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Meter maid rage: Hummer-driving halfwit scalds her with Starbucks
Boston Herald ^ | 1-21-2005 | Michele McPhee

Posted on 01/21/2005 6:45:17 AM PST by Cagey

A hulking Boston bodyguard was arrested yesterday, accused of hurling a scalding Starbucks coffee at a meter maid who slapped a ticket on his illegally parked Hummer in the Back Bay.

     The alleged attack unfolded about 8:30 a.m. when Christi Noviello, 44, was walking her Berkeley and Boylston streets beat and saw the black Hummer parked in a loading zone with a woman in the passenger seat.
     ``I am a nice meter maid,'' Noviello told the Herald yesterday in an exclusive interview. ``As a courtesy, I gave the lady a chance to move, but she pointed at the Starbucks and refused.''
     Noviello wrote a $55 ticket, and slid it under the Hummer's windshield wiper - apparently enraging its driver, Francois Youhanna.
     ``He started yelling, `I don't accept this ticket!' He had a Venti-sized cup of black coffee in his hand, and he flung it right in my face,'' said Noviello, just hours after she was treated for first- and second-degree burns on her face and upper torso at New England Medical Center.
     ``I went down, I was panicking. It hurt so bad, I thought my face was falling off,'' she said. ``It was in my eyes, I was screaming.''
     Starbucks employees rushed out of the store with wet cloths to soothe the burns, as cops arrested Youhanna for assault and battery with a deadly weapon, the hot coffee, which is a felony.
     Youhanna insistedhe spilled the coffee on Noviello by mistake after slipping on some ice and falling, a story his female companion echoed. But witnesses said Youhanna - who is 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds - charged at the meter maid and was very close to her face when the coffee was thrown.
     He told cops he owned Gavilier Security Patrol, a bodyguard service that lists his West Roxbury home as the company's address. When a relative was reached at Youhanna's home, the man hung up when asked to comment on the incident.
     Youhanna, a native of Lebanon, pleaded not guilty yesterday in Boston Municipal Court and was released on personal recognizance on condition he stay out of trouble and away from the meter maid. A pretrial conference date was set for Feb. 23.
     Last year, 16 meter maids were physically assaulted and another 48 were threatened or harassed, said Tom Tinlin, deputy commissioner of the Boston Transportation Department.
     ``It's appalling. This behavior should not be tolerated in a civilized world,'' Tinlin said yesterday. ``Christi is one of the nicest people I know. For her to be subjected to such behavior while performing your job is a disgrace.''


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: assault; dykwia; islam; islamofascist; religionofpeace; thoseevilsuvs
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To: garyhope
I may even go to Starbuck's and ask for a medium drink

Better hurry, dude. I understand that Mayor Menino is seeking legislation to ban the high-caliber "Venti Assault Beverage".

Also, to be on the safe side, look for a coffee shop with a drive-through.

Have a great weekend! [;^))

101 posted on 01/21/2005 8:58:44 AM PST by antiliberal (I'm already looking forward to '06. Who's going down next?)
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To: Durus
The smirk I get when I ask for an extra large black coffee brings joy to my heart. If I've had an exceptionally bad day I will even flirt with the militant feminist goth girl for a little additional attitude.

One of my personal hobbies: Starbucks-baiting. Try doing what you described above but wearing a Bush button. ;)

102 posted on 01/21/2005 9:00:10 AM PST by Heatseeker ("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
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To: antiliberal

Heck, in Texas we've got drive through beer barns. In Lousiana, they've got drive through daiquiri bars.

Until not too long ago in Texas, it was still legal to drive with open beer in your pickup. That's how they measured distances or time. Dallas to San Antonio, etc., was 2 sixpacks.

You don't want to drive to El Paso from Dallas. Your bladder wouldn't survive.


103 posted on 01/21/2005 9:07:00 AM PST by garyhope
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To: RushCrush

"Venti sized. Only a true snob would know what that means."

What does it mean?


