Disgraceful behaviour from the Metro hotel

[Vista]

They deserve all the abuse they got for a stunt like that!

 

Who on here lives in Surrey and wants to voice a protest?

 

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_c ... icle/1216/

[countrybumpkin]

this county is a s**t hole our service men desever to be treaded like heros not scum p**s's me right off

[Mr Sam]

while i dont really agree with why thier there but nots let get into that

 

there putting there life on the line come home and get treated like this

 

 

 

 

 

.......makes me so proud to be british

[mk1super]

Thats just typical of our country shit on the good guys look after the bad

[Stu_B]

I can see why the hotel has that policy. Have you eve been around drunk squaddies?!

But 'Hotel Policy' is not good enough, who ever was in charge should have let him stay.

[Wessie]

if that was in woking then nobody that works there is british ! hope the hotel goes tits up

[morcheen]

he must be able to bring a case of discrimination against the hotel ?

[RUSTYPUP]

I can see why the hotel has that policy. Have you eve been around drunk squaddies?!

But 'Hotel Policy' is not good enough, who ever was in charge should have let him stay.

When I used to go out round Chatham when I was a teenager, if ever there was any trouble it was always down to the squaddies turning up and kicking people in and smashing stuff up for fun.

Whilst I appreciate the work they do for the country, perhaps some of their bad press is due their own behaviour.

 

Although one injured guy on his own being refused a room does seem to be totally out of order

[Vista]

I can see why the hotel has that policy. Have you eve been around drunk squaddies?!

But 'Hotel Policy' is not good enough, who ever was in charge should have let him stay.

 

In my experience drunk servicemen are no better or worse than drunk civilians. Whilst I can't speak for soldiers out on the town, in the naval towns I've lived in or spent time in (Portsmouth, Plymouth, Rosyth and Helesburgh) about 80% of the time the trouble when it does occur is not caused by the sailors but by the locals who resent their presence there.

 

Besides, he wasn't drunk and he wasn't in a group of soldiers either.

[Stu_B]

I can see why the hotel has that policy. Have you eve been around drunk squaddies?!

But 'Hotel Policy' is not good enough, who ever was in charge should have let him stay.

 

In my experience drunk servicemen are no better or worse than drunk civilians. Whilst I can't speak for soldiers out on the town, in the naval towns I've lived in or spent time in (Portsmouth, Plymouth, Rosyth and Helesburgh) about 80% of the time the trouble when it does occur is not caused by the sailors but by the locals who resent their presence there.

 

Besides, he wasn't drunk and he wasn't in a group of soldiers either.

 

I can't agree with you there as my mate was beaten up quite badly by a sailor in Plymouth, he wouldn't hurt a fly & doesn't run his mouth off either!

 

I do agree with your last comment though as I said in my first post

[Vista]

I can see why the hotel has that policy. Have you eve been around drunk squaddies?!

But 'Hotel Policy' is not good enough, who ever was in charge should have let him stay.

 

In my experience drunk servicemen are no better or worse than drunk civilians. Whilst I can't speak for soldiers out on the town, in the naval towns I've lived in or spent time in (Portsmouth, Plymouth, Rosyth and Helesburgh) about 80% of the time the trouble when it does occur is not caused by the sailors but by the locals who resent their presence there.

 

Besides, he wasn't drunk and he wasn't in a group of soldiers either.

 

I can't agree with you there as my mate was beaten up quite badly by a sailor in Plymouth, he wouldn't hurt a fly & doesn't run his mouth off either!

 

I do agree with your last comment though as I said in my first post

 

Nobody is perfect that's why I said about 80% of the time.

 

I've lived in or near Plymouth now for some 16 years (both as a sailor and after I left the RN) and yes there is trouble instigated by servicemen but in my experience it is far less frequent than that instigated by local "lads about town" looking to prove themselves.

 

Most of the areas sailors frequent are heavily patrolled by MOD police and the Provost service and sailors know that they have a lot more to lose and are far easier to track down and punish than some local jack the lad who can deliver a kicking and disappear off into anonymity again.

[Stu_B]

The Hotel has obviously created this policy due to some trouble in the past.

 

I'm not saying all servicemen are thugs... they're just usually in a group, are big lads & know how to cause damage.

Plymouth isn't a particuarly nice place anyway, while my mate was there at Uni his housemate had his throat slashed with a broken bottle on Union St

[bortaf]

sensationism at it's worst, "injurd seviceman" as a title just to make you think he was shot or lost a limb, then you find out he hurt his wrist falling out of a vehical

he didn't have to kip in the car or are you telling me there was no other hotel at all anywhere

Have any of you ever stayed in a hotel with a bunch of squaddies? the 4 times i have they have put the Irish contingent to shame, the craic has nothing on a load of them running round the place at 4 AM beleive me !

 

All blown out or perportion if you ask me the media in this country want a good smack in the mouth and telling to get back to NEWS not page filling bollox

Aint silly season over yet or perhaps there aint been no Alien abductions or invation fleets for a while

[FredTransit]

There's two sides to every story, the problem is on the outside looking in it's hard to tell which is the truth.

[Vista]

sensationism at it's worst, "injurd seviceman" as a title just to make you think he was shot or lost a limb, then you find out he hurt his wrist falling out of a vehical

he didn't have to kip in the car or are you telling me there was no other hotel at all anywhere

Have any of you ever stayed in a hotel with a bunch of squaddies? the 4 times i have they have put the Irish contingent to shame, the craic has nothing on a load of them running round the place at 4 AM beleive me !

 

All blown out or perportion if you ask me the media in this country want a good smack in the mouth and telling to get back to NEWS not page filling bollox

Aint silly season over yet or perhaps there aint been no Alien abductions or invation fleets for a while

 

Whilst I agree that the press do sensationalise their stories in order to shift copies, this wasn't a bunch of squaddies it was one man who's only mistake was to show his ID when checking in.

 

Lets see now who else should this hotel manager / chain ban?

 

Mechanics because their oily fingers might make a mess?

Gypsys / pikeys because the might steal something?

Black people because well they don't like niggers right?

 

I'm sure you get my point.

[FredTransit]

sensationism at it's worst, "injurd seviceman" as a title just to make you think he was shot or lost a limb, then you find out he hurt his wrist falling out of a vehical

he didn't have to kip in the car or are you telling me there was no other hotel at all anywhere

Have any of you ever stayed in a hotel with a bunch of squaddies? the 4 times i have they have put the Irish contingent to shame, the craic has nothing on a load of them running round the place at 4 AM beleive me !

 

All blown out or perportion if you ask me the media in this country want a good smack in the mouth and telling to get back to NEWS not page filling bollox

Aint silly season over yet or perhaps there aint been no Alien abductions or invation fleets for a while

 

Whilst I agree that the press do sensationalise their stories in order to shift copies, this wasn't a bunch of squaddies it was one man who's only mistake was to show his ID when checking in.

 

Lets see now who else should this hotel manager / chain ban?

 

Mechanics because their oily fingers might make a mess?

Gypsys / pikeys because the might steal something?

Black people because well they don't like niggers right?

 

I'm sure you get my point.

 

Well TBH I was knind of thinking "that's how racism starts"......

[Trevmk3]

these people that keep refusing them need to get a grip on reality and think that these people in the forces are putting there lives on the line and should be trested better when they come back to there own coutry like any other british citizen would be