Hypothetical Scenario: Asshole Bouncers

[Termite]

So far my only experience with bouncers has been discovering that apparently, in the UK, if you are huge and American you will be searched before you can come in.

What does size have to do with anything?

[Bob K]

I guess I've gotten old. But if a place needs a bouncer, I'm not going in.

[Termite]

I guess I've gotten old. But if a place needs a bouncer, I'm not going in.

Yeah, me too.

[MDCMKY]

I spent several years working as a "bouncer" while going to school in Arizona and Oklahoma. The place in Ok. was big and there were several fights every night. I always used "compulsive tactics" to provoke the "trouble maker" [who refused to leave] to take a swing at me and then I would ply my trade on them and [usually] drag them out either unconscious or semi-conscious, as that negates any liability, lessened my risk and [honestly] was a lot more fun.

In Az. I worked at a wild "topless joint"; you know a "peeler club" and man there were [one or more] riots every night that would [sometimes] spill out into the street with people really going at it. I carried a lead filled "sapper", wore sand filled "knockout" gloves and we had an arsenal of batons, mace, cattle prods and guns always at the ready. We sprayed a lot of mace, went through quite a few batons and the furniture took quite a beating; but not as much of a beating as we gave the maniacs and weirdos who challenged us. There was one rule there; if you cause trouble you're ordered to leave and if you decline the one and only chance you get beaten and carried out [really you exited "airborne"].

I finally decided to give up "the life" after being shot at numerous times and coming very close to death.

[Jericho941]

So far my only experience with bouncers has been discovering that apparently, in the UK, if you are huge and American you will be searched before you can come in.

What does size have to do with anything?

They're not bothered by small Americans, apparently.

[workinwifdakids]

Or large Ukranians. It has to be the big, combined with the American, to provoke that sort of paranoia and stereotyping.

[HTRN]

I guess I've gotten old. But if a place needs a bouncer, I'm not going in.

What about a place that checks everybody with metal detecters before they go in?

[TheIrishman]

What about a place that checks everybody with metal detectors before they go in?

There are are only two types of places I know around hear that do that. There are a few in Newark that I can think of(who cater to a certain wannabe gangsta clientele) and Go-Go's in less than favorable neighborhoods. "Breathless" in Rahway has metal detectors and guys to pat you down. With the HUGE amount of money that passes through a place like that it is kinda understandable, but really not gonna make a difference if a few well armed men decided to rob the place. The last time I was there for a bachelor party, I swapped out my EDC Gerber folder for a Cold Steel FGX Boot Knife. If I'm going to the "hood" i aint going alone.

[Greg]

I guess I've gotten old. But if a place needs a bouncer, I'm not going in.

What about a place that checks everybody with metal detecters before they go in?

I went to the Statue of Liberty anyway.

[HTRN]

I was talking about the now defunct Birch Hill Nightclub - although we didn't get wanded, they patted down everybody who went in.. On top of that they had lost their liquor license six months before, so everybody was drinking(heavily I might add) in the parking lot before they went in. So you now have a crowd of angry drunken miscreants in a room that really should have had about half the number of people in it.

It was a wild show.