104 posted on 01/21/2005 10:54:08 AM PST by monday
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To: monday

I wouldn't know, I'm not a snob ;)


105 posted on 01/21/2005 10:54:43 AM PST by RushCrush (FOUR MORE YEARS!)
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To: RushCrush

hehe


106 posted on 01/21/2005 11:04:03 AM PST by monday
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To: All

Sound like meter maid will be the proud new owner of a Hummer soon. Except she will probably sue Starbucks.


107 posted on 01/21/2005 11:09:25 AM PST by Royal Wulff
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To: Blueflag
I am 6'4" / 235. I don't feel "hulking". But then again, I live near the Falcons' training camp. THOSE guys are hulks!

Call me Napoleon (5'4"), but I agree with your definition.

108 posted on 01/21/2005 12:16:56 PM PST by steveegg (The secret goal of lieberals - to ensure that no future generation can possibly equal theirs.)
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To: StoneColdTaxHater
When I go to starbucks I refuse to use their snootty coffee lingo. It always throws them off.

What I love about snootiness of this variety is that the "snoot" is usually mispronouncing the foreign word in the first place, blissfully unaware of how dumb they sound to anyone who speaks the language.
109 posted on 01/21/2005 12:21:32 PM PST by JayNorth
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To: Piquaboy
I don't have a thing against a good Hummer.


110 posted on 01/21/2005 12:25:29 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: bigeasy_70118
I now drive an expensive german sports car. In the last three months, I have recieved four parking tickets and three traffic tickets.

When I lived in Hell-Ay I had two friends on the CHP, both of whom told me stories about how they gave a ticket to this guy "because he could afford it" and not to another because "I felt sorry for him".

I asked who was more dangerous driving over the limit (in those days a pathetic 55 mph) in a rural section of roadway, a businessman in a Jaguar or a guy with no insurance in a poorly tuned car with bald tires?
111 posted on 01/21/2005 12:37:01 PM PST by JayNorth
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To: Dad2Angels
This guy apparently missed the part where it says this puke is from Lebanon

I doubt he is muslim with a first name of Francois(Francis).

Lebanon used to be half Christian until the Syrian instigated civil war in 75.

I don't know what the religious %'s in Lebanon are now.

112 posted on 01/21/2005 12:41:44 PM PST by Dane (I loath the mainstream media as clinton loathed the military)
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To: Dane

My point was that Lebanon could hardly be considered 'civilized'. The question of whether or not he is a muslim cannot be ascertained from this article although you might be able to infer it from his actions.


113 posted on 01/21/2005 1:09:27 PM PST by Dad2Angels
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine
Arrogance comes to my mind immediately when I see a hummer

That's pretty much true of any Silly Useless Vehicle driver in the city.

Those SUV owners who live in the country are less likely to be insufferable pricks.

114 posted on 01/21/2005 1:25:20 PM PST by Chemist_Geek ("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
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To: Cagey

He told cops he owned Gavilier Security Patrol,


Not any more.


115 posted on 01/21/2005 1:27:22 PM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: bigeasy_70118
I didn't know that first aid was taught in liberal arts programs.

LOL, Everybody back, give me room, I'm an Art History Major!

116 posted on 01/21/2005 1:40:37 PM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: MineralMan
Think Danny Thomas.

or Helen Thomas, or Donna Shalala, or Salma Hayek, or Shakira.

I had to list the last two to cleanse my palate of the first two.

117 posted on 01/21/2005 1:43:43 PM PST by Clemenza (Europhiles and Monarchists should be purged)
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To: TC Rider

FWIW, I can't find any phone listings or google any info on Gavilier Security Patrol.


118 posted on 01/21/2005 1:48:18 PM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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To: MineralMan

Uncle Tonoose?


119 posted on 01/21/2005 1:48:37 PM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: monday
"What does it mean?"

It's an Assault-Coffee...there should clearly be a law against such things. Who needs a 20 oz. coffee? Why couldn't he have just settled for a 10 or 12-ouncer?

120 posted on 01/21/2005 1:50:35 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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