"I for one, am shocked."
Posted on 08/03/2009 10:32:53 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Hundreds of people attending a music event at a Fayette County church watched on Saturday as teams of police officials raided the compound and arrested dozens of people on drug charges.
District Attorney Nancy Vernon called it a very dangerous situation as drug task force members joined state and local police officers in the raid Saturday at the Church of Universal Love and Music in Bullskin Township, where 300 to 600 people attended the three-day "Funk Fest."
"All of a sudden the police and everybody came barging in," concertgoer Kelly Azelin said. "I was scared cause they had all these people in handcuffs."
Vernon said it took three trailers to haul out pounds of mushrooms, LSD and OxyContin from the 147-acre property. She said authorities found a significant amount of drug paraphernalia, brownies laced with marijuana and other treats containing marijuana.
"We found a lot of marijuana -- that had been discarded -- of high quality, balloons and nitric oxide gas, particularly, hallucinatory drugs," Vernon said.
Church members and concert attendees told Channel 4 Action News many families simply came for a good time.
"I'm not saying everybody is an angel. I'm not saying everybody is as innocent as the driven snow," Daniel Miller said. "But, there was a lot of us who paid good money to camp and relax."
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Amish?
Pictures. I want to see what a Church Funk Fest looks like.
“Church of Universal Love and Music”. What a lot of crock... and tax exempt!!!!
Was this a white “church”? I now suspect racism in every area since the obamanation has endorsed it through his actions and words.
They found drugs at a “funk fest”??? I’m shocked I tell you, just shocked.
Sounds like the drug bazaar that follows Wide Spread Panic around the country.
There was a guy just walking around yelling “Mitsubishi rolls” {ecstasy) as if he was selling hot dogs. Marijuana, LSD, mushroom, pharmaceuticals, cocaine, and even whip its were freely sold to anyone who wanted in the parking lot outside of the arena @ UNO in New Orleans, and not a cop in sight.
Uh-HUH. Was there any ‘flirty fishing’ going on?
“nitric oxide”?
Is that for decongesting your sinuses and lungs, permanently?
"I for one, am shocked."
End the failed war on drugs.
Is this Murtha Country?
church of the funkadelic ping
Is anyone surprised that drugs were a part of the “Funk Fest” held by the Church of Universal Love and Music in Bullskin Township?
Jim Jones knew how to throw a church picnic.
...this is funny!....sounds like something straight out of the 60s....I’d love to see pictures of the crowd...a blend of old gray haired farts with floppy tits and young teens and 20 somethings in tie-dyed retro garb perhaps?
Meant to ping you to my last. I have no problem with this Church whatsoever. :)
Used to work at a nightclub where George Clinton visited regularly. Besides being the most odiferous man I’ve ever met, he used drugs like they were food. The club’s manager used to tell us to just be cool, but if the cops ever saw what he had on his person, their jaws would be on the ground.
That being said... a church funk fest? Really? Pot, nitrous... these were kids, not adults. The nitrous in the balloon this is a recent fad (last 15 years or so), at least in the mainstream.
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