Kids who throw drinks back at drive-thru windows.. (I know how to thwart them)

[SoCalDem]

:evilgrin:

Install one of these babies in the drive thru lane with a button on the counter...

when a drink is thrown back at the employee..press the button and those brats aren't going far...

then call the police and charge them with assault..

[Quantess]

1. Is there a background story that I missed?

[SoCalDem]

4. Apparently this is the new YouTube prank..

Kids order drinks and when the employee hands them to the people in the car, they throw them back and yell "Fire in the hole"...splashing soda all over that low paid employee who will have to spend the rest of his/her shift in wet sticky clothing and shoes..

really funny, huh?

[Javaman]

8. and our race devolves one more step.

even easier, just install a web cam and get the license plate #.

[BlueJazz]

73. When one of these Fuckers are caught, Tie some Steaks around them and put them Here>>>>

[awoke_in_2003]

206. This is off-topic

but I got to tell you, I really love your sig line. Need to make it into a t-shirt.

[BlueJazz]

236. Thanks!...I had thought about the same thing but ..Living in the South..

...I prefer not to get in a fight every day. :)

[awoke_in_2003]

324. Hell,

I'm in texas, I'll wear it. My favorite shirt says "Jesus is coming, everybody look busy". No one has ever said anything, but it usually gets a double take<G>

[Eurobabe]

246. LMAO!!

If you don't already have something up on one of those CafePress sites, you should.

I wonder if I would get beat up in Bavaria wearing that? :evilgrin:

[cherokeeprogressive]

262. I have a better idea: BAN ALL DRIVE-THRU FOOD except for those with handicapped placards

Do you ever wonder how MANY cars sit at idle during the day at lunchtime, dinnertime? MILLIONS. Think of the reduction in greenhouse gases caused by banning drive-thru food. Think of all the obese people who'd lose weight because they'd either have to get out of their car, or fore-go fattening fast food. Think of how many heart attacks would be avoided, or how many blocked arteries, and how many heart surgeries.

On the other side of the coin, I wonder if these kids who pull such a hurtful, insulting prank have ever known the sting of corporal punishment as a small child...

[Harry Monroe]

269. I often find it faster to actually get out of the car and go inside

[parasim]

328. Excellent point!

Hell, in my town they have drive-thru liquor stores! Doesn't that beat all?

As for the other side of your coin there, assuredly not. My criminal career ended at 12 when I received a knuckle-rap that still gives me the shivers when I think about it...

[DemBones DemBones]

18. Almost as hilarious as beating up homeless people. nt

[racaulk]

46. Or getting homeless people to fight each other for money.

Hysterical.

:sarcasm:

[Quantess]

47. I doubt that I have ever been immature enough to think that's funny.

Not even when I was 8 years old. :eyes:

[ComerPerro]

224. I believe some here describe that technique as "speaking truth to power"

[SoCalDem]

226. $7 an hour drive-up window employees are "powerful"? n/t

[ComerPerro]

229. well, that's the point.

It happens all the time.

Someone feels wronged by a store in some way, the details and moral outrage follows, and the punchline always involves a tale of heroism involving the poster shouting at or insulting a minimum wage retail employee, usually a cashier or returns clerk or security guard or something.

I wouldn't be suprised to find people who thought these sort of pranks were kids exercising their free speech rights.

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[Squatch]

252. WTF was that for?

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[Quantess]

293. I applogize.

I don't know why I lashed out.

[LostinVA]

299. WHOA! Out of line

[SammyWinstonJack]

233. Not funny and where are the parents?

:shrug:

[SOS]

292. The over-privileged are getting nasty

Tire spike 'em!
Let the disrespectul little f*ckers explain the flat tires to Mommy and Daddy.

[question everything]

315. Can we send them all to basic training

and then to Iraq, or something? These kids obviously have too much time on their hands and nothing to keep them busy.

[beastieboy]

5. Today show this morning, Kids putting Youtube videos on line

where they order drinks at the drive thru, pick them up and throw them in the face of the workers. Republican trust fund brats probably.

[SoCalDem]

6. There are even "recipes" online for pepper mixtures

that can be put in the drink, so it makes the employees' eyes burn.. :grr:

[bamacrat]

56. See, this I find wrong, it has the intent to hurt, not just be funny.

Coke or a milkshake are funnier, they dont hurt.

[flvegan]

63. They don't hurt?

You don't think that someone working in a drive through gets insulted or upset because some little fucktard with a bullshit sense of self importance tosses a drink at them? You don't think that one of their first thoughts is about how for minimum wage, they just don't need this shit? You don't think that it hurts?

I'll bet you have kind names that you call homosexuals and blacks, the obese and handicapped. I mean, they're JUST WORDS and they don't hurt, right?

[bamacrat]

65. Of course,

I obviously have bigoted names for all oppressed groups just because I think it is funny to watch a video of someone throwing a drink at another person. Hit the nail on the head.

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[Warren DeMontague]

96. You really, truly think that's "funny"? Some kid chucking a drink at someone? Randomly?

Good grief. That's really what passes for humor, nowadays? Fuck a duck. That makes Benny Hill look like Masterpiece Theater.

No wonder the music so many of you kids listen to sucks such ass. :hide:

[bamacrat]

107. I agree the music nowadays sucks,

I listen to mostly music from the 60s and 70s.

[Maru Kitteh]

333. Any shitwit who thinks humiliating other people, assaulting them and victimizing them

is funny is almost a disease unto themselves.

I would wish things on your mother, but, even though she obviously failed to turn out a quality product I hesitate to blame her for your deficiencies.

Karma is a bitch.

I hope when you are very, very old, some stupid fuck-witted punk knocks your walker out from under you and laughs while you cry in fear as you fall. You will have earned it. When you are lying there on the sidewalk still shaking a little, your dignity in ruins, wondering why, . . . may you remember the things you said tonight.

[Richard Steele]

110. He also thinks it's "funny" to yank people's pants down in public. See #80 below. nm

[Giant Robot]

284. I don't often feel I agree with you flvegan

But thank you for saying this.

[Ikonoklast]

114. My brother had a customer throw a cup of coffee that got cold

at a waitress at his restaraunt. The waitress that taught martial arts at the rec center I go to.

He was knocked cold in a split second. Then he was arrested for assault. Tried to sue, but was counter-sued and lost.

Now, THAT was funny.

[A HERETIC I AM]

151. Damn. I LOVE that story.

Just love it.
I have this little movie clip in my head now. Runs like this;
Dickhead patron throws coffee on waitress.
Film instantly goes to slo-mo
Look of surprise on waitress' face turns to steely resolve in a nanosecond, as the first drops land on her uniform.
Camera pulls back to show the coffee glob beginning to land on her as she begins to come forward with her right side.
As the last drops contact her and before they even hit the floor, the butt of her open palm smashes dickheads nose flat.
Dickhead falls backward to the floor as the coffee now is splashing off her and onto the table.
Film speed returns to normal, she reaches for is napkin to wipe herself off with but in doing so, "accidentally" pushes his plate of food onto his sprawling body.

"Oops. Sorry. I slipped"

Your bro must rock to back up his staff like that. Good on em.

[Ikonoklast]

186. The waitress was just reacting

She hit the guy on the button without even thinking about doing it. It was an automatic defensive move.

My brother really makes his living as an attorney. A very successful attorney. He just had the restaurant/bar business on the side because he liked doing it. I used to help out on the line in a pinch. We had a blast at that place.

He always got a big kick out of patrons that threatened to sue, for whatever silly reason. He'd give them his card in case they needed a good attorney.

He's a nut. But he did treat his help very well, there were people on a list trying to get in to work for him.

[parasim]

192. Love it! nt

[bobbolink]

200. Hurrah for justice! Too seldom seen... I'm glad to hear the great outcome!

:applause:

[RamboLiberal]

179. Yeah the pepper drink was thrown at a Subway worker in my

area near Pittsburgh a couple of days ago. The young man's eyes were burning for 15 minutes and the cops were not amused. The idiot's pickup truck was kinda distinctive so hopefully the numbnuts will be caught.

[eppur_se_muova]

323. Not a lawyer, but pretty sure that makes assault and battery ... nt

[Bluebear]

11. News story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAVK9P2RbyA

[d_b]

2. I like it

:thumbsup:

[Buttercup McToots]

3. What a great idea!!

Hope they think of it...

[karlrschneider]

7. Great idea!

:rofl:

edit: That might be a solution to the 'drive away without paying' for gas, etc.

