Very Disappointing

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abo4ster

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I saw this article about security in the newspaper regarding today’s Daytona 500. It was long, so here are 2 excerpts. I must say I am very disappointed to the reference of pocketknives. The more I see stuff like this, the more it makes me self-conscious of carrying a knife. Fortunately I am feel more uncomfortable without one!

Daytona Fans Encounter Tighter Security
By EDDIE PELLS
AP Sports Writer

Track spokesman David Talley said every one of the estimated 200,000 fans should arrive as early as possible - gates open at 8 a.m. for the 1:30 p.m. race - and expect to have their coolers and backpacks searched. Only small backpacks and coolers - with about enough room to carry a six-pack of beer - will be allowed and fans can bring one clear, plastic bag. They'll also have to pass through metal detectors.

Track officials have made repeated announcements this week, urging fans in the stands and the infield not to bring anything that would delay them at an airport - pocket knives, scissors, guns and the like.
 
Hey, there's thousands of Americans all gathered in one place! If a few terrorists with pocketknives got in through the gates they could ... um ... they could ... :confused:
 
You people just don't understand.

What if 50,000 terrorists took knives in and killed the other 50,000.

:eek:
 
..Then I guess we wouldn't be swallowing these fear tactics that get shoved down our throats every time we connect to any kind of media. Slowly but surely our rights get narrower and narrower... all so companies like Halliburton get richer and richer
 
I grew up in Daytona in the late 60's up to 1975 and this is the same town where during Bike Week, the Chief of Police got all paranoid about guns built into motorcycle handlebars. Of course nothing was ever found, but all sorts of task forces from central Fla were brought in to deal with the "threat." And this was in the early 70's, so I'm not suprised that they're over-reacting.
 
hey, 50,000 nascar fans is a sacrifice I can make...

What I like is the use of the word "Delay". having guns and knives at the terminal will not "delay" you-you will be arrested and jailed-not held up for 15 minutes.
 
"The increase in security might actually have something to do with Pres. Bush being there as much as anything else"

You can be sure the Secret Service wouldn't be intimidated by pocketknives in the crowd.
 
Hey Guys..

Yaa that sort of crap bothers me as well....

I got patted down at security gate going into a Toby Keith concert in the summer,,however they were only looking for guns..She checked for a shoulder rig,,patted my waist down and my ankles.. Got my neck rig by them without any problem..:)

ttyle

Eric...
 
When I don't think I'll be able to get in somewhere with a knife, I take a cane. Which I did at the last concert I went to. Nobody questioned the cane even though I'm not 1) not an oldster and 2) don't have any obvious injuries that would require the use of a cane. Not that I enjoy being regulated to that point, but at least they can't make me leave *everything* home.

'Course if I was really determined to cause trouble, I could just as easily turn to the person next to me and poke their eyes out with my car keys. But I don't suppose "they" have ever thought of that.

Edit: Didn't have a neck knife at the time. Not sure I'd have taken one with me if I had. I got patted down at a Metallica concert once. Wasn't the first concert of that type I'd been to, but that was the one and only time it happened.
 
A friend of mine worked security at the concert in Toronto this summer he said some of the guards were taking everything including walkmans under the understanding that no recording material could go in when is the last time walkman or CD player recorded. They face it the guys who wrote the constitution were right the threat to be taken over will come from within and the only way to sccessfully do that is to disarm the public after all we can easliy over power a whole swat team with a swiss army key chain knife fear me for I have a nail clipper in my hands Mr police officer with bullet proof vest pepper spray Asp baton and oh yeah pistol in hand.
 
What, you want to risk some terrorist hijacking the stadium and crashing it into...wait a minute that's not right.

They would do much more in the way of security if they banned alcohol.
 
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