The Philly 1 Line Cutters (mother and daughter)

[njelevation06]

haha who saw that go down? what were they thinking?

they cut directly in front of me and my friend. a thanks to the guy who spotted that and gave me a heads up. a thanks to those running the line who tackled the problem. and a special thanks to the 200 or so fans who made sure they would get hell if they wouldn't move.

i thought the whole thing was hilarious and i couldn't believe they were trying to withstand all that heckling and verbal assaults. how could they not respond to the argument that they had 321 on their wrists and were thus in the wrong spot in line!!! if you remember i actually asked her "What Bono would say if he came out here and saw this?" eventually security persuaded them to move. i can assure you their concert experience wasn't soo good

me: "i dont think you know what u2 is about"

woman: "how old are you to think you can say that"

me: " 21 ... old enough to know that it is wrong to show up and cut people who have been waiting in line since 8am and disrespect those ahead of you who have been here since 1am, ill go to sleep tonight and have had a great time, i dont think youll go to sleep as well tonight"

 

[bombergirl1978]

nice! njelevation. We noticed there were people out of order in front of us as well, but it wasn't quite as much difference in the numbers, so we let it slide. A few we just inched up and got in front of, figuring if they said something that we would just show them our numbers and prove we were in the right anyhow lol. Good for you for not letting them get away with it.

 

[briarrose]

Good for you. This old man cut in front of me and my sister. He said, "You probably noticed I cut in front of you but I'm 82 years old and have been here all day and they wouldn't give me a number. I'm a WWII veteran and I wanted to see the baseball game but there wasn't one today so that's why I'm here." It was so ridiculous. I didn't feel like arguing. When the lady went to scan his ticket, it wouldn't go through, but they let him in anyway. I was just relieved he didn't get into the ellipse.

 

[Chizip]

i dont understand how people can be so arrogant to think that for some reason they should be able to cut ahead of people who have been waiting for several hours

what goes through their mind to think they should be able to do that?

 

[Moneypenny]

There was a couple that cut way ahead of us into the fanclub line on our way in. They didn't have fanclub tix but the other 2 in their group did so they just ducked the barrier and ran up to them.

During the KOL set they stumbled out of the crowd near the stage; the woman was either drunk off her ass or on a really bad trip. Her face was completely ashen and she clawed at my neck and arms with both hands trying to get to the railing behind me. She clung to the rail for a while and then she and her husband disappeared; I never saw them come back to the floor.

Karma's a bitch.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

haha who saw that go down? what were they thinking?

they cut directly in front of me and my friend. a thanks to the guy who spotted that and gave me a heads up. a thanks to those running the line who tackled the problem. and a special thanks to the 200 or so fans who made sure they would get hell if they wouldn't move.

i thought the whole thing was hilarious and i couldn't believe they were trying to withstand all that heckling and verbal assaults. how could they not respond to the argument that they had 321 on their wrists and were thus in the wrong spot in line!!! if you remember i actually asked her "What Bono would say if he came out here and saw this?" eventually security persuaded them to move. i can assure you their concert experience wasn't soo good

me: "i dont think you know what u2 is about"

woman: "how old are you to think you can say that"

me: " 21 ... old enough to know that it is wrong to show up and cut people who have been waiting in line since 8am and disrespect those ahead of you who have been here since 1am, ill go to sleep tonight and have had a great time, i dont think youll go to sleep as well tonight"

i was a few feet back from ya on the line... that mother/daughter combo actually ended up about 5 feet behind me, despite being sent to the back of hte line. go figure.

no word on where the bald guy in the red elevation shirt who kept bitching about everything ended up... he tried to cut the line and got send to the back too. i had a good chuckle at that one.

 

[Miroslava]

Weren't Stars and her mom at the Philly show?







Kiddin' kiddin'


But yes, line cutters SUCK and make me look like this

The big problem I found too is that often times, the people DIRECTLY affected (ie those directly behind the cutters) often dont say anything as it seems that "one or two people don't really make a difference"... but let's assume I am #100 in line and 10 people ahead of me allow a couple of people to cut in line cause "well, one or two people don't matter..." well, yes they do! Now I am number 120 in line....

Yes, I am an angry chick...

 

[bombergirl1978]

Ok so it WAS the mother daughter combo I was thinking of. They were talking to my friend, and eventually moved over in another area *apparently behind you, Headache. When they were talking, their speeche was slurred and their breath smelled of beer heavily lol. Good grief.

 

[Catlady]

This happened to me in Chicago but I was too chicken to say anything. Some "beautiful people" whose numbers were at least 100 higher than mine (and written on the wrong arms--I wondered if they had really been in line all day or not) cut in front of me after they split the line. I was by myself and I am not a beautiful person so I was intimidated. Chizip & Co. were doing thier best to keep things/people in order but it was kind of anarachy once the lines were split. I wish I had spoken up...

 

[Miroslava]

Catlady, what date was this on?

The nerve of some people

On saturday, once the U2.com line split up, it really was anarchy, and the numerical sequence was really not followed in that line... As I was kicking asses in the general area where I was standing (non U2.com line) people kept coming up to me to ask me to go get Chizip or Tim to have them handle things in other areas of the lines, but it was way too close to opening time and the dudes had already done more than enough, so I kept reminding people that they were going to have to take matters into their own hands...

Sorry you felt intimidated by "beautiful people"... they were obviously only beautiful on the outside...

 

[Catlady]

Yeah, it was Saturday. I totally admired you and Chizip kicking asses. You are right they were only beautiful on the outside.

