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I was wondering about this question a long time. Does anyone know how the security staff at the Cat Football Games always busts people with booze that they sneak in? Do they have spotters looking through binoculars or something? I was sitting in the student section during the Cal Poly game last year and I saw the security guys bust 5-6 different people. How do they see all the people that sneak booze in?

No idea, the bino trick usually works, I don't try and sneak anything in though, I just get good and buzzed before kickoff.

A lot of the students don't use much discretion, so it doesn't require a super sleuth to nab them.

I follow CelticCats game plan, but on a rare occassion particlularly if it's a cold, wintry day a little nip of cold medicine aka "Shnapps" kinda hits the spot.

Yes, the do use a spotter that are in one of the boxes on the alumni side and glass the student side for anyone sneaking a sip. I know a couple guys that work security and they have said the spotter catches them, then communicates by radio to guide the security guys to the culprit. For this reason they have also said that you are pretty safe to do as you please(within reason) on the alumni side.

Plus on the student side at the top the security goes back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth (you get the picture) through the crowd in front of you and it really pisses off the crowd. I finally lost it last year and told the security guys to quit running through our row/get out of our way as we were getting sick and tired of them blocking our view/having to move aside for them to get by. Plent of RENT A COP attitude for the security guards at least on the student side from what I've seen.

Slightly off-topic here, but I have to share the best idea I've ever heard regarding getting booze into the stadium. Fill a large thermos with hot-chocolate, and then fill a balloon with Schnaaps and put it in the thermos. It sinks to the bottom and when the guards check the thermos, they can't see or smell it. Once safely inside, pop the balloon and Presto - instant Alpines!

I read in a magazine that this company is making flasks that look like cell phones. The guy said that he couldn’t really see people buying them, but the first thing I thought was they would be great for bobcat games.

catatac wrote:Slightly off-topic here, but I have to share the best idea I've ever heard regarding getting booze into the stadium. Fill a large thermos with hot-chocolate, and then fill a balloon with Schnaaps and put it in the thermos. It sinks to the bottom and when the guards check the thermos, they can't see or smell it. Once safely inside, pop the balloon and Presto - instant Alpines!

I heard a story once (I think my mom was involved) about an MSU student attending homecoming in the 70s had some of his friends from the drama department make him up to look like he just got the sh!t kicked out of him. They gave him a big black eye that was swollen shut, and bandaged his head and face. They were also able to convince the health service that this kid was in a car accident and needed a wheel chair. Once they got the chair, they somehow mounted a pony keg to the bottom of it, and had tubing running from the keg through his sleeve and the spicket was in the palm of his hand. The kid sat in the wheel chair, covered his legs with a blanket (to conceal the keg) and was let into the game no problem, and everyone in the story lived drunkily ever after...The end.

...pszzst... Spotter to security #4: We have a student in section 201 row 8 seat 12 with a flask ..... pszzst

...pszzst... Security #4 to Spotter: False alarm. The guy is just sucking on a cell phone! ..... pszzst

...pszzst... Spotter to security #4: Rodger! Sorry my bad. ..... pszzst

You can get the "cell phone" flask at the Liquor store on east main here in bozeman. Don't know how much they are, but they would work.

I had a friend years ago that took his friends Jim and Jack to every game with him. Jim "Beam" was in one cowboy boot and Jack "Daniels" was in the other. Worked like a charm.

catatac wrote:Slightly off-topic here, but I have to share the best idea I've ever heard regarding getting booze into the stadium. Fill a large thermos with hot-chocolate, and then fill a balloon with Schnaaps and put it in the thermos. It sinks to the bottom and when the guards check the thermos, they can't see or smell it. Once safely inside, pop the balloon and Presto - instant Alpines!

Catatac wins as the Chronicle's choice for best method of sneaking alcohol into the stadium. Call em up, maybe they wil give you a free subscription as a prize or something.

kmax wrote:

catatac wrote:Slightly off-topic here, but I have to share the best idea I've ever heard regarding getting booze into the stadium. Fill a large thermos with hot-chocolate, and then fill a balloon with Schnaaps and put it in the thermos. It sinks to the bottom and when the guards check the thermos, they can't see or smell it. Once safely inside, pop the balloon and Presto - instant Alpines!

Catatac wins as the Chronicle's choice for best method of sneaking alcohol into the stadium. Call em up, maybe they wil give you a free subscription as a prize or something.

Nah - I'm just relaying the idea I heard somewhere else... can't even remember where. I'm not creative enough to come up with something like that on my own.

Empty Saline solution bottles work as well Hopefully the security guard won't make you rinse your contact with it and put contact back in

kmax wrote:. For this reason they have also said that you are pretty safe to do as you please(within reason) on the alumni side.

Does it bother anybody else that the Alumni fat cats can drink all they want while the students get busted for just thinking about booze? Its the same way at Wa-Griz also

It doesn't bother me at all. I have been a student at MSU and now I am a booster. We boosters pay a certain amount each year for our booster level and season tickets, so we can have that parking and drinking privege. Yes, the students pay tuition, but at least one fourth of them are not of age and get extremely drunk at every game. I've been on both sides of the field.

Of course, as someone forced to pay an athletic fee, I would take the other stand. I currently give $128.50 per year to Bobcat athletics. Considering that there's roughly 3,000 student tickets (as a base), take what I am forced to donate and multiply it by four for the 9,000 students that didn't go to the game. That means that students are giving $514 per year for each student who attends a game. For that much money per year, students should get a lot more from the athletic department.

anacondagriz wrote:Does it bother anybody else that the Alumni fat cats can drink all they want while the students get busted for just thinking about booze? Its the same way at Wa-Griz also.

Actually, CMS are far bigger jerks in Bozeman than up at Missoula. I've never seen any student's booze confiscated in Missoula, nor any searching. Here, CMS treats students like smugglers as they enter, and do a miserable job keeping the booze out, but a good job of annoying sober students at the games.

[quote="theblackgecko"]Of course, as someone forced to pay an athletic fee, I would take the other stand. I currently give $128.50 per year to Bobcat athletics. Considering that there's roughly 3,000 student tickets (as a base), take what I am forced to donate and multiply it by four for the 9,000 students that didn't go to the game. That means that students are giving $514 per year for each student who attends a game. For that much money per year, students should get a lot more from the athletic department.[quote]

You realize that there is more to the athletic department than just football don't you?

theblackgecko wrote:Of course, as someone forced to pay an athletic fee, I would take the other stand. I currently give $128.50 per year to Bobcat athletics. Considering that there's roughly 3,000 student tickets (as a base), take what I am forced to donate and multiply it by four for the 9,000 students that didn't go to the game. That means that students are giving $514 per year for each student who attends a game. For that much money per year, students should get a lot more from the athletic department.

Yeah, there is a lot more involved in that fee than just basketball plus I can safely say this here, but DON'T LET EVERY MSU STUDENT KNOW, you can request not to pay that fee at all and just lose the privalege to go to the games, use the rec center etc. Personally as a student just last year I was happy to pay a small fee and see athletics get all the money from the students who pay the fee and don't use it. I think it is a great deal for the student and if you really want to be on the other side, opt out of your student athletic fee and pony up the money for the stadium club.

When students would complain about the fee going in part to Bobcat Athletics I would always say, “you never went to a Cat/Griz game?” Pretty much everyone had to admit they went to at least that one game. That one game is worth the student fee!