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A truly nasty person went off on some innocent Dunkin Donuts employees;
The woman, identified by The Smoking Gun as 27-year-old Taylor Chapman, visited the eatery a night prior and demanded to have her meal price refunded when her cashier was slow to hand over a receipt. Another associate asked her to return the next morning and speak with a manager, which supposedly led to the confrontation seen on the video.
This shits about to go live, bitch! Chapman screams at a female employee. Right on Facebook, cause I already posted what your dumb ass did last night, so I hope youre happy with your little fucking sand ner self Im about to nuke your whole fucking planet from Mars. You think yall are tough, big fat Arabs bombin the trade center? Ill show you tough.
She also called the employee a complete cunt sand ner whore, and shouted: I just want my bacon crispy and my people to be nice. Chapman is even heard on the video wishing the footage gets a million fucking hits, which is likely a low estimate of the views it will get thanks to all the media attention since Monday.
And Chapman filmed herself doing this, so she only has herself to blame for any future career or educational problems.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Initech
(100,038 posts)"What about these movies?"
"They suck."
"These were the same two movies. You weren't paying attention!"
"No I wasn't."
Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)nt
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)themaguffin
(3,816 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)she needs a chill pill. Or three.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)petronius
(26,597 posts)Nice to see them standing behind their employee without any wishy-washy back-pedaling...
mattclearing
(10,091 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)would have.
i hope he gets something besides a pat on the back.
DURHAM D
(32,606 posts)Skittles
(153,113 posts)Lunacee_2013
(529 posts)Not to excuse her behavior, but she just seems off. How could she not know that this would go wrong for her?
eissa
(4,238 posts)to her if she realized they weren't actually Arabs? Yeah, probably not.
Captain Stern
(2,199 posts)She's practically begging to be publicly shamed. I think a good argument could be made that it would be wrong NOT to publicly shame here.
JI7
(89,240 posts)people would side with her after seeing this ?
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)the fact she thought she was the person with whom people watching it would identify. as one of the posters at rawstory put it - say goodbye to any hope of a good job or kids that are proud of you.
Tien1985
(920 posts)Of the people I went to school with.
I'm glad DD praised its employees instead of giving them a hard time.
Dorian Gray
(13,479 posts)They didn't do anything wrong. Nothing else was to be expected from a reasonable employer.
Mariana
(14,854 posts)and won't take the side of an employee against a customer, ever, no matter how badly the customer abused the employee or how well the employee acted.
Dorian Gray
(13,479 posts)but this was so public that I don't think they really had any other choice. And it's the right thing to do to stand behind the employee.
Tien1985
(920 posts)I'm not trying to put you down, have you worked for a big fast food corporation? Or another type of very large, but full of low skill level position? It's not uncommon for people in those types of jobs to get in trouble for the stupidest of things.
They could've decided that the crew should have called in a higher manager, or that the young women behind the counter was not apologetic enough, or that she should have gone into the back room while this went down. They could have caved to the harasser and disciplined or fired the employee, or disciplined the whole team for "allowing" the irate woman to shout obscenities in the store and pester other customers. Or videotaping may be prohibited in the store and they could call them on it.
I think they did the best they could with the circumstances they had, and I'm just glad that in this case, the management seems to agree.
Dorian Gray
(13,479 posts)can be assholes who kowtow to customers, even if they are in the wrong. But this customer was so blatantly racist and wrong, and posted it in such a public forum, that the company really had no other choice than to support its employees. Hopefully the employer would have done so even if the video had not been made public. I like to think that some employers are good people who look out for their employees.
JI7
(89,240 posts)former9thward
(31,936 posts)There is no expectation of privacy in public.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)It is open to the public, but it is privately owned, meaning that the owners could implement a policy of prohibiting filming or photographing inside the establishment.
former9thward
(31,936 posts)And those in their 20s. So that won't happen.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)and/or coffee.
former9thward
(31,936 posts)It is open to the public which makes it a public place for legal purposes. No expectation of privacy.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)former9thward
(31,936 posts)Case precedent. No, I am not going to lay out all that for you. If you are really interested in the subject go to law school.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)I thought so.
former9thward
(31,936 posts)Since you seem to think there is an invasion of privacy claim if your photo is taken inside a Dunkin Donuts then present one similar case in a court anywhere in the U.S. ever. You can't because they don't exist. But carry on and dig deeper.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)you pretend to have special knowledge that this is so.
