First, you'll be happy to know that Reading Beerex wasn't as muddy as
all that, and it sold out of 158 kinds of cider and perry, and didn't
quite sell out of beer.
The Saturday was warm and sunny so despite increased site capacity
people were queueing three hours to get in. This year's new policy was
"NO drinking in the queue"; we could see how effective that was by the
quantity of Fosters/Strongbow/Stella tinnies that rolled under the site
fence. There weren't enough stewards to police the queue, so many of
these citizens queued in vain, as they were drunk on arrival at the gate
and were refused admission.
Why didn't they just picnic under a tree beside the Thames?
Some other local residents arrived sober but weren't there for the beer.
If you have a load of forged £20 notes which you'd like to change for
rather less (but legitimate) money, why not go to a huge, amateur-run,
poorly-lit outdoor event? Then you pay for a half with a £20 note, put
the change in a different pocket, pay for a go on the games with a £20
note, etc.
That's until you hand a forged £20 note to someone whose day job is at
De La Rue. "As soon as it touched my fingers I knew it wasn't one of
mine". The punter was followed by stewards to his next purchase, then
escorted off the site and handed over to the Express Taxi Service (ie
the one with the fla****ng lights). Apparently he was already wanted in
connection with a fight between two gangs in the town the previous
night.
Next day the Plod were back, to collect a wallet the stewards had found.
When they opened it to look for identification they found lots of little
packets of some kind of white powder. Of course we don't allow that
sort of thing on site: we sell intoxicants, you can't bring your own!
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Sue ]:(:)
The words "licensed to be drunk on the premises" are by the people
interpreted as applicable to the
customers as well as the liquor." - Lord Palmerston
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