What's The Big Deal About Being Patted Down At A Football Game?

Question

Okay, so the high school teacher is upset and is crying over his 4th Amendment and probable cause. Well, the cause stated is 9/11 and the safety of those attending the event.

Is a football game so much different than a rock concert. Oh, yeah, pat down those attending rock concerts, they might have cameras or are dope smoking fiends. Certainly, no dope smokers watch or attend football games. Of course, they also serve beer at football games and team rivally can get heated.

So what is all the fuss about being patted down, a little inconvience that I have been living with going to concerts for the last 30 some years.

Answer 1

Don't be deceived, pat downs at sporting events and concerts are not about finding weapons. Its looking for personal beverages that may take away from the profits that the stadium will make by selling $7 pints of warm Budweiser.

If they were serious about security they would have metal detectors. They cost about $2000 each and can scan people for weapons a lot faster than a pat down. Even with the sensitivity adjusted so it wouldn't false alarm on belt buckles and zippers on jackets it would pick up a gun.

Personally I don't mind the searches because i have to try not to laugh that they always manage to miss my 200ml rum that I bring to the stadium.

Answer 2

It is nothing more than a publicity stunt being pulled by an insecure fool who wants to be in the spotlight. In a public venue, such as a football game, the proprietors of the venue have every right to ensure the safety of others attending the event. Also, a simple "pat down" is hardly intrusive. If they were conducting cavity searches, that's another thing.

This guy needs to find something else to do with his summers off and find other outlets for his anger and insecurity....

Answer 3

How about getting patted down before you go into work or before you go to church. A police state has to start somewhere and if you let them they get away with these little things eventually you will have no control of your life. Fascism always starts small and then it bites you *** off before you know it.
P.S.
When the Majority of people start think like you that when you know that they can accomplish a Fascist country. We are only protect by 2 documents and once they start to erode that is the end of it. Be apart of the solution not the problem.

Answer 4

I am very pro-freedom and against any infringement on civil liberties but let's face it, sporting events are HUGE terrorist targets and I feel safer knowing that there is a check, no matter how brief it is. It's not like this is something new that was put into the patriot act as a result of 9/11. These kinds of checks have been made at major events for decades now.

Answer 5

Seriously that teacher is a moron. When he started crying he lost any credibilty he could have brought to the issue. If he had come out and said something like I object to the pat down of everyone in attendance but support racial profiling (example- young muslim men)I would have been all for it. I am sick of the political correctness in the USA

Answer 6

I think it's a big deal because it sets a pecedent. Once they start with football games where do you draw the line. Could they come into your home to search you, without cause. It's a slippery slope and just another instance of our "inaliable rights" being eroded by government.

Answer 7

It's perfectly legitimate. The idiot could have a weapon, or other junk that can harm people. You're not supposedtobring glass bottles into stadiums. What if he has some? THAT'S why he was patted down, not to infringe on his constitutional rights

Answer 8

Big Brother is watching you. How about little cameras everywhere - who cares, you don't anything wrong, so you have nothing to fear.

How about patting people down before they enter a movie theater ? A school ? My house ?