How do you feel about it?
I’m in about 6 minds about it. My main one is that it’s sad that it’s had to come to this.
The police have come a very long way in their understanding of how to manage the second biggest street party in the world without appearing intrusive and without unwittingly provoking the sort of trouble we’ve seen in the past, so I do hope that they can implement these checks without making people feel uncomfortable.
So where’s the problem with the detectors
Actually I’m not sure whether it’s a problem or not. Most of us are grown ups and know how to behave. Why anyone would set out to Carnival to cause trouble is completely beyond my comprehension, but the rest of us tend not to like being treated like kids. That said, I’m totally down with the whole not-being-stabbed thing.
Morons
By the way I first picked up this nugget of information from some white supremacists’ forum (believe me I wasn’t looking, it just came up as a google alert!), presumably clutching at straws in an effort to denigrate an tradition that’s really hard for them to come to terms with.
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January 29th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
[...] precautions rather than allowing people to waltz boldly through with knives (much as the metal detectors on public transport pained me). And yes, there was some trouble at the end that I and the rest of Rotten Hill Gang got [...]