People Share the Antics That Got Them Banned From a Business

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Ada Elder
Feb 4, 2022 3:00 PM EST

I've never been banned from a bar, restaurant, or business. It's not because I was always on my best behavior. It's because when I do bad things I'm simply quiet about it. Shoplifting cakes from a bodega happened during the lunch rush. Getting into arguments with my exes at bars always happened outside. Some people, however, are not as stealthy in their mischief. Then there are the people who were unwitting victims of unreasonable business owners. This r/AskReddit thread features stories from both sorts of characters, detailing the deeds that got them banned from public establishments. Some of them are embarrassing. Other stories are just plain dumb. But most of the tales are entertaining. 

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  • Font - r/AskReddit u/Ali_6950 • 22h 3 34 27 44 What's the reason you have been banned from an establishment such as a shop/bad/restaurant/cafe/etc.? 37.4k 3 11.9k 1, Share
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  • This seems unfair.

    Font - Raven4869 · 20h 3 1 Award I was doing a history project on Poland, and it was well-known this teacher gave an extra letter grade for bringing in food from the country. A friend from my previous school brought me to a bakery that made Kołacz that his family loved. I ordered one for my class, paying a deposit and specifying the day I was due to present. I ran in before school to get my order, and the woman behind the counter (the manager) told me that whoever took my order never sent it; th
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    Imagine getting banned from a Polish bakery because you didn't want to pay for a good you hadn't received. Frustrating!

  • Classic

    Font - par337 · 20h 6 Awards Got banned from the mall when I was younger because I wore an inappropriate shirt that I bought in the mall G Reply 1 17.9k 3 + ...
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    I'm guessing the shirt was purchased at Spencer's Gifts. 

  • How rebellious.

    Font - pistonkamel • 21h 7 Awards Was banned from a Mall arcade when I was a kid for holding all the whack a moles down G Reply 4 25.6k 3 ...
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  • Font - Put_It_All_On_Blck · 16h 1 Award I was also banned from an arcade, but for an even more bullshit reason. For picking up quarters. I was a very young kid, and saw that people would drop quarters and just never bother to pick them up or didn't know they dropped them. So I would pick them up from around the machines, nothing dangerous nothing suspicious, and use them to play. I'm not talking about quarters people just dropped, but ones that are sitting there on the floor with nobody around c
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    The people who run arcades seem pretty uptight for providers of fun and games. What gives?

  • Font - LeCrushinator · 17h 3 Awards When I was 12 my favorite thing to do was play laser tag at the one laser tag place in our town. I'd go every Friday night and play for 3 hours or so. There weren't many other regular players, so nobody else was getting better at it like I was. After about a year I was just wrecking everyone and the owner ended up banning me from the place because it was driving away customers. It really sucked because it was favorite activity and I was just immediately cut of
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  • Font - Phormicidae 19h 8 Awards. I got "banned" from Six Flags Great Adventure (NJ) several times in the early 90s. Back when I was in high school, season passes like $40 or something, making it a no brainer to buy one if you intended to go at least twice. My friend and I went probably 5-7 days a week since we lived close by. We knew the park and its operations better than pretty much anyone who didn't work there, and eventually grew too comfortable with taking shortcuts through employee areas,
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    Nothing but respect for these guys. We love that they A) made amazing use of season passes, and B) used some of the best fake names possible. 

  • Font - _gnoof • 19h I drunkenly stumbled into the big pyramid of wine glasses that were, for some reason, stacked on the side of the bar... After they all fell and smashed everywhere causing a huge scene I proceeded to tell the bartender that it wasn't me. Two seconds later I was in a headlock being dragged outside by a large bouncer. 6 Reply 4 544 ...
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    This sounds like something out of a slapstick movie. We'd be dying of embarrassment. 

  • Font - Papaya_flight• 21h 10 Awards This is how I got banned from Chuck E Cheese. I figured out that I could take a ball from the game where you shoot the clown's teeth and use it at the skeeball machine. The skeeball machine would count the points but not the ball used, which enabled me to play forever with just one ball and max out the machine. I did it on two skeeball machines before someone noticed and I got banned/kicked out. G Reply 1 32.1k ...
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    Another genius banned from an arcade. 

