Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Diner Owner Sublimely Turns Tables on Snitches to COVID Hotline – 'We Deserve to Know Who We Can Trust'
PJ Media ^ | 5-16-21 | VICTORIA TAFT

Posted on 05/17/2021 12:32:06 PM PDT by dynachrome

he owner of a Puget Sound-area diner has turned the tables on “tattletales” who called the Washington State COVID-19 snitch line to report that “people are eating.”

Craig Kenady’s savage and proportional reply to his critics may make them think twice before calling Governor Jay Inslee’s COVID snitch line on That One Place Diner again.

Tattletales have made 260-plus complaints to Inslee’s COVID violation line about the car-themed restaurant at a Port Orchard strip mall since May 2020, when Kenady defied the governor’s rules about shutting down.

That’s right, he outed them publicly on an inside wall near the entrance of his restaurant.

So here’s the list everybody calls the tattletale list. If you want to tell on your neighbors, then your neighbors deserve to know who you are. Plain and simple.

Kenady told Monson that it was “the right thing” to do.

The only motivation was is that I feel if they’re going to call and complain about us, then their neighbors deserve to know. We all, in our small community, deserve to know who we can trust or not.

That’s what started it. We felt that it was the right thing.

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Humor
KEYWORDS: diner; karma; portorchard; washington; washingtonstate
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-34 next last
Posted the little stalinists' names on his wall.
1 posted on 05/17/2021 12:32:06 PM PDT by dynachrome
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: dynachrome

I don’t find this article very well written. How does he know who reported him?


2 posted on 05/17/2021 12:36:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Must be a .gov site somewhere or hacker friends.


3 posted on 05/17/2021 12:37:01 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: dynachrome

how many owned competing businesses?


4 posted on 05/17/2021 12:37:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. L)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

Article sez it is a smaller town and his employees are recovering addicts.


5 posted on 05/17/2021 12:38:08 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: dynachrome

That was an entirely too kind of approach. Snitches need to be disappeared.


6 posted on 05/17/2021 12:40:07 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Link to a another article:
https://mynorthwest.com/2893630/port-orchard-that-one-place-snitch-list/?


7 posted on 05/17/2021 12:40:59 PM PDT by DoubleNickle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: dynachrome

8 posted on 05/17/2021 12:42:20 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

In the article I think it mentions the tattlers names can be gotten through FOIA. Read it again and see


9 posted on 05/17/2021 12:42:24 PM PDT by RWGinger (Does anyone else really )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

public records of reports. freedom of information act and the constitutionality of knowing who is accusing you.


10 posted on 05/17/2021 12:42:35 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: dynachrome

good


11 posted on 05/17/2021 12:47:06 PM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Here’s a much better article: https://mynorthwest.com/2893630/port-orchard-that-one-place-snitch-list/?

“What kind of started the ball rolling was we held a Halloween trunk-or-treat, and we had over 3,000 people attend this event, and we got turned into the liquor board over it,” That One Place owner Craig Kenady told KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson Show.

“The wife and I had been in conversation a lot about opening anyway because we were starting to struggle to pay our bills, and my employees, they couldn’t make any money off of just being take out only,” he said. “I have 45 staff members, and so for our sales to be cut like that, it’s just impossible for them. So we had a crew chat, and we brought it up with our staff and asked what they thought. And everybody wanted to work. They were all 100% in.”

That One Place is known as a second-chance employer, Kenady said, so the majority of their back of house and a couple managers all come from work release or are in a recovery program.
.
.
.
That One Place reopened its doors. There were then community complaints submitted via the government line set up, which Dori refers to as a “snitch line.” KIRO 7 TV reports That One Place received 260 complaints after opening in May 2020.

“A lot of them I believe were anonymous, because the snitch list I have only has a handful, maybe 25,” Kenady said.

Because the submitted complaints are public record, Kenady obtained the list of people who could be identified and had complained, and hung that list on the wall of his restaurant.

“When we first got it, we had makeshift barn doors to meet Jay Inslee’s requirements, and we posted one on the outside of the barn door so anybody driving by could see, and then we posted one right in our entryway, which is still up there, although it’s in a different spot than where it started from,” he said.
.
.
.
“The only motivation was is that I feel if they’re going to call and complain about us, then their neighbors deserve to know. We all, in our small community, deserve to know who we can trust or not,” he added. “That’s what started it. We felt that it was the right thing.”

KIRO 7 TV contacted people whose names were on the list, some of whom say they have received threatening phone calls because of the list posted at That One Place. Kenady told KIRO 7 TV that he wouldn’t be inclined to believe that people had actually been threatened unless he saw proof of it.

KIRO 7 TV did speak with a man who called one of the people who reported That One Place, and he admitted that he called because he was annoyed that somebody would snitch on the restaurant.

“That one seems legitimate,” Kenady admitted. “One of the people that’s claiming that is just the lady that [KIRO 7 TV] interviewed there. She definitely did not. She’s just been, in our community, somebody that has really tried to slander me and talk badly about me. … She’s attacked my staff, calling them QAnon members and my customers QAnon members.”

The woman’s son came into the restaurant and took down the list, but Kenady says the police have returned the list to That One Place. The restaurant had also already reprinted a new copy to hang up. Kenady did add that they have a notice up by the list that says they don’t want any retaliation and they don’t encourage contact.


12 posted on 05/17/2021 12:48:44 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: dynachrome; 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Good.

Combined PING! and DANG!


13 posted on 05/17/2021 12:49:53 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dynachrome
I found this report by the magic of Google. What a bunch of whiny crybabies.

Washington State Snitch List

14 posted on 05/17/2021 12:53:59 PM PDT by ThreeYearLurker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dynachrome

15 posted on 05/17/2021 12:56:40 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

See #14


16 posted on 05/17/2021 12:58:04 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: dynachrome

I believe the rise in snitch hotlines are meant to disrupt society in the quest to make us the new Soviets. They want us to distrust each other so we don’t unite against them so they encourage us to rat each other out.

While I can see why the restaurant owner posted a list of snitches, the Soviet agenda rolls forward because they used to trust each other and now there is a split. So they will continue to add opportunities to rat each other out, incentives or threats, and make further and further divisions.

United we stand, divided THEY STAND ON US.


17 posted on 05/17/2021 1:02:20 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ThreeYearLurker

Wow. 146 pages of scumbag snitches.

Training for the Stasi.


18 posted on 05/17/2021 1:33:06 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: dynachrome

PFL


19 posted on 05/17/2021 1:35:20 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DoubleNickle

Link to a another article:
https://mynorthwest.com/2893630/port-orchard-that-one-place-snitch-list/?

from the other article:

Because the submitted complaints are public record, Kenady obtained the list of people who could be identified and had complained, and hung that list on the wall of his restaurant.


20 posted on 05/17/2021 1:40:34 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-34 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson