Paddy McGinty wrote:Thought I would share this with you all. As you may know I was at the home of darts on Wednesday, had a great day but my experience was marred by the actions of a BDO official.
Our crowd were dispersed over 3 tables and Gaydrian and myself were sat with a group of Lawyers, three fit birds and a couple of blokes if i remember correctly, anyway it was there first time at a darts event and they had dressed up accordingly and were having a great time. During one of the breaks one of the guys in this group jumped up on stage to get a photograph taken. he returned to his seat and not long after a member of the security team came over and warned him that he could not jump up on the stage and if he did it again he would be out. I thought fair enough this isn't the PDC and rules should be adhered too.
The guy in question was very apologetic and said that it would not happen again. A few moments later another security guy came over and told the man he must leave, I questioned the decision with the security personnel and he told me the decision had come from a BDO official and was final. Well they chucked the poor guy out and of course moments later the rest of his party promptly left.
Now this was a group of 5/6 professional people who were experiencing Lakeside for the very first time, I don't expect any will return again after the way they were treated. A very poor decision by the BDO official who ought of been encouraging new punters not scaring them away.....
You stated the reason in the first bit of paragraph two, the BDO would have known what tables we were all on and probably thought the poor sod was one of our lot. Like you said security had already warned him but the BDO looking for an excuse to throw some of us out but got the wrong people.
Frooty was read the riot act by security for giving Mason the wanker sign but that was fair enough and in the hotel afterwards the security were brilliant and were not going to pander to the BDO's wishes there.
An important note is that there are no signs not to go on stage and as a first timer the guy should have been cut a break which security would have done had he not been sitting on one of our tables.