Read the ticket. All tickets for sporting events, concerts etc. have boilerplate stating you may be refused entry for any reason the management decides. Almost every concert I have been to in the past 25 years pats down people to ensure nobody is bringing in contraband. In fact police officers never do the pat down, and most municipalities won't let their officers do the search because of liabilities unique to Govt agents. Although in the Chicago case there is some question because the City owns Soldier Field.
The judge is saying random searches are unconstitutional. I agree. The searches should be targeted at middle eastern men, where there's reasonable suspicion they might be carrying bombs. This war is against middle eastern men. Searching grannies and pregnant women wastes time and manpower. It's PC BS.
Allow our security people to do their job and use their instincts to flush out terrorists.
So what happens when a businessperson attending an event is told they'll have to surrender their expensive Montblanc Meisterstuck fountainpen because it could be used as a dagger?
I know of an instance where a coworker wasn't permitted entry to an Eric Clapton/Cream concert at Madison Square Garden because his laptop computer AC adapter could be "swung" as a weapon. Nevermind that he was still dressed in a nice suit, with clients, had I.D., and it was a work computer with his name and employee# affixed to it!
Please don't become a bootlicker in the name of safety. The various rules that can be applied at a whim by public and private locations will make normal life increasingly difficult for reasonable people.
~ Blue Jays ~
"- Almost every concert I have been to in the past 25 years pats down people to ensure nobody is bringing in contraband."
makes me wonder how good a job they've done at Dead concerts.
I've been to concerts where there were pat-downs. If you go to Detroit, you might get worked over by the X-Men. They seemed to be quite angry. At other places, it was just "show me what you have in your pockets" or a wave through. At other places, they didn't care to do anything more than just take your ticket. I could have carried a gun into some of the places I've seen concerts. These were hard rock/metal concerts.