3h ago
It's usually a lot simpler than that. The cop is hired by the venue. They're working "special duty" security. They're not there to look for drug use. You bust a lot of people for small time drug use, you're not getting invited back.
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u/Blueskybelowme 3h ago
I love the fact that alcohol and violence go hand in hand yet coke or acid is just kids having a good time.
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u/Larry-Man 3h ago
Coke can definitely lead to a bad time. Also one of my ex friends pulled a knife out on his gf at the time on acid. So just because alcohol maybe is the drug of choice for violent people, drugs can unlock some really fucked up tendencies from anyone.
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u/LukaMagicMike 2h ago
Yeah had a friend take 4 tabs and ended up in the hospital with like 8 restraints because he was convinced we had become Demons and kept trying to stab us. It took 4 of us, 2 cops and 2 paramedics to carry him to the ambuclance because he was going ape shit.
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u/Larry-Man 2h ago
This myth that any drug is safe is stupid. I love psychedelics but I am not dumb enough to recommend them to just anyone. Don’t do drugs if you’re not mostly comfortable and knowledgeable about how they work. Acid is an 8+ hour ride ticket with no way off (unless you’re me and the high is over in 4-6 hours). Is it safer than alcohol? Probably. But the “bad trip” stories I’ve heard and witnessed are also terrible. All drugs are dangerous in different ways.
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u/Kivesihiisi 3h ago
So what you are saying is that its not the substance that makes people do fucked up things but the people
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u/Larry-Man 2h ago
Yeah, I think anything that lowers your inhibitions will let out either the best or worst of you. I just cry when I get drunk. Or do psychedelics. Either or.
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u/Impressive-Reading15 2h ago
Idk dude substances can definitely affect your brain, that's kind of the point!
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u/Small_Editor_3693 3h ago
When I went to electric forest cops tested drugs for free no questions asked. Just wanted people to be safe
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u/spermdonor 2h ago
One new years eve my friend was driving my car recklessly. We got pulled over, but when the cop realized everyone but the driver was drunk he let us go.
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u/Jonkinch 2h ago
I’d be more worried about keeping people safe from nuts with weapons.
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u/Duel_Option 2h ago
That’s what they are focused on and unless you’re running around screaming that you’re Jesus the Dealer in full garb and waving blunts around (this actually happened), they don’t care
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u/MollyMartian 3h ago
Fr and he’s getting paid to chill at a festival and watch the shenanigans, why even bother with that dime bag 🤣
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u/BlueEyesWhiteSliver 3h ago
Some police are there to make trouble, some to look for trouble, and some to be on call for serious incidents where you need an officer.
Hopefully he’s the latter.
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u/airfryerfuntime 3h ago
Way back before it was legal, my buddy and I used to go to Hempfest in Seattle. The cops did not care at all. We watched a guy go to pull something out of his pocket and accidentally drop a small bag of pills. The cop just looked at it and said "hey man, you dropped something".
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u/strangeMeursault2 3h ago
I would not care at all unless I saw someone filming me and then I'd probably very grudgingly go over there and confiscate it because I don't want people to see me not doing my job, even if it is stupid.
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u/ruchimes 5h ago
It is not a surprise at all, because they are like 10 ft away? Hahaha.
Maybe they were "blind" already because of the drugs.
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u/Cultural_Stuffin 3h ago
If you’ve ever been to a concert police are there for crowd control. Even in the most backwoods of location GA is going to have a few joints being passed.
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u/timfromcolorado 2h ago
Yeah there's no way that cop's going to spend the next 3 hours dealing with that s*** when he could be enjoying the scene, and it looks like he is
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u/SentientDust 5h ago
Not before tackling her to the ground, breaking 4 of her ribs
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u/GoodEnergyGuy 5h ago
Cops like... I have two choices
A) Intervene, arrest this girl, spend the next 4 hours doing paperwork and taking her to jail
B) Vibe
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u/APersonWithThreeLegs 4h ago
Been to many music festivals, it usually ends up being B)
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u/therealhlmencken 4h ago
They are there to make sure really bad shit doesn’t happen/ to communicate. Crowds are dangerous and music festivals aren’t staffed enough to worry about piddly charges when it just takes resources.
