Army Officer's Uniform "intimidating": Harrods

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November 25th, 2006   #1
Kirruth
 
 

Army Officer's Uniform "intimidating": Harrods info


"A serving Army officer was banned from entering Harrods on Remembrance Day in case his uniform upset other shoppers.
Lieutenant Daniel Lenherr had just taken part in a parade honouring Britain's war dead when the London department store turned him away at the door.
The security guard told him other customers might be intimidated by the uniform."
This is London article

I'm reminded of Rudyard Kipling's poem from the Barrack Room Ballads, which has the lines:
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot;



They sicken of the calm, who know the storm.
 
November 25th, 2006   #2
bulldogg
 
 
ing disgraceful that.


"The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental." - John Steinbeck
 
November 25th, 2006   #3
Team Infidel
 
 
that's actually kind of cool... but he could have said he was the door man at Macy's and they may have let him in. LOL..

Sorry, you have to see the humor in this and how many times it happens.

I bet with this publicity, Herods won't do that again.


 
November 26th, 2006   #4
Kirruth
 
 
Harrods are pretty funny about dress code. Turning up in jeans will also get the hapless tourist thrown out.

What is also true is that during this war on terror (and previously with the IRA), when one or more people show up to a department store in military uniform, people immediately think there's a bomb.
 
November 26th, 2006   #5
tomtom22
 
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by bulldogg
ing disgraceful that.
My thoughts exactly!


"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarskopf, Commander of Desert Storm Operations
 
November 26th, 2006   #6
Missileer
 
 
Ignorance, hath thou no bounds?





“War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.”
—John Stuart Mill
 
November 27th, 2006   #7
5.56X45mm
 
 
Crap like that makes me sick.
 
November 27th, 2006   #8
Damien435
 
 
Right, so umm, who's going to feel intimidated? What kind of clientle does Herrod's cater to? Unless everyone in the story was IRA or Al Qaeda or pedophiles I see no reason for them to feel intimidated by a man in uniform.


Please note that 98% of what I say is my opinion and/or my "version" of the facts. Most of what I say is rumor with little to no evidence to back it up, just something I picked up somewhere.

My City
 
November 28th, 2006   #9
AJChenMPH
 
 
My first reaction is that this is pretty disgraceful. OTOH, I could see Harrod's being snobbish enough that they might implement this type of dress policy as far as BDU's are concerned. (I re-read the article -- it doesn't say anywhere what uniform he was in. But if they turned him away and he was in service dress uniform, that's pretty pathetic.)

I'll just avoid the place in the future.




Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" -- Isaiah 6:8
 
November 28th, 2006   #10
jequirity
 
 
Thats no way to treat the forces, that security guard is an idiot
 



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