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Originally Posted by Iokua
and decided to let the cops follow the large group of kids to the warehouse...
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I remember, back when I was partying it up consistently in Van, we had a phrase that sadly was horribly bastardized by a certain Hard House label.
"Keep it Tidy."
DON'T show up at the checkpoint or the party wearing a bright yellow hoodie. When you get _to_ the party, by all means wear as much bright flashy gawdy clothing as you want, but KEEP IT TIDY. Don't go around advertising "I'M GOING TO DO DRUGS AT A RAVE" to every single random person on the street. Keep your clothes discreet, don't wander around outside the party (PROMOTERS: Have a bloody smoking area where nobody can be seen from the outside).
More often than not it's the ravers that are every bit as responsible for a bust than the promoters.
Flyers are cool. Just about every single rave since the dawn of time has had flyers of some form, and a lot of them are very easy to be found. But have some kind of check to make sure that whoever's going to the party are people going to the party. If the partykids keep it tidy, the cops have _very_ little to go on. They can't just randomly search any kid that goes to the checkpoint. Shuttle Busses are also great because you can get a driver who knows how to take circuitous routes and lose the cops if they think they're being followed.
But seriously. Let's stop hating on the promoters and start cleaning up our scene already. You all can do stuff to make sure that the scene stays thriving, but it's not on the Promoters to make everything happen for you.