How do you deal with queue jumpers?

When we were coming back from Brussels just before Christmas 2010 in all the snow we got told that there were only 2 trains left and therefore the first 1400 people in the queue were the ones going home. There would be no more trains until after Christmas. We'd been queueing for about 5 hours and were about 8-900 in line.

A hundred of so back a British couple decided to push in to the line.

Security in Brussels train station was 4 very large men with 2 very large German Shepherds. Everyone standing in and around the jumper starting shouting and arguing until a couple of the guys turned up and lifted, and I mean that literally, the guy (who was arguing the toss) out of the queue. Cue cheers from hundreds of Brits who understand queue law.

I very rarely encounter queue jumping, most understand that it is just not on. Happens ALL THE TIME in the car though. Hey losers in the 20 car queue to go straight ahead, I'm going into this right right turn only lane and will accelerate hard when the lights flicker.
 
What i find strange is people who look disgustingly at you when you give off to someone who has jumped to the front of a queue ??? Whats that about ?

I rememeber in Spain 2 years ago - we went to a theme park. All generalisations aside, most Spanish/Portugese have a strange attitiude to queues full stop - so it was no surprise that most rides I queued for with my kids had some numptys jumping to the front of them - by blatently going under barriers/chains etc.

On 2 or 3 occasions I just let rip - and shouted something along the lines of "Oi - Do you understand English - and do you know what a queue is ?" - " Well here it is - so why don't you join it like the rest of us did 10 minutes ago ? "

Only to be met with loads of people giving me harsh looks in the queue.....

It still got the people who jumped to the front to move to the back though.
 
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I have to say I've been sneaky many a time in the past to get to the front of a queue, whether by distraction, seizing an opportunity, or owing to the lack of crowd management enabling me to get to the front unchallenged. If someone, however, blatantly skips the queue, then depending on my mood or situation (i.e. if I was or wasn't in a rush or had or had not been queueing for a long time) then I may or may not leave it be.

I think if someone takes the opportunity to jump to the front unchallenged and unnoticed, then I say good luck to them, and blaze with jealousy that I am still stuck at the back.

I've often asked if I can hop the front at a supermarket for example when I've literally got a handful of items, and the person or persons in front of me have a big trolley full to the brim. More often than not it's never been an issue. :)

To be honest, I've got more important things to worry about than a person jumping the queue.
 
Hah. Remember that scene in the film Super, where he batters a couple with a wrench to the face, no mercy, seems like an appropriate response.

I usually just resort to a menacing glare, usually the person didn't realise they were jumping the queue but I don't let it get to me enough to care.
 
[FnG]magnolia;21304003 said:
Boyz n The Hood apparently is "no" so don't use any quotes from the film if you're ever in a queue jumping situation. You might get your post deleted!
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Should boyz 'n' the hood have a censored version then it would have been allowed. You've been here long enough. Wind your neck in.
 
What's even more annoying than plain ol' queue jumping is when a person sees the main queue (you're at the front), decides its too long, starts their own one man queue and then gets annoyed at you for cutting in front of them when the next checkout opens. I had someone almost hit me because this cunning tactic of theirs didn't work in their favor
 
Haha, these chavvy school kids always push in but I'm usually not anywhere near the front of the queue for the bus usually.
I was a month or so ago and asked them what they were doing and why they thought they could push in, luckily the lady behind started giving them a tounge lashing too and she was a lot scarier than I, else I may have been on the recieving end of a verbal beatdown from some schoolgirls.
They sucked their teeth at us and went to the back, great success.
 
I'll never forget skiing in Bulgaria once and everyone was queueing at the foot of a slope to get back on the ski lift (one of those under-the-bum drag-type ones) when a German family all blatantly barged in ahead of everyone.

The rest of the queue were up in arms but then fell about laughing when the dad got his ski's tangled up and all four of them ended up in a great big heap! :D
 
Hmmm depends on the situation... Sometimes I just walk/shuffle myself so that I'm back in front of whoever has pushed in, they tend to get the hint and stay back most of the times :D
 
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