No outing of the cop because Chief Brian Hornaday (pictured) is at least half to blame for putting everyone else on blast. The Chief needs to protect himself and would like it to go away with an anonymous resignation.
Per Hornaday’s now deleted post …”the US veteran who continues to serve deserves much more.”
I might get flamed for saying this but….
While I believe that our military veterans deserve the all benefits to which they are entitled per what they were promised when signing up and our respect for having served our nation, most particularly the combat vets, however just because someone is a veteran, even a combat vet or a cop for that matter, that doesn’t mean they “deserve” special privileges beyond to which other citizens are not entitled.
Just as there are people from all walks of life, races, ethnicities, etc., some of whom are wonderful people and some of whom are a-holes, the same can be said of veterans and cops.
Respect BTW is something you earn and once earned, is something you have to continue to earn for the rest of your life in how you conduct yourself. Being a veteran and or a cop doesn’t grant one lifetime immunity from wrong or the automatic assumption of right any more than for anyone not having worn or currently wearing a uniform.
Just as no one should be subjected to insults by people from whom you are making a purchase, I am so fed up with the “snowflakes” – and snowflakes of all types, and the left does not hold a complete monopoly on this IMO – or the “cancel culture”. I’m not talking about physical assaults mind you but words, insults, slights, etc.
What ever happened to “sticks and stones may break my bones but words…”?
While I think the internet and social media has some positive aspects, one big, actually huge negative is the “look at me” culture, the need to document for public consumption every damned thing in one’s life.
If I had gone to a McDonald’s or a Starbucks and someone wrote something offensive, an insult on my cup of coffee (I’m overweight, I’m in my late 50’s, I’m a ginger, I have a large mole on my face so there’s lots of options, and I’ve even heard a few in general though never had it written on my coffee order or at either establishment), my first reaction wouldn’t be to post it on social media. And if I complained to the management and they apologized and offered to give me a free meal, I’d likely accept or just not go back ever again, let my feet and wallet do the talking.
But Noooo! Now days’ that’s not good enough. We’ve got to make it go “viral” (and I don’t think it is coincidence that “viral” also implies diseased), we’ve got to get the entire world wide interwebs on “our” side and to come to “our” defense. So it really shouldn’t come as a big surprise that some people fake these things, fake it for the personal attention or fake it to demonize a group of people to which one believes he or she (or “it”) has been wronged by.
Supposedly the cop texted the pic of the coffee cop with the expletive on it to Hornaday, intending it as a “joke” and perhaps it was. Perhaps the young cop, only two months on the job did it himself as a joke but without the context or the text of the text, it’s hard to be sure and it’s hard to know or if it was ever brought to the McDonald’s manger’s attention or if that was made up too (by Hornaday?).
But it was Chief Hornaday who made it go “viral”, giving out the address of the McDonald’s, asking for people to share it, saying that any apology isn’t good enough and he should be just as to blame for people at first automatically believing that the McDonald’s employee had written the insult especially if it cost the restaurant business or caused their employees grief and retaliatory insults themselves. So what should happen now?
Having worked in the convince store business for many years in my early 20’s and later in other retail businesses over the years, I’ve had my fair share of rude and insulting customers. Oh the stories I could tell, the completely unreasonable customers, the ones who cursed at me, personally threatened me over the stupidest things and for no logical reason, including the time the woman threw a cup of hot coffee at my head because she claimed the creamer was curdled and the other time I was told I had to take whatever insult this customer hurled at me because I only made minimum wage – not true as I was a manger and that he made more money than I did as if that condoned it.
Perhaps rather than the cop or the chief being fired over this, perhaps as their apology to this McDonald’s they should have gone to work at the McDonald’s for a day (and not in uniform) to see firsthand how hard the job can be and how some customers treat them.
And FWIW, I also have a problem with all the “swag” over Chief Hornaday’s name tag.
End of rant. Thanks!