...visitors to one of Britain’s most popular attractions are reacting with outrage at being searched for sandwiches at the gate and told they will have eat them outside or be turned away.Their business, their rules.
Instead, families who have paid upwards of £80 to visit Blackpool Pleasure Beach are told they can only consume food and drink bought inside the park complex.
Either go somewhere else (Alton Towers, Legoland Windsor and London Zoo don't do this) or use that great British obstreperousness not to complain to the media, but to play 'em at their own game:
A spokesman said: ‘Due to the intensity of rides and attractions within the 42 acre site, there is limited space, and so a dedicated picnic area has been created adjacent to the entrance of Pleasure Beach.There you go! Claim to be diabetic/wheat intolerant! What are they going to do, ask for a doctor's certificate?
‘Allowances are made for guests with special dietary requirements...
By what legal power, under which Act & Section of that power do staff at Blackpool Pleasure Beach have to "search" anyone ? (British Airports, for example, have the power granted by the Aviation Security Act)
ReplyDelete"There you go! Claim to be diabetic/wheat intolerant! What are they going to do, ask for a doctor's certificate" ?
Better yet .. claim to be Mooselimb .. and then watch 'em scuttle for cover ..
"Claim to be diabetic/wheat intolerant! What are they going to do, ask for a doctor's certificate?"
ReplyDelete..or just write "Handled By A SMOKER" on the greaseproof paper.
*has visions of a HAZMAT team being called in to dispose of this toxic 'Special Waste'*
Or just stay away in droves.
ReplyDeleteThe Weasel and I went to the cinema recently - a 15-20 screen multiplex which imposes similar rules and has the audacity to charge its teenager Rosa Klebbs to peer into people's bags to see if they have a contraband packet of Maltesers or a loaded tube or Rolos.
Naturally, their alternative offerings are £5 ice creams and bags of popcorn brought to you complete with a mortgage from the Woolwich.
Entry prices are in the region of 20-something quid for two mustelids - Freudian forgetfulness set-in and I didn't note the exact price.
And, of course, the place was empty. So empty that they had shut the box office and were selling tickets from the also customerless ice cream stall.
In the cinema shoe-box itself were just the Weasel and myself and one other couple, way at the back.
On the way out, one of the teenage warders told us it was so quiet that on a few occasions lately they have shut the place and gone home early.
Thus perish all such swindlers sooner or later. Now the money has run out and people have been told they can no longer live off what they can borrow, the licenses to print money have been withdrawn and places like this cinema, Blackpool 'pleasure' (sic) beach and their like will perish, along with the 'I wanted to take the family to the wildlife park but it was £150' shakedown artists and cut-purses who flourished in Mr Brown's fantasy paradise.
Goodbye and good riddance to the lot of them.
Claim to have Tourette's Syndrome and tell 'em to fuck off. The perfect crime.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who voluntarily visits Blackpool needs certifying anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe pearl of the north it ain't. Pile More like.
I assume that very few of those who have 'applied for' tickets for the Olympics actually READ the 7300 word "Terms and Conditions" they have agreed to ?
ReplyDelete19.1 Personal property
19.1.2 LOCOG has the exclusive right to determine what objects may be brought into a Venue by a Ticket Holder. LOCOG will not store confiscated and/or unauthorised material at a Venue and a Ticket Holder will have no right for the item to be returned.
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19.2.3 The following is a non-exhaustive list of restricted items which may not be taken into a Venue (LOCOG reserves the right to amend this list, generally, or in respect of any Venue or Session): food (save for baby food), alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages (save for baby milk and other valid medical reasons), liquids in containers of greater than 100ml in size, ….&c &c &c...
http://www.tickets.london2012.com/purchaseterms.html
"By what legal power, under which Act & Section of that power do staff at Blackpool Pleasure Beach have to "search" anyone ?"
ReplyDeletePresumably they can't insist on searching people, but they CAN make it a condition of entry. No search, no admission.
"...has the audacity to charge its teenager Rosa Klebbs to peer into people's bags to see if they have a contraband packet of Maltesers or a loaded tube or Rolos."
Good grief!
"I assume that very few of those who have 'applied for' tickets for the Olympics actually READ the 7300 word "Terms and Conditions" they have agreed to ?"
About as many as ever read the EULA before loading a video game, I suspect... ;)