“'Raves are full of drug taking scum'

That is extremely biased.

Take a look around Bristol mate, it's full of scum, walk around town and you'll see people under the influence of alcohol fighting or shouting and bothering people.

You wouldn't call them scum would you? No because for some reason that kind of behaviour is accepted...

At least us 'scum' at raves, keep ourselves to ourselves and don't bother members of the public like the alcohol fuelled people you get around town, screeching as they're walking past houses down roads and occasionally getting the random angry drunk person smashing things up.

So shut up mate, you should be a little less narrow minded and maybe go to a freeparty, then you'd actually have a valid opinion.”

“Raves are full of drug-taking scum.

FACT!

I've went to one of these 'sp-called' raves once, to try to reason with the organisors, to see if I could get them to turn their noise down a bit.

I may as well not have bothered. It was full of zombified looking teenagers, running around with cans of special brew gripped in their grimy little mitts, and drugs literally smeared all over their faces.

whenever I tried to question any of these stumbling youngsters, as to who were the organisers I was met with vacant stares and the occasional 'got any k?' from the more capable among them.

eventually i got tired to avoiding the piles of human excrement and used needles that were scattered all over the site, and decided to call it a night.

i think it's absolutely discusting that the police cannot do more to put a stop to this sort of thing. they should change the law so that the police have the power to go in and break up these events, and these 'so-called' ravers evidently do not give two hoots about the welfare of local residents, and only care about their own hedonistic needs.

JT”

“I thought about saying a load of crap about how free parties are amazing and I cant believe what the evening post did but if you are reading this post you can see that everyone else has said the same thing over and over.

All I can say is look at the city centre and look at the free parties.

One is from a dieing breed of humanity and the other is a community

I think you can guess which is which

If a reporter tried at least to interview the people from parties likes these. they would see that we are beautiful intelligent people that have open our minds to the ideas of other people.

My final words:

Free parties and the people I have been with there have made me a better and happy person. I thank every one at all the free party crews out there. I love you all

Together we are one”

“Ive just been considering the ratio of happy to unhappy beings in this situation.. a couple of people (at the most a handful) being kept awake once a week (i cant help thinking if they lay down and closed their eyes instead of getting worked up about something they clearly cannot control they'd be asleep in no time..) and on the other hand possibly a couple of hundred with smiles on their faces. In this world we live in where guilt free happiness can be so hard to find (for those people who look outside their cosy bubble and realise how this country/world is being RUN and cannot sleep easy for considering the inevitable turmoil that has been created by it) this few hours of freedom these people are experiencing should be respected because its bigger than a cul-de-sac of people who have broken sleep. I do not deny those people deserve sleep i just doubt that they cannot have it. I also think if they popped down there one evening, forgot what the people at work would think, forgot what their friends and family would think, kicked off their conformist shackles and had a bloody good dance they'd come away feeling that the people they'd danced with DESERVED their freedom..

p.s as for the rubbish, ive never met a group of people who are more environmentally concerned, and actually willing to make a difference, concerned about this planet that has been destroyed, and i doubt very much they would have left any rubbish without the full intention of coming back and clearing it up.. and the watermelon? its better left there than put in a bin.”

“If you don't like the 'mind numbing thump thump thump'

take some drugs trustttt it works makes the music so much better ;)”