[Steve W]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blair

If no one knows, no one cares.

I've never seen anyone have food or drink confiscated and then be kicked out of an event. Ever, not just in FIRST. Regardless, some people will forget food or drink, or be pressed for time and buy from vendors. If for some reason this doesn't happen, arenas will have to enforce their rules. It's a private enterprise, and sometimes it really sucks to think that their rules can be enforced simply by personal guilt. Your guilt fuels their company's pfofit to an extent. My opinion, like any other business, let them work for what they want.

If an arena tells me that I can only skip while inside, no walking, they had better have somebody breathing down my neck to keep me from walking.

It's just like advertising. They have to work to attract me- I don't attend everything someone tells me to go to out of guilt for the event. Capitalism means working or manipulating people to give you their money. Make them work.

I have been at events where the boxes are checked when you enter. I myself has had to send people back to their cars with food and drink. Most people when asked have not put up much of a fight and obey the rules.