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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I got banned from a bar once, because I refused to give them my water bottle. Which I entered with it empty. Which I filled up in front of staff

I wasn't even there to drink, they just have a nice arcade section I used to regular

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I got banned from a bar once, because I refused to give them my water bottle. Which I entered with it empty. Which I filled up in front of staff

I wasn't even there to drink, they just have a nice arcade section I used to regular

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

When I was a teen, I had a summer job at a laboratory. They had a BLAZING FAST T-1 connection. This was a big deal, that's what hackers in movies dreamed about having access to.

So I took my gaming rig to workto play counterstrike one day. (it was always mostly deserted, and no one cared what the lab monkey did before noon when they all eventually showed up)

The latency was non existent. I felt like a god. I was banned from several servers that day becythey thought I was botting due to having an order of magnitude better ping than anyone I was playing against. I got paranoid and never took my machine to work again, but it was a fun day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I thought you'd get banned from the lab lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The #1 task requested of me at that lab was "can you install Napster on my computer". The second was "I completely fucked this can you fix it with the Photoshop?

My job was basically "Linux sys admin for the one Linux box that's important for some reason that has to do with the printers".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Kicked out of Canada when I was in my early twenties.

Picture it. 1998. Niagara Falls (the Canadian side). I was visiting western New York with my gf at the time. She was driving and we had three of her friends in the car with us.

She was speeding so a local cop flashed his lights and pulled us over. He made her step out of the car. Then he came over, stuck his head through the driver’s side window and chastised us all:

“You know how fast she was goin’? One of you needs to be the designated smart guy and tell her to slow down.”

Then his eyes focused on me in the backseat.

Cop: “Where are you from?”

Me: “Georgia.”

Cop: “Yeah well you just need to get back to the border and get outta here. We don’t need your kind here.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Was there actual paperwork, or was that RCMP officer just power tripping?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Id say he meant he was told to get out by them, but it wasn't legally binding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah. Mounties like swinging their dick around as much as the next beat cop, and OP conspicuously didn't mention how much they were speeding by, exactly. Since OP wasn't at the wheel I don't see how they could be ejected, though. Being an idiot's passenger isn't a crime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Exactly.

He said to leave and I was all “Yes sir! Thank you, sir!”

🙂

(No, really. I was like let’s GTFO)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Some bar in Amsterdam. We were there for a Bachelor's party/trip, it wasn't even that late at night but two guys in our group were already drunk to the point of half falling asleep and kept dropping their drinks on the floor. The waitress warned us the second time and kicked us all out the third or fourth time it happened. When we all got outside, one of the two jerks had the nerve to ask "What happened? Did we just get kicked out? Why? Couldn't they have at least warned us first?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

nice try, officer

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't know if I was ever banned but I was definitely asked to leave a go kart track when I was about 10 or 11. It was a kids track with only a few karts to choose from but they weren't even as far as performance went. I had picked one that turned out to be slower than one another boy chose, so he kept lapping me as we were driving around. I've always been very competitive so I was just getting madder and madder as this smug little shit kept passing me even though I was pedal to the metal, so I made a decision. One lap as he was just about to pass me I wrenched my steering wheel to the side and ran him off the track. I was, of course, spotted by an attendant who stopped me and brought me over to my very embarrassed parents then asked us all to leave. I don't think the other kid was hurt, but I didn't care enough at the time to check so he might have been.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

I was banned from Dave and Busters because the assholes in the booth next to us dumped two pitchers on the floor and the staff thought we were together.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Reddit isn't fun (anymore).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've been banned off of Line for the crime of doing literally nothing. I created an account before a trip to Japan so I could add Japanese people I already knew or might meet while there.

I made the account without any significant issues, got the QR code to add a friend then got an unspecified error any time I tried to add them. I tried adding an official account with the same error. I looked it up and saw some suggestions about waiting a few days to try again so I did just that with the same results for any official account or my friends account. My brother made an account and tried to add our friend with the same results, then found that when using my QR code it said the account didn't exist.

After digging more into it and trying to figure out what was up with Line's support directly all I could find was an FAQ that said if you got an unspecified error when adding someone then it means your account violated Terms of Service for sending illegal messages, harassing people, etc that type of stuff. Still have yet to figure out how exactly either of us did any of those things before we could send a single message, but I'm sure it's a very good and logical reason which would surely also explain why Line doesn't answer my tickets or emails. Surely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Probably got flagged as a bot by accident tbh

Happens sometimes, especially if you're on a vpn

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

currently working on getting banned on the rest of the reddit subs i frequen(ted).
Does that count?

This reminds me of an old cartoon; Old guy getting banned from the cemetary and rejoicing his new found imortality. Thought that was funny.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

my mum told me, at my baptism, I put the candle under the pop's cloth. he definitely took fire, and i like to believe i was banned from church 😎

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Canada, because I got a DUI in the USA 21 years ago. Yes I was a stupid kid and no I don't do that anymore. But damn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You're banned from the entire coutry, or just can't drive there?

[–] ohshit604 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If you have a criminal record in your home country you’ll be denied entry into Canada. Even Donald Trump can’t enter Canada legally.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I was going to say Reddit, but then I realized you meant from some fun place. So no, I haven’t been banned from some place fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I got banned from the monkey section of the zoo because I kept tickling the feet of those little old man looking monkeys.

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