[QUOTE] the cont known as Ben says... Do tell. I've only ever had one machine gun pointed at me, I was woken up by being tapped on the nose by it.[/QUOTE] I was at a mountain bike festival in the early 90's (I think it was either 94 or 95). On the Saturday night we all hit the beer tent and got comprehensively rat-arsed. Crawled back to the tent around midnight and crashed out. Had a weird dream about lots of flashing lights. Woke up to the afore-mentioned coppers. Anyway, turns out the two guys in the tent next to ours had had an argument about some drugs, one stabbed the other who then bled to death pretty sharpish because the cocktail of drugs he'd been taking had prevented his blood from clotting. The chap who did the stabbing had then done a runner into the woods. The Police were called and arrived fully tooled up with dogs to search the woods and surrounding area. They assumed that everyone had been woken up by the sirens, lights, ambulance etc and put up the incident tape and guards to protect the crime scene. Me and my mate coming out of the tent in the morning gave them a bit of a shock and their first though was one of us was the murderer and had hidden in the tent overnight, hence the guns. The rest of the day was quite surreal as the incident line was tied to the top of out tent and around my car meaning I had to ask a coppers permission every time I wanted to go near it. Drove home with it still on the car :-) My mate cooking sausages on the stove with a big fuck-off knife caused a few looks as well. They didn't get the guy on the day, got him eventually about 6 months later and I think he got 5 years.
