What's your best concert smuggling trick?

[Don Cotyle]

Back in the late 60s and early 70s you could walk into a concert with just about anything! But back in the mid to late 70's they started the searches for dope and alcohol.

I'd always bring a pint or 2 of booze for my friends that I tucked down my boots, smoke was fairly easy to hide. BUT our best smuggling technique was with my good friend Bill,he lost his right arm in Nam. I used to make bambo bongs cut from a neighbors patch and Bill would strap it to his artificial limb. It always got in!!! I still rember one time a guard grabbed his arm and yelled what you got there, Bill reached up and almost snaped the guards nose with his metal hooks, snap snap snap! The poor guy turned red and let him go in!
We still laugh about that one!!! We'd always get asked how the hell did you get that in here???

So what were-are some of ya'lls methods???

Don

 

[junkwerks]

Depends on the concert and the level of security. Thrash metal and hardcore shows usually have higher security, while classic rock and other genres are a bit more lax. My suggestion would be the tried-and-true "burn one in the parking lot during the opening act" if it is an indoor show. Outdoor shows offer a bit more freedom. One thing that works like a charm is to remove the tobacco from a pack of cigarettes and load it with bud, then toss it back in the pack. When you want to smoke, just find the designated smoking area and hit it quick. By the time anyone thinks they smell dope, you're already done. They also make one-hitters that look like cigarettes. "Tobacco Tasters" I believe is what they're called. Ceramic, cigarette looking dugouts that are great.

Or you could always cook it into a fine baked good and eat it before entry, if you're looking for the long, slow high.

Good luck!

 

[Kinderfeld]

It still is pretty easy to get THOSE kind of things in. The hard objects are weapons (I take in case somenthing goes wrong, its late, poeple are drunk etc).

However for 'other objects' easy way is to buy some nice looking pants with pockets all over them....they aren't going to search your 100 pockets all around your groin area lol...or I did use my boot for a flask as well real easy.

The KEY to sneaking in now days is to NOT look sucpicious. I find that officials will go after suspicious poeple before someone in a suit sets off an alarm "Go on through, dun worry bout it "....

 

[GeorgeSmiley]

Prison Pocket.

 

[ChaosCatalunya]

Prison Pocket.

Make sure it is well wrapped and lubed, and all the nasty stick bits are well trimmed if you don't want to make the mistakes I did ....

 

[trouble]

I always purchase several extra tickets to the show and invite several people that I dont really like and load them down with goodies. One or more of them always make it in.




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[SomeGuy]

They used to have a regular outdoor festival 3-4 times a year in our area and it was a friggin cop fest trying to get in. The locals knew us and there was no way in hell we were getting in without getting searched.
Little did they know that we always went out thursday night and stashed our goodies on site and retrieved the leftovers on monday. Those guys had a HELL of a time cause they knew we were stoners but couldn't find squat on us. We'd also agree to carry for our group but never told anyone how we were doing it.
They would pull us out of line and search every inch of the van. Underneath, in the air cleaner, under the dash, you name it. They would even grab crotch they were so convinced we were holding. Plus the 10-20 cars directly behind us would scoot by cause they were busy with us.

After awhile you could just see the hatred on their faces when we pulled up. It was all fun and games to us.

 

[Patsheba]

Hahahaha!

The old boot or sock trick always worked for pipes. I never tried to smuggle in a flask.

Most of what I was doing was small enough not to find, if they looked, or if I had any left, or sometimes I was looking to buy something there.

Nowadays I just bring a couple dobes for the smoking area, maybe some shrooms, but eat those before I go in. Hate that some places don't even have a smoking area anymore. Where you supposed to smoke your reefer?

Not this tour, but last Van Halen tour, met chick in bathroom bitching about all the pot smoke by her, she might be drug tested everyday at work and.blah.blah.....wanted to say, well, where you at? We had good box seats and NOBODY was smoking anything near there. We went out to the bar/patio to grab a few hits.

Too old to do festivals. Last few we attended we just went a few days, stayed in a nearby motels anyways, with shower, bed, air conditioning...real wimps now.