If this is true or even agruably true in the sense that an argumentative person could refer to authority for this claimed belief, you would be able to post a link to the supporting authority.
Now you are saying that it would require "a year long Tort course" to understand the concept?
Since you can't cite any authority for your claimed belief, does this mean that you have not taken "a year long Tort course" but that you expect to do so someday?
former9thward
(31,936 posts)I have always wondered about those type of posters. If someone doesn't like what you say they say "Oh you can say anything over the internet". That's right I can and you can. Since no matter what I say you won't believe they why bother to ask? If I thought you were an honest poster I would give a better answer but I don't think that.
If you really think there is a claim and that DD is not a public place go to the internet and type in your city name and 'personal injury attorneys'. Tell them you had your photo taken at a DD and want to file a suit. Using a stopwatch see how fast they hang up on you.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)a private place to buy donuts and coffee, the cited court opinion would either support that or not.
You imply that you have special knowledge and know that a donut shop is more than a private place to buy donuts and coffee, you imply that you've taken a one-year Tort class (or that you wish to do so).
Your special knowledge appears to be that you know that some people have not believed you and will not believe you. That obviously comes from experience. I don't care about such experience. If you have a cite to a case in which a court found that a donut shop is more than a private place to buy donuts and coffee, post it. It's either true or not true.
An attorney made such a claim would be able to post such a cite to support a true assertion if any such cite existed. Even a well-educated law-student, attorney-wannabe could do that. Since you have not done so, the obvious answer is that you cannot.
former9thward
(31,936 posts)Call just one lawyer. Give someone a chuckle today.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)A public place is generally an indoor or outdoor area, whether privately or publicly owned, to which the public have access by right or by invitation, expressed or implied, whether by payment of money or not, but not a place when used exclusively by one or more individuals for a private gathering or other personal purpose.
http://definitions.uslegal.com/p/public-place/
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)i'm not the person you were arguing with. I just wanted to help clear that up. a restaurant is considered a public place (not to be confused with public property, i.e. government buildings, parks, etc.)
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)public parks, roads, sidewalks, etc.
a business is private property, not a public space. you have no right to film inside a private business if the owner doesn't want you to.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)a "public place" generally includes restaurants and any place open to the general public, whether publicly or privately owned.
...
The following is an example of a state law defining public places for smoking laws:
"Public place" means any enclosed indoor area used by the general public or serving as a place of work containing two hundred fifty or more square feet of floor space, including, but not limited to, all restaurants with a seating capacity greater than fifty, all retail stores, lobbies and malls, offices, including waiting rooms, and other commercial establishments; public conveyances with departures, travel, and destination entirely within this state; educational facilities; hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and other health care and medical facilities; and auditoriums, elevators, theaters, libraries, art museums, concert halls, indoor arenas, and meeting rooms. "Public place" does not include a retail store at which fifty percent or more of the sales result from the sale of tobacco or tobacco products, the portion of a retail store where tobacco or tobacco products are sold, a private, enclosed office occupied exclusively by smokers even though the office may be visited by nonsmokers, a room used primarily as the residence of students or other persons at an educational facility, a sleeping room in a motel or hotel, or each resident's room in a health care facility. The person in custody or control of the facility shall provide a sufficient number of rooms in which smoking is not permitted to accommodate all persons who desire such rooms.
http://definitions.uslegal.com/p/public-place/
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)you out.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)nt
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)former9thward
(31,936 posts)If you invite the public in it is a public place like it or not. This sub thread started when someone said that if you were filmed inside a DD that you could sue. You can't sue. You are in a public place without any expectation of privacy.
arthritisR_US
(7,283 posts)future service. What a bag!
liberalhistorian
(20,814 posts)this hateful ignorant entitled bitch is in public relations, believe it or not. Or, at least, she was, because I simply cannot imagine any public relations agency, (or any employer, for that matter) wanting to keep her on staff after seeing this. And if I were an admissions person at a college or educational institution, I certainly wouldn't want her as a student, either. But she filmed it herself and brought it totally and completely on herself. Bed. Made. Lie.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Cataloged and filed away for future use.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)humility.