[malaise]

9. I wouldn't call the police before

the employees whip their sorry asses. What utter contempt for other human beings. Guess they need to pretend that they're fighting a war.

[SoCalDem]

14. Isn't it amazing what passes for "pranks" these days?

Pranks used to be just for poking fun at people..not causing them physical harm..

Now they are mainly to humiliate or injure someone..all for "laughs"..cheerfully videotaped.

The whole "reality" show stuff has made any kid with a videocam, think that he's gonna be the next Spielberg..

[malaise]

20. You're correct

They are disgusting brats with utter contempt for their fellow citizens.
They need a serious reality check.

[raccoon]

260. Kids like these could benefit from a draft.

Obviously, they have a lot of energy.

[parasim]

193. Yes, it is amazing.

Kind of reminds me of those videos you see of some soldier in Iraq tossing bottles of water into a crowd of thirsty kids and laughing while watching them fight over it.

[AnotherGreenWorld]

203. Yeah...Our narcisstic culture run amok

These are pranks: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/icq-pranks/index.php

What these shitheads on YouTube are doing aren't pranks; they're not funny, and are crimes.

[holboz]

267. No kidding - so called "happy slapping" in the UK got out of control

It started out with some kids just slapping random people's backs on the street as they filmed the victim's reactions on their mobile phones. Then, as everyone tried to top on another, it got worse and worse until people were flat being assaulted with severe injuries...and stupid twat kids filmed everything so it was damn easy to track them down and prosecute.

If anything, this sort of "filming my pathetic behaviour for 15 minutes of online fame" is a sad commentary on our youth.

Anyone who thinks someone (or something, such as an animal) being assaulted in ANY sort of fashion is truly lacking empathy and decent moral fiber.

on edit - syntax

[Frustratedlady]

10. Past time for school to start.

We are having a rash of home and car breakins, silly vandalism, etc. It never fails the last couple weeks before school is in session.

[bamacrat]

12. "Fire in the hole" is hillarious,

other than the story about the person who concocted a pepper juice and threw it. When its regular coke or a milkshake its funny. Maybe not for the person in the drive-thru but definitely for watchers. I worked fast food for almost 3 years, would have pissed me off if it hit me but would have still been funny.

:rofl:

[Bluebear]

15. Your sigline: I'm about to graduate and need a job, can anyone help? - NO

[BringEmOn]

43. I hope (s)he ends up working at a drive thru window

since it would be sooooooo fucking funny.

[bamacrat]

44. Already have. It sucked,

but I think the videos are funny.

[BringEmOn]

58. Then, go to the nearest Army recruiting station. I'm sure you think those

IED explosions are a riot, too! "Fire in the hole" my ass.

[bamacrat]

60. Now that is the dumbest thing I've read here in a while.

Comparing throwing a drink at someone to an IED. You're reaching a bit.

[parasim]

78. Yeah, sure, just wait until the idiots get bored with soft drinks...

and start lobbing in smoke bombs, or firecrackers, or bags of dogshit or some other such thing.
Obviously some are already bored with it, since they're starting to spike the drinks with pepper concoctions, etc.

The IED comparison is a valid one, to me, because it's the same concept. Cause havok to someone else at a safe distance, anonymously, and get away with it. It's just simply cowardly.


How anybody can derive amusement from other people's humiliation (or other suffering) is way beyond me.

[bamacrat]

85. If it goes beyond soda and ice cream then yes it should be stopped.

I have never done this, nor do I know anyone who has, I just think the videos are funny.

[parasim]

105. or, of course, once somebody gets doused with a "harmless" coke...

and in the natural reaction to turn away, slips, falls and cracks their head on the counter. Or the straw blinds an eye.

Quick story, as a kid we used to play a game called "apple wars" where you put an apple on the end of a willow branch and fling them at each other (just the apple, not the stick, of course). Seemingly harmless, sure, until one time my friend flung one at me from close range, hit me square in the eye and ever since then I have had vision problems in that eye. That happened 40 years ago. Oh yeah, everybody laughed, including me, until after a couple of weeks and I was still seeing a white dot in the center of my eye.

When parents say "Don't do that, you'll poke someone's eye out!", it's for good reason.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

108. ROFLMAO

"natural reaction to turn away, slips, falls and cracks their head on the counter. Or the straw blinds an eye."

:rofl:

[parasim]

191. Find that pretty funny, huh?

I'm glad that I can provide you with your daily requirement of yucks. yuk, yuk, yuk!

and if you are ever lucky enough to receive a scratched cornea because of some idiot's antics, I'm sure you'll still feel the same way... Ha ha! All in the name of fun, right?

Nah, to me, throwing anything in somebody's face is not in the least bit humorous.


edit: spelling

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

319. Sure do.

See post #140.

[AnotherGreenWorld]

202. How can you honestly find this funny?

A spoiled middle-class kid, giggling insecurely, trying to be cool and of the herd, throws a drink at another human being, who, because they are behind a window--and because even if they were not behind a window, they need that job to pay bills--cannot do anything. That's funny?

These are pathetic, disgusting human beings, and future Republican voters.

[Mike Daniels]

243. Because kids whose parents vote Democrat never do anything illegal

Interesting that you can peg political affilation by someone's actions.

The obnoxious and misbehaving kids I see on the DC subway are more likely to be the children of Democrats going by general appearances.

[AnotherGreenWorld]

258. Their parents might well be Democrats.

But I bet most of these criminals grow up to be Republicans. Dumb, selfish, cowardly, oblivious to other people's feelings, herd-like: great predictors for future voting behavior.

[Harry Monroe]

274. Jeez, does every post have to be party affiliated??

The kids who are doing this are self-centered assholes period!!

[parasim]

326. Well, they do fit the stereotype...

I'll have to admit that when I see drunken frat-boy jock types (and I've seen 'em, alright, one crashed his brand new mustang into my house!), the first thing I think of is... "republican idiot". I know, I know, Democrats raise dickheads as well, but I wonder what the percentages would show? My guess would be significant number of these jerks stem from republican households.

I'm curious, though, what "general appearances" do children of Democrats exhibit? I've always kind of based my stereotypic political assumptions on behavior, not looks.

[RamboLiberal]

207. And I think you are a sick puppy

I think we ought to arm the drive through clerks with paintball guns loaded with a paint that is extremely hard to remove. Let the doofus in the cars get their wheels ruined or their face painted with a color that wouldn't come off for a week or two. Now that would be funny!

[YOY]

290. Kinda depends. Are the folks, in your mind, working at the place some HS kids themselves?

or, like some in my area, hardworking folks with no other employment options?

Somehow it becomes slightly funnier when its a suburban kid earning some spending money than when it's a Bengali immigrant trying to pay the rent and make it in this country.

...but not by much. Still a dickish prank.

[SoCalDem]

92. Improvised Edible Device?

:spank: sorry :)

[salinen]

271. Kinda funny

I did the flaming bag of dogshit routine when I was a laddy.

[DS1]

84. College boys getting the shit knocked out of them is far more entertaining

[bamacrat]

88. I laugh at whats funny to me.

Show me a video of a frat dude getting owned Ill laugh. Im not ashamed to laugh.

[DS1]

98. Where did I specify 'frat'?

:)

[bamacrat]

100. You didn't I did.

I have a special hatred for them.

[piedmont]

228. You seem to have their sense of "humor." nt

[LostinVA]

238. Yup

[Quantess]

104. Touche'

;-) :toast:

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177. Ok... this is funny.

http://www.punchbaby.com/media/latrz/clips/ouch/FingerPig.avi

:rofl:

[Pastiche423]

153. The best job

and maybe only job for this poster would be working a drive through window.

Not only would she be paid in commensuratew/her (lack) of education, but she could laugh at getting hit w/a missile.*

I think it would be a dandy fit, don't you?


* http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004213.html

[bamacrat]

156. Great post, well though out.

For one Im a he, and two, I have a fine education. My sense of humor doesn't dictate my future employment. Its great to live in a world where you can laugh at what you find funny. try it.

[Pastiche423]

170. You may have had a fine education

paid for by someone else, but it sure as hell taught you nothing about right and wrong. My apologies for mistaking your gender. It was an easy mistake, given that you sound like a little girl.

Did you even read the link I posted?

[Quantess]

219. Self-edit. Sorry, my mistake.

[Occulus]

230. Your sense of humor very well may do exactly that

Your sense of humor could easily get you fired for cause should you tell the wrong jokes over and over- you know, after being repeatedly asked not to by a blonde employee, you keep telling blonde jokes over.. and over... and over.... because that's acceptable to your sense of humor.

