Posted on 02/17/2013 10:03:52 AM PST by nickcarraway
A Rohnert Park man was arrested after tearing apart a Starbucks and assaulting a police officer in Santa Rosa Saturday morning.
Officers were called to the Starbucks near the intersection of Stony Point Road and Bellevue Ranch around 7:45 a.m., according to police.
Police learned that a man had entered the store a few hours earlier and had been "exhibiting bizarre behavior" before locking himself in the restroom and pounding on the walls and door.
At one point, the man allegedly tried to pull a Starbucks employee into the restroom with him.
Police said an alert customer and workers evacuated the business and called police.
Meanwhile, the man left the restroom and began throwing furniture at store windows and emptied two cash register drawers onto the floor. When officers arrived on the scene, the suspect shattered the front door window glass and exited the store. Upon seeing police, the man became combative and charged at an officer, police said.
The man attacked the officer and swung a piece of patio furniture at him. He continued to fight with the officer until other officers arrived.
The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Jesse Stevens, received medical treatment at the scene and was taken by ambulance to a hospital to be treated for injuries to his head and arms, as well as cuts he suffered when breaking out the glass door.
The officer Stevens attacked suffered minor injuries and was treated at a hospital and released. Police said they would seek charges against Stevens of felony vandalism and battery on a police officer.
Anyone with more information about this case may contact Santa Rosa police at (707) 543-3590
The menu should have fresh mango juice and everything edible served in a Vindaloo sauce.
This is not the first time I have heard about “Red Dwarf.”
What is it?
I am asking on the thread b/c a) we have exhausted the OP and b) I am probably not alone in this question.
I went in a Starbucks once. Stared at the menu board about five minutes, and finally had to ask if the sell a cup of coffee.
>>Hitler lost after Germany couldn’t get coffee imports and had to resort to roasting acorns to make “ersatz coffee”.<<
Sounds like basis for a another takeoff of “Downfall” (the famous Hitler rages in the bunker scene that has been endlessly spoofed).
The police need to see who used that room immediately before this guy. This may have been sheer desperation on the customer’s part.
They’ve got Starbucks at Gitmo? No wonder it can’t be closed - corporate interests!
>>I went in a Starbucks once. Stared at the menu board about five minutes, and finally had to ask if the sell a cup of coffee.<<
During the big Starbucks growth heyday, I used to go to a Starbucks when my friends went (I don’t much care for burnt coffee myself) and ask for a “medium black coffee” just for the entertainment of them saying “you mean ‘Grande Drip.’”
They stopped that a long time ago but they do look at you with a sort of sympathy like you are a Neanderthal (which I am when it comes to coffee).
Red Dwarf is a British Sci-Fi comedy.
It ran for 8 seasons and has a few follow on movies.
The premise is that the Jupiter Mining Company’s ore hauler/refinery ship suffered a catastrophic drive plate breach and the entire ship’s living quarters were hopelessly contaminated.
Everyone on board was killed, except for the lowliest technician, Dave Lister, a scuzzy little skiver, who was in stasis with forfeiture of pay for smuggling a pregnant cat onboard.
The cat was in the cargo hold, and over the 3 million years it took for radiation levels to drop to safe levels the kitten’s decedents evolved into a more or less human form, one of which was still on board when the ship’s holographic computer (Holly) revived Lister.
Vast amounts of hilarity ensue when Lister, Cat and lister’s late boss, Rimmer, resurrected by hologram, attempt to get back to earth.
It is such a broad and sharp commentary on society and the human condition that I say “If it exists, there is a Red Dwarf of it”.
Well worth exploring by Netflix or other means.
You're right.
I think we need to ban "assault coffee".
About the only coffee I can’t stand is instant and that stuff McDonald used to sell. I like the new McDonald’s coffee
Coffee has a calming effect in the mornings. In those moments it transmits to one that all is right with the world. It is without coffee that transmits something is terribly wrong.
Rather than jump on coffee as a reason for violence, I think it must be substances like milk and vitamins and green veggies that is destroying the world. That makes as much sense as blaming coffee.
Freedumb, your roommate asked you a question before you had coffee and he disappeared and has never been found. I think he realized the error he made and left the country. Yeah, that would work.
So, coffee does not invoke violence - it prevents violence -it is the absence of coffee that would cause world catastrophe. Yes, I like Starbucks - large Cafe Latte with extra foam. Every Christmas, my sister-in-law gives me a $25 Starbucks card and I value it. The Starbucks near me has a drive-through window - in and out.
Coffee story: My best friend took me to a surgery center to have cataract surgery. We had to be there at 6:30 am, and I was not allowed to have anything but a drink of water before the surgery. After the surgery, the eye was bandaged with a pad on the eye to keep it closed and a plastic disc was over that. I looked like someone from Mars. I was loaded in the car and I had her go straight to that Starbucks and we went through the drive-in and used that gift card - man, was that large Cafe Latte good.
You may need to take a course in sarcasm.
Perhaps more, Hitler was a vegetarian...
Thanks for standing up for coffee. Coffee doesn’t commit murder!
Police said an alert customer and workers evacuated the business
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After the guy was acting bizarre BEFORE locking himself in the terlet why do they have to point out an (1) ALERT customer etc etc.
In a COFFEE HOUSE (albeit no matter how overpriced) it is quite shocking there was ONLY 1 alert customer and how effective is/was he if he had to wait till the ‘Headliner’ locked himself in the John....
Actually that probably ‘ticked’ the other customers off more than anything else...him taking to long....
Good grief. I drive by that Starbucks all the time. And I have to see this here on FR? Gotta go re-read my local rag to see this, I guess ... yikes!
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