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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Talk about a caffeine kick.

A morning trip to get a cup of coffee turned into more than several customers bargained for at a Sacramento-area Starbucks when an angry panhandler ransacked the store, according to police.

The bizarre incident began at the Starbucks at West El Camino and Truxel after a man began asking customers for money. When he failed to get any donations, witnesses said he grew very agitated and started screaming at people.

Officials said he also allegedly shattered a glass counter that separates the customers from the baristas, and threw coffee and other items all over the cafe.

The suspect then ran out of the store, but was later arrested by police. Even while sitting in the police cruiser, the suspect continued to act strange, nodding and shaking his head at CBS13 cameras, and even licking the window.

No injuries were reported.

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  • Obama Nation

    He had a right to, they had money and he did not. He wanted to share their wealth. Must have been occupying a park someplace.

  • John K

    guy was obviously over caffeinated 2 begin with

  • Tapestry

    The panhandlers are very aggressive lately, probably because none of us can ‘spare a dime’ much anymore.

  • tnbristol24

    That’s why I don’t shop anywhere near there

  • sacking

    Thank you OWS for empowering every loser low life out there into thinking that they have the right to demand their share of the pie just because they’re alive, and not for any effort on their part. Watch us tumble into the abyss thanks to OWS and Greece.

  • JOe Dutra

    There was a lot of discretionary income in that shop. It was their duty to give up some of their earned income to the bum that votes Dem.

  • greg miller

    It is to bad that someone did not shoot him right in the head…

  • Taco

    OWS protester

  • Caligula

    he was just looking for some hope and CHANGE.

  • michael moore

    a caged animal much like the zoo

  • hammerjim

    It’s crackheads like him that go on to bigger and better crimes and then get the state to pay for their lawyer because they have none. If you can’t afford an attorney, one will appointed for you. So who do you think pays for that bill…….taxpayers

  • Joannie

    Another perky Obama supporter

  • Magnus

    An Occupy Sacramento-e

  • er

    He just wanted a little Occupy Action! lol

  • AtlasObjectivist

    Standard liberal fare.

  • bleem

    Is this Bushes fault too? Oh well another O supporter wanting his free handout. Love the divide and conquer mentality of this regime.

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  • walter12

    In Montana, if this bum and nutcase did that and attacked anyone, he would have been shot dead by a licensed, regular citizen. No one but the criminals have any guts anymore in your California.

  • jack

    Maybe he didnt get the memo about the Obama cash only going to the rich 1%ers and Hollywood elite?

  • mike s

    He should have applied for a solar shopping cart loan. Easy 550 million from the O.

  • Jeromette

    Income inequality. If you don’t like it, share the wealth.

  • Claudio Bendotti

    No excuse for his actions, this mans could possibly be mentally ill.

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  • Gibbs Bentley

    You silly gits … that’s the new Starbucks greeter. It’s just like Wal-Mart but with an urban edgy twist. Obamanomics dictates this mandatory position to increase the employment stats. Keeping it real …. get with the programme.

    http://911essentials.com

  • kevin hall

    My guess is that he is mentally ill, or a democrat…..same thing actually….

  • Joe

    They should open up the insane asylums again and clear these people off the streets,

  • radicaltruth

    @Jeromette wrong. if you demand what i have and try to take it, prepare for the consequences.

  • Tim

    OWS is just trying to replenish their ranks; apparently STDs and cold weather are taking a tool in NYC

  • Pedro Gomes

    Typical,.. black, liberal, obama voter, on welfare, minimal education, ignorant, agressive, believes the whole world should provide him, an all around DEMOCRAT ready to vote again!

  • Scarf

    Good thing I was not there. Had I been, this POS loony toon would have left the scene on a gurney rather than in a police cruiser.

  • James

    You first.

  • Phil Mckracken

    Ah, Diversity! Isn’t it wonderful?

  • Gunny G

    NO DOUBT AN OBAMA VOTER! they are OWED don’t you know?

    THE ANTI LIBERAL ZONE on blogspot

  • Gunny G Alz

    Man you NAILED IT!

    Hope you have lots of ammo because when Blowbama gets the boot in 2012, the riots WILL start.

    THE ANTI LIBERAL ZONE

  • Gunny G Alz

    More likely just a Democrat. Wait, my bust, liberalism IS a mental disease.

    THE ANTI LIBERAL ZONE

  • SerfCityHereWeCome

    Here, have this sock full of quarters upside the head, parasite.

  • Anon

    We have o take back our country, and yes, that means stomping these bums out of existence. That includes bums, Flea-baggers occupying our parks, corrupt politicians occupying Washington DC, Hollywood propagandists, and anyone else who stands against American values and traditions.

