UPDATE to my situation posted here 11 months ago
As a result of some major bs and my own mistakes, I've found myself in a really shitty situation that might basically be the start of the end of my life. After being honest about my predicament with my work, they chose to fire me, so I'm going to be short on rent for a while since benefits barely co...
Skip to the end if you don't care about the update:
Long story long with a lot of extra detail since the ordeal is basically over now:
I was illegally detained and searched by security while working at a festival. The security were blatantly corrupt, having broken into our camp and stolen things multiple times in the first two nights alone. Security claimed I had substances and a burner but the police dropped the entire investigation for multiple reasons (basically they had nothing to go off of but the word of security who had also stolen everything my partner and I brought to the festival - roughly £600 of camping gear and clothes. At the time I felt utterly powerless and like my life had ended in the whim of some undertrained removed.
The funny thing is I never really had any of the stuff security said I did - at most you could say I confiscated it from some kid who was shitting himself because I caught him with it. I was going to try to turn it in without getting them into trou
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Eric Johnston, president of the US Chamber of Commerce and MPAA:
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