PIC added: Renasant Bank in Canton Posted with Dumbest No-Gun Sign

Just FYI, Crescent Bank in Jasper went broke and it was closed on July 23, 2010. I know because I was on the FDIC team that had to go close it down. We closed it on Friday night and it reopened the following Monday under the new ownership of Renasant.

I've been to half a dozen Renasant branches and have never seen that sign before. This must be something new.

 

Absolutely. Those are two of the most rarely worn clothing articles in FL.

 

It's up at the Jasper branch in the Ingles shopping center. Small white lettering to the left of the main doors.

 

I took one but can't seem to get it to load from my phone. Will try later again.

 

No problem. I was up there consulting today and remembered when I saw the sign for the bank from the road. My only concern was walking up to the bank wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses, CC, and taking a picture of the sign showing my multiple offenses

 

If you wear a hat and sunglasses into some banks and they notice soon enough, they lock the doors in and out electronically with you stuck between them and ask you by speaker to remove your covering. This is a pretty standard requirement.

 

Middle aged white guys in ties aren't often treated that way. Usually because they can tell we can afford a lawyer.

 

So, they request to please remove the items before entering?

So, typically, having all of those, I'd lay back the hood, take and put the sunglasses and cap in my hands, yes? And the weapon? It is also to be removed to my hands?

Reminds me of when I visited a branch in a grocery store. The manager-looking person passing through behind the counter asked if I wore "that" in public.

As the firearm could not be seen below their chest high counter, I was confused. "That," she said again, pointing to my shirt where it displayed the GeorgiaCarry.Org logo.

"What is wrong with that," I asked.

"You know. Carry! Aren't you afraid you'll scare people?"

I could only say, "No, it's just a shirt."

 

the owner of the pet store I worked at in college (clean cut early 30's white guy, wearing a polo shirt and leather jacket) got locked between the doors when he tried to enter with a hat and sunglasses on once. Of course that was at a Suntrust in a cruddy part of marietta.

 

Hmm, false imprisonment I think. Locking the INTERIOR door - ok. Locking both interior and exterior, not ok. People think they can do whatever they want. Really sad. Let's see. Possible sceanario - middle aged white guy, no criminal history, regular customer, gets sunburned on his bald scalp and its a sunny day, comes to his regular bank with hat and sunglasses. He's a serious claustrophobic who is in treatment and on medication for his problem. They lock BOTH doors, he freaks, panics, and dies of a heart attack. Far fetched? Not really. Again, lock the interior door to your business - fine. Lock both, thereby trapping me, not ok.

 

what if you broke the outer door glass to escape your imprisonment? Wonder how that would be interpreted!!