huge lines to get into centeroo

Saturday morning before Jimmy Buffet was long as hell. We miss a lot of his set because they took so long. After we started yelling and chanting some staff guy came over and told them to let us in and it was like a flood gate.

I guess it just depends on which gate and when you got there. The biggest line I encountered the whole weekend was like 3 people long. When walking out a few times I did see much bigger lines though.

I ran into a real mix. Sometimes I waited for a freakin half hour, but at least 3 or 4 times they just let my line through. I can't really complain.

Hit and miss for us, but the lines were fairly long everytime we went in. The first two times, they just let us in.

I had a pretty entertaining experience Friday morning. The gates by the ferris wheel were INSANE long, and not moving, so my crew and I decided it was worth the trot to the arches, where they were much shorter, but still moving very slow. I was the last in my group of 9 to make it through, and while this musclehead was very closely inspecting everything I had on me (pulling cigarettes out of my pack, opening my sanitizer to smell it, etc...), a supervisor from AC/Superfly showed up and started barking at the dude like a Marine D.I. People started cheering, and he kept yelling at the gate dudes to "hurry the quack up and get these people through, you lazy quacking sons of motherquacking douche bags!"
After that, I neither waited in or saw another unnecessarily long line all weekend.

these were the worst searches out of my 3 roos. saturday we noticed the same people working also so we asked if they were volunteering and they told us they were paid security...which made some more sense. they were far too thorough though...you don't need to open every pack of cigs, unfold ponchos, look in each and every pocket of a backpack for every person. they were ridiculous.

we had a "marine sergeant" when going in through the ferris wheel enterance one time. only he was encouraging his people to check more. overall i'd say the wait to get into centeroo was way more stressful and ridiculous than any other year i've been (06 & 07)

One guy even tryed to get me to open up my ice breaker ments that were never open and still had the plastic around it, I told him he was nuts. I only got waved in twice all the other times I had to open every zipper in my backpack and turn out all my pockets on my shorts. The worst was going in Sunday night before Snoop.
Thank good the never made me take off my plasticast for my arm or check my sanuk pockets They also never checked what was in my camelbak baldder.

I had no problem with security at all, I would always headed into Centeroo around 10am everyday and I never really went back to my tent once I was in. There were no lines and security would always just give a quick peak inside my backpack and a quick pat down. I probably could have sneaked a nuclear bomb in if I had wanted too.

that's another thing i was told this year and had never heard in the past. a guy tried to tell me that and i said "show me in writing where that's a rule" and he let me through telling me i better only have 2 next time. i went through with some cool security people, but also encountered my share of dbags as well.

we became good friends with our neighbors and one put her meds in my camelbak so she wouldnt have to carry them around...saturday there was a stupidly long line because this guy was searching every centimeter of every bag...he ended up making us go back to our tent to put her meds there because she wasnt carrying the prescription on her. like shes going to pull a piece of paper from the doctor out of her ass.

...you think of Obama's "Yes We Can" chant when you use that cadence?

At one point by the faris wheel, they were searching the hardest I've ever seen. They unzipped everything, took out and un-rolled my blanket, patted me down, and yet they failed to realize my CamelPak was completely full of 80 Proof rum.

I thought it was somewhat funny.

Lines were just ridiculous most of the time. I only got searched a few times because I would be in like for 15 minutes, then they would just let every in. People in front of me would have their wallets searched, flashlights taken apart, etc, then other people would have their stuff barely looked at. Most of the time when my backpack was searched, the zippers were just un-done and I was let through.

My wife and i were camped in BFE pod 1 and entered centeroo through the side entrance at the What stage. We had absolutly no wait any time we went in. We also brought a gallon jug of water with no problems. I had to laugh when we came in during Snoop Dogg, the young security lady was dancing so hard she kind of looked annoyed when she had to stop to pat my pockets and say your good. My bag i was carrying was not opened or looked in and was barely touched. The only time we waited in line was Thursday when we came in through the main arch.