Cirque du So-What
(25,908 posts)Sheesh!
JI7
(89,240 posts)liberalhistorian
(20,814 posts)more than enough such ignorant troglodytes still around. Like the hateful Tennessee townspeople who booed and heckled the federal prosecutor who tried to explain why actions against Muslims were being prosecuted as hate crimes, and who cheered when a Muslim activist mentioned the recent arson burning down of a mosque at the same meeting. I had to check my calendar after hearing that audio on NPR.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Have a link?
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)public relations
LTR
(13,227 posts)Her best-known gig was as a spokesperson on ultra low-budget YouTube commercials for tiny local businesses. Ironically, one of them was a Chinese fast food joint.
And I'my pretty sure that what loosely passes for her career is now over. Too bad she burned her bridges at Dunkin Donuts.
polly7
(20,582 posts)I hope they can refuse her service.
47of74
(18,470 posts)But when I worked there management was clear on the point - we did not have to take any SHIT from people visiting the store. We had to do the best we could but if a person crossed the line into abusiveness we did not have to take it. If someone became verbally abusive then they were done and management made it clear that such people would be invited to leave and never return.
Skip Intro
(19,768 posts)She was just vile.
Being a liberal though, I'm almost feeling sorry for her. I hope she learns a lesson from all this.
egduj
(805 posts)lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)I bought some donuts yesterday from my local DD. Gave the clerk the exact change and waited for a receipt. She shook her head "no" so I left. I thought it was the law to give a receipt for any purchase.
Initech
(100,038 posts)Hypocrite much?
hamster
(101 posts)always bringing up the World Trade Center and then turn around and bash NYC and the North as being un-Amurican?
liberalhistorian
(20,814 posts)dollar question that I've been wondering about for the past nearly twelve years. Makes about as much sense as their constant flag waving and claims to being the "real patriots" and "God bless the USA", etc., yet at the same time bashing the gubmint', waving Confederate flags, constantly re-enacting the Civil War, and dismissing two-thirds of the nation as not being "real" Americans.
That's not to say, of course, that there isn't plenty of racist, bigoted ignorance to go around for the whole country, including the North.
Lex
(34,108 posts)in most people's minds. The NYC and North bashing is a two way street (such as South bashing saying everyone in the South "always" does this or that).
hamster
(101 posts)saying they don't want to live with another group of people, see Texas secession, or that that group of people aren't really Americans, then how can it be an attack on all of us, when some among us don't really see themselves as all of us?
Lex
(34,108 posts)hamster
(101 posts)Lex
(34,108 posts)hamster
(101 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)welcome to DU.
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CokeMachine
(1,018 posts)I've seen more bigotry in NYC and SF that any part of the nation. Maybe you need to get out more??
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)I believe it was a DU San Francisco resident who said, "Anything 60 miles past the California coast is a cesspool." Read it right here on DU I did.
CokeMachine
(1,018 posts)They seem to think that bigotry is bad unless it's their own bigotry.
Have a great day
hamster
(101 posts)of bigotry, did the bigots use a terrible attack on a region they profess to hate as a springboard to hate on other people?
hamster
(101 posts)I'm not going to SF. I've heard some bad things about the place.
CokeMachine
(1,018 posts)I live 40 minutes north of SF and avoid it like the plague. The only time I even pass through is to go to the airport. I even try to avoid that by flying out of Santa Rosa or Sacramento.
