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[piltdownman]

^ This to me sounds like the pub crawls. Where everyone has a wristband so they just jam into the bar. As its Halloween though those bars already busy, so when its the pub crawl spot the bar just ended up way overcrowded. I was on one of these pub crawls a few years ago, and at all the stops you could barely move.

Although It could have been anything. I ended up at one of the Bar Watch Bars early Sunday morning, and was surprised that they didn't run my ID.

[victorian fan]

Overcrowding? What about the fire inspector?

[sebberry]

I ended up at one of the Bar Watch Bars early Sunday morning, and was surprised that they didn't run my ID.

See, when you have a couple thousand people downtown on a night like that, there are bound to be a few small oversights. Do I think a bar should have a liquor licence suspended because an eighteen year old managed to slip in? No.

[VicHockeyFan]

See, when you have a couple thousand people downtown on a night like that, there are bound to be a few small oversights. Do I think a bar should have a liquor licence suspended because an eighteen year old managed to slip in? No.

These will be overcrowding violations.

No one is getting dinged on an ID violation on Halloween, come one, how can you match the picture with the person in costume?

BUT, overcrowding - absolutely there is no excuse for. EVERY pub-crawl is told there are absolutely no guarantees on any night for entry. Wrist-band or not, you are not gonna file into my bar once it's at capacity.

[VicHockeyFan]

Victoria bouncer school teaches crisis-handling skills

http://www.timescolo...9216/story.html

By Katie DeRosa
November 8, 2009

It no longer takes just brawn and bravado to be a bouncer — as of the beginning of this month, all bar security staff must be licensed and undergo special training before they can work the door.

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[sebberry]

Anyone notice any changes for the better yet?

[sebberry]

I thought this was supposed to have come to an end now?


http://cfax1070.com/...hp?newsId=11990

VICTORIA POLICE SAY A RECENT CRACKDOWN ON DOWNTOWN VICTORIA'S BAR SCENE IS WORKING----AND THEY HAVE SINCE MADE TWO IMPORTANT ARRESTS...

[homebrewer]

I think the Barwatch program is great. It identifies the bars that welcome overconsumption and hostility so much that they feel the need to remove privacy and civil liberties for such a program. I use the list of participating Victoria bars as the bars to avoid.

[VicHockeyFan]

Everyone will be glad to know that new BC liquor law changes now forbid clubs from playing the Cops theme song (Bad Boys) or other such songs while police are in the premises. Seriously.

Actions such as announcing the arrival of inspectors or police, raising or flashing lights, turning down music, playing particular soundtracks – e.g. “Bad Boys”, using spotlights, or any other action that causes the attention of patrons to shift towards inspectors or police is unacceptable.

http://www.hsd.gov.b...uor-Primary.pdf

Awesome changes designed to make your nightlife safer.

Oh, and if you go have dinner with grandma in her private senior home, where they serve alcohol to the residents, you too will be able to have a drink along with her soon. Right now it's residents only.

[LJ]

Wow, somebody really makes rules about this stuff? Incredible.

[Bob Fugger]

Everyone will be glad to know that new BC liquor law changes now forbid clubs from playing the Cops theme song (Bad Boys) or other such songs while police are in the premises. Seriously.

Canadian Charter of...what is it again?

[piltdownman]

^Inner Circle should sue.

[sebberry]

Everyone will be glad to know that new BC liquor law changes now forbid clubs from playing the Cops theme song (Bad Boys) or other such songs while police are in the premises. Seriously.

They actually play that song when the police aren't in the place?

[G-Man]

So what if you had a club that only played the Bad Boys song and you just stopped playing when they came in? Wouldn't that indicate that the police were there?

[sebberry]

So what if you had a club that only played the Bad Boys song and you just stopped playing when they came in? Wouldn't that indicate that the police were there?

Or more realistically you were playing the song and had to stop it when they walked in. Now that would give it away.

[sebberry]

So, two years later, has this kept the baddies out of the bars?

[Bingo]

Everyone will be glad to know that new BC liquor law changes now forbid clubs from playing the Cops theme song (Bad Boys) or other such songs while police are in the premises. Seriously.

Remember when we still had the single referee in the NHL, and if he missed an infraction the hometown organist would play "Three Blind Mice". That song was banned from being played at the games as I recall.