Not really – my guess would be that the logic behind leaving it open is to suggest ‘look, I’ve got nothing to hide,’ but I’d have though that this would have just wound the undesirables up because they’d have though of it as taunting them, thus doing the car over regardless.

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Originally posted by Spin Doctor Not a very pleasant read. I did think the security was noticeably looser this year, which I mentioned to someone when I got inside, can’t remember who it was though! I had a big back pack, and it certainly wasn’t thoroughly searched, plus the door man who was letting me in kept asking the guy to his right about things like empty water bottles (which he wanted to confiscate, but I took back and went in with regardless), so I presumed it was his first day!

i barely got searched, i left my keys and half my money in my pocket and the only part of me that got touched was around my knees, i could have had fucking anything.

having said that...

when i went to gk @ telewest earlier this year i had a penknife on my keyring, the knife doesnt sit properly in it's slot and the bloke blatantly saw it who searched me and let me thru. useless bastards

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shite, cant believe that happened, although i do agree that entrance security was piss poor, I didn't even get searched, just walked straight through. Think they deffo need metal detectors at the gate.

Scared me a bit, because i was walking around on my own for a bit.

Also had some twat walk up to me from behind and blow a horn in my ear, probably looking for a reaction to start a fight or whatever, but i was a bit mashed to say anything

Oh well, roll on next year

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Security was very shoddy, I had a backpack and like last year I had all my clothes in there as I was only in the uk for a couple of days. No one searched the pockets of those clothes and the body search was very brief. They just made me move clothes around in the bag rather than search them so if i had something in there I could of kept moving it around so they wouldn’t see. Also the security behind the main stage was a joke! Got my pic with Tiesto, PVD, ferry e.t.c No one checked if I had any arm bands (only had a VIP one,) I walked freely thro the back of event as well where the dj's were and the offices where things were being coordinated from. One guy asked me if I was working tonight, "nah mate not tonight eh!" and he didn’t seem to care! Chatted for a while and i walked off.

Had a great time though. Think the first time I went was when I enjoyed it the most (2002.) 2003 was still pretty good but not as good as 2002, and this time around it wasn't as good as 2003 but still pretty good. Unsure if i'll go again, something to decide next year!

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i can honestly say both years i went (ie the two before this one) i had a proper search and so did my bag. this time it sounded like a complete cock up of GCSSS2002 proportians :/

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i did have to empty my bag but if i had anything to hid it could easily have just stayed rolled up in my jumper that was in there and security wouldnt have had a clue. I wasn't patted down at all and nobody even took my ticket!!!

quite scary now i look back on it!

The guy told me to empty my bag and my pockets and didnt even take a look at my stuff!!

35,000 people tho? There were loads more people than last year it wouldn't have suprised me if they sold a large portion of their tickets.

Im not suprised that there was knives and shit. In the queue i was in , if you didnt have a bag, you could walk straight through.. ridiculous..

I know its unlikley but a terrorist COULD of had a bomb strapped to him and taken out half an arena....

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Originally posted by Dave_Masters Im not suprised that there was knives and shit. In the queue i was in , if you didnt have a bag, you could walk straight through.. ridiculous.. I know its unlikley but a terrorist COULD of had a bomb strapped to him and taken out half an arena....

what's the chances of any of the security guards being trained in any way to handle the threat of terrorism, they are all probably, actually, make that an are, just students or people being recruited for the one off to make 80 quid for the night of something, was there even a police presence if drugs/guns were found?

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Whilst in the Air tent i had some scallie try to steal my digital camera.

He was very subtle about it, i was taking some pics of the stage area from the back of the tent, and this guy stopped in front of me and was like 'hey man, let me take ur picture'
I said no thanks and carried on.
He then took hold of the camera and again said, 'come on man, let me take ur picture'
The strap of the camera was around my wrist so he was unsuccesful in taking the camera off of me.
this carried on for a further few minutes where he insisted he wanted to take my picture then when he realised i was not about to give him the camera he made a desperate snatch and ran, like i said the camera strap was around my wrist and as he dashed off i tripped him up, told him to fuck the hell off and put the camera back into my pocket.

What i should have done thou, thinking about it now was took his Picture and posted it all over the net.

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Originally posted by Luke Terry was there even a police presence if drugs/guns were found?

Yep they were there, they tried to keep out of the proceedings unless there was problems

Next year they should have airport style metal detectors

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Originally posted by Frase Yep they were there, they tried to keep out of the proceedings unless there was problems Next year they should have airport style metal detectors

that would seriously slow down the admission though .. as coins keys etc would set the alarms off and people always forget to take everything off them ..

as for security guards .. well some1 being paid minimum wage aint going to risk being beaten up or stabbed in order to help some1 out that might have run into a little trouble are they?