December 19, 2023 • 9 mins
Jack had a really terrible experience at a restaurant this weekend involving a street person who was screaming in the booth behind him.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But we do not see homeless where we live in Florida.
It's all about policies and oh, maybe alligators. Perhaps California
should import some alligators. Yeah. I almost hate to use
the term homeless. I mean, because this person was clearly homeless,
who was ranting and ravens sitting in a booth right
behind me. I mean, her head's right behind me at
(00:21):
a restaurant. The restaurant lets her be there. She's dropping
f bombs and bombs, having some imaginary angry argument with somebody.
That sort of person has attacked so many people in
the last couple of years, particularly in California, including people
being stabbed to death in that sort of thing. Why
would you sit there at a restaurant with that person
(00:42):
behind you? Anyway? So I got up and we left,
and I and the manager started to get out there.
I said, we're leaving, and the manager started to get
out the check and I said, I'm not paying. I
can't eat around somebody like that. You got a family
sitting back there. She said, somebody like what.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh, I would have just blown a gasket, but it's
just lost it.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I said, somebody is out of their mind on drugs. Uh.
But like to insinuate this because they're because they're unhomed,
or because it's a black woman or whatever. I don't
know whatever she was implying. But I was initially wise,
and mostly I was afraid because we have been assaulted before.
It was on the front page of the newspaper. The
(01:28):
guy's in prison. I've been through this before. But uh,
and your son's crying. Yeah. I was worried about it
for my son, my special need son, and but it
quickly turned to just like depression, sadness that that's just
my lot in life now. I mean, if I didn't,
this is where my career is, this is where my
family is. We got so many ties, but no wonder
(01:50):
California is losing population for the first time in its history.
If I had any mobility at all, I would flip
and leave. Who would live around this? It's like this
story last week of fighting out that Sho hey O
Tani didn't want to play for the Giants, and a
lot of players don't because they come to San Francisco
and their wives look around and say, we aren't raising
(02:12):
our family here.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I don't blame him.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I was just on Third Street right a couple blocks
from the ballpark over the weekend, walking up to a crosswalk,
and there's a guy standing at the corner, clearly on
something like tweaking out. And I'm looking at him, and
I look at his hand, and in his left hand
is an extended.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Box cutter, and I could see the blade.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And so my husband's next to me, and I pulled
him in close and said, hey, check his hand because
one one quick, you know, swing of his arm and
he could cut somebody's throat.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Heck yah, yeah, that's really scary.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Right in the middle of multi million dollar apartments up
the street from the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Just un Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So in what scenario anywhere on planet Earth, at any
point in history, does someone acting like that woman was
acting get to stay in a restaurant you name me
the era or the geography where that that is okay
In any eating establishment ever, the owner would say you
got to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It makes me wonder if they had some form of
a policy, you know, because if there's a liability if
the street person attacks whoever's working in there. Was this
a chain restaurant or was it like a mom and pop?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It is a minor chain. We've had a bunch of
texts I said, I wasn't going to name the restaurant.
I had a whole bunch of text people saying name
the restaurant, Name the restaurant, Name the restaurant. One person saying,
unless it would get you in legal trouble, name the restaurant.
Well that's why I don't know. Uh, the truth is
a one defense against libel and slander. On the other hand,
(03:45):
there is there I've known of people to get in trouble,
Like if you do something with the idea of damaging
a business anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, I'm the reason I'm asking is I could see
like a chain restaurant having a legal team that might
have some policy like, hey, don't go near them, because
if something happens to you.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Then you can sue us.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
What if something happens to your customer, Well, I think
it's more likely. You know how much damaged Starbucks ended
up in when they denied the homeless people They thought
homeless people the bathroom. Oh yeah, yeah, it can become
such a big deal so fast. And I remember this
story was several years ago, but in the town that
(04:23):
I live in, a bunch of boy Scouts were being
harassed by a street person. So my wife at the
time called the police. The police told her, look, there's
nothing we can do about it. And the police said,
all these homeless people have a lawyer that they know,
they have a name, because the lawyers go out and
do some outreach with the homeless community and let them know, Hey,
(04:43):
if you ever get harassed by anybody, here's my card,
here's my name, you tell them about. So they have
legal representations, They know their legal rights, which is crazy,
given how out of their mind a lot of these
drug addicts are. But anyway, I think they would be
concerned that somehow, this or we would get out that
just because someone was unhoused in our evil capitalist society,
(05:05):
she wasn't allowed to sit down for she's having a
glass of wine. So she'd probably begged enough money to
go into this restaurant that serves booze and get a
glass of wine, sitting there with her garbage bags full
of probably crap and uh for somebody else's crap, somebody
else's crap that was stolen, waving her arms around, screaming
and yelling. Dropping in bombs f bombs. First of all,
(05:27):
dropping in bombs by anybody else would be an expulsion
you'd get, you'd get kicked.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Out for that, And here's here's you with your kids
and trying to enjoy a nice dinner you have. You're
basically forced to leave by her actions, and she tries
to flip it on you, like, right right.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Because you're a white male jack.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
We can't sit around someone like that, someone like what
she thought she thought she'd really nailed me on that one.
