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<h2>Getting kicked out for life and into a mountain of snow by an angry bar bouncer for abusing the jukebox or breaking a house rule isn&#39;t something that happens every weekend night...</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">my family will literally never shut the fuck about how they took me to a bar at 16 and i blacked out, cried during miley cyrus karaoke, and got us all banned from the bar for life</p>&mdash; coll (@Coll3enG) <a href="https://twitter.com/Coll3enG/status/1179810750220521472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><p>The cinematic &quot;get out, and stay out,&quot; ban in reality is usually far more clerical and anti-climactic. A well-lit room with your photo taken, or a flustered employee telling you that you&#39;re no longer welcome while you question all your life choices that led you to attempting to steal a T.G.I. Friday&#39;s chandelier is more like it.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">i’m permanently banned from a bar where i went to college because one night the dj decided to play nickelback and imagine dragons the whole night so i unplugged his system twice and got caught and booted. i was doing everyone a favor that night but noooo.</p>&mdash; .:RiotGrl:.(COMMISSIONS OPEN) (@RiotGrlErin) <a href="https://twitter.com/RiotGrlErin/status/1441207508052451329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sis5cg/whats_the_reason_you_have_been_banned_from_an/">Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;What&rsquo;s the reason you have been banned from an establishment such as a shop/bar/restaurant/cafe/etc?&quot; people who have been kicked out of a business forever were ready to share their story.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m also permanently banned from a bar/restaurant in Chicago because I got blacked out at brunch hanging out the window trying to get dogs to come inside. Whatever.</p>&mdash; Cloud Of Chaos (@squirebrocoRN) <a href="https://twitter.com/squirebrocoRN/status/1364121778637791235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>Was banned from a Mall arcade when I was a kid for holding all the whack a moles down - pistonkamel</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>Got banned from the mall when I was younger because I wore an inappropriate shirt that I bought in the mall - par337</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>Was banned from a Mall arcade when I was a kid for holding all the whack a moles down - pistonkamel</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was 12 my favorite thing to do was play laser tag at the one laser tag place in our town. I&#39;d go every Friday night and play for 3 hours or so. There weren&#39;t many other regular players, so nobody else was getting better at it like I was.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>After about a year I was just wrecking everyone and the owner ended up banning me from the place because it was driving away customers. It really sucked because it was favorite activity and I was just immediately cut off from it.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>6 years later I found a place in another city that had other players that played regularly so I was able to start playing again with people at similar skill levels. - LeCrushinator</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>I got &quot;banned&quot; from Six Flags Great Adventure (NJ) several times in the early 90s. Back when I was in high school, season passes like $40 or something, making it a no brainer to buy one if you intended to go at least twice. My friend and I went probably 5-7 days a week since we lived close by.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>We knew the park and its operations better than pretty much anyone who didn&#39;t work there, and eventually grew too comfortable with taking shortcuts through employee areas, trying to climb things we shouldn&#39;t, bothering other guests, and overall being a bunch of New Jersey Teenagers (aka jerks).</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Thing is, the only IDs we had on us were our Season Passes, which we always assigned fake names for no preplanned reason. (Summer of 1994 my pass said Oskar Schindler). We eventually got in so much trouble they would take our passes and tell us we were banned for life. Well, another $40 at the front gate and boom, back in as Itzhak Stern. They needed at that time to figure out the flaws in their system. - Phormicidae</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>This is how I got banned from Chuck E Cheese. I figured out that I could take a ball from the game where you shoot the clown&#39;s teeth and use it at the skeeball machine. The skeeball machine would count the points but not the ball used, which enabled me to play forever with just one ball and max out the machine. I did it on two skeeball machines before someone noticed and I got banned/kicked out. - papaya_flight</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>I got mistaken for somebody else whilst on holiday a few years back. I popped into a local shop to grab a sandwich &amp; drink and a staff member forcefully marched over to me and yelled &ldquo;you&rsquo;re not allowed in here! I&rsquo;ve told you before!