Sneaking alcohol into arenas ...

[Malibuandpineapple32]

Please don’t judge but I’m going to a concert next week and would love a few drinks but my local arena charges £8.50 for 1 vodka and lemonade .
Can’t affod prices like that.
If I was to hide some miniature bottles in my bra ..would they set off the metal detector?

Depends on where you are. Bag and body checks may be cursory or thorough. DH is security and people try all sorts. Also depends on the venue as to whether it will just be confiscated and disposed of or whether you will be refused entry.

I don’t understand why people can’t go to a concert and not need a drink for a couple of hours. I sat through 4 1/2 hours of led zep without one - but then I go to enjoy the music and I am no so dependent on drink for my enjoyment as lots of people

I smuggle booze into festivals.

Buy the Capri Sun drinks with the resealable lids. Clean out. Fill with vodka / JD / rum etc. Place in bra like chicken fillets. Put lids at the front where the underwire ends. Buy bottles of coke / lemonade inside venue. Drink an inch or two out of them then top up with spirits.

No security guard, male or female, SIA or not, will be permitted to feel your breasts or require you to remove your bra. I always go through a queue with male guards to be in the safe side.

We do it all the time. Hip flask down your bra or trousers, filled with vodka. and you just buy the Diet Coke.

Senior, it's not about "needing it"it's about wanting it. We can have both a few drinks and enjoy the music. And yes, not wish to pay over inflated prices. You don't get an award for sitting through concerts stone cold sober you know. .

I'm a licensee as well as SIA etc.

There might be restrictions on the venue's license. There is a H&S argument too.

The real reason is so that the venues can make a lot of money.

These are businesses so the fact that the cost of the concert is (no idea) covered doesn't matter. Why cover your costs when you can make a bigger profit.

I'm nothing if not a hypocrite so use these.

www.sneakalcohol.com/product/tampon-flasks/

@minderful

Thanks for your candid answer.

I know someone who put G n T in a CapriSun pouch with a syringe

The last few concerts I've been to I've had bag searched and pat downs
but what I do have is a paddle hairbrush my best mate bought me where the handle unscrew so I can fill the whole brush full of Jack Daniels
it has served me many a times and saved me a fortune when on a night out

The funniest I saw was three friends asking for three Diet cokes at a gig.

The server took three paper cups out, a bottle of Diet Coke with 99p marked on the label, split it between the three cups and said "that will be 12 pounds please"

Everyone was like "WTAF" 🤣🤣🤣

www.amazon.co.uk/SUCK-UK-Flask-Good-Book/?tag=mumsnetforum-21

What? You can’t take my bible off me!

It depends how busy security are. When I used to go to Reading I’d smuggle a hip flask down the side of my wellies with no problem. Might work for knee high boots? Unless they’re doing a full pat down you can usually sneak things in via your bra.

Oops this is the link: www.amazon.co.uk/SUCK-UK-Flask-Good-Book/dp/B001JU31MO/?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Decant vodka and lemonade into plastic sparkling water bottles. It's worked for me with G&T many, many times.

Arenas don't generally allow people to take any bottles of liquid into the venue

Ah thanks everyone for your suggestions.
I’ve got a view things coming up in summer so will be trying a different technique for each concert

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I don’t understand why people can’t go to a concert and not need a drink for a couple of hours

Yep. It's a bit odd tbh.

Good luck.

Don't try the 'pretend it's water' option. They'll usually make you pour it away or bin it. Even if it's a sealed bottle.

Never happened to me, the water bottles sail through.

We smuggled vodka and lime into a gig using a (new!) catheter bag attached to our leg under a dress. Worked perfectly.

Hiya Yeah it's down to mainly health and safety but also to ensure the law and rules are followed (trust me we don't all agree with them and some are badly worded).

For example - someone mentioned fake tampons - you can also stash drugs in them or explosives. If I see Tampax in a bag I will ask her to remove them and randomly check inside them, rattle them etc. We do replace them with our stock tho.

With concerts we pay a lot for them but some concert halls have added insurance and even additional support needs due to crowds, alcohol consumption and bringing in stock etc - clean up crews are very pricy.

Its honestly amazing what can be smuggled in and where (yup and I also mean people body packing, pretending to be pregnant (we have safe zones for pregnant woman incase of issues etc) and police will randomly do body checks and sniffer dogs depending on concert or event (T in the Park for eg)

We have to follow legal rules first and obey the ticket rules second- I've had great fun snapping season ticket holders cards up at football since they broke rules.

Every event is different, every minute of that event is different.

Just be safe and best advice is to listen to us as we are there to help you not curb your fun. You when buying tickets agree to the rules as a contract- break those rules and you can be banned.

I don’t understand why people can’t go to a concert and not need a drink for a couple of hours.

Same. Often see inebriated concert goers and wonder if they would actually remember going! I would also need the loo and I'll be damned if I'm going to miss any of Dave Grohl doing his stuff. Concert tickets are expensive enough as it is without watching it through a drunken haze or missing it for a wee.

If like to know what health and safety law people are referring to, as I work in H&S and am not aware of any such regulations or acts of Parliament.

If it's about regulating people's alcohol intake, that's not H&S, its licensing law and prevention of anti social behaviour / breach of the peace.

Often see inebriated concert goers and wonder if they would actually remember going! I would also need the loo and I'll be damned if I'm going to miss any of Dave Grohl doing his stuff. Concert tickets are expensive enough as it is without watching it through a drunken haze or missing it for a wee

Why take it to extremes? You can have a few drinks and not be inebriated. Getting drunk isn't something different and not what the op or anyone else is suggesting.

And if you need to pee you need to pee.

I haven't seen anyone post that they need alcohol to attend or enjoy a gig, so not sure where people are getting that from?

It's not necessarily either extreme, going sober or getting so paralytic you make a nuisance of yourself and don't absorb the show. Pretty much everyone I know who drinks at gigs is more than capable of having two or three drinks, usually during the support band, enjoying the buzz and not acting any differently. And if you're drinking spirits and mixers or wine, and know your body, you can probably regulate how much liquid you can consume before needing the bathroom (I wouldn't use the toilet during the set either, not sacrificing my spot at the front!).

Cross post Bluntness! As always, threads like these descend into the puritanical 'well I can enjoy myself without a drink/everyone else is weak willed and has an alcohol problem' dichotomy.

While in the real world some people at gigs have a few drinks and it's fine.

It depends on the crowd I find. The type of music I go and see, I've experienced maybe two occasions in twenty years where a guy has got really drunk to the extent of being a nuisance. Amongst hundreds of gigs! And there's nothing to suggest he wasn't pre drinking or buying from the bar.