Im going to publicly shame a big night club here in adelaide on the bouncers subject.
Had my birthday back in january, went all over town going everywhere, we get to mansions we're going through the checks they ok all of us except 1 of my mates.
The bouncer tells him his ID has expired (which to his surprise had, he'd been up north working), so fair enough.
He then decides to accuse him of tampering with the expiry date on his ID and starts mouthing off to him, I ask him what the problem is.... he tells me to **** the **** up.
Refuses to hand my mates ID back, I inform him its illegal to hold on to it, he then starts making out like he's calling the cops on his radio, I make a remark about me calling the cops for real and having him get charged as he's holding his ID, tells us sapol are on there way and we should run.
At this point I identify myself as a security license and inform him that he has 30 seconds to hand over the license, he laughs so I start to call sapol for real on my phone (knowing they wont show up to this crap.
Throws the ID at my mate and tells him to **** off and never come back.
Next day I send the management there an email demanding a please explain and get sent this longwinded email from their head of security who claims he was there witnessed all of it, that he could guarantee my mate had a fake ID, we were lucky we didnt have charges pressed against us (for what?) and that I would need a court order to get a copy of the security footage.
I would have submitted a formal complaint but without the security footage which they just woulda wiped it wouldnt have done anything, i've mentioned this to a few cops who i used to work with in nightclubs and mansions is notorious for this.
I'm pretty easy going when i do security or bar work, but i wont break the law, and if someone so much as raises their voice at me ill refuse them entry / service.
Friday night i had some guy accuse me of any number of things because he came through the browse lane of the hotel i was contracting for, waited 2 minutes, then threw a tantrum because everyone in the service lane got served and he didnt.
He gets told yeah mate your in the browse lane, you pick what you want and come to us, we'd serve you there if it was quiet but there are 4 cars in the service lane.
He then starts to go on about how he got cut off and was meant to be in that lane, and starts yelling at everyone even the customers.
So i tell him he's refused service. Leave, gives me this bf story about how he's waited 10-15m.
I tell him leave.
Comes back 5m later... is staring right at me acts nice demands service, I tell him he's raised his voice at me, come back tomorrow, we dont tollerate that here we provide a safe environment for EVERYONE.
He stares right at me and starts demanding my name, considering I had a name badge on with my name in clear view for him to read and he couldnt make it out he was that out of it I wouldnt have allowed him service if he was being nice.
Anyway as for security guards id keep it out of this thread
as for the do's and donts.... just be up front with the officer, if you've done something bad, and are real about it (lets face it, if you've been doing something bad and been pulled over for it, they'd just love you to lie about it and make it worse).
They are more lenient.. I think I hold the record here for most times being pulled over in one trip.. last year when i broke my ribs in the blue mountains and drove back to adelaide in one hit with that and pneumonia it was same weekend bathurst was on, cant remember exact amount of times I got pulled over but it was about 8 times alone in bathurst, countless times in country nsw, 4 times when i crossed over to vic, and another 5 times in SA all within a 16 hour window.
I was driving a wrx with P plates..... which normally gives them a bundle of excuses, hobbling out of a car sick as hell with broken ribs, helped a lot to mask that... the one spot I was doing something wrong was heading into mildura, chick cop pulled me over and I admitted I was shaking a bit due to the pain and my lungs.
Expected to get a penalty for it.... instead got escorted into town and she let me rest for an hour in a carpark.
The other times I got pulled over... Hi how you going officer. Heres license and SA rego papers. Where do I breathe on this thing?..... and I was good to go most of the time (all the nsw cops checked my tint levels with a light thingy). All the SA cops checked my tyre tread but then I was good to go.
