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Now I love my job for one reason. Sometimes when SC's don't get the hint I have permission to use XUF (excessive use of force)
Now at bars this is almost a required as once people get drunk telling them to leave doesn't alway work. Let me just give some details first.
We had a system of 4 codes for 'situations' code 1,2,3 and 4. Code 1 was an argument, nothing major just something that roamers could deal with if not busy. Code 2 was 1 on 1 fight, roamers respond. Code 3 was big fight all available guards respond and Code 4 was EVERYONE inside, massive brawl.
ANYWAYS
We got a code 3 on new years eve. Myself and probably 15 other guards (they had just tossed someone else while I had been checking the parking lots) We all go running in the 'losers lane' exit for the dance floor. One of the guys in front of me gently shoves a guy out of the way. (Lets call him DI) DI doesn't take too kindly to being pushed out of the way by a bouncer on the way to a big fight in a packed bar/dancefloor.
So DI takes the only course of action a drunken idiot can take. He hauls off and punches the next bouncer in the face. Dumbest move you can make in a bar that has 30+ guards/bouncers, made only worse by the fact that we were already responding to a situation. Next 3 guys and myself try to take him outside only to get punched ourselves. Well no matter how bad an SC is they can always lose some common sense, especially when beer is involved.
Now we tried to talk him out ("You're done, go home") we'd tried dragging him out, and he was still trying to fight the bouncers... so we threw him to the ground so we could carry him out by the hands and feet (always gets a laugh from the people waiting to get in). Well this guy decides he isn't going quietly. (side note, glass service and thrashing around on the floor is a bad combination) Well after close to a minute (guessing) we finally get him under control enough to carry out, I love pointing it out to them that if I drop their arms they'll hit their head on solid cement and they never care.
We finally get him outside and set him down. He's all cut up from fighting us on the glass covered floor so I kinda felt bad for him until he started threatening us... We got called back inside, me and one of my regular co-workers stay behind to make sure this guy gets off property. He hits another guard and gets restrained AGAIN. We start walking him off, me keeping my hand behind his back to keep him walking despite him saying he's going back in and he's going to "beat us up" (paraphrased) if we don't let him back in. He decides that he's not going to take a 5'8" 250 pound scruffy looking 22 year old (me) walking him off property. He turns around and punches ME in the face.
Here's a tip when dealing with guards in my company. None of us care we get hit, but we get furious when you hit one of our co-workers. The guy with me? 350 pounds 6'5" easy. He calls in another code 3 (with half our guards already busy tossing yet ANOTHER person) and the guy gets put on the ground AGAIN! (this makes 3 times for those of you keeping track) This time the inhouse (we were contracted to provide extra security for the bar) don't take to kindly to a THIRD guard being attacked by a guy who looks like he boxes for a living and introduced him to the joys being dragged across a snowcovered parkinglot. After 1 and a half HOURS of talking, asking, ordering and fighting with DI we finally get him to the property line... and rudely shoved him over, all while listening to him threaten to take all 7 of us on. My co-worker however was seeing red by this point and walks him 2 blocks away from the property before walking back. DI however decides to head back after my buddy is out of sight. When he's about back a OPP cruiser happens to drive by and see's him in the middle of the street. cruiser pulls a U turn hits his lights and takes the guy away. This is one example of a rough shift, but it's also an example of a fun shift. That shift was the shortest 8 hour shift I've ever had
Now at bars this is almost a required as once people get drunk telling them to leave doesn't alway work. Let me just give some details first.
We had a system of 4 codes for 'situations' code 1,2,3 and 4. Code 1 was an argument, nothing major just something that roamers could deal with if not busy. Code 2 was 1 on 1 fight, roamers respond. Code 3 was big fight all available guards respond and Code 4 was EVERYONE inside, massive brawl.
ANYWAYS
We got a code 3 on new years eve. Myself and probably 15 other guards (they had just tossed someone else while I had been checking the parking lots) We all go running in the 'losers lane' exit for the dance floor. One of the guys in front of me gently shoves a guy out of the way. (Lets call him DI) DI doesn't take too kindly to being pushed out of the way by a bouncer on the way to a big fight in a packed bar/dancefloor.
So DI takes the only course of action a drunken idiot can take. He hauls off and punches the next bouncer in the face. Dumbest move you can make in a bar that has 30+ guards/bouncers, made only worse by the fact that we were already responding to a situation. Next 3 guys and myself try to take him outside only to get punched ourselves. Well no matter how bad an SC is they can always lose some common sense, especially when beer is involved.
Now we tried to talk him out ("You're done, go home") we'd tried dragging him out, and he was still trying to fight the bouncers... so we threw him to the ground so we could carry him out by the hands and feet (always gets a laugh from the people waiting to get in). Well this guy decides he isn't going quietly. (side note, glass service and thrashing around on the floor is a bad combination) Well after close to a minute (guessing) we finally get him under control enough to carry out, I love pointing it out to them that if I drop their arms they'll hit their head on solid cement and they never care.
We finally get him outside and set him down. He's all cut up from fighting us on the glass covered floor so I kinda felt bad for him until he started threatening us... We got called back inside, me and one of my regular co-workers stay behind to make sure this guy gets off property. He hits another guard and gets restrained AGAIN. We start walking him off, me keeping my hand behind his back to keep him walking despite him saying he's going back in and he's going to "beat us up" (paraphrased) if we don't let him back in. He decides that he's not going to take a 5'8" 250 pound scruffy looking 22 year old (me) walking him off property. He turns around and punches ME in the face.
Here's a tip when dealing with guards in my company. None of us care we get hit, but we get furious when you hit one of our co-workers. The guy with me? 350 pounds 6'5" easy. He calls in another code 3 (with half our guards already busy tossing yet ANOTHER person) and the guy gets put on the ground AGAIN! (this makes 3 times for those of you keeping track) This time the inhouse (we were contracted to provide extra security for the bar) don't take to kindly to a THIRD guard being attacked by a guy who looks like he boxes for a living and introduced him to the joys being dragged across a snowcovered parkinglot. After 1 and a half HOURS of talking, asking, ordering and fighting with DI we finally get him to the property line... and rudely shoved him over, all while listening to him threaten to take all 7 of us on. My co-worker however was seeing red by this point and walks him 2 blocks away from the property before walking back. DI however decides to head back after my buddy is out of sight. When he's about back a OPP cruiser happens to drive by and see's him in the middle of the street. cruiser pulls a U turn hits his lights and takes the guy away. This is one example of a rough shift, but it's also an example of a fun shift. That shift was the shortest 8 hour shift I've ever had
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