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Racist Red Lobster receipt may be hoax, analysts say ("Victim" wrote it?)
The Daily Caller ^ | October 30, 2013 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 10/30/2013 1:58:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The racial slur a Red Lobster waitress claimed to receive on a receipt in lieu of tip may have been a hoax, according to two separate handwriting analyses.

One handwriting analyst concluded that whoever wrote “none” on the tip line was not the same person who wrote the racial epithet. The second analyst believes the racist comment could have been written by the waitress herself.

Toni Christina Jenkins, a server at a Red Lobster in Franklin, Tennessee, posted a picture on her Facebook page of a receipt with the word “none” written in the area usually reserved for a tip.

Below that, the word “Nigger” was scrawled.

The receipt clearly showed the name of the customer, Devin Barnes, who is white. Jenkins, who is black, said that she was not aware that Barnes’ name was shown on the receipt and posted it online to make a point about racism, not to target Barnes.

“God Bless America, land of the free and home of the low class racists of Tennessee,” wrote Jenkins, a 19-year-old nursing student, on her Facebook page along with the picture.

But Barnes, 20, denied writing the derogatory word.

“I do not approve of the use of that type of talk, not now or ever,” wrote Barnes in a note shortly after the story went viral. As news spread locally and nationally, Barnes also says he received threats....


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: blacks; corruption; racism; redlobster; tennessee
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To: Dilbert San Diego

And the lesbian in the NW, who cut slurs into her skin and posted slurs onto her walls.

The homosexual community rallied around it, saying, “Well, it COULD have happened.”


21 posted on 10/30/2013 2:16:17 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Not to mention the Matthew Shephard hoax, where now we found out it was a previous lover that killed him over drugs.


22 posted on 10/30/2013 2:19:11 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Do these people want permanent victimhood????

Saying something could have happened, that didn’t actually happen, seems to escape my thought process.

These things aren’t happening, and these minority groups are free to live their lives. Nobody is doing these things to them. Yet we’re supposed to be sympathetic to a lie, because it could have happened?

I don’t understand the thought process of the liberal mind.


23 posted on 10/30/2013 2:22:12 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I often pay with a credit card but leave a cash tip, so will put a line through the place where it says tip. Someone else doing the same thing might put 'none' there if leaving a cash tip. I figure the server would much rather have a cash tip than to have to get paid back through the restaurant.

She didn't know his name was on the receipt that he signed ¿

24 posted on 10/30/2013 2:26:10 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He will probably sue Red Lobster. They’re the only ones with money in this case. You gotta feel for them, though....what’s a company to do in a case like this?


25 posted on 10/30/2013 2:31:00 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Do these people want permanent victimhood????

Of course they do. They're "entitled" by it after all.

26 posted on 10/30/2013 2:31:47 PM PDT by Bob
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To: smokingfrog
Those two scribbles were written by different people. People don't change their handwriting style, use less pressure when writing, and on a receipt turn it 30 degrees up.

I want this guy to sue the waitress personally, before suing Red Lobster.

27 posted on 10/30/2013 2:32:42 PM PDT by boop (I had no IDEA I'd be paying for Obamacare. I thought it would be a rich guy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I feel sorry for the idiots who donated money to her.

Okay, I dont feel sorry.

28 posted on 10/30/2013 2:46:15 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The second analyst believes the racist comment could have been written by the waitress herself.

and there is a picture of her rubbing it in the faces of the organizer and 1000 of her contributors.

Sue her and Red Lobster

29 posted on 10/30/2013 3:10:05 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I believe it was a hoax.


30 posted on 10/30/2013 3:11:17 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Uncle Chip

what a shock, who didn’t see that coming?


31 posted on 10/30/2013 3:11:18 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Do these people want permanent victimhood????Yes, they find it empowering and profitable how they can jerk around the whole country and sometimes make a lot of $$$ by playing victim.

Don't rock the gravy boat

32 posted on 10/30/2013 3:13:37 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I imagine the customer got horrible service and wrote none to convey her dissatisfaction.

And of course, it couldn't have been her below par service that got her 'none' for a tip, it must have been racism!

This is what Al & Jesse teach Black kids today.

If you can't find racism, just make it up. ..works just as well. Cha-Ching!

33 posted on 10/30/2013 3:14:13 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Dilbert San Diego

How else could they explain inequality ?


34 posted on 10/30/2013 3:15:40 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: Secret Agent Man

Let’s not forget the college professor or teacher or whatever in Kalipornia who totally messed up her car and blamed it on homophones or something.

Witnesses said she drove it to the campus in that condition.

Yep, she defaced her own car.


35 posted on 10/30/2013 3:39:05 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Yup.

See all the evil people they think are out there opposed to them,

do not do this stuff to them,

but THEIR WORLDVIEW believes that’s what they do,

and they wonder why it doesn’t happen to them,

so that they can then become a celebrity victim/fighter,

and decide tehy will just go ahead and manufacture their own crisis incident,

and have no problem that innocent people/groups are being blamed for doing it.

These people need to be jailed as long as actual attackers would. A real bunch of crimes have been committed, including lying to police, attempting to incite violence against others, destruction of property, conspiracy with ONESELF to FRAME innocent groups/people, and anything else they can throw at them.

this kind of stuff is done on purpose to divide, destroy reputations of groups they hate. This is a hate crime by these people on others they hate. Plain and simple, they are trying to frame other people and groups they literally hate enough to do this.

JAIL. LONG TIME. NO PAROLE.


36 posted on 10/30/2013 3:47:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: TexasCajun
I imagine the customer got horrible service and wrote none to convey her dissatisfaction.

The couple just got there, ordered, got a phone call and had to leave. They then asked to change the order to take-out, and paid once the take-out order was ready. No service, no tip, so the customer wrote "none" for tip. Stupid waitress gets pissed over it, even though she provided no service. Customer did nothing wrong writing "none" for a take-out order. The waitress added the slur later. She should be sued by the customer for posting his name on the internet with a libelous claim.

37 posted on 10/30/2013 3:52:59 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’ve discovered another easy way to make money. This one is real easy. Guaranteed to work every time.


38 posted on 10/30/2013 3:55:34 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: TexasCajun
I imagine the customer got horrible service and wrote none to convey her dissatisfaction.

It wasn't even this. He wrote "none" on the tip line because it was a carry-out order.

39 posted on 10/30/2013 3:55:44 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: CodeToad

You could give a person like her $10,000,000. Next year at this same time they will be broke.


40 posted on 10/30/2013 4:03:12 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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