The pubs in London

The pubs in London have taken customer identification to an entirely new level of achievement. Plagued by a long list of troublemakers who after a pint or two begin to tear the pub as well as patrons apart they have instituted a new identification process, fingerprint scanning.

Biometric finger-scanning machines have been installed at six venues in Yeovil, southwest England. Clubbers will be asked to have their right index finger scanned and show picture identification to register on the system.

The data is then stored on a computer network which other pubs and clubs in the scheme can access so that information on louts can be passed on quickly.

I can just imagine something like this taking place in the good ole US, people would be screaming “Invasion of privacy” from the tops of roofs, marching in the street and drinking at home.  In London, people are a bit different, laid back, refined and are not going to miss their evening pub experience for anything.

We also have to bear in mind that the soccer crowds in the English pubs take drinking and violence to a completely new level of destruction. They have long been notorious for destruction caused before and after games, so if keeping out the instigators solves the problem, then more power to them.