To the assortment of douche bags working at a downtown club the other night, I hope you shit heads know how to read: You told my brother to get out after five beers for apparently “having too much to drink” and no other reason. When he got to the coat check, he couldn’t find his shit and you guys kicked him out into the street in his t-shirt, on a freezing night, telling him to come back and look tomorrow. When he returned the next day his coat was—surprise, surprise—mysteriously gone. I sincerely hope whichever one of you power tripping bitches snatched it is struggling financially more than my student brother. Regardless, why don’t you show humanity some respect this Christmas and go die, you immoral pack of worthless fucks. —Disgusted Former Haligonian
This article appears in Dec 16-22, 2010.
ah yes, a new bitch with a fresh subj…..
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crap.
hope you felt good getting that off your chest.
Yes and it is the club’s fault for your brother’s drunkeness and his losing his coat check ticket. Again blaming someone else for personal responsibility.
Exactly, Bro Tim. I’m sure the bouncers held his mouth open and poured five beer in his gob against his will. If you’re going to drink that stupidly, maybe you ought to drink at home or not at all.
When did five beers get anyone drunk?? This is why I don’t drink downtown anymore – too many ass hats who run these “establishments”. Much less hassle at home, I never kick myself out after five beers 🙂
The guy had 5 beer at the bar…my question is how many did he have before he got to the bar?
Exactly RC. And different people have different alcohol tolerance levels, so your brother could very well be too intoxicated to stay. I know I wouldn’t want some slobbering drunk hanging around when I was trying to enjoy my evening.
On the flip side, I also have friends who have been kicked out of bars (literally picked up and thrown onto the sidewalk) who were perfectly sober. It’s a crapshoot, really, and hfx bouncers aren’t known for being the kindest of people at any given time.
I remember a couple years ago the Student Association at the college I went to decided to have a Christmas party at what was pretty much the only bar in town. There was this one guy (who I had the great misfortune of living with) who got cut off in no more than half an hour because he was so fucking drunk. It was somewhat hilarious for a bit, then it wasn’t.
Anyone who is STUPID ENOUGH to go to those dumps they call bars in the downtown, deserve whatever they get.
Maybe being a student…you’ll learn something from this…chances are against it, but hey, one can always hope right !?!
I’m going to actually take a chance and extend my sympathies towards the OP and his brother, because the same thing happened to me once upon a time, and I don’t care. People make mistakes. I’m sure people here have mistakenly gotten drunk once upon a time, too drunk for your own good. If you woke up the next day and found out your personal possessions were gone, I’m sure you wouldn’t just settle with, “Oh well, my fault!” Whatever, people. You’d be pissed, either at yourself or at the establishment that kicked you out.
It sucked for me because not only did I lose my jacket, but I also lost my camera which happened to be in the pocket of it, as well as my keys. I suppose it could have been worse as all things were replaceable, but I sincerely wish that the person who had the gall to take my jacket got hit by a car.
I lost my coat check ticket once…I went to the girl right away and explained…and told her my id was in the pocket…it must have fallen out of my jeans pocket almost as soon as I got it from her…cause not even 30 mins after I got to the bar I realized it was missing. She let me back there to search for it…but some asshole picked it up and stole my coat. It was brand new too. I was only 19…learned my lesson never to wear a nice coat to grimy bars again.
There’s no excuse for taking something that’s not yours. I hope the person who took OP’s brother’s jacket and your jacket/camera, jdp gets hit by a car too.
Actually the OB doesn’t say his/her brother lost the coat check, just that he couldn’t find his shit. Nice jacket I bet. Like RC says, lesson learnt “never to wear a nice coat to grimy bars again”.
I’m also sure that some staff scope out the nice stuff & who’s so intoxicated that they would be an easy mark.
