| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 08:59 - Apr 30 with 800 views | Guthrum |
He might have got away with it if he hadn't got the press involved (sold his story?). |  |
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| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:02 - Apr 30 with 790 views | giant_stow |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 08:59 - Apr 30 by Guthrum |
He might have got away with it if he hadn't got the press involved (sold his story?). |
Yeah he's a plum, but a possible jail sentence for beating their crap security with a toddler in tow... ?! |  |
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| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:03 - Apr 30 with 789 views | Swansea_Blue |
Potentially three years for blagging your way into the VIP section seems steep. No wonder our prisons are full of we’ve got sentencing guidelines like that. But yeah, it pays not to show up the wealthy. Know your place and all that. [Post edited 30 Apr 9:26]
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| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:05 - Apr 30 with 780 views | giant_stow |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:03 - Apr 30 by Swansea_Blue |
Potentially three years for blagging your way into the VIP section seems steep. No wonder our prisons are full of we’ve got sentencing guidelines like that. But yeah, it pays not to show up the wealthy. Know your place and all that. [Post edited 30 Apr 9:26]
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Precisely. They ought to be thanking him | |
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| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:05 - Apr 30 with 775 views | GeoffSentence |
What do we think? Cheeky rogue sticking it to the man or cocky tw@t freeloading?
If it weren't for him going to the papers about it I'd be all for it, but the fact that he did do that makes me think he was just an attention seeker. |  |
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| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:07 - Apr 30 with 765 views | Zx1988 |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:03 - Apr 30 by Swansea_Blue |
Potentially three years for blagging your way into the VIP section seems steep. No wonder our prisons are full of we’ve got sentencing guidelines like that. But yeah, it pays not to show up the wealthy. Know your place and all that. [Post edited 30 Apr 9:26]
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It feels like a potential issue with the inflexibility of the law, and one would hope that the sentencing court will take good account of the context of the offence.
Blagging one's way into a VIP area doesn't feel as if it fits the usual profile of obtaining £21k of services by deception. |  |
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| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:24 - Apr 30 with 713 views | Basuco |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:05 - Apr 30 by giant_stow |
Precisely. They ought to be thanking him |
They should really be going after the security (or lack of) that allowed him entry despite not having a ticket, there should be processes in place to stop this happening that have failed, the lack of proper security could have put celebs at threat. |  | | |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:27 - Apr 30 with 690 views | Swansea_Blue |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:05 - Apr 30 by giant_stow |
Precisely. They ought to be thanking him |
To be fair, they might have caught something off him. Who knows what parasites these plebs carry lol | |
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| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 12:33 - Apr 30 with 498 views | SE1blue |
The real crime here is charging £21,000 for a match ‘experience’. But I guess if people are stupid enough to pay it…
I enjoyed Anne Hathaway sharing how much of a Gooner she is this week. Nothing to do with a potential need for final tickets.
The empty seats in VIP sections before and after kick offs is worse than Man City fans not going to Wembley imho. [Post edited 30 Apr 12:34]
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| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 12:52 - Apr 30 with 459 views | J2BLUE |
This is nothing. For the Euro final people actually posted videos on Youtube of them sneaking it. |  |
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| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 14:52 - Apr 30 with 376 views | MattinLondon |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:05 - Apr 30 by GeoffSentence |
What do we think? Cheeky rogue sticking it to the man or cocky tw@t freeloading?
If it weren't for him going to the papers about it I'd be all for it, but the fact that he did do that makes me think he was just an attention seeker. |
Answering your question - can’t he be both?
Foolish of him to go to the press - I would have thought that whoever is prosecuting wouldn’t really want the bad publicity. Sack the security firm, yes. A strongly worded warning to that chap, yes. But bringing it to court seems daft.
And a possible jail sentence - ludicrous. |  | | |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 15:35 - Apr 30 with 333 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 14:52 - Apr 30 by MattinLondon |
Answering your question - can’t he be both?
