Saturday 2nd july, myself kim, sav and kelly, friel and his new bit of stuff went to see jimmy carr at the opera house, which was very funny btw. We only go out in Blackpool once or twice a year, mainly because the town is has descended into a violent, binge drinking stag/hen destination over the last 15 years or so. Its a shit hole basically occupied by pissed up violent socio economic group z individuals.
And then theres doormen, and theres lots of doormen in blackpool. Having worked as a licencee for many years before turning to poker, i have a good knowledge of this breed. In theory their job is to protect the safety of the customer inhabiting the venue they work in. In practice they probably cause more harm than if they were not there. With the odd exception, out of the hundeds of doormen i have worked with/ worked for me, maybe only 10 were any good. The other 5000 were in it for the violence. Over time the authorities have gradually acknowledged this problem and have introduced positive regulations to minimise the impact (literally) of these dickheads. National door training schemes, id cards and the like. I think this has been successful for tacking the really rough element as the ones with bad criminal records struggle to get started. But doormen are still doormen. They love violence. A significant % of them take steriods which makes them crave violence even more. They train at the gym day and night looking forward to using their physical advantage on drunken customers. They only possess 1 brain cell per doorteam which they share. They drive around in £200 cars, probably not taxed or insured. They believe in RESPECT.
The amount of doormen i have sacked is literally in the hundreds. All for the same reason. Excessive violence. The excuse is always the same "they hit me, it was self defence" Yet the doormen never has a scratch on him. Deduce what you like from that.
This happened at 12.30am saturday night sunday morning. Im not going to say anything more about the incident other than it was seemingly unintentional from the doormans perspective, which makes it even more ludicrous imo. When a doormen with 1 brain cell faces a decision, he will mostly undertake the most aggressive option.
The police want to take this further and i have a compensation claim pending. Needless to say i have had to have a week of work which equates to £3500 net losses