I can see a hostile work environment claim arising from that, even if you can't. So that's one example. I'm not saying you would do just exactly that, either, so don't harp at me about how you don't like blonde jokes.

I'll leave out racial 'humor', because I don't think even you find that acceptable. However, one never knows for certain, so I thought I'd just go ahead and mention it.

If you find gay jokes funny, you could be in for a world of hurt- especially if you live in an area where we're covered under any sort of nondiscrimination statute. I personally would not only take offense to someone telling pejorative gay jokes, especially if those 'jokes' carried with them some subtle, threatening undertone- I'd be more than a little concerned. Keying someone's car with the words 'rump ranger' is NOT funny, even if you think it is.

I think you ought to give some very serious, deep soul-searching about what you think is funny before you post anything about your sense of 'humor' again. This shit really is not funny. For the people it happens to, it can be embarassing, depressing, and downright dangerous to the people around them if they're already having a crappy day- or even more easily, themselves. As another poster said, they could slip and fall on the spilled drink as they're storming off in embarassment (or just storming off all pissed off) and crack their heads open on the floor, or one of those counters. I'll assume you realize how this very bad situation could occur in the aftermath, since you claim you once worked fast food, and thus know about the already greasy floors, the sharp, metal corners, the hot, liquid grease vats, the hot metal surfaces from the heat lamps... why, golly, Vern, there's a whole list of bad shit that could happen to an employee who has to deal with your funny little prank.

And no, I'm not 'up on my high horse', because I remeber working in places like that, and I remember the very real dangers I had to deal with and learn to avoid. But in a slip-and-fall, that's not always possible. Then again, it seems only people who are well-educated in the risks and dangers of such a job know how dangerous a 'prank' like this can be, and on how many levels the danger can occur.

(By the way- I work with a guy who has a mentally handicapped son, and if I consistently laughed about 'how retarded people act', I would definitely lose my job. You, sir, are wrong on all counts.)

[ArbustoBuster]

297. Your fine education appears to have failed you in at least one respect.

A good education, whether it is the structured education of pedagogy or the unstructured education of caring parents, is - among other things - supposed to ease you from childhood into adulthood. Your complete disregard for the feelings or safety of others shows that you are still a child.

[Maru Kitteh]

334. Bravo, ArbustoBuster. Well said. n/t

[I Have A Dream]

16. I disagree. I don't think that other people being victimized is funny.

x(

[SoCalDem]

19. How would you like to work for several hours wearing a milkshake?

and smooshing around in sticky shoes?.. Go home and change? lose wages you can't afford to lose..

there are not many people who LOVE that kind of job..

This antic is just to "amuse" some lazy kids who have nothing constructive to do, and to harrass somebody else's kid/grandma/mom..and make an already shitty job..even shittier.

[bamacrat]

29. That happens anyway when you work fast food.

I used to be up to my shoulder in lye every Saturday morning at 4:30 so a little milkshake would suck but wouldnt be that bad.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

30. Heavy books used to fall on me when I was stocking shelves at the bookstore

I guess I shouldn't get mad if a customer decides to wing one at my head?

[bamacrat]

32. Yeah, because books and a coke or a milkshake are similar.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

36. Under the law, it's assault

So yeah, it is similar.

By the way, I don't think the man in your avatar would be so callous towards another human being's dignity.

[bamacrat]

48. Pranks are funny, if someone gets hurt it isnt but coke wont hurt.

Only make you sticky.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

52. Good for you

Glad you've reasoned it out in your mind why it's okay to humiliate someone like that.

[Gelliebeans]

325. You hit the nail on the head

It is the humilation that is the draw for these bullies.

[tkmorris]

161. Ever been hit in the eye with an ice cube?

It's very funny.

[LostinVA]

239. You do get hurt with a Coke or shake -- and IT'S CRIMINAL

Get that? It's ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ASSAULT. I think you need to learn what is appropriate workplace humor and what is illegal before you join the workplace.

[Richard Steele]

331. Not to people with normal hand/eye skills. Most DON'T get soaked in soda every day.

I am willing to believe that your experience was different.

[janx]

91. Hot sauce.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUgtqdiiJ88

Hence "fire in the hole."

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

22. You've got to be kidding me

Guess my theory that everyone should be required to work customer service for a year to see what assholes customers can be doesn't work on some.

On edit: The funny part would be when the idiots are arrested for assault.

[LostinVA]

240. We don't know the poster worked customer service -- I'm betting no

I have, many people on here have, I know many people who have -- and NO ONE would find this humorous if it was done to them.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

300. Post 12

Claims they did work fast food service......

[bamacrat]

301. I have worked customer service for about 5 years.

[AndyA]

25. You are seriously disturbed.

Shame on you, there is nothing funny about it at all. You need to reconsider your sense of humor. :(

And those kids who do this sort of thing need to be forced to work a shift at a fast food restaurant after having someone throw a Coke on them so they can see what it feels like.

Sick f*cks.

[bamacrat]

31. And I'm sure no one here did anything stupid when they were kids.

Lighten up people damn. You dont have to get offended for everyone else just because.

[Solon]

34. Stupid yes, assualting people no...

I did stuff like, on Halloween, grabbing neighborhood pumpkins and smashing them in the street, shit like that, I never tried to hurt anybody.

[SoCalDem]

38. So YOU are the one who smashed my son's first self-carved pumpkin

Poor little guy cried when he saw his "punkin" all smashed to bits :):hi:

[Solon]

53. Sorry about that...

Probably the worse thing we did was when we took a good sized pumpkin, loaded it with fireworks left over from 4th of July, put it in the middle of the street, and blew it up. This was a big pumpkin, almost 3 feet wide. Of course, this was my OWN pumpkin, carved it myself, and this was well after the kids were trick or treating, I was munching on some candy myself at the time. The explosion was pretty big, if I do say so myself, left a nice scorch mark on the street, and there was no pieces of the pumpkin left bigger than a couple of inches across.

You ever played "baseball" with the small pumpkins, that creates a mess. :)

[SoCalDem]

67. Nope. I did much WORSE..

My friend and I tossed an M-80 into one of these on the 4th of July

It smoked for 2 days :scared:

We were about 10..and we never told anyone :scared:

[bamacrat]

74. Thats a federal crime, but still not as bad as throwing a drink.

[SoCalDem]

76. hey.. I was only 10,,, and I said 5 Hail Mary's

God forgave me :)

[bamacrat]

82. Fine, you're off the hook then.

[janx]

93. Except that the drinks often contain pepper of some kind,

hot sauce, etc.

[LostinVA]

242. Throwing a drink is ethically and morally worse: it's assaulting a PERSON

And publicly humiliating them.

[I Have A Dream]

49. I'm not offended for everyone else "just because". I'm offended...

because it's FUCKING OFFENSIVE!

:grr:

[tkmorris]

166. Sure I did

But I am not trying to defend those things by claiming that they AREN'T stupid. You are.

[AndyA]

171. Stupid, yes. Hurtful, no.

Toilet papering someone's yard, moving real estate signs to houses across the street, throwing pool furniture in the pool, all are stupid and irritating, but not harmful.

Throwing a beverage on someone is a very hurtful thing. And in this case, not deserved at all. They could get hit in the eye with an ice cube and be injured. And they probably don't have health insurance.

This type of behavior should not be condoned or encouraged.

[AnotherGreenWorld]

204. These aren't kids. They can drive.

[LostinVA]

241. I never criminally assaulted anyone, nor did anyone else I know

Including teenagers I know. It appears you may have, though, if we go by what you say.

[keroro gunsou]

287. i've never assaulted anyone...

but some of the teenagers and other assorted dimwits i have for customers at my place of employ sorely tempt me.

and for the record, it takes more effort and energy NOT to smack someone for being stupid than it does to actually smack them upside the head.

fortunately, i limit my assaults to verbal ones, and thankfully most of the brats are unaware of the fact i'm insulting them. sarcasm is your friend, and i'm shocked that so few kids today are able to recognize it, much less use it.

[Richard Steele]

37. What a progressive and enlightened attitude.

:eyes:

[Bluebear]

39. "Hillarious"

(what college is this we are graduating from? lol)

[SoCalDem]

41. Spelman?

:rofl:

sorry could not help myself:)

edit.. I MISSPELLED "Spelman".. :rofl:

who knew that a college could not spell..."spell"..?

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1460

[Richard Steele]

50. SPILLman. Legacy admission. Straight "gentleman's C" average.

At this moment, Googling the terms "legacy admission" and "gentleman's C".