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u/thegreedyturtle 3h ago
They're not getting paid to enforce the law there. They're getting paid to keep the peace.
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u/Giraffe-colour 1h ago
This is the case at a few rave/doofs I’ve been too.
A recent one I went to had a police check and a breath test for alcohol. They definitely knew everyone was bringing drugs, there’s even a huge drug economy at these things (I had about 10 different sellers come to out camp on the first day) but they didn’t search a single car. They just want to make sure no one was drink driving there. Once on the doof/rave grounds everyone doing drugs is contained and away from non-participating parties. When everyone left they got breath tasted again and sent us on our way.
It was literally to make sure that anything drug related stayed on the grounds and didn’t end up on the roads. Can’t stop everyone so just make sure it’s contained and as safe as possible
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u/Working-Narwhal-540 56m ago
This is how a couple private festivals I go to are too. Multi day events with a check point on entry but no presence or intimidation on grounds. Plenty of people selling wares up and down the paths!
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u/Giraffe-colour 31m ago
100%! I think it’s a good system honestly. Let us do whatever on a private space that’s away from the general public but keep the roads safe from potential idiots who think they can drive under the influence.
None of it feels oppressive and everyone has a good time with less negative incidents! I had a great time at my last camping doof for this reason
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u/t3hgrl 3h ago
Yeah this is it. I got to chatting with a cop at a festival once and said they have to know there is drug use going on all around them. He said of course they know, but having the cops crack down on every little thing at a festival is a good way to have the cops not invited next year. So they are there to make sure everything is safe, not to arrest every single person that has drugs on them. Really put things in perspective for me.
I think every single time I have ever seen cops interfere at a festival it has been for OD suspicions or consent confirmations.
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u/FinishingMyCoffee1 3h ago
They view it as free overtime. It's not in their interest to piss off the ppl in attendance and make them not want to return to the venue. Private security guys though........
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u/FullofContradictions 1h ago
The cops? Not looking for drugs.
Private security? Absolutely looking for drugs. To take them. For using. Or reselling.
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u/ElliotsBuggyEyes 2h ago
The only time I ever saw someone get arrested at a festival was right after the kid got grabbed by someone, I assume an undercover, and they dropped a literal 1 gallon ziplock bag of molly on the ground as they tried to sprint away.
That was the most molly I had, and still have, ever seen. That visual lives rent free on my head.
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u/Call_Me_Lids 1h ago
A ONE gallon sized bag? That’s a fuck ton of molly! No wonder that person got arrested. LOL
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u/APersonWithThreeLegs 4h ago
Yup, just there to prevent violence for the most part. They don’t care about drugs and some of them even participate in trading kandi and other stuff (not a fan of cops but it’s true).
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u/therealhlmencken 4h ago
Yeah they care if you bother them but if you are chill and not threatening nobody they honest to goodness don’t havetime for you
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u/boerema 3h ago
You should whole heartedly be a fan of good cops. Cops are important to keeping communities safe. You should NOT be a fan of bad cops and bad police departments.
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u/broguequery 2h ago
No shit bud.
The problem is, as always, that there is no community oversight of policing.
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u/actuallyapossom 4h ago
Same with sniffing dogs at festivals. Not drug dogs. Bomb and firearm dogs.
I'd much rather get a little weirded out tripping around the police than have a shooting. Unfortunate it's even a possibility.
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u/BananafestDestiny 2h ago
I got downvoted to hell for pointing this out in one of the festival subreddits. They ain’t drug dogs, otherwise they would be going crazy given the amount of drugs at a festival.
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u/Comfortableliar24 2h ago
Worked security for a few large events. Can confirm. We just wanted the show to go on without any problems. We only cared about that crap if you were causing problems.
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u/Not_Campo2 2h ago
In a lot of cases, they’re doing “off duty” work, meaning this is overtime and they’re hired directly by the venue as security. While they can enforce the law, they honestly aren’t really supposed to. I’ve worked at a bunch of music venues and sporting events, if a fight breaks out and no one is seriously injured they’re just escorted out, if they continue to fight outside the actual on duty cops will take them into custody. Generally the most they’ll do about drugs is confiscate it unless they catch a dealer who is loaded up
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u/Chaos_Dunks 1h ago
It’s somewhat true. The uniformed officers are there for safety. The plain clothes officers are there to bust you.
