Posted on 01/03/2017 6:02:07 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A 37-year-old Washington man is accusing his local Spokane Starbucks of ageism after they reportedly banned him for hitting on a 16-year-old barista.
According to KREM, Lucas Werner was banned from Starbucks after he gave an underage barista a note asking her out for dinner. In a Facebook post on one of Werner’s two accounts on Dec. 20, Werner claims he left a note reading, “Blonde with the red lipstick who thinks I’m funny, Are you hitting on me? I can only presume.”
After leaving the note, Werner said he then went to the library to “work” (which he placed in quotation marks).
On Dec. 22, Werner posted that when he returned to Starbucks, “a Spokane Police Officer said the note was creepy, which it wasn't, and asked me to not return because I was being banned. We already know this is because the barista was young and legal aged and I'm 37.”
“I did not ask her to have sex with me. I asked if she would like to have dinner sometime. Perfectly normal adult behavior. I figure, if she was 16 and flirtatious it would still be legal to ask her to dinner,” Werner continued, before instructing people to complain to Starbucks on his behalf.
KREM reports Werner also referenced his website dedicated to “age gap love” when defending himself.
Werner does, in fact, have an entire website dedicated to why men should date young women (specifically those born in the 1990s).
Werner, who calls himself a “scientist without a degree in science,” defends his preference for younger women by saying having children with men over 35 will give the children “stronger DNA.”
Throughout his Facebook pages, Werner accuses people who don't accept his “age gap love” theory of being “hateful” and “ageist and against truth like Republicans.”
He has said he wants to date young women because they’re “very liberal and intelligent” and “not racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic.”
A Starbucks spokesperson defended the Spokane location’s decision to ban Werner, stating, “We have no tolerance for any such inappropriate behavior or harassment, and we will continue to support our store partners and local authorities investigating the situation.”
Spokane police defended the decision to ban Werner, claiming businesses have a right to refuse service for any reason.
Did you read the entire article? I know it’s asking a lot and I usually don’t but this guy’s a ####ig left wing NUT.
Spare five minutes.
If she is 16, then she wasn't born in the 1990s. One could be 26 going on 27 if they were born in 1990. Born in 1999, and you're at least 17 now, going on 18 at some point this year (if not already, if you were born in the first 3 days of 1999).
However, I am opposed to sanctions against those who are not engaging in illegal behavior. If 16 is legal in that state for intimate relations, then flirting should not be grounds for punishment, even from a coffee shop. One could be punished for doing it in inappropriate ways (like a boombox outside of the bedroom window at night in the rain?), but a private note with nothing vulgar in it, handed to someone who is legally allowed to say yes to much more than just dinner, should not face punitive measures. A talk from the manager, or (gasp!) a polite "no thanks" from the recipient, should be sufficient.
LOL bump!!
...unless they’re mowing it.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell how old they are.
Back in 2008 we flew our 14/almost 15 year old granddaughter up to visit us for a week in Fairbanks, AK. Coming home she had a 3 hour layover in Seattle.
So she was sitting at the gate reading when this young soldier walked up and ask if he could sit by her and she said Yes.
Now she’s always looked older than she really is due to the way she dresses and acts, not like a 14 year old.
She said they talk for about an hour, about music, movies and books they liked. Then finally he looked at her closely and ask, “How old are you?”
She looked up at him with a big smile and said, “FOURTEEN!”
She said she’d never seen anyone move that fast in her life. He was just a blur.
Now 8 years later she’s an ER Tech at a big hospital in the Houston area and going to school to be a Nurse Practitioner.
Really proud of her.
Good catch. His intentions were obviously sexual.
On an innocent and embarrassing note, I bought something at K Mart when I was 22. The register gal was cute and we traded a few laughs.
I figured she was about 18, 19.
I went back and asked her out.
She screams, and I mean SCREAMS..”I’m ONLY SIXTEEN!!”
I crawled out and I’ll tell you that’s tough on the knees and hands on a hard floor!!!
And no, if she had told me she was sixteen AND wanted to go out, I WOULD NOT have taken her out.
16 and 22 are a WORLD of difference.
My pop was 33 and mom 20 when they got married. Big gap but more sensible than anyone over 17/18 dating a 16 year old.
Did any of you go to his FB page? Wow. He needs help and the sooner the better.
Laz lives in Spokane?
There is a difference between pursuing someone that is physically mature but younger than him (even a lot younger than him) and pedophilia. Approaching a physically adult person that is a lot younger than him may be inappropriate to certain modern moralities, but that does not in and of itself make it wrong. Throwing around the term pedophilia that way just diminishes its significance.
Go read his FB page. He is a nut and needs help.
Another degenerate.
Excellent point.
Unless a business doesn't want to serve flaming homosexual dandys, then they're sued out of business.
I'm all for the right to refuse service to anyone the way its always been.
I was just reading a liberal whackjob professor's blog earlier today wherein he was bashing this guy last month [more than one article, over a space of time].
Werner is an atheist creepazoid that's too far whacked even for the Progressive whacks.
If it were my daughter he hit on....he wouldn’t be yakking
Sooooo creepy
I'd get that in writing, frame it, and hang it on the wall as a discussion piece.
I remember a time, about 10 years or so ago, when a lady friend of mine introduced me to a young woman at her place of work. I was talking to her, and was interested. But then I found out she was fifteen. (sigh)
He’s old enough to be her father....it ain’t flirtation its gross
You must not have any daughters
Are you 21 years older than your wife?
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