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.
lol...great idea!
No. Yes, that makes a difference. Oh, and though she was 18, her parents were VERY involved. I spent more time with them than with her!
I don’t think a 37 year old asking out a 16 year old who has shown no interest in him as “flirtation”.
Obviously this barista didn’t care for it, otherwise no one would even have known about it... because if he passed her a note asking her out, if she had interest, she would not have gotten the management or the police involved... likewise had she considered it harmless flirtation she would have laughed it off and tossed the note in the garbage.
With that said, I don’t think she is the first, or last teenage girl that has been approached by an older man swinging for the fences in hopes of living out his hs cheerleader fantasy he couldn’t manage in high school because he was too shy or ugly or awkward.
I have a hard time believing these events fall into the flirtation category. Perhaps not illegal by the laws of whatever state they are in, but I have a hard time believing this was a case of a barista flirting for a time and customer reading it wrong... if it had been I doubt anyone but the barista would even know about the note.
There are no legal sanctions involved here, the cops told him to scram, but I am sure they were called on behest of the management.... passing on the fact he’s banned.
If you saw the picture of the guy he just drips creepy
You haven’t put any time into reading up what the anti-ageist degenerates have been pushing on the web, have you?
This current topic is a camel’s nose under the tent maneuver.
If you want to get up to speed and have a clue what’s going on around you, other than the memes and slogans they’re using to push their agenda, do some study on ‘intergenerational intimacy’.
The next time a State Trooper pulls him over for some infraction, he should tell the Man that he is a "driver without a license" and then get back to us on what happened.
Strongly suspect it’s more than just leaving a note asking her out that got him banned.
You go ahead and assume that anyone that doesn’t buy into your alarmism is uninformed. That will get you all kinds of traction.
As I said, if she was legal she has the right to decline or accept his advances. That is why they have those laws. If he doesn’t take no for an answer, then there is a problem. Banning him from Starbucks may or may not have been appropriate. Your own personal biases do not entitle you to inappropriately label others. Where are you going to draw the line? Do people have to be, say, within 2 years of each other? 5? 10? What’s the cut-off point, and who are you to decide?
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