&rdquo; as she grabbed my sandwich and bottle of water from me &amp; put them back.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I of course tried to protest and explained that I had never been in there before and was a visitor to the area but she gestured for the security guard to come over to escort me out and stood watching us from a distance with her arms folded and a smug look on her face, occasionally shouting &ldquo;if she doesn&rsquo;t go, I&rsquo;m calling the police!&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Thankfully the security guard was a little more understanding about the situation and happily looked at my driving license which proved I lived in a different area (I offered to show it) but said &ldquo;perhaps it would be best if you didn&rsquo;t come in here again!&rdquo; - Retrosonic82</p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>I drunkenly stumbled into the big pyramid of wine glasses that were, for some reason, stacked on the side of the bar... After they all fell and smashed everywhere causing a huge scene I proceeded to tell the bartender that it wasn&#39;t me. Two seconds later I was in a headlock being dragged outside by a large bouncer. - _gnoof</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>Taking pictures of produce and price signs at a small grocery store while shopping. I was just trying to keep track of which stores had which food at cheaper prices so I could plan my shopping trips. - Representative_Bad57</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend and I were &ldquo;Banned for Life&rdquo; from a Casino in Las Vegas 20 something years ago. We had gone for his 21st birthday which was the week prior. Despite being of legal age he looked appropriately 12. After being carded by a cocktail waitress for the 700th time, she recommended he go to the security desk, show his ID, and get a stamp on his hand showing he was 21, that way he wouldn&rsquo;t have to keep pulling out his license.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Great. We go to security, they stamp my hand in 2 seconds, but start examining his ID real closely. They pull out the guidebook for all of the State&rsquo;s driver&rsquo;s licenses. They call over a supervisor. Finally they just say &ldquo;No, sorry, this is fake. It says Under 21 on it.&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>My friend at first calmly tried to explain that he turned 21 the week before, and was Under 21 when he got the license, which is why it was on there. He lived in one state, was going to college in another, and hadn&rsquo;t gone home to renew his license yet, but it wasn&rsquo;t expired so it was valid.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>They said &ldquo;This is a private establishment, we&rsquo;re not comfortable with it, and we&rsquo;re asking you to leave.&rdquo; Now he had a bad temper, which I knew, and he had been drinking. I tried to diffuse the situation and said &ldquo;Hey, f*ck this place. There&rsquo;s 100 casinos on the strip.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Let&rsquo;s go somewhere else.&rdquo; He agreed and we headed for the door. 10 feet from the exit I hear &ldquo;F*ck it, I&rsquo;m giving that as*hole a piece of my mind.&rdquo; Five minutes later we were escorted to a room off the floor, had our pictures taken, and were told we were banned for life, and if we ever returned we would be charged with trespassing. I haven&rsquo;t been back to Vegas since that, but if I do I&rsquo;d like to walk in to test their facial recognition software lol. - Jealous-Network-8852</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was banned from the library as a kid. Overdue fees, they let you go up to $70 before canceling your card.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I was an avid reader and my mom hated taking me to the library, always said she would and then changed her mind last minute. It was a 6 mile walk round trip so I would take a wheeled suitcase and get around 25 at a time, the fees added up fast lol</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I resorted to stealing books and returning them and I&rsquo;m pretty sure some of the Librarians just turned a blind eye. They forgive the debt when you turn 18. - No_Magazine2270</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>Back in the late 1980s, I was in the Florida Keys with a group of friends. I got drunk and went to bed and some of the guys went out bar hopping. The next morning a deputy sheriff showed up at the place we were renting, told us to pack our things and he would escort us to the county line and we were not to come back.