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Flames Draft Watcher · 06-07-2006, 02:40 PM

Well I haven't been to bars with a lot of minorities so I can't speak to that issue.

What I have done is been to bars with white friends and had problems getting in. Usually it's dress code related, or age related. But sometimes you just get bizarre situations.

For example: This one time we go to Cowboys, everyone gets allowed in except for a cute girl of age who looked like she was over 18. Why? She didn't have two pieces of picture ID. So we had to take a cab back and get it. None of the rest of us had two pieces of ID either...

My tips for getting bar entrance:
1. Don't go in large groups, if you do, divide your group up into smaller groups
2. Bring girls, bouncers are more likely to deny entrace to a group of guys of any race than a mixed gender group.
3. Don't wear sneakers

As for the racial profiling, I have no doubt it's a problem. A lot of the bars here in Calgary are ######ed, their bouncers as well. I haven't had any problems getting into Vancouver clubs.

06-07-2006, 02:40 PM	#137
Flames Draft Watcher In the Sin Bin Join Date: Oct 2001 Exp:	Well I haven't been to bars with a lot of minorities so I can't speak to that issue. What I have done is been to bars with white friends and had problems getting in. Usually it's dress code related, or age related. But sometimes you just get bizarre situations. For example: This one time we go to Cowboys, everyone gets allowed in except for a cute girl of age who looked like she was over 18. Why? She didn't have two pieces of picture ID. So we had to take a cab back and get it. None of the rest of us had two pieces of ID either... My tips for getting bar entrance: 1. Don't go in large groups, if you do, divide your group up into smaller groups 2. Bring girls, bouncers are more likely to deny entrace to a group of guys of any race than a mixed gender group. 3. Don't wear sneakers As for the racial profiling, I have no doubt it's a problem. A lot of the bars here in Calgary are ######ed, their bouncers as well. I haven't had any problems getting into Vancouver clubs. Last edited by Flames Draft Watcher; 06-07-2006 at 02:46 PM.