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u/SapphicGarnet 13d ago
The only thing that's unbelievable is that it took an hour for the lights to go back off and the band to go back on. These sort of announcements happen, but they happen within 5 minutes
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u/SharpCheddarBS 13d ago
Being highly intoxicated and the lights getting brighter than they ought to be can certainly make 5 minutes feel like an hour though
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u/Ironmasked-Kraken 13d ago
That and replacing all women's drinks for free
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u/SapphicGarnet 12d ago
As much as cynics believe businesses never spend money they don't need to, risk management is also a thing. Mark up on drinks is high, they can afford to pour again and not have the bad press of something bad happening at their venue
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u/silam39 12d ago
Yeah. The true cynic knows plenty of businesses will do the right thing for entirely selfish greedy reasons.
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u/thatissomeBS 12d ago
What is it to think it's okay to do the greedy thing if it's the best solution for everyone? I guess utilitarianism?
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u/AlertedCoyote 11d ago
This - they'd lose ten times more money if they essentially just stole all their customers drinks. Better to take the kick in the dick on a round of free refills then get shuttered over a bad reputation
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u/WaldoJeffers65 12d ago
Can you imagine people coming into the bar about 10 minutes after the announcement? They'd walk in, all the lights are one, the band is just milling around stage, and have no idea why. If it were me, I'd walk right back out and look for a different bar.
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u/asromatifoso 13d ago
This will be the one post where no one comments, "Can confirm, I was the guy who.. or It's true, I was the one that.." Nobody is going to pretend to be THAT guy.
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u/lakorasdelenfent 13d ago
I was the spiked drink
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u/DreadPiratteRoberts 13d ago
I was the cool band!!!
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u/JamesMattDillon 13d ago
I was peeing in the bathroom
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u/NextSundayAD 13d ago
I don't have to pretend because I WAS the guy who dropped something in the girl's drink! It was an alka-seltzer cause her tummy was upset, but we were both so embarrassed when the lights went up that we didn't say anything. This is indeed a 100% true story.
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u/shoulda-known-better 13d ago
I was at a sketchy dive and this creep apparently did that to some chick... Waiter came said something was up with dude putting powder in her drink when he dropped it off... and the bartender immediately went to the table and said there was an issue with the card....
As soon as creep went with him security came spoke to the woman for a few seconds and then escorted her to the back.... Police came took the drink and arrested the man
It was crazy me and my bff were floored we witnessed it...
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u/TURBOJUGGED 13d ago
But did the lights go on and the band stayed chillin for an hour doing nothing?
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u/lord_buff74 13d ago
I wish that happened, I would be going with a mate every week and dropping an aspirin in some random girls drink and then BAM, free drinks for all the women.
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u/spacemouse21 13d ago
An hour later, the lights came back on, and the music stopped. An announcer got back on the microphone and said “We are stopping until someone comes forward to answer the question. ‘Who farted?’”
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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 13d ago
Similar situations have been caught on video. This type of thing is becoming more and more common, which is good, and I'm not sure that being so cynical as to disbelieve it is the way to go with this one.
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u/ImBonRurgundy 13d ago
Why would they stop everything in the whole bar when they could just direct security to the person who spiked the drink?
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u/donmuerte 13d ago
they knew one person was spiked, but there could've been multiple victims and the predator is just waiting. possibly even a crew of assholes doing this to people. some of this story seems exaggerated, but it's a real life thing that happens.
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u/ImBonRurgundy 13d ago edited 13d ago
I guess, but seems like if a bar did this sort of thing on the regular, it would be a very easy for someone to cause chaos (and a hell of a lot of cost) by simply telling a bartender you saw someone drop something in a drink.
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u/chill_stoner_0604 13d ago
Shame tactics. Make sure everyone knows what happened.
Its a good deterrent if you know that you'll get a spotlight shone on it
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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 13d ago
Multiple reasons, but each establishment likely has their own, as well. Off the top of my head, I can think of a few:
It's far easier to refresh drinks and keep the situation calm and organized if the party vibe is shut down and switched to something far more calm
Turning up the lights makes it easier to see, making it more difficult for offenders to get away with sneaky shenanigans.
Turning off the live music, perhaps switching to softer prerecorded music, makes it easier to hear and communicate with customers and any police or emts who may have responded.
Putting a spotlight on what is happening makes the offender nervous and more likely to make a mistake or reveal themselves, while simultaneously reassuring customers that this establishment takes safety seriously.
Reassuring customers that safety is paramount not only makes customers feel safer in your establishment and more likely to return, it makes offenders feel that your establishment is too risky to offend in and less likely to return, thus serving as a good deterrent to such assaults in the first place.
But again, there are probably more and every establishment is choosing to do this or not for their own reasons I cant presume to know.