[DemBones DemBones]

77. That must be it!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[malaise]

55. That's a Duzy

:rofl: :rofl:

What a sick sense of humor. Guess they're all following their leader - Bullies all.

[Bluebear]

61. DUzy!!!

[bamacrat]

62. This is fun, been a while since I got attacked on DU.

Go Yankees.

[Bluebear]

75. Aw shaddup and take your licks.

You posted something really stupid.

[bamacrat]

79. No I didn't.

Had I said I that I thought it was funny to see people get hurt, yes that would be stupid. Throwing a drink at someone is about as bad as pantsing someone in school. Embarrassing but not assault. Or are you speaking of my Go Yankees comment?

[Richard Steele]

89. So you think YANKING SOMEONE'S PANTS DOWN IN PUBLIC is "amusing" as well?

You REALLY don't know when to stop talking, do you, kid?

[SoCalDem]

95. dick.. we're being so mean today

:evilgrin:

comic relief after a stressful week...it's our "calgon moment"..

I'll have a large coke..extra ice..


:ducks:

[Richard Steele]

106. It's not mean to decry an alleged adult who sees "humor" in assaulting & humiliating people. nm

[bamacrat]

99. Look dick, I don't keep myself from laughing because I'm affraid that people will think Im mean.

I was pantsed in school, and yes it is quite funny.

[Richard Steele]

109. Seek help.

It's gonna be a lot easier for you to alter
that sick, twisted attitude on your own than
to wait until LIFE alters it for you.

[LostinVA]

247. oh brother

[LostinVA]

245. Nope, he doesn't

[Richard Steele]

259. I rather suspect that you are correct. nm

[BringEmOn]

97. Go for the trifecta and say "Go Barry Bonds!"

[bamacrat]

101. Go Barry Bonds!

I don't care about Barry Bonds, it's baseball, one of the more boring sports in the world. Make baseball more interesting if they all took steroids. I want to see someone throw a 115 mph fastball, or hit 100 HR in a season.

[BringEmOn]

115. Here ya go, bamaboy! Yuck it up!

[Name removed]

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[renate]

199. look at who in the picture have the real dignity

And who in that picture probably grew up to be petulant little G.W. Bushes.

[Richard Steele]

201. Exactly. nm

[LostinVA]

248. Bingo

[piedmont]

225. No need to rub all Alabamians' noses in it for this turd's behavior on a message board.

Every state has its share of bamacrats.

[LostinVA]

249. Yup, that's just a chuckle a minute, eh?

Having drinks thrown on you! How about that, Bama? Think those kids at the Greensboro Woolworth's are having a good time and thinking it's funny?

[Harry Monroe]

278. Little Bamaboy would probably fail to see the irony in this picture

Probably knows nothing about the South's sorry history anyway. And for the record, I live in Mississippi.

But please don't think we are all like him!!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

122. It is TOO assault and battery.

Yes I am a lawyer but I don't play one on TV.

Assault is the action -- battery is the contact and resulting damage.

Assault would be shooting at someone and missing.

There is a Supremes case from the early 1960s that said that snatching a plate out of a black man's hands in a buffet line at a motel was "offensive touching" and therefore assault and battery. The defendant was "Carousel Motor Hotel, Inc." I believe.

I got assaulted a lot in jr. high and high school. Kids tried to kill me at Red Rover, and we should have called the cops. I never learned to fight back because I am little.

Pulling someone's pants down is ALSO Assault and battery.

Torts class, by the way, is nine months long. Two semesters.

[bamacrat]

125. Hey I got picked on too, I look 5 years youger than I am.

[Greyskye]

279. And act 15 years younger

Please tell us that you aren't planning on having kids for a few more decades at least. :scared:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

131. Only if they press charges.

And then it'd be debatable as to who the bigger asshole was.

[treestar]

150. Look at it from the point of view of the throw-ee

Then it's not so funny.

[bamacrat]

154. No, but not the end of the world.

[treestar]

194. You're really asking for it

If you were physically in a room with me; I'd throw a soda at you right now!

[bamacrat]

198. Now that would be assault, I wouldnt throw a coke at you.

[keroro gunsou]

288. waste of a good soda...

try using generic roundy's brand cola, or some other regional local brand :)

why waste soda on throwing it at people, now acid, that's where the money is.

*dodges incoming projectiles with neo-like grace before realzing that this ain't the matrix and falls flat on his back*

[LostinVA]

244. You did post you think it's funny to see people get hurt

YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT CRIMINAL PHYSICAL ASSAULT and public humiliation. Very strange you can't see that -- it's called "empathy," which is a very good trait to have.

[malaise]

256. The Spel(l)man response

The post suggesting that this is hilarious is beyond offensive.

[bamacrat]

54. Oooh you got me, I put 2 l's in hilarious, how red my face is.

I graduated from the college with the most academic all Americans in the country. Oh and before you say it no, I wasnt one of them.

[SoCalDem]

59. bama bama bama.. don't you know by now?

WE have ALL typed something that we didn't think all the way through, and then been promptly "gang-posted".. I've done it many times myself..

It's just the mid-day "snarkies" at DU ..

some kids can't resist throwing stuff, and at DU, we can't resist piling on when someone makes a faux-pas.. I'm sure that you don't throw stuff at clerks and we all do typos... In my snark, I misspelled "Spelman"... :silly:

..Have a :hug:

J

[Richard Steele]

81. I think it's more to do with the enjoyment you find in the suffering of others than your spelling.

[bamacrat]

120. Its not suffering when you get wet.

[Richard Steele]

127. Funny how the LAWS of every civilized nation on the planet disagree with you...

What you're describing is ASSAULT. Adults consider ASSAULT
to be a bad thing.

Grow up.

[bamacrat]

130. IF the person came through the window and...

beat the shit out of the person or just hit them then I would call that assault not throwing a fragile cup with liquid in it.

[Quantess]

144. Maybe you should just admit that you did not know the legal definition of assault,

and realize that other DUers are trying to give you a clearer understanding.

[bamacrat]

146. Riiiiight.

[Quantess]

222. Fine. Stay ignorant of the law.

I'm thinking the real "bamacrat" is going to find out that his bratty younger brother has been posting on his DU account.

[wryter2000]

275. Oh, thank heaven

For a minute there, I thought I needed to take a defense of assualting and humiliating people seriously. What a relief. :evilgrin:

[Richard Steele]

173. What YOU call it doesn't matter; not even a tiny little bit.

The COURTS call it "assault and battery". And they don't
find it NEARLY as amusing as you do.

[LostinVA]

251. No, that would be BATTERY, not assault

Oh boy.

[HeeBGBz]

209. Yeah, you get to wear stained sticky clothing all day

Because you can't go home and change. Then you deal with customers who judge you unclean all because some popcorn fart wanted to be a big shot on the Tube.

Fucking Hi larious.

[LostinVA]

250. Yes, it is

[Harry Monroe]

280. And what college would that be, Bamaboy??

University of Alabama?? You're sure making them proud!!

[flvegan]

40. "Maybe not for the person in the drive-thru"

Well, so long as the selfish fucking prick in the car and his/her pissant little fuckwad friends are amused, then who gives a shit, right?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

42. Best post of the thread

For some reason, your wording there was awesome........

[DemBones DemBones]

83. I agree. I have never had any tolerance

for little pissant brats who think they're allowed to mistreat others.

[piedmont]

118. ding!

+1

[Midlodemocrat]

138. Just one of the many reasons I love you.

What a great post.

[-..__...]

66. I wonder how funny you would find it if...

one of the servers at a fast-food joint hocked a loogie in your Quarter Pounder (w/cheese).

Might not be funny for you, but it would definitely be funny for the watchers...

<snickering behind the register>

"OMFG, dude! he's eating it"!

</snickering behind the register>

[flvegan]

71. Oooh, a video of someone blowing snot on a Big Mac then serving it

to a patron who then eats it. How funny for the watchers, and hey, nobody gets hurt.

Mmmmm...special ranch dressing for the lady.

[bamacrat]

123. That person deserves a fire in the hole for spitting on a burger.

That is much more of an assault than throwing a fucking coke.

[bamacrat]

133. That is when I would commence the firing in the hole.

[-..__...]

174. You're missing the point.

I'm not suggesting it as an unprovoked response.

You think it's funny for someone to throw a drink in a servers face, but if that same someone was served a Loogie Burger, it's not funny anymore.

Payback can be a bitch sometimes.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

70. You know what? I agree.

It's like throwing eggs at somebody's house at halloween.

