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Sobering time ahead for errant nightclubs tauriq hassen

ALL nightclub and liquor outlet owners have been confronted with complaints lodged against their businesses in Observatory.

Among the concerns raised at the meeting at the Observatory Community
Centre on Wednesday 22 September were noise from patrons, the nuisance of
the patrons in public, liquor control and licensing issues.

“We have had complaints of patrons urinating in public and getting into
arguments in the early hours of the morning,” .....

One owner, who wished to remain anonymous, firmly believes that clubs
should not be held accountable for their patrons’ actions outside their
clubs.

“I still think it’s quite unfair for the owner to be held responsible for
the patrons, because some of them become so drunk that they do not know
themselves what they are doing outside,” he says.