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has to be done" Tiemeyer said. "If they're fighting, we want to grab them and get them out the door."
It's not always that easy. On Sunday, April 23 this year, a major fight shut down Abe & Jakes at 1 a.m. The club was overcrowded with partners after the Kansas Relays that weekend and it took more than 20 law enforcement agents and a cloud of pepper spray to disperse the brawlers.
Though Abe & Jakes leads other Lawrence nightclubs in number of police calls, Tiemeyer said large-scale fights like the melee in April were rare.
Tiemeyer said he tried to maintain a solid relationship with Lawrence police and Douglas County deputies.
"As long as I'm courteous and friendly with them, they've always been the same with me," Tiemeyer said.
Jerry Neverve, co-owner of Red Lyon Tavern, 944 Massachusetts St., said that shutting down a small disturbance could be easier than it looked and that Red Lyon virtually never required police help. Sometimes the patrons themselves will help expel unruly drinkers, he said.
tions and most of them have at least some fighting experience.
Some bouncers have even gone as far as to become martial arts experts. Nick Hergott, Overland Park senior, works at Mickey's Irish Pub in Lenexa. Several of the bouncers he works with have trained for martial arts competi-
Hergott said fighting for the sake of violence wasn't allowed and that his goal was to put someone in a submission hold if at all possible.
Ryan Mathisen, Highlands Ranch, Colo., senior, checks with Trent Tiemeyer, door manager at Abe and Jake's, about names on the VIP list. "It's just a matter of knowing somebody," said Mathisen. "You should see it when the line gets really long — people just plead and topled to get in."
Sometimes it doesn't work that way. Hergott remembered one brawl at Mickey's where two men got into a fight in the men's restroom. He said the fight lasted longer than it should have because no bouncers were watching the restrooms at the time.
Hergott and another bouncer ripped open the door and found blood spattered on the floor and across the walls. One of the fighters fell — or was thrown — into one of the porcelain urinals. His head struck the urinal and cracked it in half.
The urinal-cracker had a gash along his scalp and had to be taken to the hospital. The concussion and blood loss were serious and Hergott said the man nearly died that night in the emergency room.
Hergott, at 5 feet 11 inches and 220 pounds, is about the size of KU running back Jon Cornish. His favorite submission techniques are full-nelson wrestling holds and various submission holds, which put the troublemaker in an excruciating position that forces them to give up.
Despite the risks, bouncers generally don't get health insurance from employers, Hergott said. Worker's compensation claims are possible if a bouncer sustains an injury that keeps him from working, but such occurrences are rare.
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Being a bouncer might be the quickest way to learn about all types of people. Hergott enjoys the responsibility the job entails and he plans to keep doing it.
"It can be an adrenaline rush" he said. "It's a cool job."
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flirting going back and forth."
Piechna isn't counting on his bouncer gig to hook him up with the future Mrs. Piechna, he said. He simply enjoys the social atmosphere.
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When the jayhawk football team lost to Toledo a couple of weeks ago, Piechna saw Chancellor Robert Memenway stroll into the bar to have a beer and catch part of the game.
Another perk of the job for many of the bouncers is the opportunity to flirt with a lot of intoxicated women.
Piechna said he had seen several KU basketball players stop in for drinks, including C.J. Giles.
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Gregory, Alva, Okla. senior, also said he enjoyed his job but admitted that the pay wasn't great. He works two or three nights per week at It's Brothers and estimated Lawrence bouncers took home about $150 a week. Money depends on the number of shifts covered and whether bartenders give the bouncers a cut of the ties that night.
What bouncers don't make in money, though, they often make in social capital. Celebrity sightings and drunken flirting are some of the benefits to meeting hundreds of people
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picked up.
Powers said it made sense to prohibit people being dropped off or picked up around the Chi Omega fountain because it was a high-traffic area. However, she said the new rule would be a problem because people would have to find another place to drop off their friends.
Capt. Schuyler Bailey, KU Public Safety Office spokesman, said that the department hoped people would comply, but that they could be ticketed if they didn't.
have to go to municipal court.
He said officers could either give a ticket or ask the person to move on.
Jerry Little, Lawrence city prosecutor, said the fine would be $30 if the student were ticketed.
Bailey said disobeying the signs was a violation of the Lawrence city traffic ordinance, so violators might
Erin Peterson, Minnetonka,Minn. senior, said she didn't know whether the Public Safety Office would be able to enforce the No Standing rule because she thought people would do it anyway.
Kansan staff writer Kim Lynch can be contacted at klynch@kansan. com.
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