Who didn't commit a little malicious mischief when they were kids?

[Richard Steele]

111. Those thuds you hear are hundreds of DUers falling out of their chairs from shock.

:eyes:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

113. Shock? I think it's the laughter.

Lots of really absurd arguments in this thread.

That straw will put somebody's eye out!

It's just like racism!

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

119. racist? 7-up for white folks..coke for blacks..creme soda for hispanics

Oh the dilemma.. what DO we throw at the asians:rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

213. Lemonade?

:hide: :P

[SoCalDem]

214. and of course in Florida, regardless of race??? Gatorade :)

:rofl:

[flvegan]

124. Sweet.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

134. Wait a minute...

aren't you a vocal supporter of PETA? Aren't they kind of known for throwing various liquids on people?

[flvegan]

141. I am, and not that I'm aware of.

I don't recall PETA, the organization, throwing anything on anyone. What members do, members do.

Kind of like saying DU keys cars of people with Bush/Cheney '04 stickers, when in fact it was done by a DU member.

Nice leap, though. I give it a 6.2.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

142. Wait another minute...

haven't you yourself personally supported Sea Shepard's plans to actually ram their boats into whalers?

[flvegan]

155. I love the attention.

Yup. Just as I support the police in their enforcement of the laws when they pit another vehicle.

Are we done talking about me? :pats head:

[bamacrat]

149. Exactly, thankyou.

Oh but it isn't assault when someone throws paint on a fur coat, but it is when some throws a drink at someone. What a hypocrite.

[flvegan]

157. I never justified that type of thing. Actually, YOU did.

[LostinVA]

253. Flvegan never said that at all

[Midlodemocrat]

172. .

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

[Name removed]

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[HiFructosePronSyrup]

140. You know what isn't funny, bamacrat? Whoopee cushions.

Do you have any idea how many miscarriages are caused every year because of faulty, exploding whoopee cushions?

Do you, bamacrat? Do you?

[bamacrat]

145. I feel ashamed that I ever laughed when we put one under our teacher.

Oh how I am wrong about everything in my life.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

148. You should, bamacrat.

I'm never going to hire you to clean my segregated lunch counter.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

212. Because a house is a sentient being.

:eyes:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

302. The guy who cleans it up is a sentient being.

So I don't know why you thought that was a good argument.

If you want a closer analogy- throwing a pie in somebody's face is funny. Or snowballs.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

303. I was using pretty obvious sarcasm.

Throwing things at objects is not assault -- throwing them at people is, however.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

304. It depends on whether or not the person wants to press charges.

And if the person did press charges he'd be a bigger asshole than the guy who threw the food item.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

306. Cool, so I can throw a bag of feces at you?

Remember, you'd be an asshole to press charges against me.

:eyes:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

307. Do you consider a bag of feces a food item?

Have you ever thrown a snowball at somebody?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

308. You might, from all the bullshit you spout.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

310. You're one to talk.

Ever thrown a snowball at anybody?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

312. Yeah, that makes sense.

:eyes:

Yes, I have thrown a snowball at somebody. You know what the difference was between that and the drive-thru situation?

I threw the snowball at somebody I knew, who was expecting it, given the situation (us messing around in the snow), and he threw it right back at me.

Now, if I were to get a snowball and pelt the drive-thru clerk with it, when he has no reasonable expectation to be hit with it, given his job and the fact that I am a random stranger, yes, that IS assault.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

313. You've never thrown a snowball at somebody who wasn't expecting it?

What a sheltered existence.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

314. Not at somebody who didn't have a reasonable expectation to be hit.

And I'd rather have a "sheltered existence" than be someone who gets off on throwing things at innocent people.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

316. What's a "reasonable expectation?"

They were out having fun in the snow?

How does that not make them an "innocent person."

[Starbucks Anarchist]

317. Well...

A) We were surrounded by snow.

B) We knew each other personally.

C) We both had equal access to snowballs.

D) All of the above pretty much indicates reasonable expectation.

Now if I were to take my snowball, walk up the street and pelt a guy sitting on his porch, minding his own business, that would NOT be a "reasonable expectation"-- the "rules of engagement" are entirely different.

[Enrique]

102. I don't like you, bamacrat

it stinks that there are people in the world that think this is funny.

[bamacrat]

128. I dont like you then.

If you dislike someone based on whether they think something is funny then I dont want you to like me. You and Bluebear are now on my list.

[I Have A Dream]

189. Please, please, please add me to that list also. I definitely want to be on that list too!

:nuke:

[wryter2000]

277. Why, oh why?

Why do I never get on the good lists?

[tabasco]

208. People probably dislike you

because you're a shit-for-brains in general.

Put me on your list too, shit-for-brains.

[bamacrat]

311. Actually no, I have many friends..

I'm really a nice guy, probably one of the better ones. Had I thrown something through a window at another person I would be an ass, but simply laughing at a YouTube video doesnt make me shit-for-brains or a republican. Get your panties out of a wad and lighten up.

[tabasco]

330. They are shit-for-brains too.

I never said everybody disliked you. I'm sure you've found other morons to play with.

[bamacrat]

338. Laughing at something doesnt make you a moron.

Not laughing at something that is funny (slipping on a banana peel, someones chair collapsing) just because you think others will find you to be "shit-for-brains" is being a moron. Laughter is not premeditated it is a natural response to something amusing, and it shows nothing about the intelligence of a person. Most people on this site are a bunch of whiny babies who look for chances to claim their "moral/ethical superiority" by labeling anything they disagree with as stupid, or shit-for-brains. There are many things I find funny, some of them crude, some are pranks, but I am not so stuck up my own ass not to laugh. This would truly be shit-for-brains.

:nopity: :hi:

[Scout]

339. "Most people on this site are a bunch of whiny babies "

then why don't you just leave?

It's not the laughing at something amusing that is your problem, the fact that you find the humiliation and pain of other people amusing is the problem.

The fact that you can't figure that out indicates you may just be the moran people here think you are. But why would you care what a bunch of whiny babies think of you?

[bamacrat]

340. First of all moron is spelled with two o's and secondly

real pain I dont find funny, getting a coke thrown on you is not painful.

[SoCalDem]

341. 3,2,1 n/t

[Scout]

342. moran is correct n/t

[bamacrat]

343. No you are wrong, moran is how stupid people spell it.

Moron is how it is spelled in the dictionary. But I guess you were too offended by my laughter to realize that.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/moron

[Scout]

344. I don't have the picture, would someone let him in on it? n/t

[bamacrat]

345. Ive seen the picture. And get it but just saying.

[LostinVA]

255. I don't like you either -- I don't like people who think assault is funny

Who have no empathy for any other living creature.

[Common Sense Party]

318. Add me to the list, too, Junior. And tell me where you live.

I've got lots of soda, and I have a hankering to make a video and post it on YouTube so others can get as much laughter and merriment from you, as you get from others.

[Maru Kitteh]

336. Please put me on your list, because I think you are morally deficient

and a waste of fresh water, as well as other resources. Your education was a total failure. It should have been given to someone more worthy.

[blondeatlast]

167. "I'm about to graduate and need a job, can anyone help?" Yeah, try here:

http://www.mcdonalds.com/usa/work.html

Please let DU know your first shift; it's only fair since you find this "hysterical..."

[bamacrat]

175. I dont see how my thinking something is funny means I should work fast food.

[blondeatlast]

178. It should happen to you. I worked at a fast-food joint, waited tables, and worked retail

in a high end store to get through college. I have the utmost respect for people who deal with the public in their jobs.

Maybe if you spent a week on the swing shift at Mickey D's you'd still find harrassing people who work funny. Maybe not. It's just a suggestion.

I won't bother to get in a flamewar with you--but you have the STUPIDEST sigline ever considering the tone of your posts. Bye now--I don't need the ignore button to ignore you. :evilgrin:

[Maddy McCall]

195. What other options are there in Tuscaloosa, Alabama? I guess you can...

always sell hot dogs at the racetrack.

[piedmont]

223. Ain't nothing wrong with Tuscaloosa, Maddy. Every city has its share of fucking assholes. nt

[Maddy McCall]

227. Plenty of nice folks live in Tuscaloosa.

Decent folks are able to find decent jobs.

Our own Syrinx lives somewhere in that general area.

But my comment wasn't directed to a decent person. It was directed to the immature jerk in this thread, whose immaturity and jerkiness will limit his employment opportunities in Tuscaloosa and beyond.

