#68: Bouncer Experiences

Unfortunately I’m not talking about psybnc, as you might expect from a geek’s blog… although, for the record, I dislike psybnc. I’m actually talking about “door staff”, colloquially known and hereafter referred to as “bouncers”.

An online acquaintance of mine had a bad experience with some bouncers last night, and wrote about it on Facebook. I was pretty shocked after reading his note, because it described violent episodes and total lack of reason on the bouncers’ part when he hadn’t done anything to provoke their ire. When I thought about it though, I realised that it’s not actually that uncommon. I’ve had two violent experiences with bouncers in different areas of the country, and although it wasn’t me that was involved in the violence on either occasion, I remember them both as clear as day. My next two posts are going to details these experiences, in sympathy with someone else who didn’t deserve what happened to him.