Biker / Doorman

[minxy]

So

How many of you have done door work in the past? I suspect it is a higher than normal percentage of the population but hey! I could be wrong.

Be interesting this ...

[Blue]

Not so much door work (he's probably not the right temperament for the doors :D ), but my other half has done a lot of security work in the past, mainly for bands, and every once in a while still gets called upon to 'look after' various names.

[100%Pat]

Hehehe Minxy, I think you're right, you can put Rik on the list for a start.

[Blue]

I can imagine Rik in a full penguin suit you know. I bet he cleans up really nicely. :)

[minxy]

And Jester's on there too.

Come on 100%! Proof you're not the FF ;)

[blackhack]

Did my share when I was a bit younger, also did my "roadie/security" for Big Country and a load of other bands when they played glasgow.

gave it up when I broke a guys arm and police etc got involved. He thought it was ok to have a pop at me, cause I wear glasses and am a small fat git.
(served him right though, you dont mess with the security on the door)


Be interested to see who else went down that road on here ......

[critch]

done a bit.........

[Simon B]

Used to have the penguin suit and dicky bow, but it probably wouldnt fit now.
You couldnt pay me enough to even consider working on the door these days, too many little twats with blades/shooters trying to make a name for themselves nowadays

[scouselee]

I was part of a team of security at a concert in Liverpool Royal Court many years ago, the concert was called "Drums over the Mersey" it was an anti drugs concert...................what a feckin joke most of the security speeding off their heads, you could'nt see the bands for the haze from the spliffs doing the rounds, 3 days and nights without sleep, ferkin brilliant, all I had to do was carry the crashed out kids from the bogs and corridors and plonk them by the first aid or out the door. I was a lot fitter and did'nt have the beer belly then, :D

[ninja21]

well im a door man at the mo i like it moneys good but cant stand gobby lil chavs and there football factory slang........i ran in to one when i was working on saturday and he started and he ended up with a broken leg and he was draged by his leg through the pub and dumped out on the street..........fcuking chavs......... :D

[yx600]

The odd bit here & there... no penguin suit tho' :eek:
As barman made a few 'evictions' :rolleyes:

[Simon B]

Nothing like treating the punters with the respects and care they're due.

[Big Pete]

done abit, never had to get serious with anyone tho, a quiet word with the offender or his mates usually resolved the situation.

[minxy]

Never thought you'd done 'security' type work Pete! Learn something new eh ...

[Blue]

Can imagine Pete would be far better at it than those who think the only way to deal with situations is by breaking bones and boasting about it afterwards.

[baldyshinehead]

kept a few bars and such, part of the job was removing idiots.

[Big Pete]

:o while trying not to sound too pretentious, I always felt that if it got to the violent stage I had already fucked the job up.

[minxy]

Aye, true. Nowt worse than a doorman who does the job purely as an excuse to beat people.

[minxy]

:o while trying not to sound too pretentious, I always felt that if it got to the violent stage I had already fucked the job up.

Seems fair enough to me, Pete. Few bars in Peterborough started to use women for that very reason .... then found they probably started more fights than the men :rolleyes:

[Blue]

Any doorman who brags about the damage he has inflicted on a punter deserves to have his door licence taken away. That's if he's got one in the first place...

[Simon B]

Blue bloody well said thats exactly why I said about a previous comment
'' nothing like treating the public with the respect and care they're due''
Theyre the sort of doorman that create more trouble than they stop.

[InSanCen]

Did a bit on the side when cash was short, before all this lecensing came in... never had any serious trouble (Worked them with my "little" brother... one look at him usually sorted any idiots out).

Sometimes though, some people will just not leave alone, and *have* to have a pop at you. sometimes Violence is unavoidable, no matter how hard you try. They usually ended up with 25 stone (Ickle bro, not me!) sitting on them till the police dragged them out, though one got worse when he tried to glass him.

