Should I be pissed over a Kit Kat Bar?

[futaba.79]

Did my duty and went to the game last night. I was given club seats so it was an easy decision to take my 13 yr old daughter. My daughter took a small shoulder bag, no bigger than a large wallet, filled with her "personal" items. Anybody with a 13 yr old girl can understand. Ticket man asks to see her purse. Purse is a stretch. Her bag isn't big enough to hold a sandwich. He unzips it, looks in and then rummages through it, to her horror. In what seemed to be a moment of satisfaction for ticket man, he pulls out a mini Kit Kat bar, the halloween candy sized version. He seizes the mini Kit Kat bar in obvious glee and puts it in the contraband bucket. I was quite pissed. I was holding $1200 tickets and my daughter was harassed over a mini Kit Kat bar. No ****, this happened.

Hope you're reading Scott.

 

[olblue.sixpack]

Did my duty and went to the game last night. I was given club seats so it was an easy decision to take my 13 yr old daughter. My daughter took a small shoulder bag, no bigger than a large wallet, filled with her "personal" items. Anybody with a 13 yr old girl can understand. Ticket man asks to see her purse. Purse is a stretch. Her bag isn't big enough to hold a sandwich. He unzips it, looks in and then rummages through it, to her horror. In what seemed to be a moment of satisfaction for ticket man, he pulls out a mini Kit Kat bar, the halloween candy sized version. He seizes the mini Kit Kat bar in obvious glee and puts it in the contraband bucket. I was quite pissed. I was holding $1200 tickets and my daughter was harassed over a mini Kit Kat bar. No ****, this happened.

Hope you're reading Scott.

Yes you should be upset. But I gotta admit I chuckled because we all know ticket taker man - the guy who can't ever seem to catch a glimpse of the forest.

 

[Shmuley]

She obviously had bit it into the shape of a pistol, right?

 

[HD6]

When it rains, it's Hurricane Katrina. Can nothing go right this year? Embarrassing that something like this would happen.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Obviously not, or it would be an arrest story.

 

[FreeDawg]

What a douchebag security guard. Nothing in life is dumber than over zealous security.

 

[Seinfeld]

Wow. As if there weren't enough reasons already for people to stay home on a Thurs night, they pull that? Out of curiosity, where did you enter the stadium?

On the West side, I cannot remember the last time anyone has gone any farther than asking my wife to open her purse so that they could take a half second glance at it and then wave us in

 

[Delmar]

Did my duty and went to the game last night. I was given club seats so it was an easy decision to take my 13 yr old daughter. My daughter took a small shoulder bag, no bigger than a large wallet, filled with her "personal" items. Anybody with a 13 yr old girl can understand. Ticket man asks to see her purse. Purse is a stretch. Her bag isn't big enough to hold a sandwich. He unzips it, looks in and then rummages through it, to her horror. In what seemed to be a moment of satisfaction for ticket man, he pulls out a mini Kit Kat bar, the halloween candy sized version. He seizes the mini Kit Kat bar in obvious glee and puts it in the contraband bucket. I was quite pissed. I was holding $1200 tickets and my daughter was harassed over a mini Kit Kat bar. No ****, this happened.

Hope you're reading Scott.

4 Years ago my very pregnant wife (8 months) and I had season tickets. She was having some complications that severly restricted her diet which included basically nothing from the concession stand. My wife brought some snacks in her purse. Ticket man found and confiscated them even after explaining the situation. And yes, I was severly pissed.

 

[Seinfeld]

Coincidentally, in Lexington a couple a years ago...

A security guard was giving me hell about patting me down, asking me what was in my pockets, etc. Eventually, he asked me to open my jacket, and he proceeded to pat the inside pockets only to feel what was obviously a flask. Once he felt it, he asked me what it was and I could only stare at him blankly. He then went on to say "it's just your cell phone, right?". I paused a second, eventually nodded, and he waved me through.

The point of the story is that I don't have a problem with these guys being a little dicky every now and then, but there's a fine line between messing with someone a little bit and pissing a paying fan off.

 

[KingBarkus]

A security guard was giving me hell about patting me down, asking me what was in my pockets, etc. Eventually, he asked me to open my jacket, and he proceeded to pat the inside pockets only to feel what was obviously a flask. Once he felt it, he asked me what it was and I could only stare at him blankly. He then went on to say "it's just your cell phone, right?". I paused a second, eventually nodded, and he waved me through.

The point of the story is that I don't have a problem with these guys being a little dicky every now and then, but there's a fine line between messing with someone a little bit and pissing a paying fan off.

Too bad you did not have one of those new tshirts where you could have opened your jacket, pointed to the design, and kept moving.

 

[futaba.79]

east side...........

