Anyone met a bouncer that tried to start fights

[M3t4tr0n]

It's because they have to deal with assholes far too often and that makes them edgy and uncomfortable around people. It's a stressful job, take my word for it. I had been doing it for years. You're constantly on the lookout for trouble, have to immediately jump at every sign of misdemeanor and on top of all that, you have retards who wanna measure their strength by behaving like badasses in front of you. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention one little thing - the dangers of being shot, stabbed etc.

This. I've worked in a bar/ club it's a pain in the ass.

 

[TeTe]

I try not to f**k with bouncers. They can sometimes seem to escalate a situation and then can say "oh, he was drunk, I was just doing my job" if a fight breaks out.

Usually if you fight a bouncer and you are intoxicated, you have no defence, even if he was in the wrong.

I almost fought a bouncer because he got rough with my ex while she was waiting in line for the bathroom.. totally uncalled for. Mind you I was sober and have been for 13 years. I didn't care what his defense was, you don't push around a woman that's a third of your size. He tried kicking us both out.

Once outside I calmly asked to speak the manager and explained what happened. I don't think he was expecting someone sober to articulate an argument as to why his bouncer was being a jag off. He ended up letting us back in with the stipulation "that we behave". I was like whatever, but we didn't do a fucking thing wrong.

 

[Phlog]

I am regularly complimented for my politeness, I am very calm, I play good cop to my smaller colleagues bad cop acts.

That said even I lose my cool, what you have to understand is that drunk people lie about everything and will try to get away with anything they can. You have to make decisions quick and er on the side of unfairness. If you have a problem it has to be dealt with quickly so you can get watching the crowd again.

Funnily enough the largest part of evicting someone is for their own safety. An example of how being lenient costs: a few weeks back a guy was a little too drunk and mildly harassing ladies. A lass said something to him, he threw his drink on her and she glassed him in the face. She probably just meant to slap him as she was horrified with the result. He was scarred for life and might be blind in one eye, she will now get a serious criminal conviction.

A lot of the job is sorting situations before they happen, if you're good. That can come across as unfair to people because either they or the other person haven't done anything yet. You can't have a half hour discussion so you often have to be a bit of an arsehole if they aren't understanding.

 

[Phlog]

That said, there are plenty of arseholes attracted to the job. They don't often last long.

 

[Tyrannosaurus rex]

Fortunately not. Most of them were quite friendly in fact. But I've also never done anything that got me kicked out of an establishment.

I've heard some bad stories though. I guess some bouncers are just dickheads who want to assault people. But then again, you have dickheads in any profession.

 

[cartizel]

Bouncer in London seem ok for most parts. Since the security doorman industry has become more regulated you tend to hear less about rogue bouncers pulling teh UFC shit on the people. Saying that, I doubt any would regret sleeping someone who was trying to kick-off.

 

[MoparOrNoCar]

My guess is you've never worked as a bouncer before.

No I haven't and it doesn't matter. There's no reason to be a dick to someone who is just walking up and handing you an ID. There's zero excuse for it.

 

[bearVSshark]

There is a few good stories from bouncers on here in previous threads, but might be hard to find.

I generally stay in shifty dives in my town. The more popular nightlife towns in pgh, some bouncers can be hardasses. And like previous poster said, some seem inconvenienced to be there unless it's a cute broad

@S. Rico I'm talking about Southside in particular

 

[DoomPatrol]

I've met two. Most bouncers are not this way, but there are some out there. It was hard not to hit this one bouncer I met last week. The guy had me confused with somebody else and was talking shit and stuff. The weird thing about this guy is that he was really small.

I was a bouncer for about 5 years during college. I worked for 3 brothers who owned like 7 rap clubs, including 3 of the largest in my city. I also worked at a small 20+ year old college bar in the nice area of the city.

In my experience, bouncers that start fights don't last long. It opens the business up to liability and lawsuits, so owners will fire bouncers that get into too many fights. Also, that's a great way to get yourself shot walking to your car. I've been shot at because a different bouncer roughed up some kid kicking him out. I've had a friend get shot in the chest (luckily small caliber round hit his cell phone. incredible luck) after another bouncer kicked a guy out. Another bouncer I knew was shot at by some Hispanic gangsters after choking one out. And a bouncer down the street from my bar was murdered by someone he got into a fight with. Fighting isn't fun when people die afterwards.

I've definitely gotten into my share of fights, but I really try to avoid them. For one, it's not my business. It's no skin off my back if someone needs to get kicked out. I learned quick to pass blame onto "management" and "ownership" when kicking someone out. I'm just the messenger. I'd always try to get them outside to "talk" before I let them know they couldn't come back in.

