Not content with merely posting the proper sign, patrons of the “World Famous” Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in downtown Nashville will be frisked and wanded starting this weekend:
At Tootsie’s, owner Steve Smith plans to go a step further. He started looking Monday for two metal-detecting wands that the honky-tonk’s security staff can wield at the two entrances. Smith said the devices, which he expects to set him back at least $2,000, should be in place by the weekend.
“We don’t want legal guns or illegal guns here,” said Smith, who is also a co-owner of Rippy’s on the other side of Lower Broadway. “The only person we feel safe with a firearm in here is a police officer.”
That’s the spirit! Let’s make everyone feel uncomfortable, and then 3 months from now we can tell Chancellor Bonnyman that our business has been hurt by the law!
I’ve sent Mr. Smith an email asking what kept criminals from carrying into his establishment before today. I suspect that, like Randy Rayburn, he won’t grace me with an answer.
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Really there Sparky, “The only person we feel safe with a firearm in here is a police officer.”, the only person?
Not your staff, not YOUR CUSTOMERS? Is this bright shining star insulting the very customers that pay his salary?
Questioning their intelligence and common sense to such a degree?
Wonder if they breathylize everyone going out the door to see if they can be trusted to drive.
I am sorry, but the very thought that people would actually subject to TSA-style screening just to go to some stupid bar/restaurant is laughable at best.
I would not visit such a restaurant if they offered free meals, and not just because they have no respect for my rights – rather, I will not voluntarily subject myself to a full-body search just to eat a bloody meal. Bad enough we have to do it to travel these days…
Bunch of panty-wetting morons…
Oh, I agree completely. I was just amazed at his lack of marketing skills to be insulting people like that…and seem proud of it.
I would make it a point to call him and let him know I took my business elsewhere because of his stance.
Great post
Heh, yeah… insulting and demeaning the people who provide you your paycheck is never a good marketing tactic.
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And the post is not mine – some new guy I brought onboard wrote it
not grasping the concept
We have talked about Randy Rayburn here at “walls of the city” a few times before, but his most-recent load of gos-se deserves some renewed attention: What is the statute of limitations on a bad idea that is historically unsound…