Erose999
(5,624 posts)hamster
(101 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)the Ala-bama ramble, etc. She dosen't sound like any southerner I've heard. I'm not saying that as an aspersion on the North.
cordelia
(2,174 posts)to display your own (regional) bigotry.
hamster
(101 posts)Because people from Jersey/NYC always say y'all.
liberalhistorian
(20,814 posts)"Joisy" and "New Yawk"? Sorry, couldn't resist.
Ducking and running.
hamster
(101 posts)It's cool, man. or woman.
hamster
(101 posts)your name. where the hell did you go? remember the 64 million dollar question? you took off, man. or woman. well played.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)y'all.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)hamster
(101 posts)what do west coasters say?
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)yardwork
(61,538 posts)I doubt that she considers herself to be "a southerner."
I also noticed that she claimed that "this never happens there" but then she mentions that somebody peed in her french fries "back there."
She has serious mental health problems.
Kentuckians consider themselves south even though a lot of the south doesn't. I work with a lot of Kentuckians. Indiana definately couldn't be considered South. Unless maybe you were a polar bear. If you were a Polar Bear in Indiana or Kentucky, you'd be like, "Hey bro, I'm a polar bear.'' Where's the ice?"
asjr
(10,479 posts)south but it's citizens are mostly northern. And I certainly was not aware that we are "always bringing up the World Trade Center and then turn around and bash NYC and the North as being un-American." That may be your opinion but I think it has no basis.
if I hailed from a part of the country where the people are always bringing up the World Trade Center and then turn turning around and bashing NYC and the North as being un-American, I would make up lies and say that most of the state was made up of Northerners too. I also saw how you people, yes, you people, bash NYC in the Pace picante sauce commercial. Remember it? Oh, sure you don't. never saw that one. Stop with the lies already.
Mariana
(14,854 posts)The people who made that Pace ad sure did know their target audience, and how exactly to appeal to them. Those ads ran for so long because they worked.
hamster
(101 posts)i recall you saying you never saw that commercial, remember? i even pointed that little factoid out to you. oh, well. what's done in the dark comes out in the light. i caught you in your sick little game and now you're upset.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,153 posts)a) Can't broadbrush all Southerners in that sentiment. A lot of good people in the South and in rural areas.
and
b) This incident happened in South Florida, which is a pretty diverse melting pot (national and international) and as far from stereotypes of the rural South as you can get.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)serve her food? not too bright. I wonder when she'll get her hepatitis diagnosis?
TDale313
(7,820 posts)because she figured they were probably spitting in it. So she would probably give it to her boyfriend or something. Hey, boyfriend? Seriously? Run. Quick. This woman is not a good person.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)She suspects that the employees are spitting an pissing on her food, so she's doing to give it to her boyfriend.
I suspect that relationship is going to end soon.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)mouth?
rustydog
(9,186 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)Legitimate failure, or is she trying to do something else?
I wonder...
Dash87
(3,220 posts)marshall
(6,665 posts)Too bad she likely has no job to lose like that man.
liberalhistorian
(20,814 posts)She works in public relations, believe it or not. Or at least, she did, doubt if she does now after this bullshit!
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)She's talking about them spitting and shitting in the food. Then she says she's not eating it, she's giving it to her boyfriend. What sweetie.
I need to read the hell she launched on her facebook page.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Don't know what kind of response the woman recording it expected from this, but guessing it's not going how she expected. Part of me in all honesty wonders if she has some mental health issues. Or maybe she's just a self-absorbed, abusive little twit.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I just don't wanna give them a dime.
Any business that feathers Mittsy's nest is off limits to me, if I'm aware of the relationship.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)She thinks the whole world revolves around her every mood, and that she is entitled to use Racist and nasty words. Had I been the manager, I wouldn't have served her and called the Police on her. She would have been removed immediately and banned from the store forever. Yes let her post, it on face book.. so the world can see, just how crude and rude she really is.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)and the employees came off looking like the most patient people in the world.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)allow her to come back. Let her stomp her feet and scream.. but they do have to right to ignore any future purchases. Oh, and..if she makes a scene in the store, just inform her the cops are on the way.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)NoGOPZone
(2,971 posts)I'd give it to my SO.