[minxy]

If you do the job, you've got to be prepared for trouble. Jester's been stabbed before whilst on a door. You've got to ask yourself is it worth the wages, surely!

[blackhack]

If the comments about "enjoying" the job and bragging about it are directed at me, I'd just like to say that I gave the guy (and his mate) three warnings before he threw a lump of concrete at me which smashed a plate glass door I was standing behind (he and his mate had already been put out) before i lost my temper and retaliated...like I said before as well, That was me finished with that type of job as that was not what I wanted to do for a living.

I can take care of myself, but I dont want to make a career out of it.

[ninja21]

yeah i do have a license, this guy hit his mrs who was half his size, broke her nose all over her face then started gobbing off at me coz i was trying to sort the situation....his broken leg was probably no more than a bad fracture but after what i saw him to do his mrs i would've liked to have broken his fcuking neck...........................what should i have done? advise please??????

[scouselee]

yeah i do have a license, this guy hit his mrs who was half his size, broke her nose all over her face then started gobbing off at me coz i was trying to sort the situation....his broken leg was probably no more than a bad fracture but after what i saw him to do his mrs i would've liked to have broken his fcuking neck...........................what should i have done? advise please??????

for smacking his missus broke both his feckin legs :mad:

[Simon B]

Blackhack not aimed at you chap

The comments about fing chavs and running into them etc all just sounded a bit bragging to me.Just the way it came across.

[minxy]

TillBoy .... sounds fair to me. I think it was just the way the post came across ;)

[ninja21]

for smacking his missus broke both his feckin legs :mad:




but these guys reckon that aint cricket.........

[Simon B]

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well im a door man at the mo i like it moneys good but cant stand gobby lil chavs and there football factory slang........i ran in to one when i was working on saturday and he started and he ended up with a broken leg and he was draged by his leg through the pub and dumped out on the street..........fcuking chavs.........

Aint the case of not being cricket, you didnt explain it all the big grin at the end etc, just sounded like aint I coll I broke someones leg. If you dont like the chavs dont work the door where they drink

[InSanCen]

My comments wern't aimed at anyone in particular wither... it's just sometime they are going to try and knock yer teeth out no matter what...

That's why i stopped it... to omuch stress, and there's always one that can't be told... well, until they have a 25 stone bloke sitting on them :D

one of the funniest things I've ever seen... skinny chav who thought it'd be fun to pull a knife when he was refused entry (Barred the week before for glassing his bird FFS!), and wound up with a very sore arm under my little brother...

he got 5 years concurrent for both incidents :D

[blackhack]

Blackhack not aimed at you chap

no offence taken, I'm just a bit thin skinned for criticysm.

I'd like to see some of the complainers trying to do that type of job.

[minxy]

The job is by no means easy BH, I think we all know that. Trouble is, there are some folk out there who use the position as an opportunity to inflate ego, pulll birds and hurt people unnecessarily. We all hope that if we're out and a fight starts, it can be resolved with minimum hassle for other punters - and resolved fairly.

Friends of mine have been very very badly hurt by doormen. One friend of mine was almost killed when a doorman with a taste for ket went for the jugular with a broken bottle. Scary stuff.

[ninja21]

i do the job so that people like the blokes mrs have sum body to help them out when the blokes get fist happy........i dont do it to beat people up that aint im a quite bloke really.........like to keep meself to meself when out...

[bill?]

apart from walking into glass doors when pished the only thing I've had to do with them is cutting to size and fitting hinges then hanging the buggres

[ninja21]

TillBoy .... sounds fair to me. I think it was just the way the post came across ;)


well these things never sound like you want them to.........do they......

[baldyshinehead]

its like every job, you get the assholes and you get the good . I have met some great doormen but i have also met some that lash out at the nearest opertunity.
its not a job i could do, i hated having to deal with people like that when i worked the bars.

[ninja21]

thats fair...it was one of them times wear if he wasnt stopped he would of kicked her when she was down so i did what i had 2 do.....

