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Clearwater 7-Eleven clerk arrested for Big Gulp battery
WFLA News Channel 8 ^ | July 6, 2023 | Dylan Abad

Posted on 07/09/2023 5:13:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — A sticky puddle of lemonade wasn’t the only thing to be canned from a 7-Eleven store in St. Petersburg late Sunday night.

Police said that 35-year-old Clearwater clerk, Miles Jenkins “got frustrated with a customer over payment” and “threw a Big Gulp cup filled with lemonade at [her].”

The woman told police the flying lemonade struck her in the left side of her head. Three other customers in the store at the time told officers they witnessed the battery.

Authorities said Jenkins also “made spontaneous statements admitting to striking [the woman] with the drink.”

Officers noted Jenkins had one prior conviction for sexual batter out of St. Johns County in 2014. He was promptly arrested and held without bond.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Health/Medicine; Local News; Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 7eleven; assault; battery; biggulp; clearwater; clerk; florida; floridaman
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1 posted on 07/09/2023 5:13:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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2 posted on 07/09/2023 5:15:19 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Stairway to 7-11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MF4BkgQFI&ab_channel=littleaubs28


3 posted on 07/09/2023 5:16:37 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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That was actually featured on Baltimore’s rock station, WIYY 98 Rock, as a Twisted Tune.


4 posted on 07/09/2023 5:20:05 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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"Let's go to the videotape!"


5 posted on 07/09/2023 5:24:23 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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Had it been a diet drink the lawyer could have demanded reduced charges.


6 posted on 07/09/2023 5:26:48 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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What does that even mean and what does it have to do with this article?


7 posted on 07/09/2023 5:30:13 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Presumably blacks again.


8 posted on 07/09/2023 5:30:26 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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“Big Gulp Battery”?

The USA needs no more Lithium mining?

7-11s provide sustainability?


9 posted on 07/09/2023 5:30:28 PM PDT by Paladin2
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I would love to know what happened before the Lemonade Baptism? What did the customer do or not do to get on the cashier’s last nerve like that?

Maybe she frequently comes in with not enough money, holding up the line, while pretending to count and recount her greasy little sandwich bag fullvof coins. I’ve seen customers like that.
Yhey are usually waiting for someone in line to step up and pay for them, just to keep the line moving.


10 posted on 07/09/2023 5:30:38 PM PDT by lee martell
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Those empty cups are expensive, I’m sure the district manager made him pay for it before he fired him. Lemonade is cheap.


11 posted on 07/09/2023 5:31:08 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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“Officer, it was a hot Florida night. I was just helping her cool off.”


12 posted on 07/09/2023 5:33:35 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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Saw his pic on another site. He’s White.


13 posted on 07/09/2023 5:33:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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Way more to the story than reported. Probably claiming she couldn’t pay, or would come back, etc.


14 posted on 07/09/2023 5:35:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Officers noted Jenkins had one prior conviction

And this is why background criminal checks are important.

15 posted on 07/09/2023 5:37:18 PM PDT by xp38
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one prior conviction for sexual batter

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I’ve been known to engage in sexual banter myself.


16 posted on 07/09/2023 5:42:07 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
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What does that even mean and what does it have to do with this article?

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Didn’t have a picture handy of a bunny with a pancake on it’s head.


17 posted on 07/09/2023 5:48:52 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Only a woman calls cops because a guy threw a big gulp at her.


18 posted on 07/09/2023 5:54:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I wouldn’t want to get hit with one of these either...


19 posted on 07/09/2023 6:01:01 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Well, Mayor Bloomberg was trying to reduce the prevalence of dangerous weapons in New York, which may be part of the reason he made Big Gulps illegal.


20 posted on 07/09/2023 6:11:21 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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