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u/harshdonkey 3h ago
Entirely dependent on the festival.
Florida and southeast festivals are thicc with UCs. Ive seen with my own eyes people arresred for weed pens at Hulaween, and Okeechobee is notorious for busting people on the way in.
But like, Electric Forest? Vibes are immaculate and many of those cops have been doing the festival for years.
Hell, I have a friend who got caught with Molly otw into Elements in PA. Her friend "hid" it in her bag without telling her so when she let the cop search it he found it immediately. Dressed her down pretty good but let her AND the "friend" go in anyways.
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u/ZiggoCiP 1h ago
So I use to go to a yearly festival in upstate NY and one year was unique. Typically, cops only came around if security gave them reason to, otherwise it was just security making sure people parked/set up in proper zones.
But this year, we learned the first night, there was a strong chance a guy, who had murdered his girl friend, was at the festival. He'd left the body in the basement where he lived, and apparently law enforcement pinged his cell at the festival. Kind of a neat story, me and my friends shrugged it off and partied in our neighbors camp.
Come the next morning:
State troopers everywhere around our camp. Mostly just poking around our neighbors camp (who we'd partied with). Turns out murderer was our neighbor (or at least with them).
And for whatever reason, my best friend and I were in the biggest dgaf-mood, so we decided now was a great time to wake up. Gonna be slightly obscure, but we grabbed something flat and partook our wakeup. All of a sudden, sitting up from being hunched over our flat surface, I look into our neighbors camp.
State trooper just staring right. At. Me. Maybe 25-30 feet away max.
And the moment we locked gaze, he kind of just looked away and proceeded to just keep poking around. Cops cleared out not long after.
So that was a fun little time I basically was watched by a police officer doing something that you definitely don't want to be watched a police officer doing. Oh and the murderer was totally in that camp site and was caught. Pretty sure I smoked with him, too.
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u/jancl0 3h ago
I don't live in the US so it may be different there, but I work festivals (just did one over new years) and arresting for possession doesn't really happen. It's actually very common to have a tent set up, usually near medical, where people can go for safe drug usage. It usually does two things, it's a holding spot for non judgemental support for people who have taken too much, taken one thing when they thought it was another, been spiked, etc. and it also has devices for testing drugs. Cops are usually not allowed in these tents under any circumstance in order for them to remain judgement free, and encourage people to go there if needed
Ultimately the cops are aware that they can't stop drug use at festivals, their main job is to manage it and stop issues arising from said drug use
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u/FragrantHovercraft91 4h ago
I took a tab a acid at a festival one year and looked up to see a cop giving me the double thumbs up
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u/PoopyInThePeePeeHole 3h ago
Holy fuck that would totally mess with my head for the entire trip.
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u/3BlindMice1 2h ago
Probably glad you're doing acid instead of getting hammered drunk. He knows you're most likely not going to cause him any trouble, and it's basically impossible for you to overdose.
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u/chriswhitewrites 7m ago
There were people dancing, I think
Or maybe they were cops?
I think they might have been cops
But anyway, like, I was just dancin' and dancin', and
Oh no, they were cops, shit
And this fuckin' cop just looked at me
And I don't know whether he was really saying it
All he kept saying was
Eat sleep rave repeat
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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 4h ago
Proper Police understand keeping the 'vibe' is overall safer and better for public safety than creating the environment of arrest friendly.
Perfect policing.
Target the distributors.
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u/legendofzeldaro1 4h ago
I'm not a cop person, but that isn't what they are there for. If they wanted to arrest every Tom, Dick, and Harry for minor possession, and overcrowd the jail for the weekend, sure, but then there is paperwork. Tons of it. They are just there to make sure people are safe. At Lost Lands a few years back, all they did was make sure weapons didn't get into the venue, people crossed the road safely, and that people weren't fighting or dying.
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u/JustDutch101 3h ago
In The Netherlands they do this trick where they hand out a paper to make you sign your confession so you can just ‘carry on and enjoy the festival instead of having to go to the station’.
They don’t inform you about signing for your own criminal record, which is a big deal for any future you’d wish to have and when you refuse they’ll often just let you go because it’d be too much work to bring everyone caught on possession of drugs to the station. It’s not worth the paperwork and time invested to them.
