snow patrol

There was a Snow Patrol concert at school last night. I was going to buy tickets when they first came out, but they ended up being a bit pricier than I had thought they would be, so it wasn't going to work out. Ed and I decided to go check out the concert, since it was on campus and you could hear it by just standing outside the venue. There was a walkway which would have been a great place to chill out and listen to the concert, right behind the stage, but it was surrounded by caution tape. We found this perfect place which actually overlooked the stage from the second floor of Manchester Hall outside. I figured that nobody would bother us because we were pretty far from the stage (despite being able to see it) and there were no signs saying that we were not allowed to be there. But sure enough, after about five minutes a police officer approached us and told us that we were not allowed to be there. Ed started to protest, since there really was no good reason they shouldn't let us be there, and the officer (who apparently couldn't find a good enough reason to make us leave either) called for backup. So we just left. It was pretty stupid-- why couldn't they just have put caution tape on it if they did not want people standing there?