:)

[piedmont]

231. Ah, I understand what you meant, now.

As a native Tuscaloosan, I have to say I'm awfully embarrassed by this guy. Not only is he an immature jerk, he apparently has not been educated worth a damn by (I suspect) my alma mater.

[Harry Monroe]

281. I hope you do end up working fast food again

Karma can be a bitch sometimes

[nini]

196. uh.. right

for fucking juvenile little shits maybe.

[Maddy McCall]

197. Hopefully stupidity like yours stops at the state line.

One thing I've always prided myself on, as far as being a Southerner, is that most Southerners (at least here on the Mississippi side of the state line) are friendly, hospitable, and look out for fellow humans.

You, though, are proof that such qualities aren't universal. You're also proof that people actually go through college (junior college?) without learning anything about the world around them.

You aren't typical of 21st century Southerners. You might have fit right in in 1964, but there's no place for idiots like you today.

You know, your callousness and immaturity shows through you all of the time, and it certainly will when you go for job interviews. If you truly see nothing wrong with "fire in the hole," I expect you to have a long and difficult life. You'll never get a decent job, because your sadistic sense of humor will out itself. You'll never be happy in a relationship, because saying "it was just a joke" doesn't always make the people you wrong feel better. You'll raise kids to be assholes just like you are.

You've got a lot to learn about life, grasshopper. I hope that you develop that generous and empathetic sense of humanity that seems to characterize the South that I know.

I don't know how you made it through four years of college...I can spot kids like you in my classroom from a mile away. Maybe it would have made a difference if you'd spent a little time in my classroom.

[awoke_in_2003]

210. "You'll never get a decent job, ...

...because your sadistic sense of humor will out itself"
Might be able to get a job with the GOP :)

[Harry Monroe]

283. Howdy!! I'm from Starkville

I totally agree with your post, but I must take issue with the general theme of your post. Sadly, if GWB has proven anything, its that little shits like Bamaboy can become sucessful and even become President!! Bush gives inspiration to jackasses like him everywhere!!

[HeeBGBz]

205. If you have the IQ of a turnip on crack

I personally get no joy out of humiliating others. I find it repulsive when people get a chuckle out of hurting people.

[Toasterlad]

211. Jesus Christ! Apparently, Bamacrat = Karl Rove.

Thank God he's drawn attention away from my shirt!

[Madspirit]

217. What are you...12?

Even if no one minded including the workers it's simply slapstick humor and not even slightly funny. As it really is, it's cruel and mean. I thought you had to be at least 18 to join DU.
Lee

[fujiyama]

220. You have a juvenile sense of humor

and have maturity issues. Are you what? 13 or something? I don't think at any age, I found this kind of shit funny.

You also have little respect for other people if you think random acts of humiliation are funny. Go seek help.

[kdmorris]

235. Being Poor in America

Means that the only job you can find is working at a drive through window and having people think it's FUNNY to throw things at you.

Get a fucking clue. This is in NO way funny.

[LostinVA]

237. Yeah, fucking hilarious

I bet 99.9% of drive-thru workers would disagree with you -- and the other ,1% is nuts.

This is legally assault, as well as being one of them most immature, mean, and disrespectful things I've heard of doing to a service worker.

[JerseygirlCT]

254. You've got a strange sense of humor, then.

And we've got a lot of people who don't seem to mind rude.

There's also this weird thing about people working jobs like that-- as if they're less than real people and there to be targeted.

I'd suggest a healthy dose of grow up.

[raccoon]

261. I'm glad I don't know you. nt

[holboz]

268. Are you 12? You honestly think this is funny?

Where do you work? I want to send your co-workers some milk, ice cream, soda, and some very specific instructions. ;)

[Harry Monroe]

272. If your signature line is indicitive of anything

I hope the only job you are able to find is in the fast food industry and that you are assigned to the fast food window asshole!!

[bamacrat]

309. Ah name calling, what an intelligent way to make your point.

[bluestateguy]

305. I'm sure Dennis Kucinich would be proud of your contempt for working people

In fact, I suspect that he would not want the support of someone like you.

[bamacrat]

321. I have not contempt for working people.

I just have a differing opinion than you, guess thats not allowed on this site.

[yardwork]

337. You've got to be kidding.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

13. Awesome

Spoiled punks driving in their mommy and daddy provided SUVs and recording everything on the cell phone deserve what they get.....the only problem is you know the parents would be down there in minutes screaming "NOT MY KID!!!" and "YOU"LL HEAR fROM MY LAWYER!!!"

[malaise]

23. Most of these restaurants have cameras so

not my kid won't work.

[DemBones DemBones]

24. So true. Any cop or teacher can tell you how many parents are in total

denial that their kid could do anything wrong.

Samples: "My daughter wasn't smoking in the bathroom, she was holding someone else's cigarette" (and smoke was coming out her mouth because. . .???)

"My son/daughter didn't know there was vodka in the orange juice being passed around on the bus on that field trip." (Yeah, teenagers are well known for sharing orange juice. . . not!)

I didn't expect the worst of mine, by any means, but I never said "My kid would never do that."

[proud2BlibKansan]

132. When they first started putting video cameras on school buses,

one of the 20/20 type shows did a piece on them and they told about a 12 or 13 year old girl beating the crap out of another kid on the bus. The principal suspended the girl and her mom came up to school, going off on the principal that her daughter was an angel and would never do this, etc etc. Then the principal stood up, walked over to a VCR in his office and turned it on. There was this mom's angelic little daughter, in all her glory, beating the crap out of the other kid ON TAPE.

I will never forget the look on the mom's face. Priceless.

[Karenina]

17. Excellent solution.

That would put a quick stop to all kinds of B.S. :thumbsup:

[SoCalDem]

21. Drive thru robberies too

Eons ago, I was robbed at a drive thru window.. Not a great way to end your shift by looking into a gun barrel and hearing.. "I'm gonna shoot you, bitch"..

(I picked him out of the lineup and he did 7-12 years)

[DemBones DemBones]

28. Even better. I'm in favor of prison terms for drink throwers

and those who stiff their servers in restaurants, too. They need to be taught not to mistreat other people.

[Karenina]

164. And the tire punch button

should be connected to a 911 call. TWO for the price of one! ;-)

[Sukie1941]

26. I sent my kids to Australia

When my two early teens pulled some crap (and some of it was borderline pre-criminal), their father who was working in Australia on a special visa (and we were divorced) agreed to take them with him.

They got a great education, realized the world wouldn't end with uniforms on and having to pass certain tests to go to the next year, and they actually survived!

[TechBear_Seattle]

27. I worked fast food for many years, and I have a few stories to tell about this

Imagine: Tucson, 1986. I was shift manager in a chain called Whataburger, at a store about half a mile from the University of Arizona's fraternity row. We were open 24 a day and, as the newbie, I got stuck with the graveyard shift. The one with not only a daily bar rush but also a twice-a-year frat rush. Incidents like thrown soda was all to common.

To combat that problem (and after one of our employees became a stalking victim), we installed two video cameras, both on a two hour loop. One had a very clear shot inside most cars parked at the drive-through window. The other was in our speaker board and got a very clear shot of the vehicle's license plate.

After those were installed, incidents would be reported to the police, who took the charges very seriously. And yes, we put more than a few frat brats in jail before word spread that we were not to be a target of their "highjinks."

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

33. Hats off to Whataburger

I salute any company that values employees safety and dignity.

[SoCalDem]

35. Every so often we would get kids with duck call things at the "order window"

They thought they were HILARIOUS..one night the manager on duty heard the duck call ..and when they finally quit laughing and pulled forward, she tossed them a bag of cornnuts and laughed at THEM :)

[DemBones DemBones]

94. One of my younger brothers used to order in a Donald Duck voice,

which was annoying to the employees I'm sure but not as annoying as having a drink thrown in their face.

[JitterbugPerfume]

45. could this be because mama

never spanked the little darlings, and taught them right from wrong?

[-..__...]

51. Know why some people do that?... Because...

"They FUCK YOU at the drive-thru, okay? They FUCK YOU at the drive-thru! They know you're gonna be miles away before you find out you got fucked! They know you're not gonna turn around and go back, they don't care. So who gets fucked? Ol' Leo Getz! Okay, sure! I don't give a fuck! I'm not eating this tuna, okay?"

Seriously though... when they catch the shit-smears who pull that kind of stunt, they should be sentenced to serving 100 hours of service at the drive-thru with out pay (hell, make them work the victims assigned shift for a couple weeks with the victim receiving the wages for the hours worked).

