What Was The Most Dangerous Bar Or Pub You’Ve Been To?

[Jahulaye]

“The seediest five on the wharf”

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Do these places exist or did exist, have you ever been to one? Where, what was it like?

[Mamyalynne]

The one where you dare not say it's name.

[emmie]

i worked in one, not so much dangerous, but the roving eye of the owner and some of the punters kept us entertained.

[Jahulaye]

Lol, the mysterious and mythical “Adblock Inn”

[pastafreak]

I used to hang out in lots of seedy ones in Brooklyn. The local Don sat in a dark corner in one.
Another had a flashy gay bartender who danced on the bar.
And then there was the one where a customer was shot.
Seedy enough for you?

[emmie]

ours was frequented by cabbies, journalists, gangsters, some of the stories and not many made up as known about by me and my friend would make your hair go grey. Like the fact the governor used to lock his g/f in so he could cavort with other ladies, and that many a dodgy deal went on in the place. It was a life changing experience for me and my mate.

[Mamyalynne]

That reminds me of an incident my Husband told me about, he was sat drinking in a New York bar when the doors burst open and two armed cops rushed in.

One guy legged it from his stool out the back door, two loud bangs later they returned dragging a lifeless body with them and left.

He said no one else moved or said anything, just carried on.

[EDDIE51]

I worked in a pub that had a very bad reputation. It was called the Flying Horse , but it's nickname was The Flying Bottle.
One New Year's eve I was walking home from a late shift behind the bar when I passed 3 policemen. They recognised me as they has visited the pub many times to sort out problems.
One said '' Don't you work at the Flying Horse?'' I told him that I did.
His mate looked at me and said '' Got good life insurance have you?''
All the cops laughed.
I asked them why they had not closed the pub down.
One replied '' That would be stupid, it would just spread the trouble out all over town. At least we know it's all going to be in one place''

[Zacs-Master]

Mrs Zacs and myself called at a petrol station in a small town in California. She needed to use the facilities and we were directed to an adjoining bar. I should add this was 11am. We walked in to almost pitch blackness but as my eyes became accustomed, I saw about 7 people sat at the bar drinking beers and playing the counter mounted fruit machines. All of them looked like they’d shoot first and ask questions later and one guy was talking about killing dogs with sodium pentathol. I was glad to get out of there.

[Jahulaye]

Wow, some scary stories.

Looks like Blackpool, stoke on Trent and Newcastle have the most seediest dives in the uk according to this article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11965040/Britains-50-most-dangerous-drinking-spots-is-your-hometown-one-of-them.html

[sapelesam]

The Rex Hotel, Whitley Bay, Thursday grab a granny night, if you got out without being molested, you were lucky. The home of "Dance with me mate, I'm sweating"

[sunny-dave]

Try winning the rollover jackpot on the fruit machine at a Miners' Welfare Club in Yorkshire.

Especially during the Sunday Lunchtime Striptease session - when you are a long haired hippy/biker who's never been in the place before but has just been illegally signed in by someone who was at school with your mate ten years ago ...

... I still don't know how we got out alive.

[gness]

Good preparation though, Dave....for a Whitby pub with two ladies and an axe?......x

[sapelesam]

Oh Sunny-Dave, happy days, try winning the bingo. For those without a CIU card it was dangerous ground.

[Jahulaye]

Sunny Dave what happened in there or is it “what happened in the dive, stays in the dive?”

[Togo]

The Roebuck in Burslem was pretty hairy if you were in card school. Sunday afternoons All Fours for a kitty with a partner you didn't always know. If you made a mistake you were liable to be in big trouble. The Eagle and Child Newcastle. The Landlord shot dead a punter over the bar with a shotgun that he kept tucked under it. Proper hard case bar at one time.

[sunny-dave]

We were marched to the bar, where we were 'advised' to put half the jackpot behind the bar for 'pints all round' and then we left in a haze of tyre smoke ...

[-Talbot-]

I never did get to thank you SD ... cheers pal, very good of you that was.

[sunny-dave]

Oh God - now I remember playing three card brag, with people I didn't know very well, in some misbegotten pub in Ilford - I took a week's wages off "Fat Ronny" ... many months later he casually revealed that he'd arranged for me to be intercepted on the way home, but they'd shaken down the wrong student ...

[nailit]

Stoke on trent at number 2 in the list (on ur link)???
Got to be joking, Hardly any pubs left in stoke, theyre all shutting.

[Jahulaye]

nailit did you realise that the sign you’re in front of in your avatar looks like is says “Dangerous” lol