Oh I was so hot.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, what a gotcha moment. Oh, I don't blame you.
And I'm really glad that you didn't pay, because I'm
sure a lot of people that would be in that
situation probably would have felt like, all right, all right,
i'll pay.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Oh good, I'm glad we stood your ground on that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Hire a lawyer come after me. That'd be fantastic. Let's
make this as big a deal as possible. Lawyer. As
to why I didn't think I should have to pay,
Oh my god, So I was I gonna I had
something else saying to someone the Oh, So that's what's interesting.
So this manager woman, when she said someone like, what
in her mind is that acceptable for me to sit
(06:28):
there with my kids next to someone who's having an
imaginary heated N bomb F bomb argument.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Probably a bleeding heart level away, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
She probably was sitting there going, you know, oh, you know,
this poor person doesn't have a.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Home, Jack, and I know that's w ill Jack.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So when I spoke at the city council after the
run in with the homeless person years ago, where blah
blah blah, that whole story, there were people in the
city council meeting saying, if you look at a street
person and you assume they're violent, there is something wrong
with you. Well, I'm not assuming they're all violent, but
if you're assuming they're not, you're a nutjob.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
This is a lot like the people that were, you know,
claiming the sanctuary cities and whatnot, and they had the
man on the street that would go out and say, okay,
well then let them live at your house, you know,
let them come and live.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
It's like that woman.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Okay, well then you try to sit down and have
a nice meal and let her sit behind you.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I'll tell you, well how much you like it. She
was an older one. I'll tell you, why don't you
go get your grandkids, Go get your grandkids, send them
in the booth next to that woman, and because if
you do, you're crazy. And it's not about the homelessness,
it's about the drug addict. I don't care if she
lives in a five thousand square foot two million dollar house,
if she's out of her mind on crazy drugs and
(07:46):
acting all aggressive, obviously not mentally with it, I don't
want me or my kids next to them. And the
restaurant allows that. Again, where anywhere in the world would
the owner not come out and say, get the f
out of here? That's what I keep thinking about.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
What would it take to get kicked out of that restaurant?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What would she have to do to get kicked out exactly?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
That should be our social experiment. We should go in
and just see how far we can.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Push it right right, right right? That's almost interesting to do.
One of those who's that guy that does the undercover
videos all the time?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh, Project Veritas, Yeah, that'd be.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
An interesting one to do. I'd like to get all
dirty myself up. I wouldn't have to do a lot
to look homeless, oddly, but dirty myself up going there
and just how and just keep pushing it further and further,
to see how far I gotta go before I'd actually
get asked to leave.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
This could be fun, yeah, got it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I was so disappointed, and again the anger turned to
just sadness. This is this is where I live, this
is where I'm raising my kids. This is not gonna
change anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And in that situation, you were almost the bad guy, right,
People like what ugh? Oh man, I am so I
commend you for not absolutely losing your mind.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah. I've been working on that through over the years
because I have lost my mind many times, verbally, never physically.
But I do wish i'd have had the presence of
mind black women. I can't eat around black women. It's
just appalling. What are you talking about, you nut job?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
That manager would have melted just right her spot.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I mean, most almost people are white males, but based
on my observation, so it's not that it's crazed out
of their mind. The drug addicts armstrong and
But we do not see homeless where we live in Florida.
