Do people wearing baseball caps make you uncomfortable? Do you think they pose an increased security risk? Apparently more and more businesses feel that way. I have noticed more and more businesses banning them. Here's a report from the UK:

Baseball caps have been banned from a chain of internet cafes in two Scottish cities, it has emerged.
Easyinternetcafes - owned by Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of low cost airline Easyjet - claims the headgear is linked with "deviant" behaviour.

The ban on wearing caps is to be piloted at the chain's branches in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

If the trial is successful, it will be introduced in all 41 Easyinternetcafes across the UK.

The chain's management claimed people in baseball caps made other customers feel uncomfortable and that wearers were difficult to identify on CCTV.

James Rothnie, the firm's director of corporate affairs, said the ban had been introduced after a spate of thefts.

He told The Sunday Times: "We want to make sure that our cafes are places where customers can relax and feel secure.

"Since deviant behaviour can be associated with the wearing of baseball caps we are politely asking people who enter our premises not to wear caps.

"This policy is designed to combat anti-social behaviour such as theft."

Is this discrimination or are public business' entitled to welcome any dress regulations?

BBC News: Internet Cafe Bans Baseball Caps

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Comments

[Elana Kehoe]

It's the same as hoodies here...baseball caps are worn by more yobs than anyone else. They are not as common at all. It does make sense, considering the football hooligans culture that is in the UK (the hooligans wear them primarily as well). It's the same as a pub saying "No Team Colors Allowed", just to prevent problems.

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It's the same as hoodies here...baseball caps are worn by more yobs than anyone else. They are not as common at all.