Iggo
(47,534 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,955 posts)Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)She should understand that these kinds of things tend to backfire. I hope she is in the process of losing her job - if she worked for me she'd be shown the door immediately. What an ass.
burnodo
(2,017 posts)And talk show host
VOX
(22,976 posts)There are earlier videos on YouTube of this young woman where she's lucid and her personality seems intact.
I'm no behavioral health professional, but the behavior on display here -- the unabated abusiveness, the paranoia, the delusions of self-importance, the triviality of the original "offense," the jumbled thoughts -- all seem to point to a serious break with reality. She needs help, and quickly.
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)She went to all this trouble because she didn't get a receipt? That's messed up.
SlimJimmy
(3,180 posts)Don't go off the deep end over it.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)receipt.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)JI7
(89,240 posts)others that way. i'm pretty sure she hangs out with others who bash arabs/muslims and that's why she thought she could put this crap in public and people would think she was the good one.
Unfuckingbelievable.
Good luck with that brilliant career in PR, dearie.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)Drale
(7,932 posts)I got in an argument with someone because I called this women White Trash. The person I was arguing with claimed that calling someone White Trash is like calling someone a N**er. Complete Bullshit, White Trash is a lifestyle choice, N**er is used by racists to describe African American's because they hate them. What does everyone else think?
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)so you have to use the adjective to differentiate when you are referring to a white person. You've never heard the phrase 'black trash', have you?
carolinayellowdog
(3,247 posts)A term used by upper and middle class whites to refer to poor whites, who are just as inferior to them as poor blacks are; indeed, I've almost always heard the phrase as "poor white trash" to bring the point home.
In the South it's usually descendants of white slaveholders dissing descendants of white non-slaveholders. Who have always been trash because they never had plantations and slaves.
SlimJimmy
(3,180 posts)"completely ignorant a-holes" will suffice as it covers anyone in that category.
MADem
(135,425 posts)They had a few words to say about it, too.
Floyd_Gondolli
(1,277 posts)Response to 47of74 (Original post)
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JI7
(89,240 posts)in a certain way.
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JI7
(89,240 posts)<In February 2011, Fort Lauderdale police charged him with reckless driving and with possession of a controlled substance as well as possession of cannabis.
That February wasn't a good month for Hosch. Within weeks of the drug incident, Hosch was charged with three felonies in county court: burglary of an unoccupied structure and two counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle. (He pleaded no contest to all counts and was put on probation for 18 months.)
According to the incident report, a storage unit owned by Wesley Martin on SW Seventh Avenue had been burglarized, and two dirt bikes were stolen. Hosch, then 21, and Robert Brown, 22, were both charged with three felonies, according to the police report. >
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2013/06/taylor_chapman_local_racist_wh.php?page=2
Enrique
(27,461 posts)did you hear what she said, "'they're going to piss in my food, I know it, so I'm not going to eat it, I'll give it to my boyfriend."
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)nt
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)Fast food places seems to be a trend lately...all thos attention might be encouraging it.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)the manic demeanor and incredible lack of judgment.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)meth or bath salts or something like that.
FreeState
(10,570 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)mouth & that intelligence.
gob-smacked by the narcissism and sheer obliviousness.
"I have my bachelor's degree in Business & Marketing and I am working towards my JD in Law now."
https://twitter.com/_TaylorChapman
duuser5822
(54 posts)Seriously. She's obviously mentally ill.
Baitball Blogger
(46,682 posts)Hell, there's too many bars in Florida where she'll probably drink free.
This is Florida. Welcome to the Repub agenda.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Faces of Meth
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)Seriously, that lady is fucking cray cray.
Super cray cray.
PB
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Be nice to the people who serve your food, because you don't see what goes on before they bring your food out. Always be nice to them. Plus, it is common courtesy. You don't have to cook. They do it for you and serve it right up to you. FFS, how much easier can it get?
Her racist tirade just makes her look bad, not Dunkin Donuts.