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Deadly dealings with ATM's!!!

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Seayer, Mar 25, 2005.

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  1. chevalier

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    They need a fire-arm and they even need to demonstrate that they are ready and willing to use it. But this relies on their duty, not any right. This means they need to protect the money, not police people. Even if Seayer actually had been a criminal, so long as he hadn't been threatening the money in the moron's change, the latter would have had no more rights than any other ordinary citizen.

    Sometimes armed guards forbid that they are only guards and not keepers of order (as they perceive it), let alone cops.

    While a policeman could arrest you for telling him to put the barrel of his gun up his rear and treat you politely or get lost, a guard doesn't have such rights. Maybe an estate security guard could ask you to leave and "help" you if you refused, but that's about it.

    Once when entering a dancing club in the city centre around here, I had to pass a metal detector with some two bald gangster-looking bouncers glancing like B movie mafia thugs. It was a party organised by the university's Law Department and I had an invitation and the guy first ignored me and then barked some "move along, mister" without even looking at me, as if he had been doing be a favour by replying. A yawning nasal "I believe I have asked a *simple* question" that wouldn't work on anyone with real authority somehow made him radically more attentive
     
    chevalier, Mar 26, 2005
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    Uh, what did you ask him? And why should he have to speak to everyone who passes through? Remeber, they're bouncers, not doormen - big difference.
     
    Abomination, Mar 27, 2005
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    oh, this is kinda off-topic but that thing about bouncers reminded me of something. last night I got carded, they thought I was under 18 (I'm 20) and my 17 year old brother came in a few minutes after me and sat at a different table and nobody carded him, yeesh :/
     
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