To add insult to injury

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  1. John Peachy

    John Peachy Well-Known Member

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    My Mum had a flask of coffee taken off her at a match in 1979 by South Yorkshire Police... She at the time was in her mid 40's & was attending with my Dad & me & my brother who were 7 & 14. She never came to a match again.

    Being treated like sh!te at football matches is part of the "Match Day Experience"...
     
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  2. John Peachy

    John Peachy Well-Known Member

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    I would say anyone attending a Barnsley match could contemplate a similar alternative afternoon's fun...

    2-3 hurried pints in the pub, then 45 minutes sitting in a bath tub of lukewarm piss , followed by another pie & a pint & then another 45 minutes sitting in a bath tub of slightly cooler piss, then going for another 3 pints.

    This should be followed by going on the "piss bathers" message board & either moaning about the poor quality of p!ss provided this week, or going over the top about how great the froth on the top was...
     
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  3. dreamboy3000

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    Stewards have strict rules to adhere to. They can't deal with someone based on their sex, age or who they turn up at the turnstile with. Everyone has to be treated exactly the same to avoid accusations of favouritism.
     
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  4. Loko the Tyke

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    I'm no legal eagle either, but I imagine that because we all know deep down that all grounds have a no glass policy, that if you turn up with glass you have the choice of leaving it at entry or putting it somewhere e.g. back at your car

    What the stewards could do if they were being hospitable, is offer to look after the item for you (realising you're not a threat and the item has been brought in error) and offer to give you it after the game, but they're not obliged to do that really.
     
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    All this over a bottle of perfume....it stinks!

    :p
     
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    Almost had my camera confiscated at West Brom some years ago - I asked for a receipt from the steward - he gave me the camera back!
     
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    They can't confiscate anything .just refuse you entry with said item.although a camera is a bit extreme however that rule is e forced in some theatres etc.
     
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    I was actually in the ground taking picture of young son just before kick-off when steward came over.
     
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    Not after an argument, I used to be a steward he could have asked you to leave.extreme I know but he could you are not obliged to hand over the camera he was giving you an option he may have been instructed to approach you by the officials in the control box its not always the stewards decision.
     
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    Fair enough, the rule is the rule, but surely you should get it back after the game, otherwise it's just theft isn't it? Impossible at Heathrow airport with millions of travellers leaving for all over the world, coming back who knows when or not at all, but not that difficult at the Keepmoat with a few thousand folk going in and coming back out a couple of hours later.
     
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    Absolutely. But as I said in another post that would be exercising good hospitality as oppose to an obligation. It isn't theft as you're just being told you can't take it in? What you do with it after that is a bit difficult as you can't just leave it, so you end up handing it over.

    I've had stewards/bouncers look after things before until after the game/event. The most bizarre being the metal tin that my Real Madrid shirt came in at the Bernabeau (that I bought from the club shop ten minutes before entering the ground). Despite not speaking great English (or me great Spanish), the steward pointed to where he would be and my tin would be after the game.
     
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    It happens at other places apart from football...

    Last festival I went to there was a box of perfume bottles lined up... half had been decanted for vodka...
     
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    You could have used it to Chanel your frustrations.
     
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    As a man - Why would anybody need to take perfume into a match????
     
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    As a woman, I don't need to take perfume into a match. I don't need to take a bag in usually. Just cash and tickets. I do have a small handbag usually now though, as I am usually driving - so I have keys, and reading glasses, and whatever else the kids chuck my way. It just happens that in that bag there is a small bottle of perfume.
    As people who know me will confirm, I'm not the sort of person to cart around unnecessary amounts of make up, and all that nonsense.

    In fact, I saw [MENTION=6673]Hicksy[/MENTION] at the game, and his Man bag was three times the size of my little handbag.
     
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    Update

    Had a very quick response from Donny, explaining the policy etc.

    They suggested that I had been offered the chance to collect the items after the game, and that I refused, choosing to hide my items in some bushes nearby.


    I think they mixed me up with someone else, because that most definitely was not an option offered to me.

    Wish I'd have have thought of the bushes thing though.
     
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    Re: Update

    I think it was when you went dogging after the match.
     
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    Re: Update

    And so what about I-phones and the like?
     
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    That is terrible. Can I assume you also had a mobile phone, tin of hairspray and countless other irrelevant items in your bag which could also have been launched at someone. OK it was in a glass bottle but FFS where is the common sense when it is required. Wonder if you could have asked for a receipt so as to collect it after the game.
     
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    Re: Update

    Sprung. Damn.
     
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