Leatherman

[chopper4001]

Morning everyone

I've got a Leatherman multi-tool, which goes camping with me most places, but never to a festival before. Do you think it would get past a bag search?

Its got a fairly sharp blade on it as well as a saw, but it's clearly a "multi-tool" and not a knife for stabbin'...

[strudders]

I take mine with me to nearly all my festivals. .

It does comply With the law but I hide it just in case when I go in.

They are incredibly useful and have got me out of a few scrapes when needing to fix tents etc (09 Glasto good example)

However I do think they specify no blades and it's defo something that should not be worn at any time during the festival but kept in a secure place in the rucksack in the tent.

[King Kong]

Always take mine , surely loads of people have swiss army tools ? but keep it well buried just in case though, and if they do kick up stink about it take it back to the car and don't let them confiscate it.

[chopper4001]

Yeah, I was fully expecting to take it tbf, but just wanted to check what the official line was.

I imgaine most people take them or something similar. Even some camping cutlery you can get have fairly wicked knives on them.

I'm all for stopping knife crime, but these things are so useful that its hard not to take it really.

There's no way they're confiscating it either. :angry:

[strudders]

Back int he day (86) I remember a dealer standing on the side of the path with a machete strapped to his leg.

At 14 scared the crap out of us.

[rabid]

Back int he day (86) I remember a dealer standing on the side of the path with a machete strapped to his leg.

At 14 scared the crap out of us.

[geebus]

I regularly take my locking swiss army knife and haven't had a problem so far - mostly used for general eating.

Have taken an axe a few times for firewood and not had a problem, though don't know if I would if they'd seen it at the gate.

[pie_and_a_pint]

Although Glastonbury is a festival of contemporary performing arts, it is also, essentially, a camping or campervanning holiday for 99% of the attendees. I think any sensible steward or security guard would realise that people who are camping need things like camping cutlery, swiss army knives etc as part of their camping kit.

That said, I usually keep my swiss well hidden - I'd take it back to the car if I was told it couldn't come into the festival.

[jameshunt]

I take mine as it is a very useful festival tool.

I forgot it was in my bag when flying back from San Francisco a few weeks after 9/11. Security didn't pick it up but took offense to my 10 year old's blunt kids paper cutting scisssors and confiscated them. These are the kind they let infant school kids use, they are that safe. He was very upset about that incident. Halfway through the flight I found my leatherman in my carry-on bag. Lucky for them I wasn't a terrorist.

[HurrahBrother]

Either stick it in your tent bag (with string and gaffa tape) or in your brew up kit.

That way if they do search you bags, they can see it in context.

I think it is any blade over 3 1/2 inches long, and any butterfly knives that are legaly dodgy.

[CCCheese]

Morning everyone

I've got a Leatherman multi-tool, which goes camping with me most places, but never to a festival before. Do you think it would get past a bag search?

Its got a fairly sharp blade on it as well as a saw, but it's clearly a "multi-tool" and not a knife for stabbin'...

[chopper4001]

ignoring the fact it's a blade (and despite it being law-abiding, security can still take it at bag search...), I wouldn't take anything to Glastonbury I wasn't prepared to lose...

Be that a phone, an ipod, an expensive watch, a camping knife, whatever....

shrug.

Edited June 10, 2011 by chopper4001

[CCCheese]

Appreciated, and I'd normally agree with you (my iphone stays at home, I wouldn't take an expensive camera...), but this thing is so useful it'd be a shame not to have it.

I guess security can confiscate anything they deem offensive or criminal, but what's the police view of it at the site? As someone said its probably "legal", but if security referred it to you, what would you say?

If you found me with it onsite, what would the view be then?

Not that I'm going to start weilding it at 3 in the morning round Shangri-La you understand...

[CCCheese]

It depends why security stop you.... They are unlikely to stop you if you are sat outside your tent, using it to cut some firewood or something. Thus, if they have stopped you and have involved us, then the chances are there is something behind it as in all honesty, you don't have a reason for carrying it around the site....

If it's stopped on entry, security will allow you to put it in the confiscated items box or possibly be refused entry. It's unlikely the police would be involved then...

[chopper4001]

ain't the law weird.

[Bisque]

I have taken my Victorinox Skipper pen knife to a festival before but just made sure it was well hidden.

But, tbh... unless you have a really old tent, I have never found the need to use a multi-tool or pen knife at a festival.

[CCCheese]

Happy days

Leave it in one of the many lockups around the site.

Free (well, small donation), secure and manned 24hours....

[DeadAmos]

Only ever used ours once when we forgot the tin opener

[jimmystobo]

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Edited June 10, 2011 by jimmystobo