Fighting Back Against Security Scum

Every concert goer at one point had to deal with an asshole security guard. I'm sure you know the type: smug and arrogant assholes who one day dream of going into the police academy. However, until that day comes, they will exercise their complete authority (following the rules to the last detail) that was granted to them by the employer.

The average concert goer is completely powerless against such pricks, as with the push of a button, they can have you ejected off the premises absolutely at their discretion. One power hungry asshole has the power to ruin the experience for countless of concert goers. And, for the most part, we are helpless against them. If you punch them out, you will go to jail. If you file a complaint, it will get lost in the bureaucracy.

So what can be done about this? Is there any way that people can fight back against this within the law? The answer is NO. The reason for this is that most of the time the security guard has a legitimate reason to be engaged with you. The concert goer might be drunk or smoking weed which off the bat puts the concert goer at a disadvantage. However, drinking alcohol or smoking cannabis is just standard behavior at a Heavy Metal concert. If you don't want to be around that then go to a John Mayer show. However, recently I heard a story that gave me hope.

A good friend of mine recently shared an amazing tale of heroism that inspired me. While attending a big out-door metal concert my friend decided to smoke a small joint at the back of the venue hiding among the rest of the smokers. He was not even able to take a good toke before this smug security guard approached him. With a polite smile on his face, my friend apologized and extinguished the joint. However that was not enough for that asshole. He demanded that my friend drop the joint on the floor and rubbed the joint into the pavement with his military boots unil the weed was un-salvageable. Then with a phony, patronizing smile on his face he said "don't let me catch you smoking weed again, next time I will eject you." Instead of doing nothing, my friend decided to fight back. He took an empty plastic beer glass and went to the bathroom with it. There he filled it with urine. He stood with the cup for about 20 min so the piss cools down. Then when the lights went down and the main act was about to go onstage, in the commotion he pretended to trip and spilled the urine right on the security guard. He then quickly apologized and went back to his seat. I believe that my fiend is a hero! Imagine the countless concert goers who had their time ruined because of that pretentious asshole. This was Karma doing its thing.

Now to be fair, not everyone who works security is an asshole. A lot of them are decent human beings who are just trying to earn an honest living. This blog post is in no way encouraging any one to make their lives miserable. In a civilized society, there have to be people who have legitimate authority over you. However there is a difference between keeping the peace and getting high on power while earning minimum wage. If that security guard would of made my friend extinguish the joint and issue a warning, he would be just doing his job. There would be nothing wrong with that. However, he made my friend drop the joint and then destroyed it. This was totally unnecessary and he got justice. It is time that people start standing up for them selves. The written law cannot cover every single incident and too many times the bad guys are on the side of the law.

Gandhi said that " an eye for an eye makes the world go blind," and Jesus encouraged us to "turn the other cheek." That is why this kind of retaliation must be exercised with the most caution. This society would dissolve into chaos if every time a police officer would issue a ticket, a cop car would get torched. However, there is a difference between enforcing the peace and being a dush-bag with a uniform. I believe that when you see people abusing their power, it is your duty to fight back in anyway you can, whether it is against a security guard, an abusive supervisor, or a neighbor. Sometimes God can use you as his hammer. No one would call the young people at Tienanmen square who stood up for their rights criminals. I know I am not alone in this type of thinking. You just need to see the following quotes by these famous patriots:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke-

Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who don't
-Thomas Jefferson-