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Originally Posted by Rog
Sounds pretty nasty to me! having been in the vicinity of an exploding small propane cylinder a few years back it's amazing no one was seriously hurt or killed! A piece of metal from the cylinder was found embedded in the brickwork about 10 foot from where i was and i was about 30 feet away!
You can say what you like about V but i've been going there since 1998 and the only problem i ever had was where some scouser nicked some beer off us through my own stupidity...... no riots, tents damaged or anything. The security has usually been OK too. I would never go to Leeds again after the trouble in 2002. It wouldn't suprise me if they lost their licence this time  and then the decent fans like yourself wil have lost out to the arseholes once again. |
Yeah there's a post early in that thread I linked where a guy relates how a pole or something flew past him. The explosions were scary - that thumping style where you feel it in your ears as much as anywhere else, accompanied by huge gouts of flame and the noise of debris in the fire or something (the unmistakeable noise of metal hitting wood). Without a word of exaggeration I'm surprised no-one was killed - the guys we met who we were camped with told me they saw one person being stretchered away with bandages all over their face...
I'm not sure I want them to lose the license as it might mean the element that makes Leeds the way it is gets scattered to the wind, seed-style. I certainly don't want to keep company with these tossers. With any luck there will be justice dished out - I've learned through investigation that the reason security kept charging in and coming out was because they were targeting the ringleaders (there
were definitely leaders in this mob) using handheld video cameras (which I can confirm I saw) and going in for them. By all accounts Stuart Security were
brutal once they had you, I didn't see any innocent parties getting taken though - everyone with sense was staying away from the epicentre of the trouble (the bonfire) and only idiots who were hanging around in the mob were getting taken.
Someone's next day picture.
http://www.jnixon54.fsnet.co.uk/Pict.../Riot-Mess.jpg
My tent was on the hill to the left of where the guy who's folding his arms head is. The bar, cider tent etc are behind the camera.