Boulder Ironworks Fitness - I've been a member of this gym for two full years and just got kicked out of place yesterday because I asked them about the accuracy of their video camera system, which they used to verify whether non-members access to their facility or not. Last Saturday, they told me that they detected my key has been used by other people and saw different person accessing the system using my key, which was totally untrue. OK, I went to gym twice that day and exercised maybe too much. That's not a crime. I told the owner that I came the gym twice last Friday and assured her that I never shared my key with anyone else.



However, I wanted to make it sure I wouldn't be accused of compromising their policy by sharing the key with someone and that's why I asked them to verify the info yesterday (Feb. 15, 2012), which they refused to do and basically lied about the system flagging the photo as a different person from the registered member, which was not, in the first place, possible. Instead of apologizing for the false accusation, they asked me to leave and terminated my membership without refunding my membership fee which automatically got charged for this month a couple of days ago. I refused to leave and demanded the refund then they claimed that I made disturbance to the business. And they threatened me that they were going to call the police if I didn't leave immediately. I didn't have anything to be ashamed of so I asked them to call the police if that's how they wanted to handle the situation.





Great! Police came over and they told me that I could sue them later for the membership fee that the owners refused to refund but I still had to leave since the business owner asked a (powerless person who never violated anything whatsoever) client to leave for whatever reason. Two police women came for this case, although one of them was very empathetic toward my situation but neither of them apparently can't protect an innocent person who got very much insulted and poorly treated by the horrible business owners.





Besides the story above, I just realized that the first thing owner told police was that I was a KOREAN and later talked about my employment status and such. They probably thought they could threat me more effectively if they revealed my (potentially illegal) immigrant status to the police. Do I have to sue them to get my membership fee refund? Do they reserve some right to kick me off without refunding my fee based on no ground? It's not just about stupid money. I've nver been insulted this much in my enitre life!