Posted on 03/24/2011 8:23:34 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Panama City Beach -- A cell phone camera captured the action in the Panama City Beach Burger King on Front Beach Road Saturday, as a crowd of tourists nearly rioted at the restaurant.
Employees dialed 9-1-1 for help, as one bikini-clad woman, later identified as Kimesia Smith of Montgomery, Ala., jumped up on the counter and threw a charity coin jug at employees, and 3 of Smith's friends also began throwing napkins, utensils, and trays throughout the location.
The woman in the bikini, who became concerned about the whereabouts of her two children after Panama City Beach Police placed her in handcuffs, was taken to the Bay County Jail on charges of simple battery, in part because of allegations she pulled a Burger King employee's hair. Beach police contacted a friend of the woman, who told police she would take care of Smith's children.
The video has already been watched thousands of times, but be warned, there may be some harsh language overheard as the out of control group destroyed the Burger King.
WJHG will update this story for Wednesday night's news.
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Thanks. The comments made for very interesting reading as well.
From the SG article...
“We tore the Burger King up,” she remarked. “I don’t play no games.”
Nice...
Yea, I saw that. Reminds me alot of Dave Chappelle’s videos about When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong. Have you seen them?
I have not...
Darn those Tea Partiers.
I am going to make a harsh generalization based on my own experience and having witnessed this first-hand for most of my life.
I do not know where it started, but I believe it can be traced to the 60s, during which time most social conventions were challenged and largely overturned. Prior to that time, it was understood that behavior like that would not be tolerated by society at large; and it was not. However, it seems that the behavior you saw in that video became acceptable during that time as rejecting how "white" people expect "black" people to behave.
The behavior seems to be learned young and is reinforced by family, peers, celebrities, and a lack of really strong moral, ethical, and polite role models. That is how it was explained to me by a friend and fellow retired Army NCO, anyway. He'd never let his kids carry on like that; woe unto them if so.
As I said, this is a generalization based on my own experience. It does not apply only to melanin-enhanced persons, but that's who we saw in the video. Flame away. Call me what you like, but I believe my own eyes and years of experience. I do not believe there is any reason for any person, of any ethnicity or socio-economic background, to behave in public like the people in this video.
Kimesia Smith of Montgomery, Ala., jumped up on the counter and threw a charity coin jug at employees, and 3 of Smith's friends also began throwing napkins, utensils, and trays throughout the locationFour bullets would have solved all their problems.
She's way too skinny to be from Idaho.
Unemployed mother of three.
That says it all.
Freaknik Oh my, it was a happy day when they stopped coming to Atlanta. Traffic which has always been a nightmare was a gazillion times worse when they arrived.
Hadn’t thought about Freaknik in a long time.
It appears it is now illegal in Atlanta! LOL
Freaknik
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freaknik was an annual spring break meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, primarily of students from historically black colleges and universities.[1] Begun in 1982 as a small picnic near the Atlanta University Center, it was initially sponsored by the DC Metro Club [1] and was typically held during the third weekend in April to coincide with the schools of the Atlanta University Center’s Reading Day. The event increased in size and popularity in the 1990s with dancing, drinking, parties, a basketball tournament, rap sessions, a film festival and a job fair.[2]
In its heyday, the fest attracted upwards of 250,000 revelers to the city. However, Atlantans’ reception of the festival was mixed. Many residents had attended and enjoyed Freaknik since it was started. Otherwise, Freaknik went largely unnoticed by most of the city. The problems with Freaknik began in 1993, when the amount of people coming to Atlanta for the event suddenly doubled to more than 80,000 due in large part to the portrayal of Freaknik in Spike Lee’s 1988 film “School Daze” and the NBC-TV show “A Different World.” Many residents believe the City of Atlanta was caught off guard in 1993 by the increased number of people who came to the city for Freaknik. In some areas, the massive increase in cars on the road caused traffic to come to a halt, and the revelers got out of their cars and started roaming the streets. This in turn caused panic in some areas where people could not get home from their jobs, and they were trapped in areas where many revelers started harassing and yelling obscenities at non-black residents. There were also several reports of violence, looting, rapes and other sexual assaults. All this showed Freaknik in a negative light, and Atlanta residents demanded that the city get control of the event.
Things came to a head in 1994-96, after the event swelled to 250,000 people from around the country, and as the crowds grew larger, so did the problems. With tens of thousands of more cars on the city’s streets, many of Atlanta’s major thoroughfares became gridlocked, which frustrated the city’s residents further as they were prevented from shopping, going to sporting and social events, attending school functions, even funerals. Emergency services were severely hampered. Also, with the larger number of revelers in the city, reports of shootings, robberies, looting, public lewdness and rapes increased. Thus, many Atlanta residents filed lawsuits and business and community leaders pressured Mayor Bill Campbell to end Freaknik or severely crack down on the event. By 1996, the Atlanta police were out in large numbers, making it difficult for the revelers to party in the streets and engage in other illegal behavior. [3] After city leaders took measures to curtail Freaknik’s accessibility, its popularity faded. As a result, Freaknik moved to Memorial Drive in DeKalb County, then to Daytona Beach, Florida. By 1999, celebration of the festival had died down due to heightened police security.
In April 2010, Atlanta officials said “there are no permitted Freaknik-related events inside the city limits.” Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed also said that “he will be tough and even sue organizers of any Freaknik-related activities who violate city guidelines”.[4]
LOL, Taco Bell dodged a bullet there.
I totally agree. Wouldn’t see this in Japan ..of in the 50s either.
I totally agree. Wouldn’t see this in Japan ..or in the 50s either.
Now I know I don't want to see that in a bikini!
I was going to make a comment regarding the name “Kimesia”, but don't want to sound racist. Especially after hearing she only worried about her kids AFTER she was cuffed’
That tHING has kids? Why she partying in a bikini in
a Mc Donalds . What urban street garbage.
I’d like to Tame her Shrew!
It looks like she didn’t want and MF’n snakes at the MF’n Burger King. Or maybe that was her dad, on that plane.
Too tanned as well!
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