Kevin Milne: Remove your jackets before entering

Kevin Milne has an old sign hanging up in his garage.  

He picked it up from a garage sale as a curiosity, but it came from an Auckland Pub in the 1980’s. 

The sign states that any known gang member or person wearing gang patches or emblems will not be permitted in the hotel.  

Kevin’s always found it a bit funny, and he’s wondering why people would feel safer not knowing if there’s a gang member next to them. 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Quarter past nine on New Stalks dB. You're a Jack Tayes.
Thank you very much for your lovely text and emails. Jack, congratulations,
best of luck to you both and to little Donald
when he arrives his Adrian Jack, if only you were
having a baby. Don't forget you're having a teenager too. Yeah, gulp.
I can just try and put that just just just

(00:33):
completely block that off, like you know, try and avoid
that realization for another couple of years at the very
least ninety two, ninety two. If you want to send
us a message this morning. Kevin Milne is with us
this morning. Up to money you Kevin Mandy.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Hey, Jack, is there no end of congratulations that I
have lined up here this morning? Well, first of all,
you're going to be a dad, and congratulations to you
and Marb for that.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
And of course last night you won the Best Cone Affairs,
Best Presented News and Cone of Affairs something like one
twenty years ago this year, and so we're on our
names on the same cap as it were. And also
of course Q and a winning Best Kind of Airs program. Yeah, well,
believably good. You've had a fantastic night.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel very very fortunate. Thank you, Kevin.
I mean, yeah, I suppose a cynic would note that
the current affears ecosystem has prayer. It's not one of
what it once was, Kevin. But yeah, I've been around
long enough to know that you take these things and
feel very grateful for them when they come through. So
thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
You certainly deserve those awards.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
And you deserve to be a dad too.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, yeah, thank you. No, it's very very exciting times,
very exciting times. And Kevin, you've you've had an interesting week.
You have noted an interesting old sign that has been
hanging around in your garage.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, I've got a lad sign hanging up on the
garage and I picked which I picked up at a
garret sale. It came from an Auckland pub in the
nineteen eighties. They were doing renovations and didn't want to
sign anymore. The sign reads, any known gang member or
person wearing gang patches or emblems will not be permitted

(02:19):
in this hotel. It's funny really, because I bought the
sign at the garage cell as a curiosity. It seemed
quite funny that hotel proprietors might consider their bars safer
if gang members left their jackets and their cars. I thought,
wouldn't gang members caused just as much trouble without their
jackets on? Were bar patrons under greater threat from gang

(02:43):
members wearing patches than gang members in plain wooly jerseys.
At least with the patches, skinny scared fellows like me
knew who not to spill beer over. I suspect that
the reason I now have that sign in the garage
is that, in the end, it was of no particular
value in the bar. When they renovated, it went out. Jack,

(03:07):
I'm all for toughening up on the gangs that I've
yet to hear one convincing explanation for why you'd want
to cause agro by forcing gang members to remove their patches.
Just to make my point, if gangs didn't wear patches
and were causing mayhem, I'd see some sense in making

(03:28):
them wear identification so we all knew who the hell
they were. Ironically, we're going to try to force these
eggs to remove any identification so we don't know who
they are. It won't work, of course, which is just
as well. In short, when I wander over to our
Sombiki's directions, I want to know if they're motorcycle enthusiasts

(03:52):
from the Ulysses Club or lads from the Filthy Few.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah. Yeah, it's an interesting one, isn't it, Because I
I mean, I think Patch gang members are really intimidating,
you know, I think for a lot of people, they're
really intimidating. And I wonder if that sense of intimidation
is likely to reduce if they're not wearing patches in
public anymore. I suppose that the you know, you make
a really good point. Then I remember police said this
when the game Patch band was first announced, right, that

(04:20):
sometimes it's actually quite good to be able to identify
who's in. Again, if they're all wearing a uniform, then
it sort of makes things sometimes a little bit easier.
But the proof of the pudding.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Is not only for the police, but for those of
us who are having to rub shoulders with them. Yeah,
and and decide whether we want to go into a bar,
or go into the bar next or or whatever, you know,
to sort of stay away from them.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah. Interesting that you're interesting, that you're you know, like
your your sign that you felt was a kind of
a you know, a bit of an antique kind of
turning back the hands of time there a couple of decades,
is you know, quite relevant. You could go string it
up today and be useful again.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah yeah, yeah right, I might sell it back to
the pub again. Yeah yeah, yeah, to the police. Yeah yeah. Hi.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Thank you so much, Kevin. Yeah, that's that's that's a
really interesting perspective, and I'm sure lots of our listeners
will have thoughts on that. You can send us a
text if you've got some.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
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