I threw a mini fit, a fit about the size of the Kit Kat bar itself. The crowd behind was sympathetic but I moved on so as not to further embarrass my little girl.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

He needs to be let go that is 17'n ridiculous!!

Did my duty and went to the game last night. I was given club seats so it was an easy decision to take my 13 yr old daughter. My daughter took a small shoulder bag, no bigger than a large wallet, filled with her "personal" items. Anybody with a 13 yr old girl can understand. Ticket man asks to see her purse. Purse is a stretch. Her bag isn't big enough to hold a sandwich. He unzips it, looks in and then rummages through it, to her horror. In what seemed to be a moment of satisfaction for ticket man, he pulls out a mini Kit Kat bar, the halloween candy sized version. He seizes the mini Kit Kat bar in obvious glee and puts it in the contraband bucket. I was quite pissed. I was holding $1200 tickets and my daughter was harassed over a mini Kit Kat bar. No ****, this happened.

Hope you're reading Scott.

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[Wooly17er]

Know what I would've deposited in that contraband bucket? A turd. That's right, and he could stick his face in there with it.

 

[WrapItDog]

You should of said.

Give me break, give me a break, you ain't taking my Mother17ing Kit Kat bar.

 

[kired]

No reason to be pissed at that guy. They've made it obvious the last few years that nothing is allowed in.

Now, I normally do take stuff like that in for my kid and have rarely had anything taken away other than bottles of water. But if they take something I'm not going to complain to the guy at the gate. It's like getting a speeding ticket for doing 59 in a 55. Yeah it's being picky... but I can't fault someone for doing his job..

 

[Dawg1976]

I was at a concert a few years ago in Orange Beach and the floor security guard asked to see our tickets (4 of us seated together). We were sitting a little out of order but occupied the 4 correct seats together. He looked a little confused but walked off. Later he returned telling us we would have to sit in the seat of the ticket we had in hand. I laughed and we all exchanged tickets to correspond to our true seat and then he walked off.

Some of these assclowns acquired the Barney Fifie syndrome somewhere along the way.

 

[twopack]

Sure you should be pissed. Similar thing happened to me last week for BG game. At the West Gate entrance. Ticket lady rummaged through my small bag and pulled out a ziploc bag with medicine in it. Nothing but some aspirin, a pain pill for neuropathy when I need it, and something for diarrhea / upset stomach in case anybody in the family needs it since we drive from several hours away. She started telling me that I could not take medicine in with me. I did raise hell and asked if she was going to try and take my medicine from me. I was ready to be denied entrance if they continued with the stupidity because I was really starting to yell. If Scott is reading, here is a tip. Make sure that your ticket people know what is - or is not - permissable and use some common sense. If they are new, give them a one page handout with acceptable/not acceptable items in bags. Doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure this out. I hardly think that a bite size Kit Kat or somebody's medicine qualifies. Sheer stupidity. For the Ky game last night, I breezed on through with the same items in my bag. Just depends on whether you have an idiot or somebody who is relatively intelligent taking tickets.

 

[Lettucexxxx]

ive missed you

 

[abitadawg]

Do they still have free food in the club level? If so, it's not like you were cutting the people's university out of any revenue.

In any profession where you have some authority over others, there's always gonna be that one guy.

 

[AHSDawg]

What you should have done is take it from the contraband bucket and ate that sonofabitch right in his face.

 

[Philly Dawg]

The back of your ticket says you cannot bring food or beverages into the stadium and they have been there taking thest things up or making you throw them away for years.

You can probably get away with it most of the time, but shouldn't be pissed if they see something and make you throw it away.

 

[drt7891]

Well played. I used to think this was annoying as ****, but that's pretty damn funny.

 

[fishwater99]

What you should have done is take it from the contraband bucket and ate that sonofabitch right in his face.

+1

 

[vhdawg]

I smuggled a bag of chips and a can drink from the Alumni Association tent into the stadium last night. If you're getting busted for a Kit Kat, you're not doing something right.

 

[DerHntr]

Alright Turd Ferguson. You have FINALLY gotten me to laugh at that saying.

Don't go getting all cocky now and posting it 100 times a day though

 

[DerHntr]

Was this gentleman's name Bracky?**

#ThemsThaRulesBitches

 

[BearcatBully]

Some of these things are getting ridiculous and really make me wonder why we bother.. At the BG game Dawg Walk, a couple of the rent-a-cops were making people actually toe the line on the sidewalk. They made several people move their feet back one inch or so so that no part of your shoes were across the brick border. The lead rent-a-cop with the Eric Estrada hairdo was instructing the obvious newcomer cops how to do this, all while he was puffing a cig and blowing smoke right in my wife and kids faces.

 

[aTotal360]

or Gabe?

 

[MagnificentBastard]

I don't know whats more petty?

The guy taking the candy bar or you whining about it?

