Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The GuardianĪcross the country, young people are ignoring lockdown, strapping on bumbags and making for woods and fields. Paul Carroll at the site of the illegal rave at Daisy Nook country park. But he couldn’t sleep, so Carroll sat and watching the road, enraged. “Well, there were seven of them and I hadn’t got any shoes on.” After that encounter, Carroll’s wife told him to stop going outside. “I would have given as good as I’d got!” He backtracks. Just after midnight, Carroll found a group of young men urinating on his garden wall. The traffic outside Carroll’s house was relentless, as was the whoosh of the nitrous oxide balloons the young people were huffing as they marched through the country park to the rave site, an empty field accessible from a canal path. Illegal raves simply do not happen in Daisy Nook. Carroll stared at the revellers in astonishment. The 59-year-old police trainer had seen the saucer-eyed teenage girls and lads swigging from cans of beer flooding into Daisy Nook country park, in Greater Manchester, as he took his dogs for a walk that evening. W hen Daisy Nook started trending on Twitter on the evening of 13 June, many users of the site thought it was a reference to the popular video game Animal Crossing, which features characters called Daisy and Nook.
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