Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    
          A little advice:
    
          Leave all that stuff locked in the trunk of your car!!

    Yo Rae...
    
    Yeah, I was at the Extreme show, and felt the pat-down itself was also
    EXTREME!
    
    They like felt everything on my body...felt something in my pocket...
    reached down and pulled it out (no wisecracks guy...it was a pack of
    trident gum...in foil wrapper, about the last two pieces)...saw it was
    foil...figured it was drugs, and proceeded to unravel the foil until
    they found out it was only gum.  They did this all the while I was
    saying to him "it's gum...it's only gum...hey dude, it's just gum...)
    It took about 5 mintues to frisk me...no wonder there was a huge line
    waiting to get in da joint!
    
    Buck, who felt it was a bit too much!

    
    
    		Yea -I went to a concert where they frisked from top
    		to bottom and all around. Through the purse and my
    		coat pockets. It seems to be worse now-a-days...
    
    		SueJ

    
    	I carry a pocket knife with me, and I usually slide it into
    	my sneaker [vertically, next to my ankle] before I get up to
    	the door.
    
    	Besides that, the only thing I carry with me is my wallet.
    
    	Basically, the less you take with you the better off you'll
    	be.
    
    							GTI
    

    
    But at what point are they infringing on your rights???  We must
    have some in this respect.

    
    	I know what you're saying ... your pocketbook is personal, and
    	no one should be rummaging through it.
    
    	BUT ... how much of that stuff do you actually have to bring
    	with you to see a concert?  Their main concern is the safety
    	of the band and other concert-goers [except for the few that
    	get off on their "ego trips"], and they have to take steps to
    	insure that safety by making sure that you don't have any weap-
    	ons in the pocketbook/purse/etc.  They're probably looking for
    	drugs also.
    
    	I don't know what the law is, but I'm sure that they're not
    	breaking it ... or else someone would have said something by
    	now.
    
    							GTI

    
    
    
        I'm not concerned about them rummaging thru my things but taking
    them out to open them up is a little much.  I have never had this
    done at any other place.  Some things are esstential to carry.  When
    I go out I carry the bare minimum and sometimes nothing at all.
    
    Rae

    
    I have never been searched, it must be the halo that shines above my
    head!  8^)  At places like Wembley arena, the only time that you are
    likely to be searched is if you are carrying something and then they'll
    just take a look inside, checking for weapons or cameras.  If you go
    to a place like the Astoria (very rough, dive) then they'll frisk you. 
    They have always waved me past, but the men who accompanied me always
    get frisked.....it MUST be my halo!!!
    
    I've never seen anyone have such a complete search as the one Rae
    described, but I'm sure they are perfectly withing their rights.
    
    Flip
    
    ps.	Next time I'm going to go in, swinging a pair of rubber marigold
    gloves and see if that won't tempt them to search me!!!  Knowing my
    luck they'll probably just look inside the gloves!  8^)
    
    
    

    
    
    I have gone though this also..  I never bring a purse with me so its
    just the frisk over..
    
    If I wear boots, I put my knife and butts in there, they never check..
    
    They are just trying to protect people I'm sure, people do get
    stabbed or flipped out on drugs at most concerts..
    
    They probably have the right because they own the place.  Just like
    if you own a house and you have the right not to let anyone in..
    because its your property..   ??  This is just a guess, but I bet
    thats how its covered by the law.
    
    F.

    
    
    Yup!!
    
    I musta been unarmed that day!!    8*)
    
    F.

    
    	Went to the Palace in Saugus a couple of weeks ago.
    	They now have a huge metal detector that you have 
    	to walk through! Unreal!
    
    	SueJ

    
    	RE: SueJ
    
    	It's unreal until you get stabbed by someone while trying to 
    	find your seat and then you'll wonder why they DIDN'T have
    	a metal detector.
    
    	tigga~~

    In South Carolina they have metal detectors to MAKE SURE YOU DO 
    have a weapon of some sort.  ;)
    
    jc

    Would you like the standard .38 or an upgrade to a .357 tonight, sir?

    Yo METALord, 
    
    F. didn't have any weapons at the Metallica concert, I know cuz on the
    way back to da car she'd have used them on me. 
    Remember...
    
    Jesse:  Ith yooth guith pithed o thumthin
    
    CJ: No we were just worried. 
    
    /prc: Yeh glad your back.
    
    METALord: Yeh, lets hit the mini mart before we get to the car.
    
    F.: HELL YES I'M P*SSED!!!!  WE WERE LOOKING ALL OVER FOR YOU!!!...

    
    
    Well...
    
    ahem, well um..
    
    sure Jesse, make me out to be a ogre!!   
    
    you deserved to be yelled at!!  8*P

    Yo F., he just makes you out to be honest.  Something a lot more of us
    could do with being.
    
    8^)

    
    
    Well I was pissed.  How can you hold in pissed?  
    
    And when I think about it, i get pissed again!!!!!!   8*)
    
    F.

    
    >How can you hold in pissed?  
    
    
    	I either dance around vigorously or squirm in my seat.
    
    							GTI
    

    I know I only met Matt once but does anyone out there think he looks
    like Dennis Eckersly? 

    
    
    	Dennis Eckersley used to play for the Red Sox but now plays
    	for the Oakland A's, and no, he doesn't look like him. (8
    
    	tigga~~

    
    
    	This may be in here somewhere already but anyhoo...
    
    	A Great Woods homepage.  You can click on the area your
    	seat is in and you'll get a view of the stage from where
    	you're sitting.
    
    	http://www.ultranet.com/biz/tpc/gw.html