If you were to cross the Miss Universe beauty pageant with a high school musical and the United Nations, you would have the glory that is Eurovision.
This year the song competition is taking place in Lisbon, Portugal and will go from Wednesday the 9th of May, with the finals taking place on Saturday the 12th of May.
In preparation for the song and dance competition, Eurovision have released a list of prohibited items that audiences will not be able to bring in, and they’re a little bit odd.
Watch Dami Im’s second-place scoring ballad ‘Sound of Silence’ at the 2016 Eurovision competition:
The list starts with the standard things – no explosives, alcohol, knives, drugs or syringes… and then it gets weird.
Eurovision officials thought it was necessary to specify that shopping trolleys, lasers, handcuffs, chains, spray cans and crowbars will not be allowed onto the premises either.
Important list of banned items for the audience at #Eurovision next month. pic.twitter.com/y1WqKZFMAw
— Ellie (@ellie_made) April 24, 2018
Top Comments
Damn, I was just going to pop in after the supermarket shopping with my trolley, now I have to go home first, very inconvenient.
To Be fair, they’ve probably had issues with this stuff in the past to ban it. But hey it’s Eurovision, it’s fun