Hannah Riley
There are few greater feelings than sneaking into an event you really wanted to go to but didn’t want to pay the cover for. When I was a teenager, my dad had five or six fake “Press” badges that he used to get us into concerts and occasionally backstage. It was interesting to see how little security places had and how easy it was to just walk in through back doors.
People on Reddit’s Act Like You Belong share all the best stories from people who beat the system with just a high visibility vest or a fake nametag. Here are some of the most interesting things they’ve gotten away with.
1. “Looking out for real brothers”
2. They’ll find a way!
3. “A powerful weapon in your arsenal”
4. “Daron Malakian (guitarist of System of a Down) pretending to be a random fan and telling a magazine how great the band is (1999)”
5. “Back when AOL was a thing.”
6. Acting Squared
7. “Comedian Gallagher saw me signing to my deaf son in front of the stage at his show in Alaska and assumed I was an interpreter for him. I signed the whole show on stage (me far left)”
8. “Got a job!”
9. “Youtube streamer pretends to play UFC so he could stream the entire PPV without being copyrighted”
10. “Commit to the bit.”
11. King of loopholes
12. “No weapons, no fear tactics, no physical harm done”
13. Easier than asking people
14. Jaw dropping? Definitely
15. “Women Are Not Allowed To Attend Soccer Matches In Iran. 5 Girls Sneak In Azadi Stadium In Disguise To Celebrate Persepolis Championship In Iran’s Persian Gulf Pro League”
16. Sneak: 100
17. “Snuck into a festival using bottles of water and a high-vis vest”
18. “Dad couldn’t get a reservation at a restaurant, calls back pretending to be Prime Minister of Morocco. Gets best seat in the house and signs a plate for the chef”
19. “Man stole $122m from Facebook and Google by sending them random bills, which the companies dutifully paid”
20. If you have a clipboard!? Oh man, the world is your oyster.
21. This is an ingenious solution
22. “The day i pretended to be TMZ to get this photo of Tom Hiddleston.”
23. “Painted this mural illegally during daytime by acting like I belonged”
24. “This lady was in a search party looking for… herself!”
25. “Mom of the year or… dad of the year ?”
26. Getting Backstage With Wikipedia
27. “My dad disguising himself to get in the yearbook twice (1980s)”
28. “I give y’all permission too”
29. “If it was a Popeyes I would too”
30. “The Ol Miss Frizzle Disguise”
