Posted on 01/15/2014 12:17:56 PM PST by moonshinner_09
Shortly after New Years Day, Man Hyung Lee, 77, was nursing a coffee in his usual seat in a narrow booth at a McDonalds in Flushing, Queens, when two police officers stepped into the fluorescent light of the restaurant.
Mr. Lee said the officers had been called because he and his friends a revolving group who shuffle into the McDonalds on the corner of Parsons and Northern Boulevards on walkers, or with canes, in wheelchairs or with infirm steps, as early as 5 a.m. and often linger until well after dark had, as they seem to do every day, long overstayed their welcome.
They ordered us out, Mr. Lee said from his seat in the same McDonalds booth a week after the incident, beneath a sign that said customers have 20 minutes to finish their food. (He had already been there two hours.) So I left, he said.
Then I walked around the block and came right back again.
For the past several months, a number of elderly Korean patrons and this McDonalds they frequent have been battling over the benches inside. The restaurant says the people who colonize the seats on a daily basis are quashing business, taking up tables for hours while splitting a small packet of French fries ($1.39); the group say they are customers and entitled to take their time. A lot of time.
Do you think you can drink a large coffee within 20 minutes? David Choi, 77, said. No, its impossible.
And though they have treated the corner restaurant as their own personal meeting place for more than five years, they say, the situation has escalated in recent months. The police said there had been four 911 calls since November requesting the removal of the entrenched older patrons.
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I never see hippie, left wing, derelicts at my Barnes and Noble.
LOL Lady Gaga and Ke$ha....
These guys are the yellow peril personified—they are almost certainly lying about where they come from, and about everything else for that matter.
Isn’t that loitering?
I know a guy who managed a K-mart that stayed open till 8PM Christmas Eve. At 8 the customers would not leave, and new ones would not refrain from entering the building. They had him outnumbered so calling the cops was all he could do.
They probably got jobs as Obamacare Navigators....
And trespassing... Asked to leave and then refusing to do so.
It’s beyond obvious that his first decision was to stay there for two hours plus, not to get the large coffee.
I think Kim Kwang-S. (why abbrv the S? Soo?) needs to drag them to his place
Like all welfare begging bums, they prefer the private property of others to spending cash on rent.
My local McDonalds has a similar problem. The local Senior have a bit of a club there...sit for hours, rotating cast of comers and leavers, scoop up all the newspapers in the place and dont lend them out except to their own people. A very selfish, cliquish, inward looking only group. Unchristian.
Today people are obsessed with their rights to the detriment of etiquette, common sense or courtesy.
I remember years ago in Taiwan, because peoples’ homes were so small and cramped, high school students would go to McDonalds to study. As in this artice, they would buy the cheapest item on the menu, and stay for hours.
MCD’s there would put up signs “NO STUDYING ALLOWED” - something you certainly never see at an MCD here. I wish I had taken a photo....
see #32
I assumed that at first too
Yes. Just think if they were gay or Muslim or something instead of just elderly Asians, there would be liberals falling all over themselves to help these people stand their ground.
I usually drink a cup of coffee in 10 minutes. It is possible.
A lot of times more upscale sit down restaurant hurry customers along. They can't afford to have customers sit there for hours.
I never see hippie, left wing, derelicts at my Barnes and Noble.”
...guess they’re all at mine.
“I feel sorry for the old folks but they need to find a new place to congregate.”
Yes, I agree. But I don’t think this is something to call 911 about.
What would you do if bums refused to leave your private property?
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