  • p dirt

    I was going to sarcastically compare this guys behavior to the greedy commie OWS crowd but you beat me to it. At least I hope you were joking.

  • Mike Alright

    Sounds like a typical, modern, feminized, EMPOWERED crazy American to me.

  • HeyHey

    He was entitled to your hand out. There you are buying coffee when you should have given your money to him

  • Tom Menino

    Heck, I woulda given the guy $20 if i knew he planned to ransack a Starbucks. Ransack them all, I say! They are a blight.

  • Middle Way

    Why did he get arrested? He’s clearly in the 99% Selfish coffee drinkers . . .

  • Witover2

    And yet you propose an excuse.

  • Samuel

    Yeah, that’ll work, throw money at him. It’s worked everytime it’s been tried, right?

  • H.G. Lovecraft

    Absolutely. At least half the vagrants you see in California are mentally ill — and they folks don’t pay attention to how good or how bad the economy is.

    Insane asylums cost money, of course — but if the money can ever be found, it would be well spent.

  • JJ

    I’ve noticed an increase in panhandling at intersections and gas stations lately. They’re everywhere and getting harder to avoid. Every time you pass by one without looking they to get upset at you, like we’re all supposed to just hand over a few bucks because you write down you’re a vet or whatever. Think about how many homeless people there are in your nearest big city, then think about if you gave them each just a dollar, most people wouldn’t have enough to do it. Sorry man, im not giving you my money that I worked hard to earn.

  • Tickyul Horrific

    Obamster WILL have a 3rd term and beyond…………the Obama Paramilitary will make sure of that.

  • Me

    He’s a Hope for Change guy…i saw the Obama Button hes wearing

  • Todd Clemmer

    No suprise. The homeless run Seattle.

  • Andrew James

    Hmmm and to think Assemblyman Portantino (DEMOCRAT) when introducing the AB144 ban on open carrying a handgun said “you dont need a handgun to order a coffee”, right? Well dang, someone send that idiot this story so he sees how blatantly wrong he was.

  • linaso

    We’ll based on the video, I’d say there’s a 95% chance that he’s a democrat.

  • linaso

    I meant “Well” of course without the ‘

  • Bubba666

    Another reason for concealed carry. I pack, and if this wack job started grabbing me or someone I was with, he’d already be in a freezer downtown.

  • Carl Curmudgeon

    A beggar in a coffee house,
    Unsuccessful, began to grouse,
    His shakedown failed,
    The perp was nailed,
    He’s sipping Joe in the big house.

  • slickzip

    Sounds like just the guy ODUMBA is looking for to run his new destroy AMERICA dept..

  • William Risenhoover

    What happens when Occupy Starbucks gets out of hand.

  • ECH

    Maybe he came over from the Occupy protest. I wonder how many times he has showed up to a jobs training center. There was a time when panhandling was not seen so romantically nor was it tolerated that much. That he got mad, even mildly violent, underlines how deep was his sense of entitlement. Now, multiply that incident 100x when in a large city when things get really bad economically, and many, many people like that are wandering about shops.

  • VinaSestonari

    I ‘pack’ too, and I have to say you sound like a fool.

    A good elbow or a kick to the groin solves someone ‘grabbing at you’. Save the gun, and your freedom, for when your life is in danger, not when some homeless dude simply grabs you.

  • Pacino

    THe problem is if i lay this guy out with one punch, guess who goes to jail?
    Thats right me. The govt protects vermin like this like he is some snail darter from the Pacific Northwest. Last year i see a teenage kid stealing my neighbors bike and i chased after him. I told the cop later I was mad i did not clothesline him when i had a chance. The cop said, :we’ll then i would be taking you to jail.

  • Col. Kalechecky

    Someone should have given him a nice hot cup of STFU.

  • David Jones

    Its annoying to have to put up with the homeless. Its even more annoying to live in a world that could take care of these people but doesn’t because they have no money, and that’s the end all be all of our lives.

    This guy is a human being, he might have saved lives in past. He may have been a great kid. Things went wrong and know he’s got severe mental problems that have gone unchecked because of that money thing.

    Sickens me to read how folks would rather just shoot this guy then lend him a few bucks.
    Your all going to be held accountable for how you treat others on this planet. Don’t forget that could be you one day.

  • mephistofan

    This is what happens when you fortify a violent culture with a sense of entitlment. You end up with yet another angry Obama voter. Michelle would be proud.

  • contrarian

    I also carry, and I agree with Vina: fire a weapon in that situation and YOU become the story. Another option would be pepper spray. It disables with no lasting ill effects.

