Glass bottles banned at lemans, all campsites.

[dredgey]

xllifts said:

Wrong they are searching your cars and bags! With CRS official police overseeing! We know were here on TL site, sorry guys don't know why but they are NOT allowing any bottled beer in campsite here.
Have no idea why! Rumour is there was a fracas here with Gp fans but as I say we don't know why.

Sorry, meant are they going to search you when everybody arrives Thursday/Friday. I can't see them having enough resources?....

Edited by dredgey on Tuesday 7th June 14:52

[mrmr96]

dredgey said:

Sorry meant are they going to search you when the event everybody arrive Thursday/Friday. I can't see them having enough resources?....

I guess one option would be to ask you straight if you have any. If you say yes, then you're made to get rid before entry. If you say no then they let you in, BUT have random 'honesty checking' for people who said no but lied, and deny entry to them. The risk of lying and being found out on a random check might promote honesty..

..it /might/!!

[Irish]

Tyre Smoke said:

We're digging three tunnels into/out of Houx. Thought Tom, Dick and Harry might be too corny, so have gone with Blackthorn, Weston and Strongbow.

We'm be from the west country see?

I'll be on tunnel four - Magners.

[Tyre Smoke]

anonymous said:

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You can in Devon, Thatchers Gold, Blackthorn, Strongbow, you name it. All available in 2ltr bottles. Tesco sometimes do them on a liver damaging 2 for £5 deal too.

If you really want park bench cider then Frosty Jacks in a 3ltr bottle from my local corner shop for £4





Arrrrrrr!

[Tyre Smoke]

Irish said:

I'll be on tunnel four - Magners.

Fizzy piss from Clonmel!!

[VladD]

Tyre Smoke said:

anonymous said:

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You can in Devon, Thatchers Gold, Blackthorn, Strongbow, you name it. All available in 2ltr bottles. Tesco sometimes do them on a liver damaging 2 for £5 deal too.

If you really want park bench cider then Frosty Jacks in a 3ltr bottle from my local corner shop for £4





Arrrrrrr!

I'd suggest you pop up to Wiscombe and buy some Suicider. Supposed to be quite nice and is 8%.

[dredgey]

mrmr96 said:

I guess one option would be to ask you straight if you have any. If you say yes, then you're made to get rid before entry. If you say no then they let you in, BUT have random 'honesty checking' for people who said no but lied, and deny entry to them. The risk of lying and being found out on a random check might promote honesty..

..it /might/!!

think I may have been drunk when I typed that last message! guess you have a point. The chap who has booked us into Airtrack works for them so I'm hoping we'll be waved in.

I see a marketing oppotunity here; 'Festival Friendly' beer packs (plastic bottled beer). Its a whole new product!

[-Lummox-]

dredgey said:

think I may have been drunk when I typed that last message! guess you have a point. The chap who has booked us into Airtrack works for them so I'm hoping we'll be waved in.

I see a marketing oppotunity here; 'Festival Friendly' beer packs (plastic bottled beer). Its a whole new product!

You can get Tuborg in plastic bottles that look like they're glass.

[Rs2oo]

anonymous said:

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You are right, but it is the organisers responsibility to clear it up and should put skips out for used bottles etc, they make a fortune this week but dont provide enough man-power to clean up during the week or enough electric points in Houx or anywhere near enough decent toilets and showers. They have created this event and live well off it so they should organise things better ie. more bottle pickers.

[-Lummox-]

Let's not descend into an argument here. The point we're all getting at I'm sure is that we like beer and we don't like to be mugged off when it comes to getting hold of the beer at a fair price.

If the ACO or the campsite owners want to ban glass then that's their call, but they can't expect people to be happy about it if they are clearly profiteering and labelling it as health and safety.

But as others have said, you can still play them at their own game. Buy your drinks on the way down, in cans/boxes/plastic bottles, and avoid the overpriced on-site beer stalls so they don't make a ton of money off it and don't bother trying to rip people off next year and subsequent years to follow.

That's a far more effective approach than voicing/venting your anger and frustration at the guys on the campsite entrances who are just following orders passed down to them. They have no decision making power here.

You'll get a better response hitting the corporate types in their profit margins than you will clouting the gate staff for following the instructions of their employers.

[VladD]

-Lummox- said:

If the ACO or the campsite owners want to ban glass then that's their call, but they can't expect people to be happy about it if they are clearly profiteering and labelling it as health and safety.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but there is always the possiblity that they're fed up with having to clear up tonnes of broken glass because lazy people can't be bothered to go and find a bin.

[dredgey]

Yeah I can't help but feel that this wouldn't be something they feel they'd need to tackle if more people used bins... Perhaps there aren't enough bins/bin collections? But then perhaps the types of people who feel the need to smash bottles aren't the type to consider putting things in bins....

[subaqua]

VladD said:

I'm not disagreeing with you, but there is always the possiblity that they're fed up with having to clear up tonnes of broken glass because lazy people can't be bothered to go and find a bin.

Or take some bin bags with them.... thanks for the reminder

[Jizz Monkey]

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[Save Ferris]

hyper jay said:

Any one on Karting nord tell us what the situation there is please
ta

My mate who arrived on KN this afternoon said they had no problems getting in with their Beer

[Gingerbread Man]

Save Ferris said:

hyper jay said:

Any one on Karting nord tell us what the situation there is please
ta

My mate who arrived on KN this afternoon said they had no problems getting in with their Beer

Woooooooooo

Did they declare it though?

[CardShark]

I'll be taking in a bottle of spirits of sorts when I get to MB tomorrow, easy to hide in a campervan should we get stopped, will see what's going on after with regards to a beer run on Thursday.
There's no way my fellow Le Mans travellers and I aren't going to get a little sloshed, even if it is just within the campsite grounds!

[Stuart]

Of course the danger with banning all alcohol from Le Mans is that we brits might wake up to the fact that the actual racing bit is a teensy bit boring actually, and not bother going again...

[JamieBeeston]

Stuart said:

Of course the danger with banning all alcohol from Le Mans is that we brits might wake up to the fact that the actual racing bit is a teensy bit boring actually, and not bother going again...

We're talking about Le Mans, no need to involve racing!

[Save Ferris]

Gingerbread Man said:

Woooooooooo

Did they declare it though?

He said it was straight in, as per usual, no one there asking or checking. Yaaay!!