Believe me, I have enough my mind, my countrymen are hanged and murdered in Iran and I just sit and watch, the last thing I need is you and your filthy shadow on my back in NSLC, on a Friday evening of an endless week when I’m buying some booze. What? Suspect you found a shoplifter? Think you hit upon a potential terrorist? Does your un-evolved brain figure a link between black curly hair and crime? From when did security guards try to assist in buying liquor? From when did looking at Vodka bottles for more than 60 seconds become suspicious? You find my ass interesting that you cannot stop staring at my back? Or my wife’s? You love my fart smell so much that you cannot stop following me to the cashier? You want to kiss me goodbye out of the store? Crazy racist deluded ass hole. You want to check ID, please do. You want to search my every hole for explosives, again, you’re welcome. Just stop lurking and sniffing behind my back.
—restless
This article appears in Feb 11-17, 2010.
yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
It’s a dirty job….but someone’s got to do it!
If I watch someone at the liquor store it’s because they act sketchy or resemble a suspected shoplifter. Could be different in your case. I dunno, I wasn’t there.
I figured the security there is extra-zealous with everyone because they get alcoholics shoplifting or something…they watch me like a hawk whenever I’m in there and I don’t think I look sketchy. Although I’m young and I’m not white, so who knows, maybe I do
I only pay attention to people if they are constantly looking over their shoulders at me, spending 10 minutes in an aisle “waiting” for staff and customers to move away, etc. I’m sure some guards discriminate against people unfairly, as that’s bound to happen in any job where you have some authority. There’s always going to be some jackass security guards, bouncers, cops, etc.
Sodeypop, you hit da’ nail on the, proverbial, head. This “authority” you reference, combined with white privilege, means that caucasian police, bouncers, security guards, customs officers, sales clerks, landlords, etc., feel license to be EXTRA vigilant with non-white customers and patrons – and looking “sketchy” has little to do it, since my treatement is only, marginally, better when I am wearing suit (unless you count my dark skin as being “sketchy”). Having said that, after having lived in 6 provinces, before returning home, it seems this sh*t is more pronounced here, than in other parts of Canada…and to the poster “LIFE SUCKS”: BITE ME AND HAVE SOME EMPATHY FOR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS!
in kay’s voice: “Typical Nova Scotia..racists and bullies.”
Um, dude, I’ve been ripped off by Lebanese landlords, met black bouncers that were assholes, etc. Don’t just assume white people are the only assholes that abuse their authority, as that’s racist in itself.
I don’t know but I don’t think race has anything to do with it really. Every time I go in the NSLC I am asked by just about every employee there if they can help me, or send me in the right direction, or what I’m looking for. I find that they are almost too attentive to customers. I’m the type if I want help I will ask but don’t need someone to hold my hand while making my decision on what to buy. So I think race has very little to do with this. I do take offence to the “white privilege” comment, sounds like you have just as much problems with people that are different then yourself as you are claiming others have.
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Terrible,
Laughably
Dense,
Racist
Kunt
Having
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I cheated on the k but whatever. I’m sure miles can top me anyways.
Again, people who have something to hide become angered when authorities suspect them. I support the NSLC. I would’ve done the same.
OP in all your statements of atrocities in Iran you come from . Be lucky all he did was shadow you and not hang your ass . Be lucky your here , where the worst you get was you got . Welcome the fuck to canada. Now sit down – thanks yourself for being lucky to be here , shut up and enjoy the ride .
I’m not angry that they watch me so closely but I do feel vaguely offended on some level [I am not the OB]. I had the security guard ask for my ID as soon as I entered the store the other day…does this happen to anyone else?
Fuckin OP sounds like a canadian hating racist himself . Planes fly back to where you came from . Imagine calling us un evolved ? Look where you come from OP and check your un evolved comment again . No wonder people get pissed at some of you .
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sebastian, “people who have something to hide become angered when authorities suspect them…”
Actually, it’s the other way around. Don’t you ever watch The First 48? The people being questioned who are not guilty are angry as FUCK to be accused. The guilty ones are just unreasonably defensive or very very quiet.