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

No we can just fault him for being a dip **** rent-a-cop on a power trip. I can understand if she is toting 4 bags of McDonalds but a Kit-Kat....seriously?? and a miniature one at that. That is just wrong.

oh and did you enjoy eating the Kit-Kat?

 

[AFDawg]

My wife had the baby bag searched the other week. They'd never looked in it before. This time she'd put like 5 cokes in there. The security guard took them all, saying "1 pop, 2 pops, 3 pops..." and shook her head each time. I thought it was kind of funny. My wife did not share that opinion. I said, "Well, we're like 4-1 on the sneaking-drinks-in season. That's not too bad."

 

[DerHntr]

or you whining about the whining

nm

 

[AFDawg]

Yes. This.

 

[AFDawg]

This thread needs some Ben Folds.

 

[msudawglb]

Was this ticket man wearing a "Bracky" name badge?

Did my duty and went to the game last night. I was given club seats so it was an easy decision to take my 13 yr old daughter. My daughter took a small shoulder bag, no bigger than a large wallet, filled with her "personal" items. Anybody with a 13 yr old girl can understand. Ticket man asks to see her purse. Purse is a stretch. Her bag isn't big enough to hold a sandwich. He unzips it, looks in and then rummages through it, to her horror. In what seemed to be a moment of satisfaction for ticket man, he pulls out a mini Kit Kat bar, the halloween candy sized version. He seizes the mini Kit Kat bar in obvious glee and puts it in the contraband bucket. I was quite pissed. I was holding $1200 tickets and my daughter was harassed over a mini Kit Kat bar. No ****, this happened.

Hope you're reading Scott.

N/M

 

[CSpringsDawg]

I remember last year and I forget which game it was, but I was getting ready to setup my tailgate. It was 4:59 and if I remember correctly is that once the bell goes off at 5:00pm, you can set up your tent. Well 4:59 and I bend over to pick up my tent and the rent-a-cop said that it needed to be down until 5:00pm. I said there's only 1 minute left and you're going to get bent out of shape over that? He said do not make me come over there and put it down for you. Now having been in the junction for 3 hours drinking the smart *** in me came out and I looked at my watch and saw I had 15 seconds left before the bell rang. I proceeded past the forbidden spray pained white line and started to get my spot. Well the entire student body followed my lead and we all set up 15 seconds early and the rent-a-cop tried to get everybody to take their tents back down.

That was probably the most fun I'll ever have not obeying a "cop" and not getting arrested for it.

 

[stinkfoot]

The body cavity searches that both MS schools do is pretty ridiculous. Been going to Gamecock games for a while now and the most they do is look in bags. Anything in your pockets is ok.

 

[dawgstudent]

My wife brought baby snacks for our 18 month old daughter. Obvious that it's baby food. It was some chewy **** and something else. The ticket lady almost threw it away because she said food is not allowed. My wife complained and she let us go.

I know she is doing her job but at the same time, with the product on the field, they should be allowing us to bring in 10 pizzas if we desire.

 

[Xenomorph]

Mini kit kat? Should'a told him he could probably make squad captain if only..

...he'd go frisk our left guard at game time. We're talkin' king size snickers, man!

/seriously.. we let in fifths of Johnny Walker black up there but the mini kit kat is over the line? Way to go State... atta way to create life-long fans out of 13 year olds.

Two years ago at Oxford-Unviersity Stadium a security guard tried to confiscate my 5 yr old daughters tiny cowbell necklace. And when I mean tiny, it was smaller than your thumbnail. He stopped her at the gate and said the only way we could pass was if she took it off. She starts crying and the line is backed up behind us. I pick her up and get out of line, walk back to the vehicle and she leaves it there. We went back in but the mood was really soured.

She's never forgotten it. Two years later and she still mentions it every time the subject of a cowbell comes up. Her hatred for all things Bear related is really unhealthy because of it.

 

[NashLA]

I remember last year and I forget which game it was, but I was getting ready to setup my tailgate. It was 4:59 and if I remember correctly is that once the bell goes off at 5:00pm, you can set up your tent. Well 4:59 and I bend over to pick up my tent and the rent-a-cop said that it needed to be down until 5:00pm. I said there's only 1 minute left and you're going to get bent out of shape over that? He said do not make me come over there and put it down for you. Now having been in the junction for 3 hours drinking the smart *** in me came out and I looked at my watch and saw I had 15 seconds left before the bell rang. I proceeded past the forbidden spray pained white line and started to get my spot. Well the entire student body followed my lead and we all set up 15 seconds early and the rent-a-cop tried to get everybody to take their tents back down.

That was probably the most fun I'll ever have not obeying a "cop" and not getting arrested for it.

You glorious rebel, you. You really showed him, huh? He's a miserable bastard for trying to make everyone follow the rules. He should have his house burned to the ground. You're a real hero for standing up to him.