  • starsaboveher

    “bubba” and “vina”… sounds like two extremes!

    i third the ‘pack’ comment, and raise you an aggravated battery.

  • reggie hambone

    13% of the population

    60% of the crime

  • contrarian

    I agree, Mr. Jones: being kind to those in need is the right thing to do.

    At the same time, I don’t think the story offered enough information to come to any conclusions about why he’s in the state he is. It could well be that lots of money and effort have already been expended on his behalf. I know from experience that come people simply refuse to change.

    In any case, he doesn’t have a right to abuse others without experiencing consequences. Pepper spray? Perhaps an arrest for disorderly conduct? Fine. But busting up a coffee shop is not a capital offense.

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  • tomas

    Why don’t you let him move in with you?

  • stoptouchingthatmabel

    How often is the back seat of police cars fumigated?

  • yo yo ma

    I think I’ll call this guy “princess”.
    He wants what he wants and if he does not get it he makes a scene.
    Princess is entitled to your money! He shouldn’t have to ask.

  • yadda yadda

    David Jones…you are out to lunch.
    There is no reason to kill someone for making a ridiculous scene…but who are you kidding. This yahoo is not the way he is from lack of money…and any money GIVEN to him is lost. It certainly is not lent.

    People are responsible for their behavior. That includes people on here as well as this man. While any man can be destitute unexpectedly, any man can tell you exactly what he would and would not do in that scenario. It would be hard, but I would not blame others. I also would not feel entitled to other people’s money. Finally, I would not smash up private property when someone else refuses to give me what is theirs. These actions are inexcusable and are not a result of lack of money…or do you REALLY think that this man was seeking money to get a leg up on his own decision making ability?

  • Jacob

    Yadda, your critical thinking and analysis of written word need work. David said that it may be that the impoverished man’s presupposed mental illness WENT UNCHECKED because of his lack of money, not that said mental illness STEMS FROM the lack of money. Also, if he is mentally unstable, his “decision making ability”, as you so aptly put it, may not even exist. Depending on the illness, he can reason little to null and his “sense of entitlement” may be likened to that of a child’s.

  • Smashicus

    David Jones and yadda yadda, please feel free to take up a collection for this street crazy and others like him. In other words “put your money where your mouth is” instead of judging others. I doubt you will and you will say “let the wealthy pay”. It’s an easy cop-out.

  • Smashicus

    Sorry, yada, I meant Jacob.

  • PhunkyMunky

    People like this need to be taken out and shot. No one owes them a damn thing.

  • lolcatlol

    He would be right at home with the Occupy Wall Street “panhandlers”!

    Also worth mentioning is that “Wall Street” had itself a history making month… profit wise! ooops! :)

    Another thing: The internet now allows people to exercise freedom of speech anytime they wish. Why are these people allowed to threaten violence and mayhem by their constant presence and social interruptions? That’s not speech! That’s harassment and obstructionism. Not to mention the huge amounts of money they cost the cities! Use the internet for your “speech”, the 60s are long over. There is technology now!

    Send these spoiled kids and “rent-a-mobs” home.

    Next time, before you believe some college (who wants your money), do your own research… It not rocket science to see that 90% of these college degrees aren’t really worth squat in the $marketplace$! It’s not OUR fault you were stupid enough to believe a liberal arts degree was worth more than the paper printed upon. And let’s not forget ethnic and gender studies, the “value” those subjects must hold in society is priceless!

    I guess science is too hard and thus any degree will do?? lol

    Grow up please!
    http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/

  • mephistofan

    The definition of legal insanity is lack of capacity to tell right from wrong. This clown raised hell and then he ran out. The fact that he left in a hurry is prima facie proof that he was perfectly aware that raising hell and destroying other people’s property was a no no.

  • mephistofan

    bingo.

  • vera

    So your theory is that money kept by earners is causing him to be homeless, agitated, arogant, demanding, agressive and mentaly disturbed…… just send him all your money. That can heal his mental issues,and all of the problems he has and you can feel good about yourself in your quest to save the planet.
    My theory is this guy is homeless by his own actions and choice. There are shelters, soup kitchens and free clinics for people in peril. There is list of thousands people who were themporary homeless and “recovered” with the help of social services, charities but mostly on their own will and hard work.
    Nobody owes anything to professional homeless. They refused society, society did not refused them.
    You can go and visit this guy in jail any time you want, take some coffee and your bleeding heart with you.

  • Yadda Yadda

    Alright Jacob, let me break this down for you. The very thing I am critiquing is the idea that if the man had money he would get help. I am not saying he would necessarily waste it… I am saying that money does not make mental health professionals appear at your doorstep. You have to go to them and you have to spend money to get their help. Most importantly, you have to be willing to admit you need them.

