A very English riot
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almostwittyCourtesy of b3ta:
"I was at the Leeds Fest riots in 2005.
The Foo Fighters had just headlined the main stage, and we were making our way back to the campsite only to find downtown Baghdad. There were huge fires all over the place, with the sound of gas canisters blowing
up every few minutes. People were knocking down telegraph poles and destroying tents. I seated myself at the top of the hill looking down on the most tribal primitive and yet awesome sight I had ever seen.
There in the clearing were hundreds of people running and dancing around a huge fire made of what was once the cider tent, the Carling tent and a telegraph pole. One guy was playing the drums using two tent poles and
the upturned kettle drum bins while everyone danced around the fire with glow-sticks. There were people juggling fire, practising poi, and generally having a really good time.
A Carling (beer) truck that was nearby had been broken into and was in the process of being relieved of all its goods. It looked like the apocalypse had come. And yet... there in the middle of all of this chaos, we rioting Brits had formed an orderly queue to pillage the Carling truck.
Even in the middle of a riot we were waiting patiently as one guy grabbed 24 pack after 24 pack and offloaded one by one them to the waiting 'soon to be' drunks."
"I was at the Leeds Fest riots in 2005.
The Foo Fighters had just headlined the main stage, and we were making our way back to the campsite only to find downtown Baghdad. There were huge fires all over the place, with the sound of gas canisters blowing
up every few minutes. People were knocking down telegraph poles and destroying tents. I seated myself at the top of the hill looking down on the most tribal primitive and yet awesome sight I had ever seen.
There in the clearing were hundreds of people running and dancing around a huge fire made of what was once the cider tent, the Carling tent and a telegraph pole. One guy was playing the drums using two tent poles and
the upturned kettle drum bins while everyone danced around the fire with glow-sticks. There were people juggling fire, practising poi, and generally having a really good time.
A Carling (beer) truck that was nearby had been broken into and was in the process of being relieved of all its goods. It looked like the apocalypse had come. And yet... there in the middle of all of this chaos, we rioting Brits had formed an orderly queue to pillage the Carling truck.
Even in the middle of a riot we were waiting patiently as one guy grabbed 24 pack after 24 pack and offloaded one by one them to the waiting 'soon to be' drunks."
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