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| - You will never believe the story I'm about to blog about. It is all about a bouncer that stands outside the entrance of Cabana Pool Bar, his name is James.
My friends and I bought tickets weeks in advance to go to Cabana Pool Bar to see Lil Jon DJ, they came in from Ottawa just for this event. I live in Toronto so I was in charge of showing them a good time. We went to Cabana Pool Bar on Saturday (July 9th) and got to the entrance of Cabana and one of my friends had a can of beer in his hand. Myself or my friends didn't even notice he had it mostly because he is the quiet one of the bunch. James the bouncer stopped us and said he needed to get rid of his drink. That's when we looked at our friend and laughed at him and told him he couldn't have it there. Embarrassed, he went and threw it out and came back and said he didn't know he couldn't have it and offered an apology up front. James then said "you can't stand there and tell me you didn't know you can't have alcohol" and my friend said "no, I really didn't". We explained we were from Ottawa and that my friends didn't know the rules here so James prompted a response from all of us and involved the whole group and said "So none of you saw him with the can he had when he walked up here?" we all said no. He continued by saying there is no way you didn't all know that, that's bullshit and I'm telling you right now I'm not buying that shit today" that's when we realized he was attempting to inflate the situation. we all just said sorry so it would be done with. he let us walk past to the other bouncer that was checking ID then he called us all back and said "if you are from Ottawa then you should know there's no drinking here, its the same rules in Ottawa so don't give us that bullshit next time" I then finally interjected because he was speaking to all of us at that point and it has already gone to far (10 minutes past when my friend threw out his drink to far to be exact.) I said "look, the drink is gone, you already let us go, we never said anything else to you and whats done is done right?" hoping he would leave us be with my let-bygones-be-bygones type plea he then said to me "So your gonna stand there and deny that he ever had alcohol in his hand?" I knew then that he was going to try any stretch to start up a fight and we weren't getting in. Once someone starts making comments like that you know they are there for a fight only, not with the intention of doing his job. I said "I never said he didn't have alcohol we never denied that" and he said "yes you are, yes you are, you think I'm stupid" this went on for about another 5 minutes bringing us to 15 minutes the whole time the friend who had the drink waited back by a tree and never interacted with him. he kept calling him and pointing to him saying he was drinking and he wasn't letting drunk people in the facility. I went to the other bouncer and I asked him why James was acting like that and what we should do and he said "your best bet is just to listen to him and let him talk, it should be fine" it sounded like the other bouncer knew what he was like and that he takes his authoritative stance this way often. I walked away and I mumbled "hes so rude" and one of my girlfriends with us that was standing off to the side said "yea he is power-tripping like I've never seen before" and he heard us and told my boyfriend that was still pleading for him to let it all go that he heard us and now there's no way were getting in at all. My boyfriend said "Look I'm sorry you heard that but we mean well and....c'mon just cut us a little slack here we came to have a good time" he said "No, I'm rude right?, I'm power tripping right? I'm this and that right? I don't have to take this he turned his back to him and said "Go find somewhere else to have a good time, your not getting in here." I started taking notes on everything at that time and stayed out of it. We never swore at him, we never made loud comments or wild gestures or anything towards him. it was a small situation that we would classify as an honest mistake blown out of proportion to a large scale in a one sided fight by James who was hoping to get an aggressive reaction out of us. He never got it. After the other bouncer finally started to wave us all in I'm not sure how he was able to bypass James but he let all 6 of us in.
Later one of our friends left for 5 mins and came back and James said aren't you the guy who had the beer earlier, my friend said no and he wouldn't let him back in, He had mistaken him for the only other black person we were with!!
Cabana is great, the facility is great and the staff are too. but they need to be careful who they hire to be at the door to leave a first and last impression because they get reviews like this that way.
Beware of James he is an Asian bouncer with a very large build about 5'6.
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