Wetherspoon customer with cold wrongly accused of taking drugs

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Alan Mannings was mistakenly accused by Wetherspoon staff in Canterbury of taking cocaine after getting a bit of tissue stuck under his nose

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00:00 I went up to the bar and I stood at the bar for a few minutes.

00:04 There was four people standing at the bar.

00:06 There was one on the public side, which was the supervisor,

00:09 and three members of staff.

00:14 One eventually came up to serve me.

00:16 She started to serve the drinks.

00:18 Then another lady came up and said,

00:20 "Sorry, but we're not serving you on suspicions."

00:25 Which mean on suspicions?

00:27 On suspicions of drugs.

00:30 I'm like, "I just could not understand that.

00:33 I couldn't see where me standing at the bar,

00:35 they've got that from."

00:36 The supervisor then came along and said,

00:38 "So it's been raised by my member of staff

00:41 that we've got suspicions of you taking drugs.

00:47 We'll let you sit and have your meal and drinks,

00:49 then we'd like you to leave."

00:51 I said, "Do you want to think about your decision

00:54 you're making?"

00:55 I gave her a chance because I know myself

00:58 that I've never taken drugs, I'm very ready to drink.

01:03 She then went over to the manager,

01:05 and the manager just nodded to her

01:07 after whatever she said to the manager.

01:09 She then came back and said, "Yes, sorry,

01:10 but we'll need you to leave."

01:13 My other half came up to the bar and she said,

01:17 "What's happening?"

01:19 She told her, and she said,

01:20 "We'll grab the money back and we'll leave."

01:23 As I turned around, a friend of mine was standing

01:26 at the third in the queue,

01:28 and he said to me, "Alan, what's happening?"

01:31 I said, "I've been refused a drink

01:33 because of suspicions of me taking drugs."

01:36 And he started laughing, like, in shock, I think.

01:40 Shocked, embarrassed.

01:43 Couldn't understand it.

01:46 Wonder what I was being accused of

01:50 when someone says they have suspicions.

01:52 I'm like, "Well, what suspicions?"

01:54 Bearing in mind, in my head,

01:57 I had no thoughts of drugs or anything else.

02:02 So, yeah, she's a gobsmacked.

02:03 Still embarrassed. I'm still shocked by it.

02:06 I'm laughing about it because I think, actually,

02:08 shock coming out of being accused of something

02:11 that I've never, ever done.

02:12 My other half is the same.

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