Olympic security ban on your bottled water: But you can buy it in the stadium

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Olympic security ban on your bottled water: But you can buy it in the stadium

May 7th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

By
Louise Eccles

PUBLISHED:

19:25 EST, 6 May 2012

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UPDATED:

19:25 EST, 6 May 2012

Spectators will be banned from taking bottles of water into the Olympic Park in case they are used to conceal so-called ‘liquid bombs’.

Airport-style security means all liquids in containers of 100ml or more will be confiscated – leaving visitors to buy drinks at inflated prices once inside.

Picnics and ‘excessive’ amounts of food will also be banned from sports venues, but families will have to pay £40 to buy a basic lunch from the official food stalls.

Banned: Spectators will not be allowed to take water bottles in to Olympic venues because they could conceal 'liquid bombs'

Banned: Spectators will not be allowed to take water bottles in to Olympic venues because they could conceal ‘liquid bombs’

A series of test events took place at the Olympic Park in Stratford last week ahead of the London 2012 Games.

But many visitors were disgruntled to find that bottles of water, alcohol, hampers, picnics and cool boxes were not permitted inside the gates.

Instead, they must pay £1.60 for replacement water, which organisers claim is a ‘reduced rate’.

It could also cost £2.80 for a soft drink, £4.90 for a sandwich and £5.90 for a frankfurter hot dog – meaning a simple lunch could cost £10 each. Sushi will set you back an astonishing £8.50.

What a snack at the games will cost you

Strict rules state people cannot take in ‘liquids, aerosols and gels in quantities greater than 100ml’, but empty water bottles can be taken in and filled up at water coolers.

Most mineral water bought to take away is sold in 500ml bottles, which are automatically banned, as are bottles filled up with water from the tap at home.

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Lieutenant Colonel Brian Fahy, responsible for community relations during the Games, said it was ‘feasible’ that drones filled with poison and small enough to fit in a rucksack could be used as a biological weapon.

The airline liquids ban was introduced in 2006 after police smashed a plot to bring down planes between Britain and America.

The idea had been to smuggle on board explosives hidden within soft drinks, before detonating it once the plane was airborne.

Other Olympic food guidelines are also likely to prove controversial, with organisers threatening to confiscate so-called ‘excessive food’.

A spokesman for Games organisers Locog said taking a sandwich in a backpack, for example, should not be a problem, but that a picnic hamper or cool box was ‘likely to be an issue’.

This, they said, was to prevent longer queues at venues while hampers were searched and because there was limited storage space beneath the seats.

Strict: An aerial view of the Olympic Stadium in east London, where there will be strict rules when the Games start

But critics claimed it was a ploy to encourage people to buy over-priced food.

The rules surrounding the selling of refreshments for the Olympics and Paralympics are far stricter than they are for other sporting events.

At both Lord’s and Wimbledon food is permitted and alcohol is restricted to one bottle of wine or two cans of beer per person.

Last week, as thousands watched the water polo, hockey and university athletics at the Olympic Park, the public was given a first glimpse of the kinds of prices that will be charged during Games time.

Ann Townsend, 41, of South London, said: ‘We bought lunch for three of us, just sandwiches, drinks and a couple of snacks, and it cost almost £25.’ Student Milly Arnold, 18, who was watching the hockey, said: ‘I had my bottle of water taken off me at the gates and had to buy a new one for £1.60 as soon as I got in, which is pretty annoying.’

If ticket holders want to buy food at the Olympic Park they will have to use cash or a Visa card. No other credit cards are allowed.

A spokesman for Locog said: ‘We have gone to considerable lengths to find great tasting, top quality food, setting new benchmark standards for the industry.

‘This includes snacks from £1, sandwiches from under £4 and jacket potatoes from just over £5.’

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Total rip off as usual, just like airports.

– Dave Andrews, Glasgow Scotland, 07/5/2012 02:52

The more I read about the Olympics, the more the veins on my neck protrude. Fortunately, most foreign visitors to the 2012 games won’t be exposed to our rip-off culture as they will still be stuck in a queue at Heathrow… Meanwhile, I’ll be buying my bottled water at my local well known supermarket happily paying a “reduced rate” of 60 pence a litre and will pay for it with my Mastercard.

– Andy, Frodsham, 07/5/2012 02:40

Oh, and for another thing. They best hope it isn’t hot. For every pound they make selling overpriced bottled water, they will probably spend 3 on healthcare for the public who are dropping like flies, walking around in the summer sun, in a place that will no doubt be hot and stuffy due to over-crowding, dehydrated by lack of water (due to overpricing) and cheap takeaway food which will be high in salt.
It would probably be more cost efficient to hand bottled water out for free than it will be to charge for it. The food vendors will make all the money on sales, but the NHS will pick up the cost of treating the thousands of visitors who fall ill as a result.

– Dave, London, UK, 07/5/2012 02:39

Are they going to allow free air.

– Normam Miles, Tongchen China, 07/5/2012 02:37

At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney – the dressage week – there was a ban on everything – no water etc – it is only because they have done deals with caterers etc, – WE IGNORED THE LOT – THIS WAS BEFORE 7/11. how dare they try to dictate that you cannot bring food and water with you – Just an excuse to rip everyone off.

– linjellet, melbourne australia, 07/5/2012 02:33

That’s so not true, DM please get your facts right, I work with the security team at the Olympic park and we are allowing people with up to 750ml of liquid pass if it is in a plastic bottle with a cap on it, Although no alcohol is permitted and no glass bottles are allowed also.

– Anonymous, London, 07/5/2012 02:31

If you can fill up your empty bottle from water coolers on the inside, then what is the big deal. Stop being so negative DM.

– Lucie, DC, USA, 07/5/2012 02:31

Rip-Off Britain strikes again.
Thank God Ive seen sense to stay at home and watch it on TV from the comfort of my own chair…
London 2012 is a complete farce.

– Da Cuckoo, Lancashire UK, 07/5/2012 02:29

its simple don’t go, you paid for it in taxes and you have to pay for it again, who ever goes is a fool.

– lukje, london, 07/5/2012 02:24

I only have one word for it and I wish London goodluck……………PATHTIC.

– John W. Odijk, San Diego, California Republic, 07/5/2012 02:24

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