  • Font - Retrosonic82 · 21h 1 Award I got mistaken for somebody else whilst on holiday a few years back. I popped into a local shop to grab a sandwich & drink and a staff member forcefully marched over to me and yelled "you're not allowed in here! I've told you before!" as she grabbed my sandwich and bottle of water from me & put them back. I of course tried to protest and explained that I had never been in there before and was a visitor to the area but she gestured for the security guard to come
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  • Font - Representative_Bad57 · 21h Taking pictures of produce and price signs at a small grocery store while shopping. I was just trying to keep track of which stores had which food at cheaper prices so I could plan my shopping trips. G Reply 4 13.5k 3 ... +
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  • Font - Troubador222 · 20h LAW & MORDOR 3 1 Award Back in the late 1980s, I was in the Florida Keys with a group of friends. I got drunk and went to bed and some of the guys went out bar hopping. The next morning a deputy sheriff showed up at the place we were renting, told us to pack our things and he would escort us to the county line and we were not to come back. So not only did I get banned from an entire Florida county, I never did get a straight story about what the guys who were at the bar
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  • Font - Aquaritek · 21h 3 Awards Got banned from a local KMart about 25yrs ago for figuring out that if you just slapped the handle on the old twist turn candy dispensers that took a quarter it would just give you free candy... Yeah they call that stealing. Took my photo and everything. Edit: For the record I did in fact know it was wrong and don't dispute on a technicality it was stealing ;). It actually taught me a good lesson honestly. Still though, I was just a kid and being walked into the s
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  • Font - nobody_really_ • 20h 4 Awards Banned from the college cafeteria for taking in a digital food safety thermometer, and a copy of the state health department temperature ranges. They were consistently 20°F-40°F low, and food poisoning was a common problem. G Reply 1 10.9k 3 ...
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  • Font - No_Magazine2270 · 20h 2 Awards I was banned from the library as a kid. Overdue fees, they let you go up to $70 before canceling your card. I was an avid reader and my mom hated taking me to the library, always said she would and then changed her mind last minute. It was a 6 mile walk round trip so I would take a wheeled suitcase and get around 25 at a time, the fees added up fast.lol I resorted to stealing books and returning them and I'm pretty sure some of the Librarians just turned a b
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  • Font - hostilecarrot · 22h I tried to pay my cover (entry fee) to a bar one time with two dollar bills and instead of taking my money the bouncer told me to leave in a not super polite manner. G Reply 1 4.7k ...
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  • Font - biggieknish · 21h 2 2 Awards my family has been banned from a local Marcos pizza for yeaaars because of my mom. she used to have some anger issues and also really really loves garlic butter. when the Marcos forgot to include the garlic butter with the order she called and asked them to deliver the single cup of garlic butter to our house. the Marcos (reasonably) said they can't do that, but she could come get it. she stormed over there with our pizza and proceeded to smear the whole thing
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  • Font - Waffle-Azul · 21h 1 Award Just in case you think you have the trashiest family l'll make you feel better. My family is banned from an Applebee's in Syracuse New York. Coming home from a game, my drunk dad started a verbal fight with the manager because he sat a table before us swearing that we were there first. We weren't, but drunk dad was not having any of it. Everytime that "Applebees on a date night" song comes on everybody looks at him and we laugh and he says he regretes nothing and
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  • Font - warmaster_whorus • 18h Banned from a Costco when they had free samples this woman took 8 slices of cheesecake when there was a line up of like 7 of us... so I tipped her plate over they got why I did it, but still I had to go for 6 months G Reply t 568 ...
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  • Font - eriksann • 21h When I went to an "All You Can Eat", Japanese Food Restaurant, and, as I don't like raw japanese food, I ate 5 dishes of grilled salmon. When I asked for the 6th dish, they kindly asked me to leave. lol G Reply t 2.7k 3 ...
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