| Comment | When TITP was at its peak, the site would have counted as something like the sixth biggest town in Scotland if it was a permanent settlement. So having a couple of deaths in a gathering that size isn't, statistically speaking, particularly grim. Nobody suggests doing away with Perth because somebody dies there every weekend.
Maybe the gov and police recognition was because of the measures taken to reduce harm?
I suspect the nuisance factor from festivals is less because the worst of it is contained on a site, you still get problems from punters leaving. (Rubbish, peeing up closes etc.) But unlike the title celebrations the punters aren't all in the streets for the duration of the event. |
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