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A flaw in PBB security
Author: BPBSecurity
Posted: Today - 05:52 am
where to start, where to start.
First off, sorry it’s taken so long for me to get the previously sent pm to direct me here. I actually quit the job before the end of the season and had a little holiday, so here we all are.
Secondly: I’d propose that the topic title should be changed to: "One of the many many flaws in BPB Security." Trust me when I say there are many.
The main thing to realise is this: the people employed on the security "team" aren’t trained professionals. No matter what they think (I include myself in this bracket) no-one receives any relevant training that would help avoid any serious terrorist attack to the park (not withstanding any so-called previous experience gained in other employment - such as the military etc).
To sum it up even more simply: Hardcore domestic / international terrorist, most likely with years of military training, not to mention the "specialist" training they’d get for such an attack, vs a seasonal, 6 per hour dis-interested security guard, whose main interest for being in said role is that it means they’re not a ride operator.
Please read the above paragraph again and again until you reach the right conclusion.
As far as the security scanners go (and if I’m right in my thinking, the young lady who posted earlier has a name that begins with "N"…..) can you imagine doing the same repetitive thing over and over and over and over and ov…. you get the idea. The thought of being stuck doing that terrifies me. Probably because I think it’d drive me mental, but who knows.
I can’t say I blame them for being lax, I know I couldn’t do it for an hour (on the occasions when I’ve hung about to help out) never mind anything up to 12. Again though, they’re not government trained experts, I doubt most (if any) of them cared about little more than what time they escaped, or how much they’d get paid at the end of the week.
The attitude of some members of the security team has always been a source of amusement for me. I don’t claim to have the most customer-orientated attitude, but then again to coin someone else’s phrase, that place is for the most part like a holding pen for the Jeremy Kyle show (present company of course, excluded).
Still, some of the ways I’ve seen situations handled are, for want of a more suitable derisory term - laughable. Still, let’s not get too personal, huh.
I’m not sure what else I can say right now (it IS ridiculously early in the morning, though) but I’d like to finish with this:
| Adrian wrote: |
| Of course security matters, however the issue of security letting somebody they know through the barriers doesn’t. In order to stop a terrorist security at PBB would need a root and branch reform to have a cat in hells chance. In its current guise it is only just better than a chocolate fire guard. |
This is the single post in this entire thread that sums it up perfectly.
The security features that are in place are all well and good when it comes to your average scrote from Barrow-In-Furness that’s had one shandy too many, your average local running a wristband scam or whatever, but in the event that the place was ever identified as a TRUE target (over several hundreds of better placed and more high-brow targets within this country) then you all need to realise that we’d be in serious trouble.
I’m taking questions now 
Orbiter + other old ride piccys
Author: blackpoolfan
Posted: Today - 02:23 am
Hi Ian,
It was actually the other way round. The Tidal wave Started on South Park then ended up next to Fun House (It was there on the night of the fire, but was undamaged).
Back to the Flying Carpet, and can anyone remember how Geoffrey marked the opening?
Does anyone remember the PBB tv documentory series??/
Author: ianjenson
Posted: Yesterday - 10:40 pm
i couldnt help laughing at some of the above comments, bad publicity indeed,
90 percent of that show was staged, as is most "reality" tv. if you look past the obvious it actually reflects pleasure beach in an extremly good light, which is pretty much what the brief was, according to the production notes. job done.
you do realise it was a scripted drama practically in every sense, well the scripts are real enough. as are the direction notes, the public for the most part are just that, the public
You can be selfish in the Maze, or…
Author: FallenAbyss
Posted: Yesterday - 09:52 pm
Well i’ve only ever done Blackpools Maze once and to be honest although a few times I did end up going round in circles, I didn’t find it too difficult … the whole point of a maze is for it to be a challenge and if it were too easy i’d seriously be having a whinge !! lol
However if i did know the maze well enough then if someone was looking desperate for help or like they were getting really annoyed chances are I would help them but only if they were obviously annoyed or distressed as I wouldn’t want to spoil their fun 
London Eye by Day and Night
Author: graham618
Posted: Yesterday - 09:30 pm
Great pics Colin!
We went on it a few years back, it was good fun. Doesn’t half let you see the amount of smog that permanently hangs over London though!
I really like London, but can only take it in small doses. Like Cliff, I just feel that there are altogether too many people charging about as if their lives depended on it. It’s stressful just watching them
[PHOTOS] - New Travelodge At PBB.
Author: graham618
Posted: Yesterday - 08:34 pm
Yeah, there never is an option online. You’d need to book over the phone or in person I guess. Even then, I wouldn’t say it’d be in any way guaranteed. It is usually, as you say, pot luck!
I stayed in a TravelInn once, and due to lack of rooms we got upgraded to a family room with a balcony. But the balcony was locked, I guess because we’d paid normal price
Does the Travelodge even have sea views? I kinda presumed all the rooms would be facing 90 degrees from the sea. Even if you could see down to the sea, isn’t the Sandcastle in your way?!
Pleasure beach general photos, tone mapped images
Author: Bicko
Posted: Yesterday - 08:07 pm
Fantastic. 
Well done Paul.
Paid entry confirmed for 2009
Author: welcometomyworld
Posted: Yesterday - 07:36 pm
| Winnie wrote: |
| I too think the weather was better when I was a kid…! Summer holidays were 6 endless weeks of sun!!! |
Blame global warming.
But at the same time, be happy that the middle of November is not frosty.
Have you ever fancied working at the Pleasurebeach?
Author: welcometomyworld
Posted: Yesterday - 07:31 pm
Well as I started this thread I guess I better give my view.
"Simple answer really"
I would’nt work there…..FULL STOP!!
I enjoy visiting the park and riding the rides. To be a ride operator or even work somewhere else in gthe park watching other folk have loads of fun and ride all day while I’m busy working would depress me personally 
It’s each to their own..I guess?
burger shop igra
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