 

[Chizip]

i wish i had known about that

cutters really really piss me off

 

[Catlady]

Yeah. Now of course I am full of regret I didn't make a fuss. It was sort of like being back in 7th grade with the cool kids being mean to me on the bus...

 

[Chizip]

they cut into the general line after we split the line into two?

nobody else saw this and got mad about it?

 

[Catlady]

It was the fan club line. I am not sure anyone but me would have known what was up...I only knew because I was totally scrutinizing thier arms. Remember it was so cold that day so they both had long sleeves on and it took me awhile to be sure. You and Miroslava were tied up with the other line...

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

chizip the line nazi not doing his job

 

[Chizip]

It was the fan club line. I am not sure anyone but me would have known what was up...I only knew because I was totally scrutinizing thier arms. Remember it was so cold that day so they both had long sleeves on and it took me awhile to be sure. You and Miroslava were tied up with the other line...

oh ok, yeah there were some trouble makers in the fan club line

we tried to split it starting at the front going back, but i guess people realized what we were doing and people in the back started running up to the front of the new line

youd think people in that line would just be happy that they were allowed to go into a much shorter line, but there were a lot of jackasses in that line

i wish we could have split the line up earlier, but security didnt even know if there were going to be 2 lines until late in the day. i also wish the venue security would have done the line splitting and maybe there wouldnt have been as many problems, it really shouldnt be up to the fans to do that

there were a few people in the fan club line that realllly pissed me off.

 

[Catlady]

You guys did the best you could--a belated thanks for all your hard work on everyone's behalf.

Hey I am not a "babyface" anymore! I just noticed!

 

[dizzy]

Heehee, that's funny. What the hell was the mom thinking?

I love that look on line cutters' faces like we owe it to them to get in front of us. It happened a couple of times in Chicago 1. During the first time, a huge guy was ready to beat the crap out of the line cutter. Next was this girl who had an innocent look on her face and a rehearsed explanation of why she had to get in front of us.

 

[Miroslava]

There was that one lady in the fan line that is lucky to have all of her teeth...

 

[Catlady]

I bet I know who you're talking about--short brown hair, with a group of 4-5 other people, wouldn't show you thier tickets, right?

 

[Miroslava]

Yes

 

[Catlady]

SUCH annoying whiners. I was a little bit behind them.

 

[ramblin rose]

It would be interesting to do a psychological profile on a "line cutter".

 

[bombergirl1978]

we actually had some guys with a cooler full of beer in front of us, in line. I overheard one of them say "man I don't give a s**t about the numbers" and their numbers were higher than ours. I asked them what their numbers were and they showed us. We didn't move at that moment. But we inched by them later on. There were still some in front of us that should have been behind though.

 

[forbonou2]

I have always hated this!! Just where do they get the idea they are supposed to cut in front of people who have waited so long to get in?? That many people should be able to make them move!! together!!! My applouse to people who inforce the fact that THEY have to wait, too!!

 

[joyfulgirl]

I think we can all agree line cutters suck.

But there was a situation in Denver that I found disturbing which was that as anticipation was mounting just before the doors opened at 6, occasionally people would just walk up to the front of the line to talk to security about something. I'm not sure what it was all about but I guessed that they were people who had been told by somebody that when they arrived they should just go to the front of the line. Perhaps they were guests of some VIP or something and had 'legitimate' reasons for moving to the front of the line. An example would be a caterer I stood beside in Phoenix--she'd been up all night preparing pastries for the band and was escorted directly to the rail on the floor as a guest. Early in the day I heard security explaining to people in line that that might happen, that there were people who legitimately could go in first.

Ok, it sucks for everyone, right. But what really bugged me was the way everyone in line would automatically start booing and shaming these people when they didn't even know what was going on. It bothered me because they were families with small children and the children looked very scared and upset when everyone started booing. There was no reason to scar children because of whatever their parents were doing which looked to me like asking questions or telling security that somebody had told them to go to the front of the line. People were actually yelling at them and calling them assholes. The poor kids looked devastated and scared.

 

[bombergirl1978]

Yeah I wouldn't agree with booing them etc. And someone who talks to security and is let through, is more than likely a legitimate person. Its more the people who get in the middle of the line where they don't belong, in front of everyone, that are annoying.

 

[Miroslava]

I do agree that in my personal experience, Denver 1 versus Chicago 1 was rather different. People in Denver were a bit more aggressive about those people sliding toward the front for whichever reason, but the circumstances were also rather different... people had been freezing their asses off and gotten hailed-on 3 times... I think the prospect of any new arrival getting ahead of those that had been waiting was just a kick in the face...

So not justifying it, but that is my guess as to the extra kick of aggression...

 

[Super_Fan]

Hey I did my job at the Nazi in Philly. I did up to #300. The problem was the old lady freakin started splitting up the line when I was sleeping in my car facing the GA line. At 5 I did look at #'s in both lines and yes I caught the mother and daughter cutting the line. Basically heckling them and giving them a verbal bashing is the best thing anyone can do or ask security to do something. Also the notorious GA line cutter on the East Coast who wore the U2 Elevation Maroon Local crew t-shirt was in action and tried to butt in line around the 100's in the General Public line. I got security and he made up a good lye and claimed he showed up at 2 p.m. and should be about #'s 230 in line. Philly GA line was handled properly up to #330 in line when I had a bitch complain about not having a #. I am hoping to make t-shirts that say quote "Read this shirt. If you are yelling or complaining at me you have PMS" I heard that Continental tonight fu#k up and let the Fan Club line cut in front of the General Admission line today. Continental GA patrons should just riot in front of the venue. They have crappy rules and can't do their job right as a venue. They can't even read the ryder for the show and interpret it in a different way.