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Post by photographer on Jun 14, 2005 12:32:06 GMT -5
Some people found out the hard way about the new Tennessee "illegal substance tax"...it's basically a sales tax on the drugs they got caught with. Before they even go to court or trial they are charged a percentage of the street value of their drugs for Tennessee Sales and use tax...so dealers caught with dope and cash, lost some of their cash to taxes....and they still have to deal with the legal system. Local television is saying the state is going to make hundreds of thousands of dollars off the drug busts at bonnaroo. Several of the people missed all of bonnaroo and are still waiting in jail to make bail....plus they have some long term problems they are going to have to deal with.
Post by happytrails on Jun 14, 2005 12:57:03 GMT -5
I read the local paper on saturday morning and they talked about the BIG crackdown and how it had resulted in 42 arrests and 100 and something citations. While I know its big trouble for those folks it still seems to me that it could have been way worse.
i believe it was way worse this year as far as policing was concerned.....i saw more law enforcement 45mins out of manchester this year than i saw the entire weekend last year......i think im gonna find another festival now......ill post some of the bs stories about the busts and stuff i saw this past weekend.....
Post by melikecheese on Jun 15, 2005 13:54:02 GMT -5
Did anyone see any busts or anything like one? I drove in pretty quick around 5:30 am and I only saw some troopers hanging out and the search of my car went like this: "you have and drugs?" no sir but I have some cans of beer "alright sounds good, pop your trunk" 'pop' then the man walked back and shut my trunk and told us to have a great time.
I did notice that the more you looked like a "hippy" the more they looked in your car.
Me and my friend are pretty clean cut and my new honda had no stickers or that on it so it seemed like we went under the radar. I noticed the "dirtier" looking people were taking a few things out of the trunks and getting looked at a bit more.
After being inside I couldn't imagine people getting busted as every way I turned I saw deals and people smokin it up.
as much as I'm not exactly for the tax (^^ That has something to do with it), I must admit, this is a pretty clever way to bring in some cash for the state.
scumbags...if you wanna tax it you better make it legal because as far as I'm concerned if your taxes it your condoning its sale.
of course as far as the irs is concerned though your opinion doesnt mean jack. if you dont decalre profits from drug sales they can get you for tax evasion. supposedly if you declare illegitimate profits on your income taxes they're not allowed to pass the info on to law enforcement, but im not sure if i believe it.
I hope this doesn't scare anyone into staying away from Roo. Honestly, there was what, 100 citations and 40 somethin arrests? Out of 70k plus, that's a REALLY good ratio.
Besides, just don't be a freakin' idiot. I've worked the gates last year, and overall, they don't really search that much. Sure, they do the best they can, but they can only do so much. As for in the festival itself, I never once had a single encounter with a police officer that wasn't friendly.
Oh and if your worried about the police around Manchester, once again, just don't be an idiot. Put whatever you don't want seen in your trunk and enforce your rights as a citizen flexyourrights.org
"I want you to notice When I'm not around You're so fücking special I wish I was special But I'm a creep I'm a weirdo What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here" -Radiohead
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -Benjamin Franklin
We got busted last year... but they let us go because we knew where the nitrous was.
I'm definitely going to be more careful about stuff like that at Roo, next year, and I advise everyone else to do so... of the last 3 years I've attended, this year had, without question, the most police presence.
I have never heard of a possession ticket issued while actually on the farm. Some for dealing, but never for recreation. If anyone has gotten one while actually at Bonnaroo I would like to hear about it. At another fest though I heard a guy talking about how he and his buddies would get DEA shirts and caps, and then "confiscate" from people. Seriously though if I am just sitting there eating corn at bonnaroo, I think I would laugh at a guy who told me he was a cop, unless he was accompanied by several bonnaroo security team members.
Look, people do that crap all the time. Be sure to ask for a badge if someone runs up at 1 AM. If there is no Bonnaroo security in the area, DEFINETLY ask to see the badge, and actually look at it. It's also wise to ask what agency/department they work for.
It is fairly common to hear some of the other staffers pulling this trick. I've talked to numerous staffers in the meal tent at Roo saying they pulled this with their staff shirts, when in reality, no Roo security would run up on you and ask for your goods. 9 times out of 10, they will simply radio the police and a police car will show up. If you don't see a police car, that's another warning sign. After what happened to the security guards at Rothbury, I highly doubt the security companies will take the risk of confiscating anything without the police present.
EDIT: Really? You felt the police presence was increased? Besides the 20 cars parked next to the Jesus nuts by shakedown st I rarely saw the police, let alone encounter them.
Post by candyflippedaround on Dec 1, 2008 23:42:53 GMT -5
4 of us came down in a ford explorer and we didnt so much as get the trunk opened never mind searched. i also know someone who didnt have trouble getting certain things in. the only time i saw any real authority it was by centeroo on horses or like the other person said by the jesus freaks.
i like how the question "whats a reverse sting" was answered 3 years later lol.
Post by ilovefestys on Dec 2, 2008 11:58:29 GMT -5
The truly sad thing about this country is when will people wake up and stand up for their rights. What rights do I talk about the right to FREEDOM and that means freedom to INGEST whatever you want to into your body whether its good or bad for you. This country was founded on the point of being a free person to do whatever you want freely as long as you don't hurt anybody else. You eating corn or smoking something doesn't hurt anybody. Take Barry Bonds for instance I'm not a fan of him as a person I think he is D-bag but he ingested steroids to make himself better at his career. If he broke rules of the baseball league he should suffer the consequences of the league, however now the govermint is going after him to throw him in jail for 20 years. All for ingesting something into his body. He needs to stand up and say I am a free man in a free country and I will ingest what I want to. But then all you naysayers will say you have to follow the law if you don't like the law write your congressman. Well heres an interesting fact everything Hitler did was made lawful by the German govermint so does that make it right when the law is destroy your freedom. I'll be back at the farm as I have been at roo all 7 years and I have watched it go down hill in certain ways for the festival goer experience but it has also gone up in quality in other ways. I will exercise my freedom but unfortunately I have to watch my back in case somebody wants to fine me or arrest me just for ingesting something in the only place I thought I ever felt as free as it could be Roo.
Post by candyflippedaround on Dec 2, 2008 18:13:33 GMT -5
i think at least in the next 4 years we will see steps in the direction of progress in regards to this issue. In the last election some of you may have heard that MA passed the decrim of corn (lol). Hopefully this forward thinking will spread and well see less negative surrounding this in the near future.
edit: i got my beef jerky confiscated at centeroo but they put some bags with other things right back into my pocket for me. i thought that was pretty funny.