A great strategy but has its limits. Just a few weeks ago some guys tried a rather good version of this strategy in Estonia to sneak into a Rammstein concert. Not only did they have high-vis vests, but one of them also had high-vis pants, both of them had working gloves and they were carrying a ladder. [1]

It didn't work out though, they didn't get past security. I think one of the major flaws in their attempt was that they arrived too late, thousands of regular people were already on the premises. They should have come early in the morning.

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[1] https://f7.pmo.ee/Rur-qzbdJAu0h_EKSRoidSHPFsg=/1536x0/nginx/...

Never mind that most stage hands wear exclusively black, not high-viz. A concert is probably one of the few places where seeing someone in a high-viz outfit stands out.

I have successfully deployed this strategy by just dressing in black and carrying around a heavy duty speakon cable. Worked every time.

2 men carrying a ladder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiEMcjSQOzg

are you being sarcastig? This was the news a week ago: Guy got into front row at an open air concert, by wearing a security vest.

This strategy is widely known in folklore.

I used to regularly do this by accident.

I used to live and socialise in a place where a lot of my city's security guards and bouncers drank, and became if not friends, at least familiar with many of them. (Kings Cross in Sydney in the 80s/90s)

I also used to pretty much exclusively wear black jeans, black t-shirts and when it was cold enough a black leather bike jacket.

I would often show up to clubs or gigs, and just get waved in by whoever was on the door because that assumed I was arriving for work.

I've never worked as security in my life.

> I used to regularly do this by accident.

> I would often show up to clubs or gigs, and just get waved in

I’m clearly missing the accidental nature of your actions.

It was the middle part between the two bits you quoted - he was just going to a show, was in a phase where he liked wearing all black, and would get waved in without even intentionally trying to trick anyone because they assumed he was arriving for work. Does that help?

I didn’t interpret “show up” as having purchased tickets and planned to enter, rather unintentionally get let in as was their implication.

Show up can just mean arrive, no implication one way or the other.

Yeah. These would all have been "show up and pay at the door" type places, not sold out weeks in advance with pre-booked tickets. Bouncer (or sometimes door bitch) takes your money, unless the bouncer waves you through.

I remember a video where two guys snuck into Disneyland wearing these security vests