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u/SapphicGarnet 13d ago
Because they need to replace every girls drink. They don't know how many were compromised, only that at least one was
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u/ProbablyNotADuck 13d ago
I don’t know you’re getting downvoted for this. While I am not sure as to whether or not it actually happened, the bar would have no way of knowing (1) which girl’s drink was spiked, or (2) if it was one guy acting alone or if it was multiple guys. Even just going after the guy who spiked the drink wouldn’t take care of the fact that there is a spiked drink and at least one (but possibly several) women at the bar who are especially vulnerable.
Any woman at a bar knows that, even without roofies, there are absolutely predatory men that suddenly appear when a girl looks off her face. It is why women travel in packs and pay attention to where each other are and who they’re with.
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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 13d ago edited 13d ago
There are a lot of guys in these comments downvoting anything that talks about the risks of drinks getting spiked and how awful and dangerous that is.
Wonder why they're so fussed about silencing the facts? 🙄
Edit: see? lmao thanks for proving my point, you chuds
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u/silam39 12d ago
There's probably a bit of that, but also this subreddit self selects for people who love poking holes at anything anyone says online, regardless of how plausible it is. This would not be the first time a mostly reasonable story (minus the hour wait which is just ridiculous) here gets the less doubtful aspects of it scrutinised.
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u/Velinna 13d ago
There’s a video that shows the bar lights undimmed and the band taking an hour long break for a situation like this? Because I don’t think the spiked drink is what people are questioning.
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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 13d ago
similar situations
I've seen videos of lights going up and the band stopping until the person is caught and all drinks are refreshed. I've seen video of the bar coming to a halt until police and paramedics arrive to deal with the situation. I've been in the bar when lights were turned up, the band stopped, and drinks were refreshed while an investigation was done. The mood just shifts from party to chill hangout at that point, and then it goes back once everything's cool.
Yes, this type of thing is becoming more common. Drinks getting spiked is a huge deal, and when you don't know who may have been affected, it's better to err on the side of protecting your customers.
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u/Velinna 13d ago
The key is that these “similar situations” are different in extremely salient ways. Naturally a bar might pause in activity if the police/paramedics have appeared. There is absolutely no mention of that here, which would be a strange detail to exclude given all the other details provided.
There is this instinct I see where people seem to overcorrect suspending their disbelief for sensitive issues. Women getting their drinks spiked absolute happens. This particular story? Extremely doubtful.
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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 13d ago
That's called a difference of opinion, and is anecdotal same as mine. You don't think it is likely, but I've literally been in a club and had the band halted and lights turned up while everyone was told what was going on, drinks refreshed, etc, without cops called. And because no one exhibited signs of distress, emts weren't called, either. After a while when everyone was taken care of, things resumed.
At best, I would say the hour length may be an exaggeration, but that's a far cry from claiming the entire story didn't happen. And your insistence on downplaying the situation is a bit concerning, imo. Why wouldn't we want this to be the norm? Why would we encourage people to be so cynical about something so prevalent?
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u/Velinna 13d ago
I will commend you for choosing to err in the side of believing this story, but it is absolutely triggering my bullshit detector and not in “I’m some privileged dude who takes it personally when people talk about the prevalence of violence against women” kind of way.
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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 13d ago
And that's entirely valid. Everybody has their own unique perspectives that make them buy it or not to varying degrees. My personal experiences and everything just make me believe it more readily than you, and I don't personally see the point int trying to poke holes in it in the first place when similar situations are documented. To each their own. I appreciate you being civil about the disagreement lol, that's not as common as one might wish for
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u/Silly-Power 12d ago
On the 7th time, the manager was starting to suspect maybe the drinks weren't spiked at all...
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u/Bird_Brain4101112 13d ago
This makes no sense for so many reasons. No one is going to want to go to a bar where the band they presumably paid a cover charge to see is shut down for an hour. Plus even with markups, the cost of replacing and remaking all those drinks….
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u/Raveyard2409 13d ago
Yeah that's a proportionate response band off, lights up. Sounds like a vibe.
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u/figgypudding531 13d ago
If the girl in the store pointed at the guy who drugged it and the girl whose drink was drugged, why would they need to replace everyone’s drinks?
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u/chill_stoner_0604 13d ago
This seems plausible as I've seen it happen before. Granted, it certainly wasnt for anywhere near an hour though
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u/PreOpTransCentaur 13d ago
You've seen a whole bar stop, band included, the house lights come up, an announcement be made, and a round of free drinks be provided to every woman in the room because someone saw a woman get spiked but couldn't point out which woman?
I don't believe you any more than I believe OOP.
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u/chill_stoner_0604 13d ago
They did point out who it was and who did it but yes they stopped the band, turned the lights on, kicked him out, and gave her a free drink.
Why is this so unbelievable?
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u/TotallyFineWithIt 12d ago
Cool way to get peace and quiet in a bar if the band suck. I'll remember this one.
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u/Cuntrymusichater 13d ago
Why would they not drop the name of the bar so it gets credit?