An image, posted by Bank St Social to its Facebook page. The Advertiser has chosen to blur the image.
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A CBD bar has turned to social media for help to identify a man who it claims deliberately set off a fire alarm, forcing the evacuation of the bar and an above motel “and ruined everyone’s evening”.
The owners of Bank St Social, on Hindley, last night posted a still image and short piece of security camera footage on the business’ Facebook page, asking for help to identify the man, who the venue claims hit the alarm just after midnight.
“Recognise the man on the right?,” the Facebook posts reads.
“Let us know. This tough guy set off a fire alarm tonight causing the total evacuation of the bar and the motel above us”.
Shaun Campbell, co-owner of the venue, said about 120 people from the bar, and people in the motel above, were forced to evacuate when the alarm was triggered about 12.15pm.
It took fire crews about 30 minutes to isolate and switch off the alarm and ensure the venue was safe for patrons to go back inside.
But by then, Mr Campbell said, most people had moved on and the venue, which usually shuts at 2am, was closed early, costing staff wages and costing the business revenue for the rest of the night.
It was only after the incident, when managers were able to review the security footage, it become apparent that the alarm had been set off deliberately, Mr Campbell said.
“We could see that someone had intentionally hit the alarm,” he said.
“You can see him punch the alarm, then hide in the toilets for about five minutes before coming out and making a bit of a quick exit through all the patrons trying to leave the venue.”
Mr Campbell said the matter was reported to Hindley St police about 2.30am but the business had decided to use social media to try to identify the man, because his actions were so disruptive.
“It’s just one person’s actions are able to disrupt an entire business and cost people’s wages and waste emergency services’ time,” he said.
“It’d be nice if people who do these kinds of things do actually have some discipline (measured out to them) that they do have some comeuppance – they can’t just go around disrupting businesses and ruining people’s evenings without consequences.”
Mr Campbell said he suspected the man, who was also seen on camera punching a beer keg, just wanted to “stir things up”.
A spokesman for SA Police could find no record of the incident.
Adelaide bar turns to Facebook to find culprit who sounded alarm and ‘ruined everyone’s night’
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