You know life sucks when your step-father is a coppa,
and even more when he says he's going to be patrolling stereosonic for a few hours...
He also said there is going to be bulk sniffers.. Better prepare yourself!
Guess perth was just lucky with parklife..
The cops say this for every music festival all the time, I feel alot of it is simply used as a scare tactic. I've attended many festivals in the past and plan to attend some more this festival season. But of all the times I go, I've never encountered a sniffer dog, let alone even seen one. I highly doubt there will be 'bulk sniffers' for stereosonic, not saying there won't be any sniffer dogs at all though. But personally I feel the dogs are just there to scare alot of people into not taking in any drugs at all, because the cops must obviously realise 95%+ probably of the drugs make it inside the venue anyway.
Sometimes the security will ask you to empty your pockets as your entering the venue when your showing your ID, ticket etc. The first time this happened I was unprepared and had a vial containing my drugs just sitting in my pocket (dumb, I know - but I'd never had issues prior). The security guy told me to empty my pockets, I pulled out my wallet and my phone. He pointed to the lump in my pocket where the vial was and said 'what's that?', I was shitting myself and just said 'its nothing'. The guy then just said 'go on, hurry up' and once I was inside it was such a relief.
Where do they actually have the dogs stationed? Theres so many people trying to enter the venue it's just not possible to get a dog to check every person. Do they have some at train stations or something? Maybe I'm just lucky but I've never had a problem. Having said all that perhaps they're increasing the amount of dogs and areas in which they'll be checking people this time round.
It's fucking rediculous they feel the need to catch people carrying personal quantities of drugs anyway, I see no logic in that. But like I said, I feel it's just a scare tactic and they don't actually genuinely think they're going to create a drug-free event, or even stop more then 5% of the drugs getting in for that matter. Hopefully this summer I don't have my first encounter with a sniffer dog. Store your drugs on you in a discreet location, look calm and try to stay amongst a large group of people.
Don't let the cops make you paranoid! Thats what they want, so you'll freak and not bring any drugs through stupid and potentially dangerous scare tactics.
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