Quote Dally="Dally"North Korea has nothing on this country. You can be banned for carrying the tools of your trade if you are an artist and, it seems, arrested for not smiling and looking like you are enjoying an event:
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At one of the RL Grand Finals we parked in the Lowry Centre car park and needed to buy anythign in there to get free parking - I needed some acrylic paint and so bought a tube and a paintbrush, got the receipt stamped, got the free parking and walked off to Old Trafford.
It was only when I was in the queue for the turnstiles and saw people being searched for alcohol that I wondered what the hell sort of excuse someone would have to give to be allowed into a football stadium with a tube of paint and a paintbrush in their pocket.
Fortunately the ManU stewards aren't quite so vigilant as Surrey Police and I slipped through the security cordon - I could have played merry hell in there that night with my paint and brush