Back to the gastapo wielding country you hail from, bastian, this is Canada! I was reminded by the bitches just last week that you’re “innocent until proven guilty”. Treating people like thieves just because… is NOT cool. Not in Canada, anyway. This is a valid bitch and should not exist in this day and age especially not here, not in my Canada. Disappointing.
I find the NSLC security and general staff to be everywhere I go in those stores (NB: I am a white chick). I just think they have a policy of tailing people who don’t walk straight to the beer and then straight back to the cash. They will also ID at random, even for people who actually aren’t buying booze and then kick them out. My feeling is that they’ve probably had lots of trouble in the past with shoplifting and minors.
Kay, you actually just made me lose my shit because you offered up a TV show to support your point.
@ theweedhog:
what you are doing in your second comment is called “generalization”. You are generalizing a specific case to “us”. Now I assume you are an adult, theweedhog, but your approach is that of an eight year old. So based on this, your brain is un-evolved too.
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jen, I’m not a cop and I won’t pretend I am but the cops in The First 48 are real as are their suspects. They’re also American but that doesn’t change the nature of people. Get it? “Reality” TV??? You should give the weekly sitcoms a break and try something REAL that corresponds with basic psychology then you too could offer some incite to this bitch.
nn… give up on the hog.. waaaayy tooooo muuuuucchhh weeeeeeeeed and I think he’s about 14 going on 8 just learning what “obtuse’ means and likes it. Don’t waste your time.
Insight. ahem.
It’s still just a fucking TV show, edited for your entertainment.
I think OP hit the nail on the head here. Is it not, just, that the security guards have a thing for fart smells? I mean come on….. you have the audacity to walk into the NSLC, let a couple of bombs drop (sorry- couldn’t resist) and then question the poor security guards impulses when all he is guilty of is a flatulation infatuation? Perhaps, NEXT TIME, OP, you let all the gas out of your ass before entering public places of commerce. We are not ALL able to contain ourselves around such hot, sexy farters such as yourself.
You often get ID’d in the store right when you walk in because then minors are asked to leave immediately, they can’t show their friends what to get them, etc. And yes, if you aren’t buying anything it doesn’t matter. Minors aren’t allowed in the NSLC unless a parent is with them. Not a sibling, not an older friend. We are doing our jobs and I get no pleasure from ruining people’s nights. Be smart and do what I did as a kid: get a friend’s older sister to buy booze.
@sodeypop: I always get ID’d so always bring my ID with me.
One time I didn’t bother because I was just going in with someone else so that they could get a 6 pack of beer for them self. When we got to the cash they ID’d him, then ID’d me and because I didn’t have any ID on me, refused to sell him his beer.
Now I can understand getting ID’d and kicked out because I had none, and I can understand if buddy I was with was buying a crap load of booze. I’m also 25 so can’t look that young, so what the fuck was up with that shit!
Normally we’ll try to get you out of the store before your buddy makes his purchase lol. Kinda shitty, but you have to be able to prove your age in a liquor store, just like a bar. I don’t think I’ve seen people get ID’d when with their friend at the register. Usually you’ll get ID’d when you’re walking around the store first. I know it blows, but people have to learn to keep their friggin ID in their wallet and realize there’s a chance you’ll get ID’d when you’re just in your 20s. I’ve brought my ID to every single bar and liquor store I’ve ever gone to. I’m 23 and people sometimes think I’m 16. One time I was checking ID’s and some woman said “I wanna see your ID, you look like a 15 year old.”
Either way , not matter what anyone thinks . If someone don’t like the country , please leave. I was stating that in his country they are busy hanging and beating you to death for infractions as little as reading the wrong book . If that makes me un evolved , so be it . To many people coming from war torn , dictator run , lunitic run whatever places . And then come here and bitch because of some stupid thing as this. I stick to my point . Thanks to good lord your here in Canada . Atleast we won’t publicly beat you daughters to death for fucking the wrong guy .