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>So not only did I get banned from an entire Florida county, I never did get a straight story about what the guys who were at the bar did to get us banned. - Troubador222</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>Got banned from a local KMart about 25yrs ago for figuring out that if you just slapped the handle on the old twist turn candy dispensers that took a quarter it would just give you free candy...Yeah they call that stealing. Took my photo and everything. - Aquaritek</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>Banned from the college cafeteria for taking in a digital food safety thermometer, and a copy of the state health department temperature ranges.</p> <p>They were consistently 20&deg;F-40&deg;F low, and food poisoning was a common problem. - nobody_really__</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>I tried to pay my cover (entry fee) to a bar one time with two dollar bills and instead of taking my money the bouncer told me to leave in a not super polite manner. - hostilecarrot</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>My family has been banned from a local Marco&#39;s pizza for yeaaars because of my mom. she used to have some anger issues and also really really loves garlic butter. when the Marcos forgot to include the garlic butter with the order she called and asked them to deliver the single cup of garlic butter to our house.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The Marco&#39;s (reasonably) said they can&#39;t do that, but she could come get it. She stormed over there with our pizza and proceeded to smear the whole thing on their windows and counters. haven&#39;t had Marco&#39;s since. - biggieknish</p> </blockquote><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to work at a sushi restaurant. I got fire/banned because I told the manager that some of the food smelled like it was expired and maybe we should throw it out. Next thing I know, she&#39;s giving me my check and kicking me out. - UnderwaterPianos</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>Just in case you think you have the trashiest family I&#39;ll make you feel better. My family is banned from an Applebee&#39;s in Syracuse New York.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Coming home from a game, my drunk dad started a verbal fight with the manager because he sat a table before us swearing that we were there first. We weren&#39;t, but drunk dad was not having any of it.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Every time that &quot;Applebees on a date night&quot; song comes on, everybody looks at him and we laugh and he says he regrets nothing and stood up for what was right. - Waffle-Azul</p> </blockquote><h2>19.</h2><blockquote> <p>Feeding the seagulls. We ruined the entire upper deck&#39;s dining experience with a few french fries. Dozens, maybe 100 swarmed. It was like a scene from The Birds. People had to evacuate. - Cup_Mundane</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

19 people reveal the reason they were permanently banned from an establishment.

Getting kicked out for life and into a mountain of snow by an angry bar bouncer for abusing the jukebox or breaking a house rule isn&#39;t something that happens every weekend night...my family will literally never shut the fuck about how they took me to a bar at 16 and i blacked out, cried during miley cyrus karaoke, and got us all banned from the bar for life&mdash; coll (@Coll3enG) October 3, 2019 The cinematic &quot;get out, and stay out,&quot; ban in reality is usually far more clerical and anti-climactic. A well-lit room with your photo taken, or a flustered employee telling you that you&#39;re no longer welcome while you question all your life choices that led you to attempting to steal a T.G.I. Friday&#39;s chandelier is more like it.i’m permanently banned from a bar where i went to college because one night the dj decided to play nickelback and imagine dragons the whole night so i unplugged his system twice and got caught and booted. i was doing everyone a favor that night but noooo.&mdash; .:RiotGrl:.(COMMISSIONS OPEN) (@RiotGrlErin) September 24, 2021 So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What&rsquo;s the reason you have been banned from an establishment such as a shop/bar/restaurant/cafe/etc?