Posted on 05/04/2021 2:24:35 AM PDT by Libloather
A resident of a Florida retirement community angry over the thickness of a tomato was charged with a felony after she hurled racial slurs and a sandwich at a Black fast food-chain employee.
According to records from the Wildwood Florida Police Department seen by the Villages News, Judith Ann Black, 77, was dining at a Burger King in the nearby Trailwinds Village last Friday when she confronted an employee about her unsatisfactory sandwich.
According to the News, Black was angry over the thickness of the tomato slice on her Whopper, and the Burger King employee who was unnamed in the report, tried to calm Black down - but Black threw the Whopper at the employee's back.
Black then stormed out, but not before spouting several expletives including the N-word, calling the employee a "stupid Black b----," according to the police report seen by Villages News. The outlet verified this with the manager and another worker at the Trailwinds Burger King, as well as a customer who witnessed the exchange.
Wildwood police tracked Black down and booked her at the Sumter County Detention Center, but released her later on a $2,500 bond.
According to police records seen by the News, Black admitted to being "angry" that the employee was not "fixing the issue," and confirmed that she had thrown the Whopper at the Burger King worker.
The police record referenced by the Villages News also indicated that Black's use of racial slurs altered "the charge of battery from a misdemeanor of the first degree to a felony of the third degree under Florida State Statute 775.085." This statute is known as the "hate crime statute," which increases the minimum and maximum penalties that a judge could impose.
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How is this national news?
Is this investment advice from BS?
Stories about Yahooos?
I hear they get wild and crazy in the Villages, all the sex, drugs, roll and roll takes it toll..
Or, is that ‘Jehu’s’?
Silly stuff like this — and even George Floyd — should be local news. There is no “deep meaning” to such things: people do stuff that perhaps they ought not to do. It might be local human interest or whatever you want to call it. But it shouldn’t be national news.
However, the media looks for such things because they want to manufacture “deep meaning”. George Floyd is dead? Well, must be a racist cop and systemic racism in police departments all across the country! An old woman throwing a whopper at Burger King while yelling slurs? Boy, I’m telling you, race is a huge, huge issue in this country!!!!
This is all about manipulation, not News.
Yet blacks assault on Asians continue occurring daily with barely a whisper.
Not condoning what customer did but in retrospect there are few things worse than a too thickly sliced tomato 🍅 on a Whopper.
From misdemeanor to felony assault all because of language.
Stories about employees spitting in burgers and putting other things in there don’t make national news so much.
I guess those stories don’t make the newswires much because those companies buy advertising.
Black on black crime.
Move along, folks, nothing to see here.
The judge should order the perp in for a medical eval if her own lawyer doesn’t.
At that age I’d want to rule out dementia.
The world just grows more insane.
Any good news reporter would investigate and report on the thickness of that tomato slice. As it stands we do not even know if it was too thick or too thin.
Lady didn’t need to freak out or call someone a name.
Third degree felony? Just as absurd.
Tell her not to come back. Problem solved.
Exactly.
Well, shoot. The headline gives it away, but still no dimensions.
“Hate Crime” is Thought Crime redesignated.
I’ve heard some crazy news but this beats the cake, anyway I sure would like to know where this Burger King is so I could get a burger with a big thick tomato, most of the time you can hardly see the sliver of tomato, and other ingredients on the burger. I wouldn’t doubt the employee will be fired for putting it on the burger to thick. (Sarcasm alert)
Was customer Black, black or White?
Not condoning what customer did but in retrospect there are few things worse than a too thickly sliced tomato 🍅 on a Whopper.
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Matter of opinion, I likes me some thick slices of mater.
Black vs. black in whopper attack....
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