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Subject: "you ever been to one of those clubs that take your drink out your hand?" Previous topic | Next topic
Kwesi
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"you ever been to one of those clubs that take your drink out your hand?"
Tue Jul-07-15 06:59 PM by Kwesi

          

at a certain time at night?

shit's baffling to me.

i've only been once and i still haven't resolved that shit.

that was three years ago, in bah-ginia.

is it just some backwards-country shit?

does it happen north of the mason-dixon?

  

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City Lights, Killeen TX
Jul 07th 2015
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:-\ That's only a mile or two from where my parents grew up
Jul 07th 2015
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I didn't know that was a thing until about a month or more ago
Jul 07th 2015
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they come through with the trash cans?
Jul 07th 2015
4
in Texas, no one can have a drink in their hand at 2:15
Jul 07th 2015
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why hasn't the peoples of texas voted that out yet?
Jul 07th 2015
6
Texas still has dry counties
Jul 07th 2015
8
TABC has REAL political power, man.
Jul 07th 2015
9
      ... endless stings if you don't pay the "tax"
Jul 07th 2015
11
           this is terrible news. the drunk have rights, too!
Jul 07th 2015
12
Interesting. I don't ever recall having my drink taken in Austin
Jul 07th 2015
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      most customers here are pretty good and know the law
Jul 07th 2015
10
      man they take your water even
Jul 08th 2015
16
Indian casinos in cali
Jul 07th 2015
13
i manage the security of a hotel with bars
Jul 07th 2015
14
naw they just hounded me to throw it back quickly
Jul 07th 2015
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ahh last call from the same people that brought you
Jul 08th 2015
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naw
Jul 08th 2015
18
you're lucky, it's absolutely de-humanizing.
Jul 08th 2015
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      Do they do this in DC too, or is this more of a southern thing?
Jul 08th 2015
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           DC? hell no. I'd have been moved outta this shit-hole.
Jul 08th 2015
21
never heard of this...i'd be so confused
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i was ready to start the revolution immediately that night.
Jul 08th 2015
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ARE YOU GONNA DRINK THAT DRINK OR ARE YOU GONNA WEAR IT?
Jul 08th 2015
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i fight you.
Jul 08th 2015
28
nah..never seen or heard of that
Jul 08th 2015
25
I kind of remember being in an argument saying "why'd you sell me this
Jul 08th 2015
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hell nah... i have been pressured to knock a drink back or give it up
Jul 08th 2015
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yeah but if someone asks you politely a couple of times and you refuse
Jul 08th 2015
29
that's the standard practice here
Jul 08th 2015
30
      Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh stops serving at 1:30... i was mad.
Jul 08th 2015
31
I hate the ones that stop the music & turn the lights all the way up...
Jul 08th 2015
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John Forte
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1. "City Lights, Killeen TX"
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MEAT
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2. ":-\ That's only a mile or two from where my parents grew up"
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I'm sure they spent many a night there.

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Regina Rose
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3. "I didn't know that was a thing until about a month or more ago "
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apparently legally here (Toronto) you can't have a drink in your hand at a bar after 2:45am Last call is 2am

  

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Kwesi
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4. "they come through with the trash cans?"
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i wanted to fight those clowns.

ruined my whole day.

  

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J_Stew
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5. "in Texas, no one can have a drink in their hand at 2:15"
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if TABC comes through(and they stop by all the time), they shut your bar down, and the fine is 5 figures. So it's pretty SOP to pull drinks at 2:05 or 2:10.

  

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Kwesi
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6. "why hasn't the peoples of texas voted that out yet?"
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John Forte
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8. "Texas still has dry counties"
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And counties where you have to buy a club membership to get a drink at a restaurant.

  

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J_Stew
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9. "TABC has REAL political power, man."
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They make so much money off taxing bars, it's crazy. Tax you when you buy it, tax you when you sell it, it's a freaking racket. That's apart from paying sales and income tax.

  

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MEAT
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11. "... endless stings if you don't pay the "tax""
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Kwesi
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12. "this is terrible news. the drunk have rights, too!"
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John Forte
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7. "Interesting. I don't ever recall having my drink taken in Austin "
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And I probably partied there a couple hundred times

  

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J_Stew
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10. "most customers here are pretty good and know the law"
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I've only had to forcefully take a person's drink 4 or 5 times over the years.

