Car searchs

[clleadz]

Some people just like the Hyatt Grand Champions crowd better.

True dat. Those guyz r da best

[billtino]

I was directed to the line all the way to the right. 2 cars up, there was a car being stipped down, about 6 staff members were pouring out bottle of Corona Bottles. another 2-3 were going thru the car. I figured, great! Stuck in the shitty line, they're gonna find my "stuff"...but by the time it was my turn to be inspected, the Inspection Supervisor looked at the line that built up behind me and asks me "Do you have any weed, glass, or hard alcohol" I say NOPE! And before I can get out of the car to show ID and let them search, he says to the staff...."OK these guys are good, circle 'em up, move on thru..."

Fastest inspection i've ever had, no ID check, no opening truck or icechest or bags....we were cracking the hell up!

[eswaby]

Yeah our search was super easy, I was a little worried because I'm only 20 and we had 3 cases of beer + box of wine in our car for the 4 of us. The guys searching our car were super nice, they asked to open our trunk, asked how much alcohol we had and sent us on our way. Didn't take anything out of the car, didn't ask for ID. Nothing. Some people on this board are just paranoid haha

[frizzlefry]

Or some did get searched properly, I admit I was a little lazy this year with some things but what this thread should teach us is plan for the worst but expect the best

[Mugwog]

people reading this for advice on car search:

It's a complete crap shoot, don't smoke pot while waiting in line and hide your drugs/glass bottles/gunz well

/thread.

[Swedish Chef]

This thread is way too long when there is a simple solution: no glass, hide your drugs and just be cool.

[gaspard27]

This thread is way too long when there is a simple solution: no glass, hide your drugs and just be cool.

That didn't take long!
Thanks

[Manic Episode Mike]

That didn't take long!
Thanks

Yeah, I'm a douchebag, don't come back, blah blah blah...suck a dick to anyone hating on me. You would've done the same thing. Our shit WAS hidden. VERY well. The fact is, that the 2 cars in front of us, and the other ones in our field of vision at the time were getting EVERYTHING in their car gone through. I'm talking entire cooler going and being looked through, every bag and shirt unrolled, every sleeping bag unrolled, everything opened. They would've found whatever no matter where it was hidden unless you guys regularly go through these lines with your shit stuffed up your assholes. Which by the way people are acting towards me on this board (elitism seems to be quite prevalent around these parts) wouldn't be much of a surprise to me.

[ods..]

They would've found whatever no matter where it was hidden unless you guys regularly go through these lines with your shit stuffed up your assholes.

You're just wrong. Like others have said it's completely random how tough they search you, but a good precaution would be to hide your shit well. If you don't feel comfortable with that, enjoy staying at a hotel.

I've never had a problem getting anything into Coachella. Just be fucking creative and smart and you won't have problems either.

[frizzlefry]

I'm not doubting that you had good reason to be scared, I just fail to understand the logic behind deciding to book a hotel room last minute instead of just simply tossing your drugs or trying another entrance to sneak them in at another time. How did these options not occur to you while you were booking at some hotel that had some absurdly spiked prices? Or are you just filthy fucking rich and completely unperturbed by these po folk questions?

[frizzlefry]

It's a complete crap shoot, don't smoke pot while waiting in line and hide your drugs/glass bottles/gunz well

/thread.

Yeah gunz, how did you hubbie smuggle you in this year?

[Panda421]

Pack your trunk so tight that they don't want to search through it. Worked for me this year.

[JustSteve]

and by trunk you mean ass, right?

[ncarrasco]

Pack your trunk so tight that they don't want to search through it. Worked for me this year.

That's exactly what we did BUT we had 5 of us together 4 of our group had no problem barely even checked 1 of our bags. But the last of our group got completely searched, everything out of the car, coolers, and bags. Searches were completely random as everyone else has said.

