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| - Don't be fooled by the neighborhood. I'm taking a second stab at this review -- I'm not sure how else to say this but on the night that I went there the crowd was was very rough, like wrong side of the tracks and seemed to be mainly African Canadian. I hope that's politically correct I'm just trying to report what I saw. And, by the way there are wildly conflicting reviews for this place - sexist, racist, short-fused bouncers so the crowd composition to a point depends on the night.
The bartender asked the bouncer to kick me out saying I'd had too much to drink. The fact remains that I could not get my coat & purse because the bouncer physically grabbed me in his arms and lifted me in the air and carried me out. When I tried to go back for my coat he called the police.
I'm not sure why, according to another Yelper the bouncer and owner have had physical altercations with patrons before, allegedly without provocation. Had I known this I would have elected to stay away.
I was told by a police woman on the phone that the police know this club well and that they go there often.
Anyways, happily for my friend and I all we got in the way of charges was two bogus tickets, each. One for being drunk in public which seems a bit entirely unreasonable since we were at the entrance to this nightclub and in the process of leaving. Second, disturbing the peace which was completely false. I was understandably upset because the bouncer grabbed me. My friend was given a public disturbance fine for asking the police questions like what are you doing, what is going on. I got arrested overnight and assaulted by the police without being charged, read my rights, allowed to inform my family or legal help. My friend had to call 911 to find out where I was because the police refused to tell her after giving her $500 in tickets for doing nothing whatsoever that was actually illegal. I had a very bad night.
I have checked with the Municipal Court and it is VERY COMMON for Montreal police to dispense fines for 'public intoxication' at the entrance to a night club. So, please be careful.
This is relevant to Yelp users because while Peopl is in theory in a 'good' neighborhood, embarrassingly enough mine -- it's in the Old Montreal supposedly prestigious it is extremely misleading because you can get into a lot of trouble when you walk into the wrong joint, hang out with the wrong crowd and the police are not tolerant at all at such places, bordering on downright abusive. So I would strongly suggest to most people considering this venue to go elsewhere.
Read the reviews first. I usually always do that only, we trusted the neighborhood. If only we had we could have avoided an ocean of trouble. I for one have never been in this type of situation. Thankfully, prior to last weekend, I have never had to deal with being assaulted by a bouncer or the police, under any circumstance. And, I am in disbelief still at what happened. It is extremely shocking.
This has brought to light that you do need to be careful while in Canada because this sort of thing does happen. And, I have since become aware of some very high profile cases.
Canada is not like an extension of the United States, it is obviously another country and while the laws may be very similar, the same enforcement of said laws is not necessarily so.
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