Donald L. Tucker Civic Center — Attraction in Tallahassee

Last night I attempted to take my fiancé to a FSU basketball game at the Donald Tucker Center for his birthday. First let me make clear, I have severe asthma and the seats we had were somewhat far away. When we finally got to our seats and sat down. I made sure we weren’t around people(and their wasn’t due to seating arrangements so it was fine), pulled my mask down. Took a puff of my inhaler and was just trying to breathe for a moment before pulling it back up. Within the 5 mins of this happening, a bald man came up VERY passive aggressively got in my face with no manners, no kind gestures(Literally within forearms reach of me I could smell his breath.) As he proceeded to start threatening both of us. Stating that we better be wearing our masks or he will have someone escort us off the property. I asked him “Sir, sir please step back out of my face. This is NOT 6 feet, you are making me uncomfortable...” As he was! Both of us, EXTREMELY uncomfortable with his face being in mine so closely. When I asked him to please do that, he grabbed his walkie-talkie and started yelling “SECURITY SECURITY.” As if we were the ones being threatening? Or angry? Which we were not at all, I was asking him to respect my boundaries. We agreed with him. So I then went to go get us some drinks, and food from the snack bar. I look over to my left and this man is pointing at me to a pair of cops! I was shocked! Why were we being targeting for no reason??.. After we were already completely compliant. I get back to my seat, pull my mask down to take a sip of my drink. Then a sheriff comes over (with his hand on his gun!!!!) and tells us(two grown 30 year old adults with purchased tickets) that if we do not comply and listen, if we are defiant again, that he will have us ARRESTED for trust passing!!! I said “Sir Even if I am drinking my beer?” I also did not feel the need to explain my medical conditions for I didn’t think it’s their business. He replied “IF AN ADULT TELLS YOU TO WEAR A MASK YOU RESPECT WHAT THEY SAY! YOU NEED TO DRINK MODERATELY AND STILL KEEP THE MASK CLOSE OR YOU WILL BE ESCORTED OUT.” Telling me how to drink my own beer? A grown woman! We very sadly ended up leaving because we were so unnecessarily uncomfortable at this point with the false attention he brought to us. This was the worst experience I’ve ever been in. The “manager of security” should be fired for the way he speaks to people. I will never purchase tickets from the Donald Tucker Center again because of the way we...

I attended the Noah Kahan concert on October 12 with a friend with Pit General Admission tickets. The artist's performance was phenomenal, but this was one of the worst cases of venue mismanagement I have ever seen. We arrived around noon and a group of fans had decided to establish a numbering system to honor the time of arrival. I understand that the venue has no responsibility to honor this, but what followed was an incredibly chaotic process that allowed attendees who arrived mere minutes before doors opened to enter the venue before those that had been waiting for hours. Venue staff waited to set up security checkpoints until less than 30 minutes before the doors opened. Additionally, these checkpoints were set up at a different entrance than additionally labeled, causing the line to be pushed back in an unorganized manner. Three different checkpoints resulted in the line to split in such a way that attendees much further back were now first in line. Before doors opened, event staff did not distribute wristbands to general admission attendees and once inside the venue, some staff insisted on viewing tickets again while others did not. This resulted on some attendees being able to reach the general admission area much more quickly, resulting in the aforementioned chaos that left many disappointed. It is widely understood that there are no guarantees with a general admission ticket, however, I am immensely disappointed in how this event was handled. It should make sense that an attendee that arrived 30 minutes before the doors opened should not be able to be in a better position than those that arrived 5+ hours earlier. I hope future events are handled...

Went for my sisters graduation. Got there early and felt very excited because this is a very big day for the students families. The “security” guard informed us that they have decided not to let large purses over the size of a foot in the arena. It was raining and we ubered we there. We explained that we feared of missing the graduation because we would have to uber again and try and make it through the traffic. Maybe there was a locker option? We also begged her to check the inside to see that there was nothing dangerous in the bags. She said she didn’t care and that we needed to get out of line. I took everyone’s purses and told them to go in the graduation and that I would try to make it back in time. As I stood in the rain waiting for another Uber, the “security” guard was laughing and telling her co workers that she thought she was going to have to “throw down” with my mother( she’s 60 and was distraught about possibly missing the biggest day of being a parent). I then saw other people in the arena walking around with much larger purses... I went to the entrance next door to the one I was at. I got right in with three “over sized purses” . Here are my questions for the “ security team” Where was your measuring tape to make sure our bags were too big? Did you only tell the un professional wand waver, this new rule? Why would you ever give people such a hard time on a very important day? Parents if you are going to graduation.... don’t bring...