This would be a security threat because…
I’m taking bets on how long before Homeland Security latches on to this. On the other hand, it my finally rid us of backward cap wearing.
Pub orders woman to remove hat
ENGLAND: An 82-year-old WI member was ordered to remove her hat when she went into a pub – for security reasons.
Retired teacher Betty Wilbraham, from Ely, Cambs, was asked to remove her rain hat before sitting down to eat at The Hereward in Ely.
The Hereward has been declared a hat free zone, claiming headgear restricts their CCTV coverage.
The pub has a sign to this effect displayed by its front door showing all manner of hats – including top hats and sailors’ hats – which are not acceptable.
However, Mrs Wilbraham said that staff neglected to mention it and she couldn’t think why her black shower-proof rain hat with its elegant mulberry ribbon should cause offence.
“I’ve never heard of such a thing as a hat-free pub,” said Mrs Wilbraham.
“It’s not heavy, it’s my cover”
The real problem is that after a few minutes of wearing the hat, one has a compulsive desire to purchase Aflac disability insurance.
Maybe because the 80’s band Men Without Hats gigs there? It is the Safety Dance after all.
(apologies on the bad pun)
Oh, just wait until the English chapters of the Red Hat Society get wind of this. They’re a bunch of feisty old biddies.
apparently just a few weeks ago an elderly gentleman in England went into a pub that he had never been into before, wearing his fedora. He was asked to remove the hat and from what I remember asked why and someone called the police. Same reason, it blocked the cctv from seeing his full face.
It never fails to amaze me when people gush on about how wonderful Europe and Britain are, but apparently have no clue just how deeply the Blair goverment has curtailed basic freedoms.
This blog is usually free of nasty remarks, but some things I’ve seen written here would get you hauled into court on a hate speech, or anti-social behavior charge in the U.K.. Don’t get me wrong please, I go to Uni in England and have wonderful mates there and all over Europe, so I’m not a basher by any means.
But my mates will go on about how we here in the states have less freedom than they do, and I have to tell them they are soooooooo wrong. Many of them and many Americans just have no idea how nannied they are.
I don’t like it, but I will take the CIA listining in to some phone calls any day compared to what it’s like in Europe these days.
That’s only in UK. In Portugal you can go to a bar wearing a full size, large coat and a large hat in the middle of the summer and nothing will happen.
That’s what I love in my country, no one gives a flying f*** about these foreign moronic ‘threats’ to society. But if you ask me, even in here people take stuff to seriously, I like São Tomé e Principe better.
Nearly all australian pubs are making you do this aswell.
all so they can catch your face on cctv.
I’m starting to think we had it wrong about England all these years. Monty Python was just a documentary…….
Wah! I can’t go into a bank with a ski mask covering my face! Wah!
I’m sure when they came up with the rule, they balanced the good with the bad, and decided its for the best. And it can’t compare to the wiretapping situation in the U.S., cause at least you know, if you walk into that establishment, you have to take off your hat. Your decision.
I’ve seen:
No Shirt
No Shoes
No Service
on the door to many (lower classed) establishments.
Now its:
No Shirt
No Shoes
or
wear a hat
No Service
actually Lou, you can compare it to the wiretapping here. It’s not just the bars(pubs) that have the CCTV, it’s just about every street corner in the cities and medium size towns as well. You can be on camera from the time you walk out your door until you come home at night from work.
In the bombing incident in July, they have the bombers on camera from home to the tube station, but since they weren’t wearing a rain hat or a fedora no one guessed they were going to kill 50 people with a suicide bomb.
Here, we tap into calls made into this country from known(or suspected) terrorists or sympathizers.(i’m hoping that they at least stuck to that rule), so I feel better with what we have than the far to intrusive system used in the U.K.