 

[TSK]

Bjj in a streetfight? Thats risky, you could get kicked to oblivion by a third party while your on the ground.

Yeah, taking it to the ground in a situation like that is really dumb. Have fun getting punted in the head by one of the dude's friends.

 

[mac11]

I got stuck with it as friends/training partners worked at the bar and I needed a job. Being the new guy sucked ass... had to clean/mop the fucking bathrooms.
Girls, you're fucking filthy, never bitch about me missing the toilet again my god.

I had a worse one. working in a night club collecting glasses at 18, we each took turns in rotation at bathroom duty. which meant staying in the bathroom the whole night watching the place. the first night a dude and a girl went in the stall to fuck and left her thong behind. the ground was full of piss one night i walked straight out and quit fuck that

 

[Gregolian]

No I haven't and it doesn't matter. There's no reason to be a dick to someone who is just walking up and handing you an ID. There's zero excuse for it.

Doubt they were a dick to someone in that situation unless you were already a bit drunk and acting the part of an ass bitching the line wasn't moving fast enough.

 

[Mr Mojo Lane]

I was a bouncer for about 5 years during college. I worked for 3 brothers who owned like 7 rap clubs, including 3 of the largest in my city. I also worked at a small 20+ year old college bar in the nice area of the city.

In my experience, bouncers that start fights don't last long. It opens the business up to liability and lawsuits, so owners will fire bouncers that get into too many fights. Also, that's a great way to get yourself shot walking to your car. I've been shot at because a different bouncer roughed up some kid kicking him out. I've had a friend get shot in the chest (luckily small caliber round hit his cell phone. incredible luck) after another bouncer kicked a guy out. Another bouncer I knew was shot at by some Hispanic gangsters after choking one out. And a bouncer down the street from my bar was murdered by someone he got into a fight with. Fighting isn't fun when people die afterwards.

I've definitely gotten into my share of fights, but I really try to avoid them. For one, it's not my business. It's no skin off my back if someone needs to get kicked out. I learned quick to pass blame onto "management" and "ownership" when kicking someone out. I'm just the messenger. I'd always try to get them outside to "talk" before I let them know they couldn't come back in.

Most bouncers are cool. The other time a bouncer started shit with me was worse than this incident. It was on a Fri or Sat night and the bouncer would not let me in because he said I was too drunk, so I said to my friend "Fuck it, let's go someplace else." I take at least 10 steps in the opposite direction and this roided up dude starts running at me yelling something. I turn around, get into a stance and put my hands up and he stops. He says something like "You're too fucking drunk." And I said "Yeah, I'm not trying to get in." It was pretty stupid.

 

[ClubFoot]

I said "lots" not all, learn to read dummy. Learn to type too I can barely decipher your post.

Sorry, I had a lot of red wine and zopiclone last night. You're right, that post was pretty poor in the grammar department.

 

[aldeniro78]

I watched four bouncers drag a guy out, one on each limb, so that a fifth bouncer could walk around and kick him dead in the face. Buncha pussies.

 

[Brodels]

I knew one in college. He was a fat meathead named Daniel Cusimato. I saw him sucker punch small guys in the side of the head that were being held by other meathead bouncers. He has herpes too. I know this because he gave it to my friend.

 

[choke you]

Well I got teh guts kicked out of me by 7 or 8 at once before but I'm sure it was me being a drunkin fool but most bouncers I've met would prefer an easy night with no fights.

 

[Just Creed]

I've came across a couple asshole bouncers in my time but then again I was usually drunk when it happened so who knows ....

anyway, I was with my girlfriend bout 8 years ago and we were at this shitty little bar in edinburgh, it was open til 3am and had no dress code so it seemed to attract all the punters who got rejected elsewhere.

Basically I saw a whole bunch of crap that night, I saw the bouncers slamming some young guy on his face on the concrete out in the smoker's area..dunno what he did to piss them off. I saw a couple assaults and even a guy get bottled but luckily the bottle never smashed.

Then it got to about 2.50 am and I wanted to leave to catch my bus. Outside, there were about 6 guys who looked smashed on drink and maybe drugs. They were to hammered to get in even though it was about to close and they were arguing. One of them tried to sucker punch the bouncer but he countered him. All of a sudden, about 5 other bouncers ran over from all sides of the street as there are several bars on this strip. It was like a 1 sided battle. The bouncers kicked the crap out of them and I even saw them one of them get headkicked.