Ever been bounced out of a show or a bar/club?

[alex]

This is one of the first threads like this that I have actually taken the time to read.  Very funny stories.
 
 Mine aren't that great...
 
 My 21st birthday also happened to be Fat Tuesday that year, so a big group of us went out to this awful club called Mitty's in Newport News, Virginia (where I was living at the time).  I was having a good old time, and apparently got a little rowdy and backed into the biggest, blackest bouncer I've ever seen.  He was not amused and escorted me out, and my friends made me wait in the car for an hour until last call.
 
 A few years ago, we took a friend out for her 21st birthday to Howl At The Moon in Baltimore.  After what we decided would be the last round of shots for the evening, I excused myself to the bathroom.  I was just planning on taking a piss, but the last one must have gone  down wrong and I had to puke it up.
 
 Unfortunately, a bouncer was in there and heard it, and as soon as I came out of the stall he told me to go close my tab and exit the club at once.  Even though it was nearing last call and we had decided we were leaving anyway, I still get shit from my friends for getting us all kicked out on someone else's birthday.

[El Jefe Design]

About oh, seven years ago at... the 9:30 Club. I went to see The Jesus Lizard right after their tour with Rage Against the Machine. About a half hour into their set, a guy jumped off the stage and did the Axl Rose leg kick into the audience, breaking the nose of the girl next to me (I assume because she had blood coming out over her hand) and kicking me in the face, snapping my brand new glasses. I grabbed the guy so we could "talk" outside about paying for my glasses and paying the woman's med bills. He laughed at me and tried to brush me off so we started to tussle. The great staff (no sarcasm, they were actually very nice about it) at the 9:30 pulled us apart and I got thrown out, in the process my swank GVSb shirt got ripped off me (I guess I could not let go of the guy's throat).
 
 Pure coincidence, the jerk who jumped was wearing a RATM shirt...

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by SPARX:
 

Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
 [qb]  

Although I hold several degrees, . . [/b]

Translation.....too bone idle to go get a real job so I'll stay in school as long as possible and just rack up those degrees no employer gives a rats arse about unless it's a medical degree or maybe a law degree.....
 
   

[Venerable Bede]

this isn't a being bounced story, since the bar was closing, but i was in matamoros, mexico drinking in a bar with a friend.  we ended up hanging with 2 other people, a guy and a girl from texas a&m and the girl was trashed.  hit final call, lights came up and the girl finished her girly drink- some multi-color concoction that came in a glass half-yard.  while i'm standing next to her, she finishes her drink and promptly throws the glass half-yard against a wall, shattering it.  2 seconds later i get grabbed by neck and pulled to the front of bar by two mexican bouncers wanting to know why i threw the glass half-yard against the wall and threatening me.  i try to explain in my drunk, slurring, and broken spanish that i didn't, it was the girl standing next to me.  after about 15 minutes of various tries at communication, it turns out they were just upset at someone breaking one of their half-yards.  i calmly turned over the $5 it cost, and walked out the door. . .the girl's friend paid me back and bought me a whataburger for my trouble once we got back across the border.

[SPARX]

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
   

Originally posted by SPARX:
 

Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
 [qb]  

Although I hold several degrees, . . [/b]

Translation.....too bone idle to go get a real job so I'll stay in school as long as possible and just rack up those degrees no employer gives a rats arse about unless it's a medical degree or maybe a law degree.....
 
     [/b]

Yep, lernins kewl! FYI, the same college hired me upon graduation. Guess they were used to seeing me there anyway.

[vansmack]

I have never been thrown out of a show, and I can't even remember being 86ed from a bar.  Being a bartender and then a door guy for a long time, I think I keep a better perspective about my surroundings than most when I'm in a bar, and a tremendous amount of deference for owners and staff of bars/clubs.
 
 Now, the stories of throwing folks out of bars, I think I may have been the guy to throw a lot of you dumb asses out.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  I have never been thrown out of a show, and I can't even remember being 86ed from a bar.  Being a bartender and then a door guy for a long time, I think I keep a better perspective about my surroundings than most when I'm in a bar, and a tremendous amount of deference for owners and staff of bars/clubs.
 
 Now, the stories of throwing folks out of bars, I think I may have been the guy to throw a lot of you dumb asses out.

rhett?  is that you?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Only the first sentence applies to me.
 
 Pn the other hand, my wife almost got thrown out of a show we were at, until some people who were near us and saw what happened came to her defense.
 
 

Originally posted by le sonick:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
  I have never been thrown out of a show, and I can't even remember being 86ed from a bar.  Being a bartender and then a door guy for a long time, I think I keep a better perspective about my surroundings than most when I'm in a bar, and a tremendous amount of deference for owners and staff of bars/clubs.
 
 Now, the stories of throwing folks out of bars, I think I may have been the guy to throw a lot of you dumb asses out.

rhett?  is that you? [/b]

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  I have never been thrown out of a show, and I can't even remember being 86ed from a bar.  Being a bartender and then a door guy for a long time, I think I keep a better perspective about my surroundings than most when I'm in a bar, and a tremendous amount of deference for owners and staff of bars/clubs.
 
 Now, the stories of throwing folks out of bars, I think I may have been the guy to throw a lot of you dumb asses out.

I worked for one of those bouncer for hire companies who get contracted out for concerts and stuff. I found it a rather boring job to be honest....you almost wished something would kick off just to break up the evening.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by le sonick:
  rhett?  is that you?

Sorry.  Common sense prevails, even when I'm drinking...  
 
 I don't drink heavily when I'm at concerts because I'm there for, get this...the music.  If I wanted to get drunk, I'd save the $20 bucks I spent on the ticket and buy more beers at a bar, rather than at the show.
 
