Posted on 03/24/2017 4:59:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s the one drink you don’t want your new date to order during your first outing.
Some Chicago bars are using a new method to help protect women’s safety. CBS 2’s Audrina Bigos shows us a secret code system that triggers a silent alarm if women feel they’re in danger.
Inside New Line Tavern in the West Loop, Marisa Kersten noticed a sign in the ladies’ room. It tells women how they can get assistance from the staff in event a first date implodes or is turning scary. They need to repeat some secret codes at the bar.
Staff member Justin Witalka explains:
“If you order an ‘angel shot,’ that basically means we will know to escort you to your car or the bus stop. For an angel shot with ice, that means we’re going to call you an Uber or Lyft. For an angel shot with lime juice, that means that we will call the police, step in and intervene to make sure that customer is safe.”
Kersten thinks it’s a good idea because of the uncertainty with first dates.
“When you meet people online, you don’t know what you’re getting. It could turn into a bad situation,” she says.
Since putting the signs up in two bars, owners say the bartenders haven’t had to step in. But they’re there, just in case.
Please tell me you’re joking ... Or you’re on some pharmaceutical experiment.
What if it’s a second date?
It’s sort of a joke, but I’d definitely rather watch it than the lauded movies like Citizen Kane or American Beauty.
What if she used a code that actually means “I have a gun and I am robbing this place”?
Scary, huh? I don’t like what is happening. Sex bots are kind of here already...
Agreed. It’s not supposed to be a documentary. And I do like Sam Eliot.
Meeting for coffee is still a great first or a casual dinner. I will meet at the restaurant of my choice and even though I’m a grown woman, I will usually let my best friend know who I am meeting and were we are going. My friends know that I’m not going to go home with a stranger.
I always drive myself as well. Rather be safe than sorry.
Good idea to let someone know. I did that, as well.
Happy to say, by the way, that I wound up finding the best man in the world, who is now my dear husband.
Hope spring eternal here :) I know he exists
:)
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