Matthew G.
Yelp
Security that steals your stuff and instigates fights
I write this as I'm currently undergoing a ridiculous ordeal they put me through.
New Years Eve night my lady and I were going to the Tiki Bar on the basement level.
Security searches me and my heart sank, (my fault) I was in a rush and forgot to leave my pocket knife at home. The security guard that searched me was actually pretty cool. I told him I came straight from home and had my knife on me, cos I was trying to get a restraining order on my psycho roommate.
But I stress to him that the knife is very important, it was wedding gift AND it has my freaking name etched into the blade
(pretty hard to miss and pretty useless to anyone else without my weirdo name)
He was cool and instead of turning me away, he said I could check it with them and just ask for it when I left, he'd be at the door all night (in my hast I forgot to get his name).
WELL this was my mistake, because upon leaving the Tiki bar, he was nowhere to be seen...
What then ensued was the most insane, ridiculous and insulting thing I've had to go through at a bar (I work in bars, clubs and venues as my 2nd job)
Since my OG security guard wasn't at the front, I find another one and ask about my knife. They then make me wait until the club on the 2nd level and the bar close before they will help me.
We wait patiently.
They ask me who checked in my knife, of course I can't recall a name, then one security guard radios in that he has my knife HOORAY!!!
They send me around the corner to the entrance of the 2nd story club. This security guard Dave or David proceeds to get ALL in my face.
He is super heated that I, yes me, have the audacity to say he STOLE my knife.
IDK where this is coming from, and it's a horrible trait in a security guard, they are supposed to DE-ESCALATE fights, NOT start them.
He creepily says "If I had searched you, YOU'D know" and then proceeds to lecture me, on some stuff that didn't apply to me and tell me I should've gotten the name of the OG guard (GEE THANKS! Real helpful buddy) again IDK where this comes from, but w/e is going on in his life, it has nothing to do with me.
I then have to go to the HEAD of security now and tell him WTH just happened. Of course he apologizes and agrees it's no way to act with the public but advises me to come back when they open in the morning.
We return in the morning, but now staff can't help us, they advise us to call.
Welp, you can't call them, no one answers the phones here!
Rinse and repeat the "go in person, sorry comeback later, call again in the evening" routine like x2 more times and thats currently where I'm at.
So long story short, come here if you want your shit stolen and the coked up club security to start a fight with you.