Signs Your Rave Is About to Get Busted

• Those guys in suits standing next to the front door.

• The laser prints 'Raid...get...out...now....' on the back wall.

• When you go to watch the DJ spin, and all you find is a mixtape on on auto-reverse.

• The people shouting 'ECSTASY, GET YER ECSTASY HEAH!...'

• Spritely teenagers run around shouting "whee, I'm so fucked up"

• The deaf little old lady in her housecoat and slippers comes over to see what "all that racket" is about

• The local TV station arrives to do a fluff piece on "evil all-night dance parties"

• A parent walks around with a flashlight checking out every E-ing couple making out in the chill room

• Those neat new flashing lights *aren't* intellabeams

• Your thoughts mysteriously turn to bacon

• You begin imagining cold metal on flesh

• You hadn't noticed those siren sounds in that song before

• You're on a roof top and the live drummer starts up

• Someone just offered a balloon to the fire marshall

• People are setting off fireworks in the ecological preserve

• The guys from mixing lab just found out where your location is

• Your power fails, but the streetlight is still on...

• Your beeper goes off and the number is "50505050"...

• The cops are talking to your liaison people for the fourth time, but this time they're pointing into what all your maps said was nothing but undeveloped forest...