[minxy]

Me too. Considered going for my licence 3/4 years back. Figured I'd rather be a punter than working - that and I dont fancy watching my back for the next 5 years :rolleyes: . Once you've been a well known doorman, that's all you'll ever be in the area. One ex doorman got run over by a load of pikeys in Peterborough last year ffs. Just not cricket anymore.

[baldyshinehead]

thats fair...it was one of them times wear if he wasnt stopped he would of kicked her when she was down so i did what i had 2 do.....

I think now that you have explained there isnt a worry mate :D

[minxy]

thats fair...it was one of them times wear if he wasnt stopped he would of kicked her when she was down so i did what i had 2 do.....

You did your job then, chap.

[Blue]

Me too. Considered going for my licence 3/4 years back. Figured I'd rather be a punter than working - that and I dont fancy watching my back for the next 5 years :rolleyes: .

A friend of mine got her licence a little while back. I also haven't got the temperament for it, and the FYM would never let me do it anyway.

[ninja21]

You did your job then, chap.

yeah i did.........dont feel big for doing it.......i aint got time for wife beater...

[minxy]

A friend of mine got her licence a little while back. I also haven't got the temperament for it, and the FYM would never let me do it anyway.

It was when Bully was doorman. Thought I may as well earn money rather than drink it. Changed my mind though lol Dont think J would go for the idea either.

[Dougie]

Never done it,unless you count standing outside the NAAFI entrance with an SLR...."Got yer ID Card?No?Go and get it then.And I don't care if yer a Captain....."

[XJphil]

I`ve done little bits, for the local pub at xmas and new years an stuff
but as i`m a lovely little lad and not menacing in anyway i don`t get asked to do it

a couple of my mates are doormen, they are ok
but one i know who was a doorman was on of the trouble causers
got his come upance when he gave some club member a kickin and the rest of his club turned up the week after, we did warn him about his behavior
several times, but he never listerned, must have been all the streriods he was on

i nearly got in a fight with a doorman in brum, he just kept following me round all night and said i was there to cause trouble, wich was a load of crap as i was the driver that night and hadn`t had a drink, his mates called him off in the end, must have just taken a dislike to me

[Shep]

Done a bit of security over the years, various events and wearing various 'uniforms', though never in a penguin suit. :eek:
Had to deal with a few serious idiots, usually by rapid removal.
Rarely done the door, though. To restrictive for me.

I only do our rally nowadays.

[shaggy696969]

Little bit 20 yrs back

[Crofty]

I helped to fit a door once.

[Taff]

Never as a regular earner.
Done it plenty of times as one offs.
Do it in a very unnofficial capacity in the local biker's pub.
ie, it's our fkin pub, anyone in there to give it large and looking for trouble, finds it.

:D

[Dogz]

unofficial capacity and official capacity on a regular basis.

[bullhead]

yep on and off for about 10 years

[Blue]

yep on and off for about 10 years

Is that the same Bullhead who won the Male Best Fancy Dress at the Valentine's Day party for his little red frock and girly plaits??? :D

[bullhead]

Is that the same Bullhead who won the Male Best Fancy Dress at the Valentine's Day party for his little red frock and girly plaits??? :D
yep thats me :p

[Blue]

You don't need to throw a punch then - one look at that fetching little outfit and stroppy punters will be running for the hills!! :p :D

[bullhead]

who are you then :confused:

[Blue]

Hey hey hey :D
*ghostly chuckling disappearing into the distance...*

[ninja21]

I think now that you have explained there isnt a worry mate :D

thats nice to know cheers mate..

[Spike]

Have done door in the past a few times.......

[dracken1]

i'm a doorman so to speak 24/7 due to the nature of some of my residents.

used to do a little private work and i am employed by yoda as are 3 more of us, as his personal bodyguard.
"to fend off and protect his virtue from admirers of both sexes" thats taken from the job description he issued us. :rolleyes: