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Discuss Bar in Coventry turns away Soldiers from 1st Battalion Royal Welsh before funeral. in The Intelligence Cell on The Army Rumour Service; Just thought this might interest people. Browns Bar in Coventry refused to serve a group of Soldiers a cup of Coffee before they buried their fallen comrade Cpl Michael Thacker. Local and regional news has ...
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    Bar in Coventry turns away Soldiers from 1st Battalion Royal Welsh before funeral.

    Just thought this might interest people.

    Browns Bar in Coventry refused to serve a group of Soldiers a cup of Coffee before they buried their fallen comrade Cpl Michael Thacker.

    Local and regional news has been contacted to help raise awareness of the event. The soldiers were refused service because they were in Uniform whilst taking a break from rehearsing the funeral service. The soldiers were simply wanting a morning coffee.

    Cpl Thacker's Wife said of the incident
    '' ... I have to say when I found out this news i was horrified. Especially seeing as one of the men in uniform was his grievng brother! The lack of respect you have shown my husband, me and the lads yesterday will never be forgotten by the people in Coventry''.

    The page on facebook has had almost 13,000 members in the past 4 hours. Please join even if you're not from Coventry. I spent 4 years in the city when at Uni there and this Bar has always been known for turning people away for feable reasons; but this is really low.

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    Place is a shithole famous locally for having a stupidly strict door policy, it's ran by hippy veggie cunts!
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    Me and a mate were turned away when we went there with our girlfriends. We could only fathom that this was because we were 6ft 3" rugby players. Doorstaff only enjoy the company of anorexic art students.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CURFCno5 View Post
    Me and a mate were turned away when we went there with our girlfriends. We could only fathom that this was because we were 6ft 3" rugby players.
    They probably had you pegged as the kind of person who starts outrage threads on the internet.

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    I thought I read that as if; they were kicked out for ordering coffee.

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    I think the doormen did them a favour:
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldbaldy View Post
    I think the doormen did them a favour:
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    ... if you gain entry past a self hating racist Asian bouncer who allows no black people in;
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    Quote Originally Posted by CURFCno5 View Post
    ................. buried their fallen comrade Cpl Michael Thacker.

    Local and regional news has been contacted to help raise awareness of the event. The soldiers were refused service because they were in Uniform whilst taking a break from rehearsing the funeral service. The soldiers were simply wanting a morning coffee.

    Cpl Thacker's Wife said of the incident
    Not being one for outrage threads but should it not be Cpl Thacker's widow?
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    Squaddies barred from shit pub?
    Oh the huge manatee!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Horridlittleman View Post
    Not being one for outrage threads but should it not be Cpl Thacker's widow?
    In the facebook group where it was quoted from, Mrs Thacker used the title ''Wife'' - thought it was correct to respect that.
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