| Comment | A friend of mine used to work in licensing. There's really only two ways they can be shut down - noise complaints, and selling booze without a license. That's why you can never buy alcohol directly (obviously there are ways and means) and if a place gets shut down unexpectedly that's almost certainly the reason why.
It's not illegal to hold a party, or any other private ticketed event. So yeah, they COULD raid, but as you say, trying to take in 50 people for having maybe a pill or two or a joint on them is a lot of hassle when you know there's a lot more relevant use of police time at 3am in town.
I mean, some idiots might spoil it for the rest of us, and that Sunday Mail journo who did an "exposée" on Checkmate basically forced them into shutting down despite basically finding people having fun and dancing and only offering her days when she asked should be blacklisted from every event in the city, the wee snitch. |
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