And nearby, in NZ, we have drug testing tents inside festivals to ensure you're getting what you expect, as well as advice on staying safe.
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Orange slices! Lots of orange slices on hand, man!
Just legalize drugs and these cops would lose 90% of their abusive powers.
Mind-boggling to even think of being strip searched on the way into a festival. Granted my experience is mostly US, but I've been to Glastonbury and that was chill.
Meanwhile naked burners is a thing
I'm impressed by the ability of the dogs to strip search people since they don't have opposable thumbs.
They could shred clothing with their teeth though
These dogs could absolutely be much better, but the police prefer to have half trained dogs so they can justify using them as a pretext to harass people.
Sort of. They would be liable to alert on people who HAD consumed drugs earlier or had been around people that had consumed drugs. Furthermore it has been shown in a scientific study that dogs alert in part based on their owners suspicion even when not deliberately signaled to do so and since such suspicion is liable to fall on minorities just serves to justify the dogs masters pre-existing judgement.
You're correct that the police like having the dogs as a pretext to search on flimsy/non-existent evidence, but it's not that the dogs are half-trained; they are very well trained to give false positives based on the officers' body language and attitude.
Remember to moan with pleasure during the strip search. Ask if they're single. Touch yourself. Smile seductively. Have fun with it.
Disgusting that police hire children and then let them conduct strip searches.
Doesn't matter where you live...ACAB.
People getting high at a festival seems less worse than innocent people/children getting sexually molested for no reason, but that's just me.
I assure you that police prefer fondling them to letting them live their lives.
I feel like I'd have a higher hit rate and my nose sucks.