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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2018 17:07:40 GMT
...anyone got any good stories?
Or doesn't have to be a sporting event, maybe you tried to blag your way into a nightclub by telling the doorman you were a model (okay that's probably a hard sell for one or two of you)? Or maybe you told security at a festival you were a rock star? Or perhaps you merely jumped the train once without paying for a ticket (naughty)? Or maybe you just used the old confidence trick of walking straight past security. If so, we want to hear about it!
Or maybe you've failed at every single attempt at a blag? Or pulled off the heist of the century? (we won't tell anyone)
Reminiscing about my stories earlier of trying to get into Wembley when I was a kid reminded me of this documentary, about Karl Power, some of you might have heard of him but you probably haven't seen this doc. Not content with merely blagging his way into sporting events, he pulled a bunch of stunts, like trying to get onto centre court to play at Wimbledon, get onto the Formula 1 podium and shit like that.
Not a bad watch. The quality is a bit shite though.
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Post by weststigersbob on Apr 24, 2018 17:42:38 GMT
Got a premium seat amongst the players families and club officials one game. I was out the back of the stadium, watching the reserve grade players warm up. They were cordoned off by a one inch wide tape wrapped around some trees. My mate and I were wearing club polo shirts (not playing jerseys) and we just decided to slip under the tape and be on the other side. When they went into the dressing rooms before kick off, we followed the crowd of officials and hangers on, and instead of going into the rooms we kept walking into the seated area, sat down and didn’t move until after full time in 1st Grade. Not one person asked us any questions, ID, nothing.
Tried it again the next season, got to the mouth of the tunnel to the rooms and we were rather harshly manhandled away. “No lanyard - fuck off. Come back, it’s the cops taking you away” we were told. Oh well.....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2018 18:28:33 GMT
Got a premium seat amongst the players families and club officials one game. I was out the back of the stadium, watching the reserve grade players warm up. They were cordoned off by a one inch wide tape wrapped around some trees. My mate and I were wearing club polo shirts (not playing jerseys) and we just decided to slip under the tape and be on the other side. When they went into the dressing rooms before kick off, we followed the crowd of officials and hangers on, and instead of going into the rooms we kept walking into the seated area, sat down and didn’t move until after full time in 1st Grade. Not one person asked us any questions, ID, nothing. Tried it again the next season, got to the mouth of the tunnel to the rooms and we were rather harshly manhandled away. “No lanyard - fuck off. Come back, it’s the cops taking you away” we were told. Oh well..... Is this Australian Rules Football? I have a couple of mates who make thousands of pounds a day just walking people into festivals. All they do is find people who haven't got tickets, and co-ordinated with a couple of walkie-talkies one just walk randoms through straight past security while the other finds more "customers", and they just go backwards and forwards through the same gate all day long, and no one stops them, asks them any questions, no searches or anything, think security just assume they work there. And apart from the walkie talkies they don't even bother to dress like security either. |
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Post by weststigersbob on Apr 24, 2018 19:06:27 GMT
Got a premium seat amongst the players families and club officials one game. I was out the back of the stadium, watching the reserve grade players warm up. They were cordoned off by a one inch wide tape wrapped around some trees. My mate and I were wearing club polo shirts (not playing jerseys) and we just decided to slip under the tape and be on the other side. When they went into the dressing rooms before kick off, we followed the crowd of officials and hangers on, and instead of going into the rooms we kept walking into the seated area, sat down and didn’t move until after full time in 1st Grade. Not one person asked us any questions, ID, nothing. Tried it again the next season, got to the mouth of the tunnel to the rooms and we were rather harshly manhandled away. “No lanyard - fuck off. Come back, it’s the cops taking you away” we were told. Oh well..... Is this Australian Rules Football? I have a couple of mates who make thousands of pounds a day just walking people into festivals. All they do is find people who haven't got tickets, and co-ordinated with a couple of walkie-talkies one just walk randoms through straight past security while the other finds more "customers", and they just go backwards and forwards through the same gate all day long, and no one stops them, asks them any questions, no searches or anything, think security just assume they work there. And apart from the walkie talkies they don't even bother to dress like security either. Rugby League. And it was almost 20 years ago now. Security at events in Australia focus more on illicit alcohol than anything else. I’d have no trouble believing the story above to be true in Australia also, however there is no way they’d make thousands of anything over here. The most famous story of people ‘sneaking in’ in Australia was a Guns and Roses concert in the early 90’s. It was held at a Motorsport park and entry was off to the side of the stage. Seemingly no one thought it would be possible to walk through the bush to access the other side. And by bush I mean a creek, paddocks and clearances for power lines. It was estimated that 40% of the crowd had ‘snuck in’. Not surprisingly, only 1 other major concert was ever held there again. This time there was a sturdy perimeter fence erected. Fans simply stood around the fence and listened to the concert for free..... |
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