The WACA are that strict on what you can bring in that is in unbelievable.
For example water bottles HAVE to be SEALED to be able to get into the ground!! Yes maybe people could smuggle booze in these water bottles but most are clear aren't they! I guess just trying to slug us $4.50 for a 600ml bottle of water!
I personally have had a few problems at the WACA with security including:
-Last week at the WACA (Big bash game) i took a Backyard bucket to wear and security told me that it is a safety risk and that i might not get into the ground. He called the manager and after 5 minutes of discussion i got it in
It's just a piece of cardboard for god sake!
- At the Aus v WI's test last year we took in a small drink flask (the blue and white one no more that 20cm tall), got it through security (they saw it) and at around 1pm a bunch of security guys came down and asked us how we smuggled it in. We tried to explain to them that we got it through their own security but they said we smuggled it in and confiscated off us for the whole day..
- The next day we brought an even smaller one in (the day before they said it was fine to take a smaller one) and they stopped us at the gate and thought we had alcohol in it (at the time we were 14 yo kids!!), had a 10 minute convo with the manager and then smelt it.. just water!!
- The Year before that my mate took some decent Kookaburra balls (yes it is not allowed but people still do) and they said we could put them in the 'cloaking' office and get them back at the end of the day. So after the days play we rock up to find them stolen How did this happen with actual security guards 'guarding' the office?
- In 05' another mate took an full-size autograph bat (not the small ones but the full-size ones) which had a few auto's on it.. Again everybody else got theirs in somehow but not us, and again the cloaking office was used to store it. So again we rock up and it's not there.. Again we ask questions!
- Last Year my brother and he's friend were getting bored (he was 9 at the time) from watching the cricket so they started throwing a rolled- up sock backwards and forth the length of no more than a metre for about 5 minutes. Shortly after they started a security guard came over and asked him where he put the ball.. My mum turned around and realised that he was talking to my 9 y.o brother and said went off at him
Anyway apparently one of the guards on the seats who sit on the boundaries saw them playing with a 'ball' when it was only a sock.
Have you guys had any problems?
For example water bottles HAVE to be SEALED to be able to get into the ground!! Yes maybe people could smuggle booze in these water bottles but most are clear aren't they! I guess just trying to slug us $4.50 for a 600ml bottle of water!
I personally have had a few problems at the WACA with security including:
-Last week at the WACA (Big bash game) i took a Backyard bucket to wear and security told me that it is a safety risk and that i might not get into the ground. He called the manager and after 5 minutes of discussion i got it in
It's just a piece of cardboard for god sake!- At the Aus v WI's test last year we took in a small drink flask (the blue and white one no more that 20cm tall), got it through security (they saw it) and at around 1pm a bunch of security guys came down and asked us how we smuggled it in. We tried to explain to them that we got it through their own security but they said we smuggled it in and confiscated off us for the whole day..
- The next day we brought an even smaller one in (the day before they said it was fine to take a smaller one) and they stopped us at the gate and thought we had alcohol in it (at the time we were 14 yo kids!!), had a 10 minute convo with the manager and then smelt it.. just water!!
- The Year before that my mate took some decent Kookaburra balls (yes it is not allowed but people still do) and they said we could put them in the 'cloaking' office and get them back at the end of the day. So after the days play we rock up to find them stolen
How did this happen with actual security guards 'guarding' the office?- In 05' another mate took an full-size autograph bat (not the small ones but the full-size ones) which had a few auto's on it.. Again everybody else got theirs in somehow but not us, and again the cloaking office was used to store it. So again we rock up and it's not there.. Again we ask questions!
- Last Year my brother and he's friend were getting bored (he was 9 at the time) from watching the cricket so they started throwing a rolled- up sock backwards and forth the length of no more than a metre for about 5 minutes. Shortly after they started a security guard came over and asked him where he put the ball.. My mum turned around and realised that he was talking to my 9 y.o brother and said went off at him
Anyway apparently one of the guards on the seats who sit on the boundaries saw them playing with a 'ball' when it was only a sock.Have you guys had any problems?
Also love it how pathetic the security are..