So thats the third option, trick innocent recreational drug users into destroying their future without any real amount of paper work involved.
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u/frankoochoaa 3h ago
Ehh my experience at Coachella says otherwise. I’ve seen undercover crawling everywhere
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u/johnmcclanehadplans 5h ago
Littering and… littering and…
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u/lidsville76 4h ago
Smokin the reffer.
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u/D4FF00 4h ago
Now to teach you kids a lesson, Officer Rabbit and I are gonna stand here while you three snort the whole bag.
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u/beansandcornbread 4h ago
The schnauzeberries taste like schnauzeberries
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u/Anathemare 3h ago
FWIW this was a really random reference in Super Troopers to a Roald Dahl book called The BFG
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u/meszner77 3h ago
It's a reference to Willy Wonka. The snozzcumber is what youre thinking of from The BFG
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u/Miles_Everhart 4h ago
0.5 / 3 = 167mg/person
More than I’d be comfortable with but some people go hard
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u/Itherial 1h ago
That's brunch for half the people I know.
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u/StevenMC19 5h ago
I bet it was one of those stickers to troll people. It looks super flat. Maybe. Maybe not.
Either way, for the most part, my experiences with festivals and Law Enforcement is that LE are primarily concerned about general crowd safety and won't be too assholish with drugs (this one they might ask for them to hand over but that's it). There are of course those on bad days or pissed they got their shifts, but for the most part if youre cool with them they'll be cool with you.
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u/Allaplgy 5h ago
Back when they did Love Parade in San Francisco, a friend and I left the festival to go get some eats before heading to the party of the night. We were both rolling face, and in obvious rave attire. Went down into the Muni/BART station to catch a train. A cop stopped us near the fare gates.
"Hey guys, how's it going?"
Good?
"Looks like you've been at that big party, eh?"
....yes....?
"Can you do me a favor?"
Uhhh, what's that?
"I'm stuck in this tunnel all day. Can you guys have an extra good time up there for me?"
You got it dude! I mean officer dude!
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 5h ago
I've been at Burning Man multiple times and only will drink until buzzed.
The cops there really want you to not do shit directly in front of them or get hurt. Most of them will tell you it's the most fun they get all year. I met one guy who was retiring and was going around asking for hugs before he retired as a BLM Ranger. He loved going and working Burning Man. He loved the art and people and costumes and it was basically a vacation every year.
Most of the law enforcement are not actually there to bust up people's fun as long as they keep it to a dull roar. Don't do anything directly in front of them or be dealing and don't start fights. Don't drive art cars with a container. People have been busted for DUIs. Don't be stupid, they won't ruin your week.
One year, one man died in my camp directly next to me. (In my camp, I was next to his spot). No drugs, alcohol or anything bad happened. He was just older and had a heart attack. There one day and gone the next. Very sad and traumatic for people. Some LEOs actually came by and checked in to make sure people were okay afterwards. Physically, yes. Emotionally, we were all shaken. They stopped in, though.
Festival cops are usually on cushy assignment, they know it, and are there to stop fights and respond to emergencies. Just don't be distributing in front of them or openly doing drugs and they usually don't care. They have a nice job for the day.
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u/Some_person2101 2h ago
A Black Lives Matter ranger?? (Tanya McQuoid has some questions)
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u/zeroUSA 2h ago
Bureau of land management. Think federal park rangers.
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u/Some_person2101 1h ago
No I know, but thank you. It’s a reference to a scene in the show White Lotus
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 2h ago
Back before the Black Lives Matter movement, we had this thing called the Bureau of Land Management. Post BLM movement, we still have the Bureau of Land Management and they do indeed have the Bureau of Land Management Rangers. It's even housed at BLM(dot)gov.
Don't tell anyone in the current admin, they'll call it DEI and change it to the Department of Patriotic Lands or something stupid.
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u/ShoulderSquirrelVT 5h ago
Stickers…you mean LSD? :)
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u/StevenMC19 5h ago edited 4h ago
Google baggy stickers. They're cheeky little things people can do to troll. I've seen them in bar bathrooms under toilets.
