Re:Facebook party invite sparks riot in Haren, Netherlands
by Freestyler_3 on Sunday September 23, 2012 @08:47AM
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3 days before the event it was mentioned in the media, enough time to put at least something there.
I heard a rumor that they changed some street signs to confuse the people, now that is wasting time.
They knew a lot of people were going to really show up, but they took it lightly.
Non the less the people destroying stuff are way out of line, all the errors of the authorities don't justify that.
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Re:Facebook party invite sparks riot in Haren, Netherlands
by andreasvc on Sunday September 23, 2012 @09:38AM
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I really don't think 3 days is enough time to organize a large scale event like that--more people signed up than the population of the village. I agree that it wasn't handled correctly, but it's easy to criticize in hindsight. This is a new phenomenon and there was not much experience with things like this.
It seems that the authorities where too ambivalent. On the one hand they said please don't come there's no party, on the other hand they prepared a football field for people to go to (without music though). They should've stuck with the former and enforced it by not letting the trains stop in the village and putting up road blocks.
Re:Facebook party invite sparks riot in Haren, Netherlands
by maxerickson on Sunday September 23, 2012 @10:58AM
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There were apparently 600 police on hand.
Hindsight says that they should have made it hard to take the train there.
I sort of think the problem will mostly go away on its own, most people aren't going to want to repeatedly act as human shields for hooligans.
Re:Facebook party invite sparks riot in Haren, Netherlands
by rmc on Sunday September 23, 2012 @12:45PM
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I heard a rumor that they changed some street signs to confuse the people, now that is wasting time.
Sounds kinda pointless because people can use the GPS on their phones & maps to get to the correct place, signs or no signs.