[hools]

... the two cars directly in front of us (when we were 1-2 cars from getting in), were being fucking TOSSED. When I say TOSSED, I mean, searched harder than I've seen people get searched by police and border patrol. And this was all being done by some guy in a yellow shirt. He was going through EVERYTHING, their coolers, the entire trunk, unrolling every sleeping bag, every shirt and piece of clothing in the bags, going through every part of the car, every pocket/glove compartment, under the seats/car itself/floor mats, inside the spare tire case and literally all through the car.

seems like you got the exact same guys that checked our shit this year. with our van packed tight and even had some cargo up top, i was hoping some good vibes would make our search lax. a few cars from having our car checked, a new pair of yellow shirts show up to start their shift and they tore apart EVERYTHING. unraveling sleeping bags and ravaging the baggage. they even were frisking people at the car camping checkpoint--which i'm sure they didn't do this last year. anyways, this alarmed us because we had stashed our bottles of liquor in our sleeping bags and were gonna gooch the rest of our stashes. literally a car from being checked, we take out the liquor and throw it under the hood, and hide the rest of our goodies under the rear bumper. when it was our turn all they found was a sneak-a-toke i failed to remember i even took along with me.

@Manic Episode Mike you should've just come up with clever way to sneak your shit in man. flipping a bitch a few minutes away from getting inside to go stay in a hotel over car camping sounds lame as fuck... like someone said on this forum before, if you can't figure out a way to sneak shit in, you probably don't deserve to.

[grannock]

#1 buy hot glue gun
#2 buy box of grranola bars or cereal or some shit.
#3 reseal box with hot glue gun

Ive never ever ever seen anyone open "unopened" food items. There you go kids.

[the walrus]

ok so i had a massive canopy, it went over 2 cars and was built out of pvc
did not try to hide it at all.. strapped it to the top of the car
had copious amounts of drugs
the drugs we put in the door panel

so we get there and 2 women greet us they cheerfully say they are going to search the car
one is a white girl mid 20s the other is a black girl in her 40s and time hasnt done her well
the young girl opens the back door to the suv and pokes around opens are cooler which is full with beer and ice and says "yep theres beer in here" which was pretty much the extent of the search..
meanwhile the older lady is talking to my group ..
"you dont have any drugs do you? no camping knives.. how about plastic poles.."
when she said that my heart dropped but i just looked at her and said no.

once she got done asking questions that was it. no further search just a "o" on our windshield and we were in

honestly it was the laxest search i could have imagined

[frizzlefry]

I think it's been confirmed that people from security actually go through these forums from time to time, we're just feeding them this information now, keep it up

[ods..]

#1 buy hot glue gun
#2 buy box of grranola bars or cereal or some shit.
#3 reseal box with hot glue gun

Ive never ever ever seen anyone open "unopened" food items. There you go kids.

ding ding ding ding ding

also. DOUBLE STICK TAPE

that's all folks

[general_rowdy]

Those idiots took my rubber mallet..... 30second car search and the asshole decides to take my fucking rubber mallet -.- ohhhh hiiii what am I supposed to beat the stakes in with? my hand? my foot? ok.... guess I have to use my foot smh smh

[Bons222000]

#1 buy hot glue gun
#2 buy box of grranola bars or cereal or some shit.
#3 reseal box with hot glue gun

Ive never ever ever seen anyone open "unopened" food items. There you go kids.

I've done this 3 years running now and never even had a hint of a problem.

[Lurker_in_a_tree]

Thanks for ruining it for next year. Brilliant guys just brilliant

[grannock]

Yep, next year security is opening all of your food items.

[datBass]

Anyone got updates?

[lehorne]

unraveling sleeping bags? Jeez, there goes that idea. Must get more creative then.

2011 was actually pretty quick and easy. Should arrive around 10pm so hopefully the crew is kind.

[dlmdlm]

Are they searching persons thoroughly or only the cars?

[CaseSensitive]

Yes, we need to know. Hopefully someone posts about the severity of the searches.

[Mike Litoris]

Also curious if they're actually enforcing the rule about metal tent stakes.

[stellarpoet22]

Wow no updates yet.
Hmmmmmm.
It'll be the same like every other year.
If you have anything illegal on you- then hopefully you'll get lucky and get someone who is too overwhelmed by the toll line madness to search your things

[stellarpoet22]

Good luck!
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