I’m off to watch the NFL game with my sons at Wembley later. We are planning to go by bike but with this sanitised day and age’s obsession with elf and safety, and given that everyone is a suspected terrorist until they prove otherwise, I’m worried some hi viz jobsworth won’t let us in. Tried calling but needless to say, they don’t feel the need to man the phones on the day of a major event. Has anyone been there and been allowed or refused entry while carrying a lid? Ta
I`ve been refused petrol while wearing a helmet. Never been to that there Wembley so can`t comment on their helmet policies. Sorry I can`t be more helpful Enjoy
..........I`ve also been asked to leave the premises when I`ve shown my helmet to the door staff. Even the small claims court judge laughed at the video footage..........bastids
I've been to Wembley by bike, Challenge Cup Finals, but not for a few years now. I've always parked my bike in the Wembley Park tube station car park and chained my helmet to it.
There are a number of ways that could be interpreted, one of which would mean it was entirely correct for the door staff to refuse you entry
So are you saying bombs could not be shaped like helmets?!? Are they refusing women with hand-bags? This requires much more information please @Pierre 66
Cant imagine it would be an issue unless perceived as a weapon. Which is ridiculous. Not like you'll be wearing it!
Mate, this is 2019. Everyone is a suspect in the eternal and glorious war on terror. We almost didn’t get in because my eldest son came straight to the game from uni and had a hold-all, which was (apparently) verboten. So we took the valuables out and son number 2 ran back to the bikes to stash it in his moped’s cubby hole, but even that just caused another problem because son number 1 was now carrying a MacBook, which marked him out as a dangerous radical or offended against a different rule so we retreated to a safe distance out of sight of the SS, I zipped it into the pocket containing my back protector and walked in with it thus concealed. SMH Son number 2 missed the kickoff due to this fuckery. Good seats though.
That's bloody ridiculous! Good tip though for getting flat whizz bang devices past the fascist jobsworths! I reckon you’ll end up in court..... ....doing your job.
L Funny you say that......it was actually a truncated version which omitted the part where the officious security supervisor tried to get the police to stop me taking a photo of his ID badge. Long story short - he did that thing all these little hi-viz Hitlers do where they’re as difficult as possible, not to mention rude to you, before sarcastically wishing you a good evening, “sir”. I won’t complain (not about the bag policy but his attitude), as I’m not the snitching kind, but I wanted him to think I would. Lolz when he told me I wasn’t allowed to take his photo due to “data protection” though, not to mention ironic given that his bosses probably had me on 17 different cameras at the time.