&quot; people who have been kicked out of a business forever were ready to share their story.I’m also permanently banned from a bar/restaurant in Chicago because I got blacked out at brunch hanging out the window trying to get dogs to come inside. Whatever.&mdash; Cloud Of Chaos (@squirebrocoRN) February 23, 2021 1. Was banned from a Mall arcade when I was a kid for holding all the whack a moles down - pistonkamel 2. Got banned from the mall when I was younger because I wore an inappropriate shirt that I bought in the mall - par337 3. Was banned from a Mall arcade when I was a kid for holding all the whack a moles down - pistonkamel 4. When I was 12 my favorite thing to do was play laser tag at the one laser tag place in our town. I&#39;d go every Friday night and play for 3 hours or so. There weren&#39;t many other regular players, so nobody else was getting better at it like I was.   After about a year I was just wrecking everyone and the owner ended up banning me from the place because it was driving away customers. It really sucked because it was favorite activity and I was just immediately cut off from it.   6 years later I found a place in another city that had other players that played regularly so I was able to start playing again with people at similar skill levels. - LeCrushinator 5. I got &quot;banned&quot; from Six Flags Great Adventure (NJ) several times in the early 90s. Back when I was in high school, season passes like $40 or something, making it a no brainer to buy one if you intended to go at least twice. My friend and I went probably 5-7 days a week since we lived close by.   We knew the park and its operations better than pretty much anyone who didn&#39;t work there, and eventually grew too comfortable with taking shortcuts through employee areas, trying to climb things we shouldn&#39;t, bothering other guests, and overall being a bunch of New Jersey Teenagers (aka jerks).   Thing is, the only IDs we had on us were our Season Passes, which we always assigned fake names for no preplanned reason. (Summer of 1994 my pass said Oskar Schindler). We eventually got in so much trouble they would take our passes and tell us we were banned for life. Well, another $40 at the front gate and boom, back in as Itzhak Stern. They needed at that time to figure out the flaws in their system. - Phormicidae 6. This is how I got banned from Chuck E Cheese. I figured out that I could take a ball from the game where you shoot the clown&#39;s teeth and use it at the skeeball machine. The skeeball machine would count the points but not the ball used, which enabled me to play forever with just one ball and max out the machine. I did it on two skeeball machines before someone noticed and I got banned/kicked out. - papaya_flight 7. I got mistaken for somebody else whilst on holiday a few years back. I popped into a local shop to grab a sandwich &amp; drink and a staff member forcefully marched over to me and yelled &ldquo;you&rsquo;re not allowed in here! I&rsquo;ve told you before!&rdquo; as she grabbed my sandwich and bottle of water from me &amp; put them back.   I of course tried to protest and explained that I had never been in there before and was a visitor to the area but she gestured for the security guard to come over to escort me out and stood watching us from a distance with her arms folded and a smug look on her face, occasionally shouting &ldquo;if she doesn&rsquo;t go, I&rsquo;m calling the police!&rdquo;   Thankfully the security guard was a little more understanding about the situation and happily looked at my driving license which proved I lived in a different area (I offered to show it) but said &ldquo;perhaps it would be best if you didn&rsquo;t come in here again!&rdquo; - Retrosonic82 8. I drunkenly stumbled into the big pyramid of wine glasses that were, for some reason, stacked on the side of the bar... After they all fell and smashed everywhere causing a huge scene I proceeded to tell the bartender that it wasn&#39;t me. Two seconds later I was in a headlock being dragged outside by a large bouncer. - _gnoof 9. Taking pictures of produce and price signs at a small grocery store while shopping. I was just trying to keep track of which stores had which food at cheaper prices so I could plan my shopping trips. - Representative_Bad57 10. My friend and I were &ldquo;Banned for Life&rdquo; from a Casino in Las Vegas 20 something years ago. We had gone for his 21st birthday which was the week prior. Despite being of legal age he looked appropriately 12. After being carded by a cocktail waitress for the 700th time, she recommended he go to the security desk, show his ID, and get a stamp on his hand showing he was 21, that way he wouldn&rsquo;t have to keep pulling out his license.   Great. We go to security, they stamp my hand in 2 seconds, but start examining his ID real closely. They pull out the guidebook for all of the State&rsquo;s driver&rsquo;s licenses. They call over a supervisor. Finally they just say &ldquo;No, sorry, this is fake. It says Under 21 on it.