Sun Benefit Ticketed

SUN BENEFIT TICKETED

The joint was rocking over at 330 Thompson Street last Friday night, June 25, as over 200 rainbow people danced and sweated in the heat with Up, Brat, and the Bad Blues Band in a benefit for the Ann Arbor SUN.

The event, held to raise money for the printing bill and to commemorate the publication of the ninth regular weekly issue of Ann Arbor's new community paper, was marred near the end of Up's killer set by the bumbling appearance of two representatives of the Ann Arbor Police Department.

The cops were looking for Dave Sinclair of the RPP, producer of the benefit, to serve notice that Up was too much for some of the neighbors. While making their way through the gyrating crowd, the officers happened to spot some freeks smoking what may have been a hash pipe. Frenzied with arrest-lust, they gave chase, but the people were too fast for them, one cop feil or tripped and scraped up his arm,

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and the people got away.

When the police found Dave they ran their noise complaint story and asked Dave to turn the amps down. Dave turned all the amps down„ They came back five minutes later and gave Dave a noise ticket. At that point one cop tells Dave (who didn't know about the earlier hash chase), "You better control the pot smoking in here, too," rolling up his sleeve and showing his wounded arm to emphasize the statement, "When he did that, " said Dave, "I figured the cat was crazy so I just took the ticket and thanked him,"

Noise tickets usually cost $25 00. The SUN plans to contest the ticket in court....