It's all about policies and oh, maybe alligators. Perhaps California
should import some alligators. Yeah. I almost hate to use
the term homeless. I mean, because this person was clearly homeless,
who was ranting and ravens sitting in a booth right
behind me. I mean, her head's right behind me at
(00:21):
a restaurant. The restaurant lets her be there. She's dropping
f bombs and bombs, having some imaginary angry argument with somebody.
That sort of person has attacked so many people in
the last couple of years, particularly in California, including people
being stabbed to death in that sort of thing. Why
would you sit there at a restaurant with that person
(00:42):
behind you? Anyway? So I got up and we left,
and I and the manager started to get out there.
I said, we're leaving, and the manager started to get
out the check and I said, I'm not paying. I
can't eat around somebody like that. You got a family
sitting back there. She said, somebody like what.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh, I would have just blown a gasket, but it's
just lost it.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I said, somebody is out of their mind on drugs. Uh.
But like to insinuate this because they're because they're unhomed,
or because it's a black woman or whatever. I don't
know whatever she was implying. But I was initially wise,
and mostly I was afraid because we have been assaulted before.
It was on the front page of the newspaper. The
(01:28):
guy's in prison. I've been through this before. But uh,
and your son's crying. Yeah. I was worried about it
for my son, my special need son, and but it
quickly turned to just like depression, sadness that that's just
my lot in life now. I mean, if I didn't,
this is where my career is, this is where my
family is. We got so many ties, but no wonder
(01:50):
California is losing population for the first time in its history.
If I had any mobility at all, I would flip
and leave. Who would live around this? It's like this
story last week of fighting out that Sho hey O
Tani didn't want to play for the Giants, and a
lot of players don't because they come to San Francisco
and their wives look around and say, we aren't raising
(02:12):
our family here.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I don't blame him.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I was just on Third Street right a couple blocks
from the ballpark over the weekend, walking up to a crosswalk,
and there's a guy standing at the corner, clearly on
something like tweaking out. And I'm looking at him, and
I look at his hand, and in his left hand
is an extended.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Box cutter, and I could see the blade.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And so my husband's next to me, and I pulled
him in close and said, hey, check his hand because
one one quick, you know, swing of his arm and
he could cut somebody's throat.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Heck yah, yeah, that's really scary.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Right in the middle of multi million dollar apartments up
the street from the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Just un Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So in what scenario anywhere on planet Earth, at any
point in history, does someone acting like that woman was
acting get to stay in a restaurant you name me
the era or the geography where that that is okay
In any eating establishment ever, the owner would say you
got to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It makes me wonder if they had some form of
a policy, you know, because if there's a liability if
the street person attacks whoever's working in there. Was this
a chain restaurant or was it like a mom and pop?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It is a minor chain. We've had a bunch of
texts I said, I wasn't going to name the restaurant.
I had a whole bunch of text people saying name
the restaurant, Name the restaurant, Name the restaurant. One person saying,
unless it would get you in legal trouble, name the restaurant.
Well that's why I don't know. Uh, the truth is
a one defense against libel and slander. On the other hand,
(03:45):
there is there I've known of people to get in trouble,
Like if you do something with the idea of damaging
a business anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, I'm the reason I'm asking is I could see
like a chain restaurant having a legal team that might
have some policy like, hey, don't go near them, because
if something happens to you.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Then you can sue us.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
What if something happens to your customer, Well, I think
it's more likely. You know how much damaged Starbucks ended
up in when they denied the homeless people They thought
homeless people the bathroom. Oh yeah, yeah, it can become
such a big deal so fast. And I remember this
story was several years ago, but in the town that
(04:23):
I live in, a bunch of boy Scouts were being
harassed by a street person. So my wife at the
time called the police. The police told her, look, there's
nothing we can do about it. And the police said,
all these homeless people have a lawyer that they know,
they have a name, because the lawyers go out and
do some outreach with the homeless community and let them know, Hey,
(04:43):
if you ever get harassed by anybody, here's my card,
here's my name, you tell them about. So they have
legal representations, They know their legal rights, which is crazy,
given how out of their mind a lot of these
drug addicts are. But anyway, I think they would be
concerned that somehow, this or we would get out that
just because someone was unhoused in our evil capitalist society,
(05:05):
she wasn't allowed to sit down for she's having a
glass of wine. So she'd probably begged enough money to
go into this restaurant that serves booze and get a
glass of wine, sitting there with her garbage bags full
of probably crap and uh for somebody else's crap, somebody
else's crap that was stolen, waving her arms around, screaming
and yelling. Dropping in bombs f bombs. First of all,
(05:27):
dropping in bombs by anybody else would be an expulsion
you'd get, you'd get kicked.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Out for that, And here's here's you with your kids
and trying to enjoy a nice dinner you have. You're
basically forced to leave by her actions, and she tries
to flip it on you, like, right right.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Because you're a white male jack.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
We can't sit around someone like that, someone like what
she thought she thought she'd really nailed me on that one.
