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[LiffyGraham]

Hey everyone,

This is a really quick straight foward questionnaire that I need completing for my dissertation

It takes 2 mins and would be a massive help to me!

here is the link:    http://kwiksurveys.com?s=LKIOMH_4671274c  



Thankyou

[Stalemate]

Done.

[LiffyGraham]

thankyou!

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Done

[bexj]

Done, but what an odd survey.  Violence at Glastonbury?  What year did you last go?

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I was wondering about the violence at Glastonbury angle. I remember hearing about the Hell's Angels creating at an early Glasto (I think they may have stabbed someone to death?) and then there was the big bust up with the crusties one year. Oh, and then there's the isolated incidences of violence that I personally witnessed (thieving scallies. I can't help it - they all were). Given that the Super fence is now in place and that there's greater security and better comms for security and the police to use it's more of a thing of the past. There's bound to be isolated incidents but you'd expect that in a 150,000 (or whatever the figure is) crowd where all sorts of goodies have been consumed.

[eFestivals]

Yoghurt on a Stick, on 13 February 2012 - 09:28 PM, said:

I was wondering about the violence at Glastonbury angle. I remember hearing about the Hell's Angels creating at an early Glasto (I think they may have stabbed someone to death?)

never happened.

Yoghurt on a Stick, on 13 February 2012 - 09:28 PM, said:

and then there was the big bust up with the crusties one year.

caused by security, not the 'crusties' - as the convictions get to prove.

Yoghurt on a Stick, on 13 February 2012 - 09:28 PM, said:

Oh, and then there's the isolated incidences of violence that I personally witnessed (thieving scallies. I can't help it - they all were). Given that the Super fence is now in place and that there's greater security and better comms for security and the police to use it's more of a thing of the past. There's bound to be isolated incidents but you'd expect that in a 150,000 (or whatever the figure is) crowd where all sorts of goodies have been consumed.

I've been to glasto every year it's been on since 1986. I've never seen a single incident of violence. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen of course, but it's certainly not commonplace.

Whereas there's another festival I've been to I think 4 times, and have seen violence every time (including a stabbing that that fest tried to tell me "it never happened") - and that's only a one-day fest.

[Spindles]

I was once a victim of violence at glastonbury, but that was such an out of the ordinary year (2000) that it doesn't really count against the place.  I went to Reading in 2008 and saw 2 serious violent incidents in one weekend, in comparison to having now spent just short of a month in total onsite at glastonbury over the years and only ever experiencing one aberrant occasion.  

I feel safer inside glastonbury than I do outside.  That is a simple fact.  I would not feel as comfortable getting toasted on any high street or in any city centre in this country.