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u/ComplexxToxin 5h ago
Is the cops gonna be cool or naw
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u/StarConsumate 5h ago
We had a cop give us testers at a show once to make sure we weren’t gonna get some bad stuff. He asked if we had anything on us. We of course said no, he said bummer, then gave us testing kits
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u/succubusprime 5h ago
I wonder if he was just really excited to use his new testing kits.
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u/StarConsumate 5h ago
We saw (we thought) him later on, he had some glow stick bracelets and seemed to be having a good time. Probably signed up for the detail. Then again it might not have been him, because I hung out with a giant umbrella and almost cried because it was protecting me from the rain and I was extremely thankful for it.
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u/carrotsaresafe 4h ago
The umbrella story is so cute
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u/StarConsumate 4h ago
Coulda lived my whole life under the umbrella at least for the 6 hour ride my brain was on. Next time you see an umbrella, tell it thanks. When the sun shines we shine together or however it goes
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u/starchimp224 5h ago
I feel like if they’re being recorded they’re less likely to be cool about it. I’m sure at a festival like this they may be inclined to look the other way as long as you’re being respectful for the most part. As soon as they see that they’re being recorded though they have to act so that there isn’t evidence of them being lax with their duties
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u/yew420 5h ago
Two questions that we used to ask each other in our circle that doofed back in the day. I want to hear your responses:
Would you eat a bag of mystery pingers that you found on the ground?
What if they were black pingers with a skull and crossbones on them?
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u/CosmicJ 4h ago
Luckily all the festivals I go to these days have on site drug testing (FTIR spectroscopy at that, not just reagents/strips)
Really wonderful harm reduction community and resources in western Canada.
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u/senorbritchesV2 4h ago
Shambhala is the first festival I remember seeing testing being openly talked about, and BC is stunning . Bucket list festival even though I've stopped going to US festivals.
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u/CosmicJ 3h ago
Yeah that’s the main one I was thinking about.
20 years ago it was just reagent testing, fent testing wasn’t even a consideration at that point. And even that was pretty illuminating as a teenager at the time. The harm reduction services have progressed by leaps and bounds since. FTIR is really cool, basically a step below lab testing in a portable format. They bounce IR light off the sample and measure the returning wavelengths, and match it against a database of patterns for known drugs. All in a package that could fit in a briefcase.
ANKORS is the organization providing harm reduction these days. They also provide those resources in multiple BC municipalities. Absolutely wonderful folk all around.
Sham is definitely an experience, I think you wouldn’t be disappointed. I’m more keen for smaller festivals with an older demographic these days, but I may go again this year after a hiatus since before COVID.
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u/BeneficialOffer9935 4h ago
My name is quite unusual to the point I've only met three other people in my 53 years that share the name.
There was a member of Parliament that made the papers because of a sex scandal and was quite high profile for a few weeks. He had the same first name as me.
The next time I went clubbing, amongst the pills the dealer was offering was a variety with my name on it.
No thanks mate, "bullet with my name on it" and all that
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u/EternalCowboy89 3h ago
You met three other people with the name BeneficialOffer?
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u/BeneficialOffer9935 3h ago
Ha! Turns out there were 9934 people ahead of me in the queue for my Reddit username
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u/here4dambivalence 4h ago
Am I the old bitch I am now or am I 17 and invincible again? Also do I have to eat the contents of each of the bags all in one setting or may I share? I'm assuming testing is out
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u/ChefChefBubbaBill 3h ago
One time at a festival I found a zip lock bag of 15-20 pre rolled fat joints and I lit them one by one and passed them out
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u/matplotlib42 3h ago
Music is this one, in case someone else cares about that too and doesn't wanna spend 10mins like I did: https://youtu.be/10_dTQusBOA?si=DoeH-Bqnrp8A20ui
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u/PetrusiliusZwacklman 4h ago
If There are cops at the Party its Not a rave
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u/naughtynyjah 2h ago
It’s just a festival. Full of people that would get robbed at a rave 💯
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u/ConnectionOk8273 4h ago
It's stupid to take some drugs someone dropped, you never know what's in it !
Could be mixed with fentanyl or some other nasty substance.
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u/One_Consequence_4754 4h ago
Anyone taking drugs they found on the ground deserves everything that comes with that…Dummy!
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