From: jondr@sco.COM (Desi The Three-Armed Wonder Comic)
 Subject: metro article on saratoga rave
 Date: 6 May 92 18:26:03 GMT

 this article is from `Public Eye' section of The Metro, april 30-may 6
 edition.  i have no idea how true most of it is, but it seems
 sympathetic to the rave cause, and it is an interesting account of
 what happened to Intemperance & Destiny's doomed `Deep Rooted House'
 event.  For some reason, the paper likes to uses ellipses (...)
 rather than paragraph breaks.  I have rectified this.

 CRIME RAVE: Although it's facing a dramatically reduced budget, the
 county Sheriff's Department apparently has no qualms about spending
 large amount of public cash to bust illegal dancers.

 Around 1 AM Sunday morning, 15 deputy sheriffs swept into Saratoga
 Springs and attempted to shut down a Woodstock-like dancefest that was
 billed as Northern California's first-ever outdoor ``rave.''  The
 Sheriff's Department says the bash was illegal because its organizer,
 San Jose mechanic Steven Cohen, had failed to obtain the required
 permits.  According to county ordinance B-3112, it's a crime to throw
 a dance party without government permission.

 Pulling the plug on the rave, however, proved to be a logistical
 nightmare.  Most of the youths who attended the event (admission was
 $15) had been ferried to the rave by a shuttle service that operated
 between the resort area and Saratoga High School.  To take them back
 to their cars, the Sheriff's Department hired three county transit
 buses, and a transit supervisor.

 Still, the party-goers boogied well into the night.  When deputies
 ordered disc jockeys to turn off their amplifiers, the crowd kept the
 beat going by banging on cowbells, clapping hands and blowing
 whistles.  At one point several hundred sweaty youths -- many sporting
 huge Mad Hatter-type hats and swaying rhythmically to the digitized
 syncopations of high-tech ``house'' music -- gathered around a Honda
 Civic equipped with an Alphasonic sound system and 12 Cerwin Vega
 speakers

 By 3 AM the party was pretty much over, except for a few ravers who
 camped out.  There was only one arrest.  Later that morning, Cohen was
 busted on an outstanding warrant stemming from a previous party in San
 Jose.  He was released Monday.  Sheriff flakkie Sgt Ken Kahn tells us
 the department intends to make Cohen pay for the cost of policing the
 rave.  Kahn couldn't provide an exact figure, but he says sheriff's
 deputies usually charge $24 an hour.

 Cohen, meanwhile, says he plans to sue the owners of Saratoga Springs.
 He charges that it was their responsibility to have the required
 paperwork, not his.  ``If I knew that they didn't have a permit, I
 could've gotten one myself for 25 bucks.''