Breath Testing by Bouncers....

Read it in the paper today, a suggestion for Bouncers to be able to breath test patrons before entering the venue...

Sounds like a good idea to keep the club safer from drunken nobs, but then those drunken nobs are all out on the street causing trouble. And would it also increase drink driving? Some people are stupid enough to get drunk and then not drink for the last hour or two, but if they get sent home early what are they gonna do? Public transport ends at 12... so the only option is taxis.. fine for blokes, but not for women...

What do you guys think?

i think that sux.

pubs and clubs are mostly about drinking.... i understand that people want to reduce alcohol consumption, and the violence that occasionally follows and all that shit.... but really, banning people who blow??? what??? is just gonna make people angrier

Well it would be complete paro nobs that get refused im guessing, obviously bouncers will look after the clubs they work for....

heres an idea - dont let the paro nobs in anyway. They already have the right to refuse entry.

Dam bouncers..."Try another place booyyzzzz" "Nah mate not tonite youse had to much" The breathalyser is just another excuse to keep you out. I sense a conspiracy happening

if someone was going to hit me with it, i would just not bother with them, its just another stupid idea.

You can be an agro wanker on .1, and a happy clubber just there to dance and socialise at 0.15.

Who will get in , the agro wanker?

some people can handle their drinks a lot better, others are cadbury boys and girls.

why not just leave it up to the discretion of the bouncers? they can already refuse you entry if they think you are too drunk.

another stupid idea.

It is another attempt to turn us into a fucking nanny state. I think luckily the majority of venues will kick up a stink, most of the bigger venues make a killing off the people at that level of paro

yeah, can't see HQ turning away 19 year drunken slappers in miniskirts with their tits half hanging out.

Fuckin shit idea i wont get let in anywhere

They should test the Bouncers for roids more than anything lol meat heads

fuck drinking take drugz!!!

frankly you HAVE to be paro to want to go to most of the clubs in Adelaide

^^^^ true

I wish someone would've told me to go home last weekend...

fuck.

Fucking garbage. Parro knobs get refused entry into venues anyway.

but hows this;
me and a mate ended up at the berkley in the early hours of yesterday morning after a lot of other venues shut. The cops were making regular enterances walking in and out of the joint to make sure the bar staff werent serving intoxicated patrons.

After sinking a few beers there, the bar chick told us that she will have to breath test both me and my mate or she wouldnt serve us more grogs...
we werent acting like complete drunken knobs at all, (but we were pretty tanked, and had been drinking all night from the previous arvo) so we agreed to take the test for a laugh. We both blew 0.55; haha, fkn alcos!
i'm still paying for it today though fkn hate hangovers

seriously what gives them the right to do that ?? wtf

i can understand refusing entry if someone is paro but honestly do they need a breatho to make the call? its pretty obvious when someones had enough. if i was asked to blow id just leave.

.55 = death i thought

a mandatory dexterity test could be a lot more fun... or maybe a limbo pole... the later it gets, the lower the door frame...

lol yeah they should make these things fun, and they could have a box with a random item inside that will either bite you, cut you or burn you, and if you don't feel the pain, then clearly you're too drunk...

i think at .4 they're not surprised if you die...

as for the rest of the argument... seems like giving them an authority they already have. everywhere already says they reserve the right to refuse entry.

why would they need to breath test you when they've already got the old 'come back with some girls' line?

hell, if a bouncer asked me to be tested - I'd fuckin kick him in the bollocks and stomp his sorry head

I'd feel a lot more secure if I had a blood test, my retinae scanned and my fingerprints taken everywhere I went.

so it wouldnt be ok to go into a venue paro and not have another drink

but it would be ok to go into the same venue sober and then get as paro as the previous example

so really, what we're doing here is filtering out the people that the venue cant legally make money from

clever

indeed

well, given the checks and balances already available to venue staff (exclusion by bouncers based on suitability to enter venues by bouncers; suitability for remaining inside a venue by circulating bouncers; ejection or non service as per opinions of alcohol service aware bar staff) why then must we have an arbitrary exclusion mechanism (breathalysation) by bouncers? particularly in light of the fact that breathalysers are for the most part unreliable because of technological limitation (they arent always accurate) as well as the fact that breathalyser readings are affected by previous recent alcohol ingestion, which may be legal (ie if you have a shot of liquor in the preceding 20 minutes at your home, in your car, on the street, or in an adjacent nightspot, breath alcohol testing is rendered innaccurate because of mouth cavity absorption ie it soaks into your tissues and wafts out slowly, giving innaccurately high readings, neccessitating a 20 minute waiting period between alcohol ingestion and breathalysation)

based on this data, this move must be rejected.

i feel that if accepted, such moves would unfairly exclude legitimate users of alcohol; immorally exclude patrons of nightspots motivated by their potential to derive profit; promote exclusion of inebriated, frustrated, and therefore potentiall violent customers (who would not be violent without said frustration resulting from legitimate unfairness) and altogether, create an unneccessary situation that does not benefit nightclub dynamics, and indeed society as a whole.

whoever came up with this stuff should have the shit slapped out of them for sheer idiocy

Who's got the pills ?

nah, gurners would just try to hug the box and tell it what a great box it is.