  

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GriftyMcgrift
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16. "man they take your water even"
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i was playing a foosball tournament its 230 am its the finals, they say they have to take all of our drinks


wtf man im sweating buckets here

  

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Playa_Politician
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13. "Indian casinos in cali"
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145am they come around taking drinks of the tables. 2am curfew here.

that's why i like quick trips to Tahoe (nevada side), reno or vegas. drink 24/7

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14. "i manage the security of a hotel with bars"
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we let people know to finish their drinks at 2am, but if they don't, we will remove the drinks from them a few mins later. I'm not getting in trouble with ABC.

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godleeluv
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15. "naw they just hounded me to throw it back quickly"
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So I did.

Then they watched me stagger to my car and waited for me to drive off so they could call the cops.

So I sat on the hood of the car and flicked them off.

*drunk stories*

  

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GriftyMcgrift
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17. "ahh last call from the same people that brought you"
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blue laws, dry counties and 3.2 beer

  

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18. "naw"
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Kwesi
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19. "you're lucky, it's absolutely de-humanizing."
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especially if you're not familiar with the practice ... or law, whatever.

  

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20. "Do they do this in DC too, or is this more of a southern thing?"
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Here, we just kick folks out at a certain time, and they can't take drinks outside. Not sure about spots that stay open past 2am, but I've never seen any enforcement beyond *last call* and shutting the bar down.

  

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Kwesi
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21. "DC? hell no. I'd have been moved outta this shit-hole."
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it happened to me in virginia.

im never going back.

  

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22. "never heard of this...i'd be so confused"
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always thought last call was just about when they can serve the last drink...never been to a place that made you finish or toss your drink as well

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Kwesi
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23. "i was ready to start the revolution immediately that night."
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looking around at everyone thinking to myself 'yall just gonna stand for this??, these our drinks!'

everybody just fell in line.

i spent the rest of the night smoking in the parking lot.

  

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24. "ARE YOU GONNA DRINK THAT DRINK OR ARE YOU GONNA WEAR IT?"
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My husband & I used to own (dive) bars (before "dive" was hip) in the San Fernando Valley (CA)

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28. "i fight you."
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25. "nah..never seen or heard of that"
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26. "I kind of remember being in an argument saying "why'd you sell me this "
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drink if I can't finish it?"


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27. "hell nah... i have been pressured to knock a drink back or give it up"
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but take it out my hand? I would be heated

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29. "yeah but if someone asks you politely a couple of times and you refuse"
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the worst case I ever had was some frat boy type dude with his gf and I told him we needed to take up drinks but that I'd give him time to finish it, he said he would finish the drink when he felt like it. At this point when you say this to a door guy, you've basically sealed your fate. As I reached for the drink, he threw it on me. So, now he's getting walked, I'm still not really mad, but it's getting there. So I'm behind him walking him out and he tries to hold onto a railing by the front door in attempts to resist me. I had to use necessary force to get him to let go of the rail, which resulted in him getting body slammed a little bit, somewhat accidentally, he was only like a little 180 pound dude, and not a fighter's 180 pound build, a weak, sloppy 180.

In Texas, on private property, and that's what a business is, private property, not public, when a representative of that property asks you to leave and you don't comply, you can practically shoot them(not really but you get the idea), and when you have witnesses that see him refusing to leave and being belligerent you can physically remove them.

I'm so glad I don't work in a bar anymore, enough people are horrible pieces of shit that you start to hate everyone.

  

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30. "that's the standard practice here"
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I've never taken a drink without someone conceding it to me first, and the place I work in now closes at 1AM at the latest so I don't have any legal right to force people to hurry up (I just won't serve them anymore), but when I was open until 2 there was definitely a really strong push to get drinks out of people's hands by 2:05. I'm not sure if this is actually the law but that's what I was told; at any rate, we certainly couldn't allow anyone drinking on the patio to stay on the patio where they could be seen by police passing by.


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31. "Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh stops serving at 1:30... i was mad."
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apparently they had a hard time getting drinks out of hands by 2AM so they had last call around 1:15.

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32. "I hate the ones that stop the music & turn the lights all the way up..."
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...until all the drinks are finished.

They send the staff around to collect all the bottle, glasses etc. And they absolutely will not continue the party until they're 100% sure that all the drinks are done.

That well-lit, musicless period of time is pretty pathetic.

  

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