# Homes and businesses in RNC security zone **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 14, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homes-and-businesses-in-rnc-security-zone/759897 "2016-07-14T14:33:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homes-and-businesses-in-rnc-security-zone/759897/1 "2016-07-14T14:33:27Z")
> **[Tennis balls bounced from Cleveland 'event zone' -- but not guns | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/14/politics/cleveland-convention-guns-event-zone/index.html)** A number of everyday items are banned from a 1.7 Sq mile area of Cleveland. What are people who live and work in the area going to do? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homes-and-businesses-in-rnc-security-zone/759897/2 "2016-07-14T14:45:45Z")
Nobody lives there. It’s a 1.7sq mile area, 60% of which is taken up by the baseball and basketball stadiums and parking lots. The rest of it is streets and restaurants. They are probably not going to go in to restaurants looking for umbrellas with metal tips, but if you are walking the street with one, or a hammock, you will be relieved of it. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homes-and-businesses-in-rnc-security-zone/759897/3 "2016-07-14T14:53:22Z")
It’s going to really suck for the folks used to proudly displaying their containers of bodily fluid on a daily basis. They’re just out of luck. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homes-and-businesses-in-rnc-security-zone/759897/4 "2016-07-14T15:17:17Z")
Interesting - no tennis balls, but nothing said about golf balls. Seems to me, a golf ball would hurt more if it was bounced off your head… ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homes-and-businesses-in-rnc-security-zone/759897/5 "2016-07-14T15:49:07Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > What are people who live and work in the area going to do? Carry firearms. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homes-and-businesses-in-rnc-security-zone/759897/6 "2016-07-14T15:53:40Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Interesting - no tennis balls, but nothing said about golf balls. Seems to me, a golf ball would hurt more if it was bounced off your head… Didn’t read the article, but I’d guess it’s because a tennis ball can be filled with something while a golf ball can’t. As for businesses, I don’t know anything about this, a friend of mine had a restaurant in the middle of a huge festival ground during Labor Fest where Obama spoke. Tons of banned items, including things like knives and box cutters. All the boxes, cryovac bags, anything that might need to be sliced, diced, chopped, peeled etc all had to be done before he got there or at another location so all the sharp stabby things could be removed from the premises before Obama showed up. Luckily, I don’t thing any one (well, almost anyone) has that place as their only location, so most of them would do all this stuff the night before at their real restaurant, but still, it could be a real problem if you didn’t think to run a knife through all the bags of frozen hamburgers the night before. It wouldn’t surprise me if most of them kept a razor blade or small knife hidden somewhere in their building for just that reason. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homes-and-businesses-in-rnc-security-zone/759897/7 "2016-07-14T17:24:01Z")
Water guns-No. Real guns-Yes. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homes-and-businesses-in-rnc-security-zone/759897/8 "2016-07-14T17:31:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Water guns-No. > Real guns-Yes. > > Wow. They can have my water gun when they pry it from my cold, wet hand. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homes-and-businesses-in-rnc-security-zone/759897/9 "2016-07-15T02:50:38Z")
I note that those programmable notification signs over the area highways, and the TV-like billboards have the following message in rotation: “See something? Call the RNC hotline at 800-whatever” Dennis ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homes-and-businesses-in-rnc-security-zone/759897/10 "2016-07-15T03:00:43Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > I note that those programmable notification signs over the area highways, and the TV-like billboards have the following message in rotation: “See something? Call the RNC hotline at 800-whatever” > > Dennis Do you think doing math will be legal? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homes-and-businesses-in-rnc-security-zone/759897/11 "2016-07-15T06:14:35Z")
I work a few blocks from Levis Stadium. There was a restaurant there, and the owner thought he would do very well when the Super Bowl rolled in. But they set up a security area also, and he was inside of it, so it was not so good for him.