Grooverider arrested in Dubai!
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Paulie Tandoori
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Crackers innit
Soz, very bad taste joke there. Don't really understand why the Times also mention some other R1 dude Greening dying from drugs, the situation is hardly comparable.
skyscraper101
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Init. Completely unrelated.
Although I didn't know Greening actually does of GHB, Coke and Pills until I read that - thought it was just a bizarre death.
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Better still - don't go there, don't even change planes there.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topsto...ind-speck-of-cannabis-on-shoe-89520-20312333/
This is nuts. Standing on a microscopic piece of dope is not smuggling!
Anyone who intentionally brings in drugs to aplace like dubai I'm afraid doesn't get any sympathy from me, but accidentally stepping on something..
Louloubelle
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I have friends is Dubai. They are not omniscient of course but the feeling from them is that he will be released before the 4 years is up. I hope they are right.
Things that have probably been unhelpful, according to them....
His defense lawyers' claims that he was unaware of the drug laws. Given that the promoter who contracted him to go to Dubai has repeatedly stated that his management team were fully informed of all the relevant laws this strategy was, I think extremely unwise.
Various posts on the internet supporting him and also containing a lot of aggression towards and contempt for the people of Dubai and its laws. Posts like this will not help Grooverider and may have a detrimental effect.
Grooverider's myspace page. That page should have changed into something much more conservative as soon as he was arrested.
IMO (FWIW) any petitions geared towards his early release should be extremely sensitively penned. They should acknowledge that he has broken the law and that he did wrong but should also make a plea for his release on compassionate grounds and on the basis of him being a much loved celebrity / pioneer of D&B. All and any petitions should be respectful and not seek to challenge or undermine the laws and traditions of the country
we will be in may
skyscraper101
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Don't worry there's far worse places to get nicked than Dubai.
I'd say pretty much most other places in the Middle East actually.
I'd say pretty much most other places in the Middle East actually.
CalmerChameleon
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Louloubelle
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This is an extremely important and relevant point
Dubai is very liberal compared to many other counties. So much so that it is considered to be a western influenced pit of depravity by some other Middle Eastern countries and they have to tread a fine line to try keep the foreign visitors and ex pats happy whilst also not offending their neighbours.
Paulie Tandoori
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wise words, wise words.
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Why should his fame be an exception? I feel sorrier for the guy who trod on a billionth of a spliff tbh. He's someone that deserves help.
King Biscuit Time
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Paulie Tandoori
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I don't think it is an exception is it? Yes, the dude who trod on a blim shouldn't be in jail, but if you are banged up, then surely it makes sense to use whatever tools are in your armoury, as it were, to try to extricate yourself from the situation.
And the simple fact is that G/R has a long tradition, over many years, of pushing forward D&B/jungle music here and all around the world. May not mean jackshit to you, may not mean anything to Dubai's Sheikh but its surely worth trying to use this to his advantage?
Crackers innit
Soz, very bad taste joke there. Don't really understand why the Times also mention some other R1 dude Greening dying from drugs, the situation is hardly comparable.
'Murdoch paper in shoe-horning-in pop at BBC shocker'
and what Crispy said about showering and changing clothes before going to Dubai
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