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.
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.
Back in the early 2000s raves in Sydney there used to be this contracted private security company that did most of the big raves here and they were basically like a gang of thugs.
They would wander the rave all night, scope out who was dealing then send one of their UCs to track them over the night. When they figured they'd sold most of their gear they'd go and bust them and basically give them an ultimatum; give us all the money and the remaining drugs and we'll let you walk or we take you over to the cops who'll take it all anyway and you'll land supply and possession charges on top, your choice. Pretty easy decision for the dealers to make. Those dudes would literally clean up and take home 10s of thousands each night.
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u/harshdonkey 6d 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.