Exactly how strict do the security guards downtown need to be!
Downtown on Saturday night I was out after a post Christmas work party at a certain irish pub with some work friends, the security wouldn’t let another couple of my friends in because the girl had brown hair in her ID and now has blonde hair. Security boy asked her for a more recent ID photo, which she presented in form of her school ID, they asked for her health card, she presented it, but for some reason they decided that she still wasn’t who she said she was. So we decided to go to a club and they explained to me that they weren’t able to let me in as my Australian drivers license isn’t good enough id anymore, even though i have been let into said club before just with just the drivers license previously and i need my passport or a Nova Scotia id, the same thing happened at another club, until we finally got to ‘the best club’ and they let me in, how my blonde friends drink got spiked while we were there is another bitch all together but what i want to know is if this so called security company has just made up this rule or if it is legit? If it is legit, the bars are just asking to stop making money from this exchange student/working holiday/tourist attracting town?
—Aussie who still had a great night
This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2010.
It’s legal, as there’s no legislation requiring them to accept an out-of-country ID (with the exception of a passport). Carry your passport if you don’t have any Canadian Govt. issued ID. I would have thought they would have gone over that in “Going to Another Country 101” back in Australia. Afraid you’ll lose it? Afraid you’ll have it stolen? Too bad, become a landed resident and get a proper card from immigration.
All I do know is that they don’t have to accept expired ID at bars as a form of identification.Beats me – maybe check with service NS or the liquer commission .
Hey Aussie Sheila, you should be thankful the bouncers are relatively nice here compared to the big mean Samoan or Maori blokes you usually have to deal with at the clubs in Melbourne! Swanston Street is a zoo at night with heaps more bashings and glassings than Halifax could ever imagine. And the trains and trams from the City stop at 1am which, for a city like Melbourne, is pretty fucking ridiculous if you ask me (don’t even mention the Night Rider… BARF!).
But good on ya for your Bitch, love – I reckon the bouncers here have gotten a bit more strict lately. Just let them hear that cute Aussie accent and they’ll probably be a lot more receptive to you.
PS: VB beats Carlton any day!
the bars here don’t have to allow anyone in they don’t want to… they don’t really need a good reason and they don’t typically have one.
i sometimes carry a small mirror in an inside pocket,when numbnuts asks me for a picture i.d.,i pull out the mirror,aim to him a bit,and say there you gou go.helps more if you have a signature at the bottom tho.have a good one peoples.
“how my blonde friends drink got spiked while we were there…”
The club that let you in with no problems also let in the person who was spiking women’s drink. I think I’d rather go to the club with the intense security.
or better yet, not at all.
Nah it’s not new. My cousin and her fiance came to visit from Ontario and they were both pushing 30 at the time and their health cards/drivers licenses weren’t good enough — they wanted to see a birth certificate (with no picture on it, but whatever), so they were asked to leave. This was back in…early 2007?
Apparently Ontario ID is really easy to fake or something, though I think they were being douches for some unknown reason because the guy checking IDs studied my ID like he was taking a fucking test and didn’t look at me once to compare the picture and seemed a bit annoyed he had to take it as valid ID. I have a NS ID. From that little inspection I got the feeling he wanted us to leave. Oh well.
Pushing 30?…yeah, they really don’t want your kind there = p
Yeah, I’m pretty sure there was some sort of discrimination going on there, HKM, in regards to my cousin and/or her fiance (one is a minority) because when I went back a few months later (I didn’t want to, but a friend really wanted to go and they were visiting from out of town — let’s just say this place is a “novelty” type of club) they had no problem with me. They didn’t even ask for ID when they took my drink order!
You don’t say, PK…
I took a just over 30, Indian friend (from out of town) to the club one night (♫ dom da dom dom dom ♫), and we got in okay–there was nothing to stop them from letting us in. But, after we went outside for some cool air and went to re-enter, she stumbled. They refused her entry saying she was too drunk. I said to them, are you kidding me? she stumbled on the uneven sidewalk. They didn’t care. Since our stuff was inside, we simply went to the entrance on the other side and walked in.
It never occurred to me that there might be a reason outside of the fact that a group of young bombshells were waiting to get in.