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Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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Location: Auckland, NZ
Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:25 pm Post Subject: Surveillance Becomes the Norm...
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Men with 'dazed' woman to be asked for id
An Auckland bar is to ask men for identification if they leave the premises with a "dazed" looking woman, because of fears of an increase in drink spiking.
Sponge Bar on the Ponsonby Rd strip is adopting the approach after what manager Richard Nathan believes is the first case of a spiked drink at the popular nightspot.
A woman who had had only a few alcoholic drinks began feeling sick then passed out for several hours in her boyfriend's car.
Her boyfriend was a Sponge barman and knew she had drunk very little. Although the woman was not injured, Mr Nathan told the New Zealand Herald he wanted to take a pro-active approach to keep customers safe.
Any men leaving the bar with a woman who appeared dazed would be asked for identification and their details would be kept on record.
"If they are up to anything dodgy I don't think they will hang around, and if anything was reported in the future we have a record."
Extra cameras had been installed in the bar to cover blind spots and staff would be told to approach any women who appear dazed or unwell, to reinforce the message, Mr Nathan said.
I find it frightening how businesses and the community are now finding it acceptable to surveil people in this manner. Individuals have no legal right in New Zealand to require you to produce identification - let alone record your details without your express permission.
This business, being licensed premises, can require anyone to provide evidence that they are over 18 years of age before entering the premises, but their actions here are, to the best of my knowledge, strictly illegal and in fact, unenforceable.
