Please leave your prints at the bar
Oct 24 2006 18:34
A pilot scheme is running in pubs and clubs in Yeovil, Somerset; it is "set to be introduced nationwide" eventually as a supposed method of reducing alcohol-related crimes and to stop 'troublemakers' entering every pub and club in a town or city. Drinkers must register their finger prints with bar staff when they buy a drink; they must also show passport, driving licence or similar ID and this info will be held on a database accessible by the cops. 6,000 drinkers have signed up for the scheme in Yeovil. Violent alocohol-related crime is claimed to have fallen 48% in 6 months. Some landlords were reluctant to join the scheme but were threatened with losing their licences - they were also offered the incentive of longer opening hours. The Home Office is considering expanding the scheme to other regions and cops in other areas have expressed interest.
Source; London 'Metro'.
Oct 24 2006 20:56
#2
Proposed new anarchist slogan:
"Anonymous beer for all!"
The movement will grow like never before 
Oct 24 2006 21:54
#3
How dare The Man try to stop us getting into drunken brawls! If I'm aggressive when I drink, then that's nobody's business but mine! 
Oct 24 2006 23:15
#4
...and thus removing all capacity for people to make responsible choices about alcohol on our own. Not to mention making waiting at the bar even longer, and bar staff's jobs even more rubbish. Are they gonna get paid more for this pre-emptive cop behaviour? Will they get it in the fucking neck if/when some fuck up occurs and "ooooh they took the print wrong, this would never have happened with the print".
Fucks sake.
Oct 25 2006 11:52
#5
They do that in the clubs here already.
I have my pic/ fingerprints and full name on their database.
Oct 25 2006 12:03
#6
Where are you, powerto...?
Oct 25 2006 12:31
#7
Yeah they've had a couple of bars doing that in Colchester for a few years now.
Oct 26 2006 09:20
#8
Violent behaviour is associated with heavy drinking which is promoted by some venues because of their excess drink offers, why the fuck should someone have their identity taken from them just to have a drink?
This is fucking awful....
fuckers. it's bad but i don't know why
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