&rdquo;   My friend at first calmly tried to explain that he turned 21 the week before, and was Under 21 when he got the license, which is why it was on there. He lived in one state, was going to college in another, and hadn&rsquo;t gone home to renew his license yet, but it wasn&rsquo;t expired so it was valid.   They said &ldquo;This is a private establishment, we&rsquo;re not comfortable with it, and we&rsquo;re asking you to leave.&rdquo; Now he had a bad temper, which I knew, and he had been drinking. I tried to diffuse the situation and said &ldquo;Hey, f*ck this place. There&rsquo;s 100 casinos on the strip.   Let&rsquo;s go somewhere else.&rdquo; He agreed and we headed for the door. 10 feet from the exit I hear &ldquo;F*ck it, I&rsquo;m giving that as*hole a piece of my mind.&rdquo; Five minutes later we were escorted to a room off the floor, had our pictures taken, and were told we were banned for life, and if we ever returned we would be charged with trespassing. I haven&rsquo;t been back to Vegas since that, but if I do I&rsquo;d like to walk in to test their facial recognition software lol. - Jealous-Network-8852 11. I was banned from the library as a kid. Overdue fees, they let you go up to $70 before canceling your card.   I was an avid reader and my mom hated taking me to the library, always said she would and then changed her mind last minute. It was a 6 mile walk round trip so I would take a wheeled suitcase and get around 25 at a time, the fees added up fast lol   I resorted to stealing books and returning them and I&rsquo;m pretty sure some of the Librarians just turned a blind eye. They forgive the debt when you turn 18. - No_Magazine2270 12. Back in the late 1980s, I was in the Florida Keys with a group of friends. I got drunk and went to bed and some of the guys went out bar hopping. The next morning a deputy sheriff showed up at the place we were renting, told us to pack our things and he would escort us to the county line and we were not to come back.   So not only did I get banned from an entire Florida county, I never did get a straight story about what the guys who were at the bar did to get us banned. - Troubador222 13. Got banned from a local KMart about 25yrs ago for figuring out that if you just slapped the handle on the old twist turn candy dispensers that took a quarter it would just give you free candy...Yeah they call that stealing. Took my photo and everything. - Aquaritek 14. Banned from the college cafeteria for taking in a digital food safety thermometer, and a copy of the state health department temperature ranges. They were consistently 20&deg;F-40&deg;F low, and food poisoning was a common problem. - nobody_really__ 15. I tried to pay my cover (entry fee) to a bar one time with two dollar bills and instead of taking my money the bouncer told me to leave in a not super polite manner. - hostilecarrot 16. My family has been banned from a local Marco&#39;s pizza for yeaaars because of my mom. she used to have some anger issues and also really really loves garlic butter. when the Marcos forgot to include the garlic butter with the order she called and asked them to deliver the single cup of garlic butter to our house.  The Marco&#39;s (reasonably) said they can&#39;t do that, but she could come get it. She stormed over there with our pizza and proceeded to smear the whole thing on their windows and counters. haven&#39;t had Marco&#39;s since. - biggieknish 17. I used to work at a sushi restaurant. I got fire/banned because I told the manager that some of the food smelled like it was expired and maybe we should throw it out. Next thing I know, she&#39;s giving me my check and kicking me out. - UnderwaterPianos 18. Just in case you think you have the trashiest family I&#39;ll make you feel better. My family is banned from an Applebee&#39;s in Syracuse New York.   Coming home from a game, my drunk dad started a verbal fight with the manager because he sat a table before us swearing that we were there first. We weren&#39;t, but drunk dad was not having any of it.   Every time that &quot;Applebees on a date night&quot; song comes on, everybody looks at him and we laugh and he says he regrets nothing and stood up for what was right. - Waffle-Azul 19. Feeding the seagulls. We ruined the entire upper deck&#39;s dining experience with a few french fries. Dozens, maybe 100 swarmed. It was like a scene from The Birds. People had to evacuate. - Cup_Mundane 

Getting kicked out for life and into a mountain of snow by an angry bar bouncer for abusing the jukebox or breaking a house rule isn&#39;t something that happens every weekend night...    The cinematic &quot;get out, and stay out,&quot;...