 

[lumberjack_ian]

tbh, the only "concerts" i go to are punk shows at this little anarchy hangout... the dope smoking goes on on the roof... just not in plain sight to avoid any passing po-pos

 

[OldPathBluSky]

There's a smoke shop I've been to that sells glass blown pipes that are rings and bracelets, but what I've done with friends is stuff it in a cigarette and then just take out the filter

 

[Guest]

What I do is take some water cured bud and water hash and one of those cigarette machines that uses cigarette tubes to make cigarettes that are exactly like the shop-bought ones and make a load of joints that look like normal cigarettes, stick em in a normal cigarette packet and walk in with them in your pocket or even better, girlfriend's handbag! lol

I'll never forget going to an Ozric Tentacles gig years ago with a bag of 40 hash brownies and 40 of those cigarettes. What a night, I handed out all the brownies, had 6 myself, foolishly (got the munchies) and there were some mashed-up hippies at that gig, I can tell ya! The cigarettes were water cured outdoor Durban Poison with a sprinkle of water hash, the water curing removes the smell, and I add a little bit of cigarette tobacco so they smell pretty much like a normal cigarette. Smoke it fairly quick and make sure there isn't a security bloke stood next to ya and you get away with it. I threw a full pack of 20 to Tom Araya at a Slayer gig in Leeds years ago and he pocketed them after sniffing the box. I bet Slayer enjoyed those!

 

[HeadyPete]

hoop it

 

[Refudean]

In the latter 70's,really early 80's, where I went to concerts you had to be sort've discreet going in,but once in and the concert started you could smoke yourself silly without the cops,who might even be nearby,bothering you.I used to sneak joints in inside one of those plastic cigar holders.Never will forget when I went to see Styx.As the lights went down,their first song was "Light up." We did.You could see plumes of smoke rising from the crowd!Them were the days!

 

[bakelite]

Put a 1/2 pint right on top of your package inside your underwear. When they pat you down they never touch your crotch directly, at least they never did with me.

 

[Backwoods Bud]

In the latter 70's,really early 80's, where I went to concerts you had to be sort've discreet going in,but once in and the concert started you could smoke yourself silly without the cops,who might even be nearby,bothering you.I used to sneak joints in inside one of those plastic cigar holders.Never will forget when I went to see Styx.As the lights went down,their first song was "Light up." We did.You could see plumes of smoke rising from the crowd!Them were the days!

I smoked out many security people and strangers at shows back then.

I always brought my whiskey in a leather boda bag. No problem as they are looking for bottles. Usually crotched the herb just prior to passing through the ticket gate. Never had a problem. Once inside it was PARTY ON!!!

 

[ConceptOfSleep]

Here is a little trick that I use, that always works for me.

I used to roll my own ciggarettes, well roll isnt actually the right term. I would buy these empty ciggarette tubes.(prerolled with a filter), and a bag of tobacco, and I had this machine that you filled with tobacco, put the tube on the end and it basically loaded the ciggarette with tobacco.

So basically when I was rolling ciggarettes for the concert, I would take about 3-4 grams, grind it up with the space case and pack the machine full of nugs instead of tobbacco. Id just put them all in a ciggarette pack, filter side up, with 3-4 of them actually filled with about a gram each. Anytime a security guard opened my pack at the gate, they would open it up, look around a the bottom for pills or a joint I guess, then close it back up. All filters look like normal cigs so you are good.

When it comes time to smoke, you rip the filter off, twist the end and light up. some shake may pull through at first, but the stealth factor more than makes up for it!

Even though I dont roll my own cigs anymore, and I am trying to quit altogether, I still have the machine around for just this purpose.

 

[Don Cotyle]

Geting some great replies, keep em comeing!! A new trick I leared was to have your Lady sew a false seam near the groin area of a pair of black jeans (less noticable on black) held in place with velcro. It'll hold a few jays of good smoke laced with keif!!!

 

[bounty29]

I've only brought stuff in once, I just rolled up a joint, wrapped it up, wore briefs, and stuck it in there. They'd really have to be feeling around down there to find it, and as mentioned before, they didn't cop a feel or anything so it wasn't even close. I didn't mention to my gf til after we were in because she probably would've started acting all suspicious if she knew.

 

[devilsharvest]

Tape the sack of bud to your nuts.

 

[vta]

I always crotch a bottle of Jack then I put a few joints in the back of a NEW pack of smokes. Worked just the other nite for Tom Petty