 I tend to be friends with most of the bartenders/owners/staff of bars I frequent, so why would I want to be disrespectful in their bar?  Here's a weird concept, the nicer I am, the more I get to drink and the less I have to pay for.  So unless I get confused for someone else like venerable or econo, which hasn't happened, there's little chance I would get 86ed.
 
 The closest I've ever been to being tossed was here in SF when a patron, in anger (something about a girl), threw a shot glass across the room that just missed my head and shattered on the wall behind me.  I walked over to the bouncer and told him what happened, pointing out the guy, now hiding his head.  The door guy said he'd handle it.  He walked over to the guy, had a conversation, came back to me and said "he didn't do it.  Must have fallen from the second floor."  The second floor was closed.  My friends were pissed, but calmed them down and said thanks; I then gathered up my group to leave.  When I went to pay my tab, I asked the bartender if he knew the guy over there and discretely pointed out the guy who threw the shot glass.  He said yeah, he works here.  I told him what happened and that the bouncer was protecting him.  He was pretending to ring up my credit card, but called the manager down, who came down, picked up our tab and fired both of the guys.
 
 Now, how would you have handled that?  Some probably would have charged the guy who threw the glass and been kicked out, if not thrown in jail.  Some probably argued with the bouncer demanding that he see your point of view and also been kicked out.  I chose to leave what I decided was a poorly run establishment and never return, politely asking one question before I left of the person I thought had the most common sense.  Who had a better result?

[vansmack]

I did hear this great story from my brother in law in Vegas from this past February...
 
 They were trashed in one of the strip joints (either Crazy Horse II or the OG, I can't remember).  Somebody else in the club with the same first name was having a birthday, and his buddies paid the cash for him to be dragged up on stage and stripped by the strippers.  They announced it was "Mike's" birthday and that he should come up on stage.  So the Mike in my brother in laws party runs up on stage.  A little bit of consusion ensues, but the other party assumed it was another guy who had a birthday and they waited for their turn.  
 
 About 30 minutes later, the other party asks when their boy is going to be taken on stage?  They figure out what happened, and came looking for the Mike that ran on stage.  My BiL's party explained he must have been confused and they paid the money it would have cost had it been his turn to get on stage (nevermind that it really wasn't his birthday).  So they announce for Mike again and my BiL's boy heads for the stage again.  A bouncer cuts him off and drags him back to his party.  He asks the group "Now which one of you is going to keep an eye on your boy so he doesn't keep getting onto trouble?"  Someone in the group asks, deadpan:, "Excuse me sir, but is the correct answer Jesus?"
 
 They were escorted out.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by le sonick:
  rhett?  is that you?

Sorry.  Common sense prevails, even when I'm drinking...  
 
 I don't drink heavily when I'm at concerts because I'm there for, get this...the music.  If I wanted to get drunk, I'd save the $20 bucks I spent on the ticket and buy more beers at a bar, rather than at the show.
 
 I tend to be friends with most of the bartenders/owners/staff of bars I frequent, so why would I want to be disrespectful in their bar?  Here's a weird concept, the nicer I am, the more I get to drink and the less I have to pay for.  So unless I get confused for someone else like venerable or econo, which hasn't happened, there's little chance I would get 86ed.
 
 The closest I've ever been to being tossed was here in SF when a patron, in anger (something about a girl), threw a shot glass across the room that just missed my head and shattered on the wall behind me.  I walked over to the bouncer and told him what happened, pointing out the guy, now hiding his head.  The door guy said he'd handle it.  He walked over to the guy, had a conversation, came back to me and said "he didn't do it.  Must have fallen from the second floor."  The second floor was closed.  My friends were pissed, but calmed them down and said thanks; I then gathered up my group to leave.  When I went to pay my tab, I asked the bartender if he knew the guy over there and discretely pointed out the guy who threw the shot glass.  He said yeah, he works here.  I told him what happened and that the bouncer was protecting him.  He was pretending to ring up my credit card, but called the manager down, who came down, picked up our tab and fired both of the guys.
 
 Now, how would you have handled that?  Some probably would have charged the guy who threw the glass and been kicked out, if not thrown in jail.  Some probably argued with the bouncer demanding that he see your point of view and also been kicked out.  I chose to leave what I decided was a poorly run establishment and never return, politely asking one question before I left of the person I thought had the most common sense.  Who had a better result? [/b]

you just took the fun out of the thread though!!!
 
 damn!!!
 
 and from my post, only show i was booted from was a Godsmack show.  i should've thanked them!

[vansmack]

Originally posted by le sonick:
 
 and from my post, only show i was booted from was a Godsmack show.  i should've thanked them!

That was a sporting venue, though - that's different.  I have been tossed out of Dodger Stadium (wrongly - for cheering for the opposing team, but a bitter fan lied to a security guard to get me tossed in the bottom of the 9th) and Anaheim Stadium (rightly - for running on the field in the fifth innning and sliding into second, and eventually third before I was arrested).

[Driveway]

One of my best friends got kicked out of the Black Cat at one of the Teenbeat Anniversary shows once... He thought it would be a good idea to mark up the bathroom stall with a Sharpie.  I was almost booted once for stealing a Nada Surf 'tour' poster off the wall at the Black Cat...  They get angry when people do that  

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Now, how would you have handled that?  Some probably would have charged the guy who threw the glass and been kicked out, if not thrown in jail.  Some probably argued with the bouncer demanding that he see your point of view and also been kicked out.  I chose to leave what I decided was a poorly run establishment and never return, politely asking one question before I left of the person I thought had the most common sense.  Who had a better result?

i had a similar reaction to that infamous post-interpol situation a few years back at DC9 ... although all you bastards think i was a pussy for getting these douches bounced out of the club instead of taking the matter into my own hands