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left-of-center2012

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Mon Jun 25, 2018, 10:40 AM Jun 2018

Trumpers attack wrong Red Hen restaurant

Threats, Bad Reviews For Connecticut Restaurant After Sarah Huckabee Sanders Was Refused Service At Virginia Eatery With Same Name

Shelley Deproto, who has owned the restaurant (in Old Saybrook, CT) for five years picked up the phone and “They said, ‘You’re done, and we’re coming to get you’. She soon realized the callers didn’t care. “You calmly and politely explain there’s no affiliation, but they’re so wound up it doesn’t matter what you say,” she said. “They’re ready to go. They say what they were going to say, which is usually something incredibly insulting and threatening.”

Soon, the Facebook pages and Instagram accounts of the Old Saybrook Red Hen were flooded with vitriol. Deproto took them down. The restaurant’s online reservation system was flooded with fake bookings for large parties. A “Nancy Reagan” and a “Sarah Sanders” took out reservations. Callers placed large, expensive takeout orders for 100 people that Deproto was not naive enough to fill.

She changed the voicemail greeting to stress her restaurant was in Connecticut. But the calls kept coming, mostly from area codes in North Carolina, Colorado and Texas, she said, a new snarling voice every 15 seconds. “As fast as I could delete the messages, we’d get another one.”

She’s now working with Yelp and TripAdvisor to expunge the scores of poor reviews left by people who have never set foot in Connecticut. She has not ruled out a name change.

Full story here http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-red-hen-old-saybrook-20180624-story.html
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Trumpers attack wrong Red Hen restaurant (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jun 2018 OP
Not surprised. His followers are stupid and illiterate. n/t RKP5637 Jun 2018 #1
Trump supporters are both ignorant and vicious...a terrible combination Glorfindel Jun 2018 #2
This is why there WILL be a shooting war before all is said and done... Moostache Jun 2018 #3
There will be no partition. NutmegYankee Jun 2018 #6
What dingbats. C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #4
Cockunsure flunkies Blue Owl Jun 2018 #5
A wee bit geographically challenged, eh? ladym55 Jun 2018 #7

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
3. This is why there WILL be a shooting war before all is said and done...
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 10:53 AM
Jun 2018

Plans to partition the nation into two parts had better be well underway or we will have Civil War II by 2020...Trump has absolutely no intention of ever leaving office/power and his cultist followers will guzzle the Kool-Aid by the gallon if he says so.

This all ends very badly...for everyone.

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
7. A wee bit geographically challenged, eh?
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 05:30 PM
Jun 2018

Not really surprised at that. Perhaps the owner of the restaurant in Old Saybrook should sue Sarah Huckleberry Sandbag for loss of business.

It is interesting to me that the right can stalk, threaten, and intimidate us ad nauseum, but when a business decides not to serve a right-winger--politely--the pearl clutching won't stop.

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