Oh I was so hot.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, what a gotcha moment. Oh, I don't blame you.
And I'm really glad that you didn't pay, because I'm
sure a lot of people that would be in that
situation probably would have felt like, all right, all right,
i'll pay.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Oh good, I'm glad we stood your ground on that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Hire a lawyer come after me. That'd be fantastic. Let's
make this as big a deal as possible. Lawyer. As
to why I didn't think I should have to pay,
Oh my god, So I was I gonna I had
something else saying to someone the Oh, So that's what's interesting.
So this manager woman, when she said someone like, what
in her mind is that acceptable for me to sit
(06:28):
there with my kids next to someone who's having an
imaginary heated N bomb F bomb argument.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Probably a bleeding heart level away, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
She probably was sitting there going, you know, oh, you know,
this poor person doesn't have a.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Home, Jack, and I know that's w ill Jack.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So when I spoke at the city council after the
run in with the homeless person years ago, where blah
blah blah, that whole story, there were people in the
city council meeting saying, if you look at a street
person and you assume they're violent, there is something wrong
with you. Well, I'm not assuming they're all violent, but
if you're assuming they're not, you're a nutjob.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
This is a lot like the people that were, you know,
claiming the sanctuary cities and whatnot, and they had the
man on the street that would go out and say, okay,
well then let them live at your house, you know,
let them come and live.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
It's like that woman.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Okay, well then you try to sit down and have
a nice meal and let her sit behind you.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I'll tell you, well how much you like it. She
was an older one. I'll tell you, why don't you
go get your grandkids, Go get your grandkids, send them
in the booth next to that woman, and because if
you do, you're crazy. And it's not about the homelessness,
it's about the drug addict. I don't care if she
lives in a five thousand square foot two million dollar house,
if she's out of her mind on crazy drugs and
(07:46):
acting all aggressive, obviously not mentally with it, I don't
want me or my kids next to them. And the
restaurant allows that. Again, where anywhere in the world would
the owner not come out and say, get the f
out of here? That's what I keep thinking about.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
What would it take to get kicked out of that restaurant?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What would she have to do to get kicked out exactly?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
That should be our social experiment. We should go in
and just see how far we can.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Push it right right, right right? That's almost interesting to do.
One of those who's that guy that does the undercover
videos all the time?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh, Project Veritas, Yeah, that'd be.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
An interesting one to do. I'd like to get all
dirty myself up. I wouldn't have to do a lot
to look homeless, oddly, but dirty myself up going there
and just how and just keep pushing it further and further,
to see how far I gotta go before I'd actually
get asked to leave.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
This could be fun, yeah, got it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I was so disappointed, and again the anger turned to
just sadness. This is this is where I live, this
is where I'm raising my kids. This is not gonna
change anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And in that situation, you were almost the bad guy, right,
People like what ugh? Oh man, I am so I
commend you for not absolutely losing your mind.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah. I've been working on that through over the years
because I have lost my mind many times, verbally, never physically.
But I do wish i'd have had the presence of
mind black women. I can't eat around black women. It's
just appalling. What are you talking about, you nut job?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
That manager would have melted just right her spot.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I mean, most almost people are white males, but based
on my observation, so it's not that it's crazed out
of their mind. The drug addicts armstrong and
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