Sneaking Into The Park

On Tuesday As I Was Exiting The Park From The Resort Gate Around 3 I Noticed A teenage kid no older that 16 or 17 Go In With His Pass Got A Stamp And Came Right Back Out. I Thought This Was Strange So I Trailed Behind Him He Ran To His Car Where About 4 of His Friends Were. There I Saw Him Take Out A Bottle Of Axe Body Spray Then Transfer The Stamp To All Of His Friends And Then They All Went In. At This Point I Was Intrugued And
Followed Them And They All Made It In. Have Any Of You Ever Done This Or Seen It?

If I saw anything like that, I'd report it to the park.

All the stamps have the 'void' on them in reverse, so if they are transferred they say VOID.

XS NightClub said:

All the stamps have the 'void' on them in reverse, so if they are transferred they say VOID.

Thats what I was thinking and they would be backwards, but you know how some of the gate attendants are they dont really look close sometimes. You think someone would be suspicious of him turning right around and exiting to get a stamp.

Call me Shirley, but how does Axe body spray fit into this little game?

Most of my stamps have had too much ink on them where hardly anything is legible, so I can see how they can get away with it

Well now you know why parking just went up.

Apparently they used it as a solvent to transfer the ink.

As for entering, getting a hand stamp, and leaving...that's my water park (or water ride session) tactic. That lets me go back out to the car and dump my admission media so that it isn't lost/damaged/destroyed in the water.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I know when we were there for five days over the holiday we had to use someone's (Pete's?) advice to get the stamp off each night with sunscreen.

Chris

....or you just flash your old employee badge since they haven't changed much over the years...They are supposed to scan the tags as you come in, but quite often if they see the badge, they just wave you through.

Variants of this scheme have been used for decades. Security at amusement parks is well-aware.

Sure, some make it in. Those who are caught face a ban from the park and possible criminal charges for fraud & theft of services. Quite the risk for a free admission.

Confession: I shamefully admit that as a teen in the 1970's with little or no money, my friends & I did similar stupid stuff to gain entrance to "unaffordable" places. I do not condone what we did or what these kids at CP did as it is absolutely wrong, immoral, unlawful. So, from the files of "Do as I say, not as I did....."

For Indians games at Municipal Stadium at gate A there was an elevator before you reached the ticket takers. We hopped on the elevator to a level that opened into a banquet room that was empty & dark as it was never used for a mid-week game attended by 3,000 or so. Walk through to a door that let out in the upper deck concourse, sit wherever you wanted, watch them lose. Another entry point was around back on the north side where there was a service entrance with a dumpster area. Slip in along side of dumpster past inattentive guard. The sad thing is ticket to the bleachers at that time were .50 cents.

For Browns games, my friends' dad Mr. K and his brother Uncle Bones had season tickets. He new a ticket taker at the turnstile. We would cut paper into the shape of a ticket for each of us 4 boys, he would hand his friend the stack of "tickets" and we were in. Back then, there were no bar codes & other security measures.

At Richfield Coliseum we snuck into the locker room area a few times. At the upper ring just below the loges there was a service elevator that we boarded and took down to the lower level, no questions asked. Once, at an Aerosmith concert we were in the dressing room face to face with Joe Perry & Steven Tyler. At a Cavs game I stood there and shook hands with Moses Malone.

At the very first Grand Prix of Cleveland we slipped a Security guard $5.00 each for entry & ended up in the winners circle near Bobby Rahal.

I hope my 17 year old son does not read this.

We used to go in a road trip to Pittsburgh for the Browns away game at Three Rivers Stadium. The games were always sold out but we knew this guy who hung out at the sports bar at the Hilton. Slipped him $30 each and he called one of his cronies who worked as a "security" officer in the Stadium. The instructions were to stand by a specific garage door in 30 minutes. The security officer would raise the door about two feet, we crawled under and we were in. Worked great for years. We also snuck in our own booze.

Ditto on the booze. A six-pack of tall Rolling Rocks in the back waist worked well even if you had to open your jacket. Then you were all set for the game & didn't have to bother that vendor with the watered down 3.2 beer spilling out the plastic covered cups. "BEEEEEEEERRRR HEEEEEEEERE"

Back in the 1980s, I remember the old beach entrance gate right about where the Lakeside Pavilion entrance inside the park is today. I noticed sometimes there was no attendants at the gate during the last hour or so of operation. Sometimes our family would stay at Camper Village, arriving in the evening before a full day at the park, and some of us would walk right through that gate.

Heh. Seems that good behavior will rarely net you stories and/or experiences worth telling your kids about someday. XD

^ Any thing that makes for a good story usually starts with "Hold my beer" not "Let me finish my salad first"...

^^what's amusing is having your parent tell you to behave while they are telling you stories of all the stuff they did that their parents never knew about.

It's An Absolute Shame That People Try These Crazy Things To Steal And Get Free Admission.

By The Way Why Do You Type Like This?

I remember back in the nineties there was a fence over by corkscrew and by gold dorms and there was a gap between fences and you could enter the park that way unknown.

Had a season pass so it didn't benefit me.

Agree it's a shame people try to get free admission.