Foolish of him to go to the press - I would have thought that whoever is prosecuting wouldn’t really want the bad publicity. Sack the security firm, yes. A strongly worded warning to that chap, yes. But bringing it to court seems daft.
And a possible jail sentence - ludicrous. |
The simple solution is to offer him the chance to pay for the ticket in full.
Or fine him the equivalent amount.
Which would wipe the cocky smile off his face and ensure others didn't copy him.
What would be stupid would be for a "relatively victimless" crime (the seat was, ahem, sitting empty) to end up with the taxpayer paying several multiples of that amount to keep him in prison. | | | |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 17:50 - Apr 30 with 265 views | You_Bloo_Right |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:24 - Apr 30 by Basuco |
They should really be going after the security (or lack of) that allowed him entry despite not having a ticket, there should be processes in place to stop this happening that have failed, the lack of proper security could have put celebs at threat. |
But in fairness to the security firm, he was wearing a suit. |  |
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| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 19:00 - Apr 30 with 206 views | Hugoagogo_Reborn |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 09:24 - Apr 30 by Basuco |
They should really be going after the security (or lack of) that allowed him entry despite not having a ticket, there should be processes in place to stop this happening that have failed, the lack of proper security could have put celebs at threat. |
Having worked in this exact sector, staff can get incredible abuse and hassle from people who do genuinely have a ticket, but they arrived late or some other excuse, etc, etc. It's harsh to blame the security team/hospitality staff.
Imagine, for example, one of Ed Sheeran's guests turns up late, without a ticket. On a busy match day, it is difficult to handle an irate corporate guest when other stuff is going on. Mistakes happen.
This guy is a knob, though. Blagging his way in aside, telling his story to a national tabloid was hubris and idiocy at it's extreme. |  | | |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 19:15 - Apr 30 with 171 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Referring the 2020 Euro final mass disorder incident, when more than 2,000 people stormed their way into Wembley, she said: “The devastating events of that day are why they (the FA) take offences such as this seriously.
Imagine the chaos if 2000 ordinary people did the same and marched into corporate hospitality and ate all the food!
“He was wearing a suit for the specific purpose of looking like he was entitled to these services.”
It is, of course, a ridiculous security failure. The penalty seems, on the face of it, extraordinarily excessive and the comparison the FA are making ridiculous. |  |
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| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 19:18 - Apr 30 with 167 views | Plums |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 19:00 - Apr 30 by Hugoagogo_Reborn |
Having worked in this exact sector, staff can get incredible abuse and hassle from people who do genuinely have a ticket, but they arrived late or some other excuse, etc, etc. It's harsh to blame the security team/hospitality staff.
Imagine, for example, one of Ed Sheeran's guests turns up late, without a ticket. On a busy match day, it is difficult to handle an irate corporate guest when other stuff is going on. Mistakes happen.
This guy is a knob, though. Blagging his way in aside, telling his story to a national tabloid was hubris and idiocy at it's extreme. |
It's a fair point but isn't the exact job to turn away 'Ed Sheerhan's guest without a ticket'? If that's not done - or until Ed or someone supplies the guest with one - then why bother with security? [Post edited 30 Apr 19:19]
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| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 20:05 - Apr 30 with 81 views | MattinLondon |
| If you con The Man, he gets really cross on 19:00 - Apr 30 by Hugoagogo_Reborn |
Having worked in this exact sector, staff can get incredible abuse and hassle from people who do genuinely have a ticket, but they arrived late or some other excuse, etc, etc. It's harsh to blame the security team/hospitality staff.
Imagine, for example, one of Ed Sheeran's guests turns up late, without a ticket. On a busy match day, it is difficult to handle an irate corporate guest when other stuff is going on. Mistakes happen.
This guy is a knob, though. Blagging his way in aside, telling his story to a national tabloid was hubris and idiocy at it's extreme. |
If one of Ed’s guests turned up late without a ticket then they shouldn’t be allowed into the stadium. And if Ed kicks off - what’s the point in security in the first place?
Those hypothetical guests schools take responsibility for forgetting their tickets and not expect to be admitted. | | | |
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