The commenters on this board are the hugest fucking bunch of hypocrites. Just because your old crusty asses are too wrinkled and bitter to head out to the local establishments, don’t spew your hatred towards those who decide not to be boring pricks and head out to have some fun. It’s too bad the guy drank too much but NO ONE should be sent out of a bar in the middle of December without their coat. The bar should be fined. The least they could have done was sent the guy home in a cab. And guess what, I worked security at a bar in NL and I’ve done just that with overly festive bargoers during Christmas. The guy was just having fun, give him a fucking break.
I agree on the T-shirt in the winter part 100% – they should have helped him find his coat. But the bars here have absolulty no customer service skills and the bouncers mostly are a bunch of assholes on power trips. The guys make like $12-15 an hour.
I’ll put money on it that this guy goes back to that same bar down the road though.
If this guy truly felt he was being mistreated he should have called the police…but I’m sure he would have landed himself in the drunk tank.
I’m far from a hypocrite, and my ass is far from crusty and old….thank you very much.
NL… you’re right, we should all go downtown, have our jacket stolen, get in arguments with staff, and be kicked out on our collective asses in the cold!
that’s the good time we’re all missing that makes us all crusty and bitter.
you sir, can have that ‘good time’, I’ll stick to bbq, cranium, and grounders.
NewfoundLands?????export…. I go out all the time.
I just make sure I go somewhere besides the shitholes in the bar section of Downtown Halifax.
There are other better spots.
Try Celtic Corner, or Jacobs in Dartmouth
In Halifax, why not Bearly’s ,or Stainers.
I’ve never had a probelm in Curly’s in Enfeild, or Shooters either.
There’s a decent pub in Stewiak, there are several I can think of in Truro. I like the Kings Arms in Kentville, Joe’s pub & Paddy’s pub in Wolfville, the black bear in Windsor…although its been about 5 years since I’ve been to that one, I’ve been to all I’ve mentioned this past year most of them more than once…& a lot of other spots as well.
Good call on all the bars More…I have to say I’ve had a good time at a few of them…and never had the hassle and crap of Downtown Hali.
I have never lost a coat check ticket in my life, even if I’m drunk. Coat check ticket stays in your wallet, which stays in your pocket! And if you do go to the skankier places expect skankier treatment from bouncers and staff so don’t attract attention to yourself.
Well well well… the assholes are in full force today. Obviously because the guy had a few too many beers he deserved to get his jacket stolen, he also deserved to be fired out into the street in a tee shirt. It doesn’t matter wether or not he was slobbering drunk or not, the untrained, roid freak, football player bouncer douchebags seem to think it is some sort of right of passage to mistreat bar patrons. In my younger years I have seen many people be abused unnecessarily by bouncers, in my opinion, that kind of confrontational attitude does nothing to diffuse the situation, but aggrivates it to a point where only violence will end it.
never ever take your coat or jacket off in one of those places. and if by chance you do, give it to a friend to hold on to for you for a few minutes. fuck, it ain’t rocket science you know. if you are that fucked up from booze, then maybe consider not drinking so much.
and o.p., 5 beers are a lot for some wussie people.
There are places in Halifax where the bouncers have been going overboard for years…
hiring test for bouncer:
Employer holds up hand and asks “how many fingers am I showing”
bouncer “what are fingers?”
You’re hired, want some steroids with that?
I think the real issue is that the power-tripping thugs chucked someone out in the cold with nothing.
This shit has never happened to me, but happened to my sister years ago – before cell phones were common so when she got kicked out not only did she not have the means to call anyone but had no money and nothing to keep her warm during the middle of winter.
Yeah, I know, personal responsibility and all and no doubt my sister made some stupid decisions but what the fuck is wrong with common decency? She ended up being assaulted that night after she’d been kicked out, and it could have ended a lot worse.
Even if bouncers have a legitimate reason for kicking a person out, it doesn’t mean that they should make a bad situation worse by effectively removing opportunities for the night to end safely for the person who’s probably had way too much to drink.
Why not let them call a friend or at least find their friend so that they can let someone know what’s happening to them?
Oh right, that would actually involve empathy. I bet if the city’s bouncers had a bit of that they’d be able to de-escalate situations instead of exacerbating them like they usually do.