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Oklahoma police say officer got Starbucks with ‘PIG’ on cups

jimbo said:
No. I drink far better coffee than Starbucks knows exists. And I do it for far less money.
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Taste is a matter of taste but you can still be too cheap for Starbucks.... ;)

Not saying cheap is a bad thing... :peace
 
notquiteright said:
Taste is a matter of taste but you can still be too cheap for Starbucks.... ;)

Not saying cheap is a bad thing... :peace
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OTOH, it could be that I just don't like the crap.
 
Superfly said:
Every single cell in my body hates country music with the fires of 1,000 hells.

Merle Haggard would be my only exception.
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I tend to prefer old timey folk music over country. Country just sounds too cliche or full of uber patriotism.
 
jimbo said:
OTOH, it could be that I just don't like the crap.
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Hmmm pretty sure you didn't serve, if you had even the lowest of the low (in your opinion) would seem like Nectar of the Gods compared to Army coffee.... :mrgreen:

Lifers drank it black, young officers with a liberal amount of sugar and guys like me filled our canteen cup half full of milk and sugar before adding that battery acid.... ;)

I reserve 'crap' for a much lower rung than Starbucks, but then again I like Chicory in my coffee so who am I to judge... :peace
 
Jory Mendes with Starbucks gave us this statement:

This is absolutely unacceptable and we are deeply sorry to the law enforcement officer who experienced this. We have also apologized directly to him and we are working to connect with the police chief as well as to express our remorse. The barista has been suspended pending the outcome of our investigation into this matter. This language is offensive to all law enforcement and is not representative of the deep appreciation we have for police officers who work tirelessly to keep our communities safe.
 
notquiteright said:
Hmmm pretty sure you didn't serve, if you had even the lowest of the low (in your opinion) would seem like Nectar of the Gods compared to Army coffee.... :mrgreen:

Lifers drank it black, young officers with a liberal amount of sugar and guys like me filled our canteen cup half full of milk and sugar before adding that battery acid.... ;)

I reserve 'crap' for a much lower rung than Starbucks, but then again I like Chicory in my coffee so who am I to judge... :peace
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Oh, I served. I drank a half cup. Once.
 
Superfly said:
You can thank Toby Keith for that. He wrapped himself in the flag after 9/11 and made a fortune. :roll:
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Yep that got old real quick.
 
JacksinPA said:
Oklahoma police say officer got Starbucks with ‘PIG’ on cups

GLENPOOL, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma police chief says an officer bought Starbucks for 911 dispatchers working on Thanksgiving only to find that the word “PIG” was printed on the cups’ labels.

The officer notified Kiefer Police Chief Johnny O’Mara, who called the store and spoke to a manager. O’Mara says they offered to reprint the computer-generated labels, but he took to social media and posted the photo. It has since gone viral.
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The employee involved stated later that it was a 'joke.' He offered to reprint the cup labels.
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So one Starbucks employee insulted one police officer while on the job, and nobody was physically harmed?

Must be a slow news day down in Oklahoma. :shrug:
 
Crovax said:
Im not sure who is more childish the employee or the chief of police who made it an incident by posting on social media
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Considering this is not an isolated incident regarding poor treatment of the police at Starbucks I think the chief did the responsible thing posting this on social media.
 
Phys251 said:
So one Starbucks employee insulted one police officer while on the job, and nobody was physically harmed?

Must be a slow news day down in Oklahoma. :shrug:
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I'm sure if the same thing happened to a black customer with the "N word" written on it you would think this story was under reported.
 
Mongidig said:
Considering this is not an isolated incident regarding poor treatment of the police at Starbucks I think the chief did the responsible thing posting this on social media.
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You think there is a corporate direction from Starbucks to treat police officers rudely?
 
Mongidig said:
I'm sure if the same thing happened to a black customer with the "N word" written on it you would think this story was under reported.
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Going with a whataboutism that's a hypothetical? :lol:

Yeah, I was right. It's a slow news day.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
LOL the entire state is Tornado Alley! :lamo
We thought of moving to Muskogee when it began to turn "hip" a few years ago but then we realized that, as bad as the weather is in Texas, it's ten times scarier in Okie-homa! :eek:

Believe me, we used to go back and forth to Muskogee and Tulsa a LOT because of my involvement with Leon Russell. For a nanosecond I was thinking, "Wow, we could buy a grand old Victorian and spruce it up for real cheap and be close to the entire Leon ground zero", but then common sense took over, in the form of watching the twisters devastate the place right and left.

I think Karen is smarter than I am, no wait, I KNOW she is.

"Are you nutz? You flip out when we get a tornado WATCH, imagine living in Oklahoma...you'd be in the funny farm!"
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Years ago I bought a Radio Shack weather alert receiver. The area covered by the local NOAA transmitter is thousands of square mile, so the alarm would go off at least once a day even if there was no local hazard in the vicinity. In OK it would literally drive me crazy to the point where I would simply unplug it & do without.
 
JacksinPA said:
Years ago I bought a Radio Shack weather alert receiver. The area covered by the local NOAA transmitter is thousands of square mile, so the alarm would go off at least once a day even if there was no local hazard in the vicinity. In OK it would literally drive me crazy to the point where I would simply unplug it & do without.
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The things about Oklahoma that are nice, are absolutely wonderful...the Old Lady on Brady, Cain's Ballroom, Will Rogers High School, the natural beauty, the Church Studio, Leon Russell himself, all the "Tulsa Sound" musicians...
The things that are not nice, are quite terrifying.
 
Jason Warfield said:
Wonder if it is true, would be hilarious if it was...

Daughter of police chief in Starbucks cup scandal says he's 'absolutely a pig'

And then there is this:

Oklahoma Cop Accused Of Lying When He Said ‘Pig’ Was Printed On Starbucks Cups | News One

No real verification on if it is true (and the employee did get fired)...but it does remind me of the stunt Fuerstein pulled when he made a big deal about no holiday imagery on the Starbucks cups and forcing the baristas to put "Merry Christmas" as his name to get them to say it...so it would not surprise me if this was a made up controversy and some poor part-timer got it in the neck as a result.
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--When I was a kid growing up in Montgomery County Maryland, we had a Montgomery County cop in our neighborhood who sometimes wore a belt with a big brass buckle engraved with P.I.G. on it, and below were the words:

"Patience - Integrity - Guts"
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
--When I was a kid growing up in Montgomery County Maryland, we had a Montgomery County cop in our neighborhood who sometimes wore a belt with a big brass buckle engraved with P.I.G. on it, and below were the words:

"Patience - Integrity - Guts"
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*L* Should I ask how you got in a position to read his belt buckle?
 
Cordelier said:
*L* Should I ask how you got in a position to read his belt buckle?
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No "position"...the damn thing was hard to ignore. He would come around to all the high schools in the area. It was just a big brass belt buckle, like the kind the rodeo guys wear in TX. When you see "P.I.G." on a cop's belt, it tends to get noticed.
 
In another, similar incident...

Chief: Local officer resigns after making up coffee cup incident

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (KSNT) – In a joint press conference with McDonald’s Monday night, the Herington Police Chief said the coffee cup incident was a hoax.

Chief Brian Hornaday said McDonald’s didn’t have anything to do with writing obscenities on an officer’s coffee, and that it was “fabricated by a police officer no longer employed with the agency.”​
 
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