Bag checking .

[thebestpanthers]

One of the brilliant things about Ice Hockey shirts are that they are very baggy, and it is amazing what you can "shove-up-your-shirt" if you want to - full body searches next - could be painful as I am allergic to latex

[Bagheera]

This thread has 2 very different discussion points.
Bag searching and security being the first. I believe the main reason bag searches were increased recently was due to a recent incident in town with a "threat". Now I know many will see it as just a way to catch people out, however security wise it's been very poor for years.

This may be a little dark and i'm not sure if i'm allowed to write this stuff anywhere on the internet without having the spooks come take me away, but i'll make my point.
The security services appear to a great job of stopping major inccidents, however if you look at arena security on it's own we are all really sitting ducks. Bag searches rarely happened in the past, "it's amazing what you can shove up your(hockey) shirt". God forbid anybody ever did carry out an attack at the NIC, but I don't think they'd find it hard to get in. To put it into perspective you could be looking at the biggest attack in modern history(currently at 3k). This is all obviously a bit ott and I get that. If people had to be checked everywhere, nobody would ever get anywhere. Arena security though has always stood out as particularly lax to me. And it should be better.



Obviously the actual point being discussed is contraband. So maybe it needs to be made clearer what you can and can't take in. And maybe they could use common sense at times.
The way I see it though is that around 90% of people who get stuff taken off them know full well they arn't allowed to take it in and are just trying to get away with it.
Whether you like the rules, arena pricing or quality of food they are the rules. The majority of people really can't complain just because they get caught doing something they know shouldn't be doing anyway. Quite simply you've only got yourself to blame(unless you are in that 10% that genuinely don't know).
And yes I have taken stuff in in the past for reasons others have said. I just wouldn't be a douche if I got caught.

[pantherdman]

IMO if you are paying £20+ for a ticket they should only be checking for security reasons. Confiscating snacks and soft drinks is just pure greed.

[The Flying Shirt]

Security, greed or whatever they should have a bag queue so they don't end up with huge lines of people waiting an age to get in

[Yotes]

Oct 29, 2016 11:09:46 GMT pantherdman said:

IMO if you are paying £20+ for a ticket they should only be checking for security reasons. Confiscating snacks and soft drinks is just pure greed.

Don't Panthers get the 20 quid, and the arena gets the rent and the concessions (and the costs)?