[janx]

64. Leo has always been one of my favorite movie characters.

I laugh out loud just thinking about that!

[The_Casual_Observer]

57. Oh, these are brave little bastards! Step on the gas & get out before

they have to pay the price.
I'd keep a crow bar handy to work over the get away car & the occupants if they stuck around long enough.

[flvegan]

68. Cameras are the answer.

I hate the whole idea, but it won't be long before these little shitstains will be lobbing firecrackers or some other shit in at them. A camera that catches the plate when they order, the face at the order box and another at the drive through window. Let the parents hire lawyers. Not going to beat video like that in court.

Charge 'em with battery, conspiracy to commit battery, property damage, conspiracy to commit property damage and when caught, send them to trial and confiscate the vehicle. Fuck them.

[SoCalDem]

72. Cameras are good..but I'd love to inflict some "damage" to their tires

Let them explain to Mom why both front tires "went flat" on her Range Rover :rofl:

and why the car is in the impound lot
and why she has to pick them up at the police station :rofl:

[flvegan]

86. Yeah, but sooner or later

that place is getting sued. Someone else will be leaving at the same time, or someone will step on them. Or, the chickenshit drink thrower will attempt to flee and will step on them. For chrissakes, too many folks can't operate their cup of coffee at these places, never mind not impale themselves on deployed inground spikes.

I say give the drive thru folks a nice, high-powered paintball gun. Easy for the cops to find, ruins the paint, nice little dents all over it...

[SoCalDem]

Taco Bell... armed & dangerous n/t

[BlooInBloo]

80. Wow - never heard of that particular jackassery. But I *think* your remedy is illegal...

... or at least opens you up to lawsuit.

The satisfaction might be worth it, of course. :)

[SoCalDem]

87. If you post a sign?

maybe?

c'mon, let me blow them tires... be a pal:)

[BlooInBloo]

90. I'm all with ya - just pointing out possible consequences. :) Damn lil monsters.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

103. I Saw Those Videos About Two Months Ago On The ESPN NBA Message Board...

The consensus there, and there are a broad array of people, is that it it wasn't funny...

[janx]

112. Where is this happening?

One news report (at link above) said that there were hundreds of YouTube videos of this? :shrug: Has it been some kind of trend or something?

[NYC Liberal]

117. Drive-thru employee gets them BACK!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqCuUOgWBY8

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

121. That is PRICELESS !!!

:rofl:

[janx]

126. How many of these things are still on You Tube, and

where are they? How do I find them?

[NYC Liberal]

129. I searched "drive-thru prank" and most of the videos that came up were

actually that one. I think there's a few others but they didn't look like the drink one.

[SoCalDem]

137. apparently YouTube has removed the others

:)

[NYC Liberal]

139. Ah ok! Well I bet a little Googling would find mirrors on some other sites.

[janx]

158. Nope, not quite...

There's a list of them here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ1TJlsWjQQ&mode=related&search=

[janx]

143. Here's a classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJMzfjNkWW4


What is the matter with these kids?

[xultar]

152. I love that. Got the brats back. Their parents need to take away their driving

privileges and give them swift kicks in the ass.

[prole_for_peace]

190. ok now THAT i thought was funny...

and as far as the drink throwing not hurting anyone. might not cause physical harm but i have very bad eyesight and i wear contacts. if i was hit in the face with a drink i would probably lose one or both of my contacts and then i wouldn't be able to work or drive home. hell i probably wouldn't even be able to find the door to get out of the place.

[proud2BlibKansan]

147. This is the best payback EVER!

Watch it to the very end. It's beautiful!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyloQRCawTE

[smokey nj]

160. THAT was great!!!!!

:rofl:

[Celeborn Skywalker]

168. Damn, that was classic!

[SoCalDem]

169. LOVE it!! I was expecting the guy to be a cop

:)

[janx]

176. Dear God I loved that!

I'm going to send it around... :rofl:

[janx]

185. These guys sound Canadian...

eh?

[wryter2000]

282. Oh, God

That one's a classic! :rofl:

[Midlodemocrat]

159. Where's southlandshari when she's needed?

She was really good at reeling in college boys who lived in 'bama.

[flvegan]

163. ZOMG! I love you.

Best post of the quarter.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

162. What a bunch of dickheads.

[Midlodemocrat]

165. Oh, jaredh. You are going to be accused of not having

a sense of humor. Tsk. Tsk.

:sarcasm:

[Ekirh]

180. I don't really see any humour in this. .

And I'll be the first admit that I laugh at some stupid fucking stuff.

The way I see these kids are probably making low wages, probably hate their job as it is, just trying to get through the day, and then some jackoffs come by and throw stuff over them so they can post their little ass video on youtube and get a four star rating. . .

These kids are just doing their jobs, trying to provide customer food service, so just leave them the hell alone.

Maybe I just don't have a sense of humor.

Maybe this shit just isn't funny.

Edit: And now for my idiot moment. I just spelled humour two different ways.. which one is correct people?

[blondeatlast]

183. Both--"-our" is the Queen's English spelling.

Personally, my guess is that you probably have a fine sense of humor as does anyone who DOESN'T find "pie in the hole" funny.

[Ekirh]

184. Heh, glad to know both are correct. .

Normally I'm not huge on my spelling, just I found it odd I did both.

Oh I'm pretty sure my humour is fine . . .

I'm just caught off guard there's defenders of this "prank" in this thread.

[JanMichael]

181. I cannot believe people can be so fucking stupid.

Yes I was stupid as a kid but never, never, never, did I think that tossing a soda in someone's face would be funny. I did some stupid things but a random personal ugliness of this kind didn't even occur to my dumbest of drunken dopehead friends.

Only a complete sociopath would find this funny, or even conceive of it in the first place, in my opinion.

[Ekirh]

182. I think a lot of us did stupid stuff or was stupid

as a kid, the thing ist many of us grow out of it and realize it for what it was... stupid stupid stuff.

[LostinVA]

257. Agreed

[hedgehog]

187. Ya know, someone tossed a cup of soda in my face from a passing car

when I was riding my bicycle about 25 years ago.


It really wasn't very funny.



As for vandalism by teenagers, under any name or description; I always warn my kids and their friends not to do anything in a group they wouldn't do by themselves. It's my theory that the individual IQ of any teenager should be divided by the number of teenagers in the group. there should also be a factor for the lateness of the hour. I wonder how many kids end up in court trying to explain just why they thought it was a good idea to throw rocks at a traffic signal, drop cement blocks off an overpass, smash a store window, etc, etc.

[SoCalDem]

188. You reminded me of something

When my three boys were yong teens, they got into an altercation with some neigborhood kids..and of course my boys ran home.. I knew something was "up" by the way they were acting..

They said some older kids were harrassing them..and the next thing we heard was the sound of our 8ft sliding glass door shattering..

the older kids had followed my boys home..

I called the cops, and they looked all over the dining room to see if they could find a BULLET!!!..

Eventually they came to the conclusion that a chunk of concrete they found on the patio was the "culprit"..

That was a valuable lesson to my boys.. actions CAN have consequences..

what a MESS!..and of course since we have indoor pets, a lot of scrambling went on to secure the 4 ft HOLE in the back of the house until morning..

That damned replacement glass cost a LOT too!

[Madspirit]

215. When I Was a Young Delinquent

On Halloween we sometimes threw ink balloons at each other. We occasionally MOVED people's cars. Once we carried the coach's VW Bug down the block and put it in the ditch...which was dry and he just drove it home. On football game night we moved all the cars into different spots in the parking lot. (This was before anyone locked their cars.) We ran the gym teacher's underwear up the flagpole. Sometimes we sneaked a whiskey flask to school. We played hooky on occasion and went to the beach and got drunk and smoked weed. We did all sorts of things but for some reason we never would have thought doing something like this to another working class person would be funny. We would have actually found THIS offensive. Of course we were the poor kids. I guess it takes a more sophisticated sense of humor to think picking on the poorest of the workers is funny.
Lee

[SoCalDem]

216. Did I go to school with you?

:rofl:

We once turned everything upside down in our classroom, while the teacher was not there :)

and some of the guys put a playboy centerfold on one of the maps..(remember the rollup maps in the metal tubes?)

[Madspirit]

218. Upside Down!...That's great!

...and yes, I remember those roll-up maps. They don't still have them? I love computers but still, nothing beats a real map or a real globe. I love maps and globes.

We were pretty troubled kids but that made us MORE sympathetic to the working class. I don't get this stupid stuff. I would hate to have to work all sticky and wet and gross.

