Champ wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:02:51 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
> <wun@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>
> >>>>> >Hopefully it'll be dry for Notting Hill on Monday.
> > > > > >
> >>>>> Yeah, it's a bugger when the blood washes into the gutters
> before they >>>>> can get a decent DNA sample, isn't it?
> > > > >
> > > > > I've only seen someone next to me stabbed there once, and
> > > > > that was 8 years ago. Not a bad average.
> > > >
> > > > Oh, excellent. I'd keep going, IIWY. You could go for three of
> > > > four more years and not get raped / mugged / killed at random.
> > >
> > > Christ but you're a drama queen!
> >
> > Heh. I may not have been being totally serious.
>
> Good oh.
>
> > Interesting that there does seem to have been the usual levels of
> > serious crime though.
>
> I read something like 90 arrests. Out of close on a million people,
> that doesn't seem too bad.
>
> > Had it been a bike rally, the police would naturally have banned it.
>
> Hmm. Most of the bike rallies I've been too had a couple of hundred
> people at most.

When I went to the Farmyard Party in 2000 I thought the overflow
campsite was the main event and was quite impressed with the size of
it[1], little did I know the main site stretched about 3 miles up the
river bank.

[1] About 300 people

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