I hope this triggers a big rethink of how bouncers operate in pubs and clubs. The idea of bouncers was to firmly escourt patrons who were becoming a problem in an establishment and to keep undesireables out before they started problems.
In many places the wrong type of people have been gaining employment. All too often people are getting employed who have very short fuses, more concerned in showing off to mates and girls how macho they are, bait people for a confrontation when they didn't like the look of them or jealous because they were getting the attention from chicks, usually been in trouble with the law for assault on and off the job and the mentality of an ant.
Many bouncers take on the job because they want action. They want to tell their mates how they beat a guy to a pulp or how they threw someone down the stairs. There should be strict rules on what they can and can't do. I think owners of these establishments have to have greater responsibilities placed on them on any incidents of over aggression shown by a bouncer and found partly responsible for incidents that have just happened to a now deceased David Hookes. You can't tell me that the owner didn't know this guy had a mental problem? I mean these guys don't hide their attitude. Their got bigger egos than Julius Ceasar!
If I lived near that pub I would boycott it big time! Then the owner might rethink who he hires to hang from the ceiling and eat bannanas.
I wasn't exactly David Hookes biggest fan but the thought that he was walking to his car a good 50 metres from the pub and getting on with going home with his wife and friends to be king hit from behind (Like a coward would :evil: ) in such a senseless attack sickens me deeply!
It is so un Australian.......maybe thats the problem?