Lee

[Hekate]

221. So-called "practical jokes" are malicious & can seriously hurt people,such as my dad...

...whose thumb was broken so badly when he was in his late teens or early 20's that he needed a bone graft.

See, some jerk he worked with thought it would be funny to yank the ladder right out from under him. How hilarious is that!

So hilarious that it cost him a great deal of pain and surgery -- and came that close to crippling his right hand. If the surgery had not been successful, he never would have worked on aircraft for 45 years like he ended up doing.

And no, in my family we didn't think practical jokes were all that amusing.

This is a really disturbing thread, isn't it?

Hekate

[raccoon]

266. Yes, this thread is actually making me nauseous.

I'm going to ignore it.

[Truthiness Inspector]

232. I love your OP

Perfect. PERFECT.

[bluestateguy]

263. I'd say a good 10-20 years in prison would teach these punks

Of course, what is really needed is an additional minimum wage increase for these workers.

[slackmaster]

264. Severe Tire Damage ROCKS!

If you've never seen someone drive over one of those, you've missed out on something very entertaining.

One Sunday morning I watched an apparently hung-over man drive his car out of a bank parking lot. I thought he's stop for sure after his front tires were shredded.

But no, he kept going forward and destroyed his rear tires too.

It was very hard to keep from LOL at him.

[murloc]

265. corporate fastfood will never invest the money

on these things to protect their employees.

When they weigh probably $50,000 installation cost, vs $0 for letting their minimum wage employee soak in coke, they'll just let the poor employees deal with it.

[Gregorian]

270. Punishment. We need more of it. After all, it has really worked for America. Or has it?

Jail isn't the answer. Punishment is the reason republicans are alive. It hasn't solved a thing yet.

Find out why they're doing it. I'll bet you'll discover something you don't want to know. Maybe they're telling us something.

Could it be that they're sick of this society? It's just a first guess.

[smokey nj]

276. Or maybe they're just spoiled little brats who get their rocks off humiliating people.

Watch the videos, these kids are not doing this to make a statement.

[Gregorian]

286. Accountability.

I've got to edit this post. I was sitting here criticizing myself for sounding like I have an answer. And realizing that even the most intelligent kids in my high school were the ones doing the most damage around the community. Hell, even I broke and entered once. But I was so good at it, I didn't damage a thing, and even broke and entered to return the item when I was done. One of my friends told me recently that he believes he did a million dollars of damage in our town. I was totally blown away. Now he's a renowned musician and recording studio owner in San Francisco.

After saying all of that, I see an answer. Accountability. It's not something you get with big communities. Most of my problem answering posts come back to size. In smaller communities you don't do something without everyone knowing about it. I think that is what we're seeing. Fast paced, large communities. Kids can hide their damage and get away with it. The rest of my post I think also plays a part in keeping this under control.






Yes, these kids are assholes. Kids are full of energy, time, need to experience. And on and on. And yes, these kids are assholes. Just like the kids I grew up with. Just like George Bush.

I even did a little damage in my day. Very little. I was busy. I grew up in an intelligent neighborhood. People had goals and values. Not rules. We were guided, not caged.

I was far from perfect. But like these kids, I was angry with this society. And I was bored. But I was pushed to participate in a lot more than these kids are. Hospital volunteering, musical groups, boy scouts. I hardly had a moment of free time. All of my summers were volunteering at the local vets hospital. Once in a while I think of what I missed. Those beach parties. Bonding with my peers. And you know what? I didn't miss anything. I ended up watching open heart and autopsies. Not for everyone. But better than driving around drunk.

There is an answer. But the first step is to ask questions. It's not something we do in this society. Nobody asks. They just open a jail cell door.

I know Socaldem knows better. My first thought when I read her subject was almost her photo. My second thought was "why?".

We've put very little into this society that isn't profit driven. Yes, kids are kids. But that's only at first glance.

[smokey nj]

289. The fact of the matter is no one's ever taught these kids empathy.

What I found more disturbing than the videos were the posts of the DUer who finds them funny. I'm really bothered my the fact that to them publicly humiliating another person, who's done nothing except try to earn a living, is fine and dandy. Anger and boredom I understand, cruelty toward another living thing I do not.

I don't think throwing them in jail is an appropriate response. I agree with you, our society relies on that "remedy" far too often.

[Gregorian]

295. It could even be a health related act.

The diets we have. Or maybe something physical. Perhaps the kid who started it has sleep apnea. Or hypoglycemia. Or any number of things.

I have to say this might even come down to a health care issue. The last time I really saw a doctor was literally decades ago.

What about health research. Not this pharmaceutical corporate crap. Not pill pushing. But really finding out what problems the human body has.

We're not trying. Preemptive invasions of countries. But not preemptive health care.

[parasim]

327. Yeah, maybe they had "restless leg syndrome"

... nah, they suffer from idiot parent syndrome... that's my guess.

[Gregorian]

332. Haha.

That's about as accurate as you can get. With added brevity.

[SoCalDem]

296. These "kids" probably have never been accountable to anyone

My "suggestion" (snarky as spike strips are) was to finally make these little twits have to account to Mom ...explain to her why BOTH front tires are flat and why they are calling from a police station..

These kids may have "energy", but it's obvious that they are expending that energy in a less-than-productive way...with few consequences..

Do they show Mom and/or Dad their videos of their evening escapades? I doubt it..

Were they boy scouts? maybe when they were young.. Do they volunteer? probably not. My guess is that the parents of these "kids" would not even "push" them to volunteer..

I, in NO way suggested that this was funny..see post http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1552722&mesg_id=1552879

My spike strip pic was purely a lighthearted suggestion for "Payback...from the person who got doused by the idiots".. I know that no restaurant would do this, but in a Walter Mitty sort of way, who wouldn't wish they could react with something like this, if they had just been on the receiving end of a flying soft drink:)

[Gregorian]

298. That's pretty heavy.

I know you didn't mean it the way many here too it. There is a gap between the ideas you had, and the next step. I mean, the next step is way too serious. And it's probably a lot to do with why repubs want smaller gov't. They just don't see clearly. It's not smaller gov't, it's better gov't. That thing called common sense that is missing. Thinking rather than shoving an answer through.

Gun point is way different than a flying soft drink. And yet perhaps not far removed from the mindset, or lack thereof.

It IS the parents. Unless it's some kind of physiological problem. But that's a relative rarity in comparison to lame parents and the kids who are rebelling against them.

It all seems so obvious to some of us. Obvious, and still very difficult to answer. Even in small native American communities, I am certain there were miscreants. But we're manufacturing them here.

[bluestateguy]

285. Yes, maybe there is something wrong with their self-esteem

A few billion more in social programs, and we could have saved them.

[npincus]

273. Punishment: make the bastards work at a drive-through window

and have drivers throw liquids at them (preferably hot).

[AllegroRondo]

294. In my day, we just asked for Michael Hunt.

now THAT was funny!

these kids today have no clue.

[Harry Monroe]

322. I remember whenever we'd have a substitute teacher in high school

He/She would pass around the attendance roll to sign. People such as Mike Hunt, Dick Hertz, I.P. Freeley, Amanda Hugankiss, Hugh Gass and others would suddenly be enrolled in the class.

[Buns_of_Fire]

320. My daddy (and momma, too) would have switched me good

if I ever threw a coke (or milk shake, even if it was strawberry) at someone just because "it was funny." My own kids would have suffered a similar fate.

My own credo is that every person on earth is entitled to my respect (or at least tolerance), until proven otherwise.

But once that line is crossed... The gloves are off, and I can be a nasty little sumbitch when I put my mind to it.

The tire spikes are just fine with me. Go for it.

[DarkTirade]

329. Actually, that would be battery, not assault.

Unless they scream at you too. Then it's assault AND battery.

[WindRavenX]

335. guys, the dickhead in this thread doesn't represent recent college grads

Some of us know how truly shitty it is to be constantly dehumanized and victimized by working in a minimum wage fast food setting...not all of us college aged kids are of the kind that find these "pranks" to have any humor :(

I'm kinda saddened people are defending this shit.

I've had food thrown at me by my drunken colleagues when I worked late-nights at the college dining halls...it sucks. It isn't funny. At all.

[Canuckistanian]

346. I can't believe that this thread is still up

But for what it's worth, I think that establishments like these will not pay for expensive modifications like these for such a minor (although distressing for the low-paid workers) trend.

It's the ignoring of the workers POV that's the story here.

[havocmom]

347. Yep, and I miss Will .

Beginning to understand his point more every day.