She Got Creamed
Atlanta, GA
At a restaurant on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, a waitress said she was cleaning a table when a plastic creamer hit her face. She believed a customer threw the plastic creamer at her. A police officer arrived and noted that the waitress used abrasive and abusive language toward him. The officer asked: “What do you want done about the situation?” The waitress said she wanted an apology and for the officer to do his job. The officer wrote, “I asked her if she was injured from the creamer and if she needed an ambulance. She stated, ‘Don’t patronize me. No, I don’t need an ambulance.’”
The customer, a 38-year-old man, admitted that he tossed the creamer in the waitress’s direction, but he didn’t mean to hit her. The officer asked him to apologize to the waitress, and he did. But the waitress wouldn’t accept his apology. She said the officer needed to do his job, “unless I need to call another officer to do it for you.” So the officer called for backup.
Two witnesses said they saw the customer throw the creamer at the waitress, and they had asked him: “Why did you do that?” They said he replied: “Just total aggravation.”
The backup police arrived. According to the officer’s report, the restaurant manager and police heard restaurant employees “trying to make the dispute and the resolution of the dispute into a racial issue.”
The customer was charged with disorderly conduct and taken to jail.
Found in Creative Loafing
August 14th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Do his job?—maybe if she would have done hers properly he wouldn’t have had to do his job. God this reaffirms why I hate people like her, maybe he should have dropped plates on her head, pile drived her, and whatever else he could have came up with. GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!
August 15th, 2007 at 5:52 am
sounds like the waitress was the one who needed to go to jail.
August 15th, 2007 at 9:04 am
The waitress was being an ass but so was the first cop.
August 16th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Everthing is a race issue anymore.