    Far be it for me to assume that a person who is clearly demanding money and throwing temper tantrums is not likely to admit he has a problem. Ergo, he is not likely to seek help regardless of money. David Jones is out to lunch because he ignores the most obvious fact…this guy does not have to see a doctor if he does not want to…why is wealth even brought into the picture?

    Jones presupposed a mental illness (which I do not concede, pure selfishness is a perfectly plausible explination of this behavior). He presupposed a lack of money. He meets prespposed rejection from a health establishment. That is one hell of a benefit-of-the-doubt.

    THAT is what my critical thinking and analysis of the written word led me to comment on.

    My question to you is why do you figure David Jones is so anxious to point out that people will be held accountable to what they do and say but that this man might possibly be some kind of a victim with no decision making ability?

    The “mentally ill” are also responsible for their actions…even if the action is understood to be related to some condition.

  • Jon

    Sounds like he came from the “occupy” crowd… must have wandered off.

  • Willy Brown

    Obama’s supporters get very nasty if they don’t get a hand out early in the morning.

  • Ernaldo T

    Yes, and then what happens when those inner city shops run out of food? The needy then move to the ‘burbs looking for the stuff. That’s where the revolt will take place….

  • Ted Rutherford

    Ahhh, another one of our black brothers who thinks he’s entitled to free coffee (from Starbucks!). Why is it as soon as I read the headlines of a story like this I know it’s gonna be a black as the felon….??? They’ve been told they’re entitled to what the white man has but weren’t told that the white man WORKS for what he has. WORKS….look it up.

  • Mark Thompson

    Are you all insane? If someone started going crazy in a Starbucks, and I happened to be there, I’d find the nearest exit, and head for another shop. If I had a gun, there’s no way that I would ever choose shooting someone (along with the accompanying six figure legal bill, time in jail, an arrest and a trial) over heading out the door. It may be cowardly, but running away is decidedly cheaper, less hassle, and allows me to continue my morning in the normal way than playing Dirty Harry.

  • Eric

    These guys can get away with this sort of behavior because of the “Sheeple” attitude. No gun is necessary to handle a clown like this. One of those nice stainless steel coffee mugs properly applied to the side of his head would have likely handled the situation.

  • Henry Thoreau

    Yet another Obama supporter demanding a hand out.

  • moonmac

    He needed money to buy more drugs – simple as that. Our system enables these Vermon to thrive with endless Free Food Pantry’s supported by the massive Welfare State. Legalize Drugs and regulate to reap the taxes with the added benefit of ending the bloody war zones on our streets and just let these Druggies starve to death or punish them for real crimes(where there’s an actual victim). 90% of the murders in the US can be directly related back to Welfare and or the Drug War!

  • JBM58

    “Busting up a Starbucks”:

  • nunya

    Auhhh, hes one of the 99% im sure lol

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  • PFGF

    Could be a druggie but more than likely he’s mentally ill.

  • Dave Cook

    Six months on a chain gang would do him some good.

  • LibsRnutS

    Obviously a registered DemocRAT. Expects others to just give him their money.

  • John P Center

    homeless just another word for bum

  • Jack Ryan

    Wants something for nothing. Obviously an OWS member.

  • Finbar

    Or both.

  • RobertG

    Panhandlers are becoming more aggressive because it pays. Any jail time they do it but three hots and a cot, new clothes and back to business. It is a rather neat racket we have allowed them to form..

  • Kampf Hund

    I keep wondering who has the greater mental issue – this homeless person who’s either got some serious issues, or the sociopath apathetic troll nerds who spout off OWS! Dem! Lib! like Tourette’s was going out of style.

  • Dave Shaffer

    Wow. A crazy homeless guy busting up a $tarbuck$ in a sanctuary city in California. No big surprise there.

    Slide off into the ocean already.

  • stopthe

    Yup. Too bad conservatives are too morally righteous to end the nonsensical “war on drugs.” They probably like it because of the crime and poverty it creates south of the border, where all the brown people live.

  • Robin

    That liberal shoe fits you awfully well, doesn’t it?.

  • Ricky

    Two thoughts:
    1) Always great to see Drudgereport readers ransack comment section of small news orgs & explain why this is all Obama’s fault haha
    2) This guy almost certainly has a mental health problem, probably why he’s homeless. This has gotten out of control, one homeless guy pulled a knife on me when I wouldn’t give him money. If a homeless person threatens you, don’t pay the ransom. I never give $$ to the homeless BUT I will buy them a meal once in a while

  • Joey

    True. It’s funny how information like that is generally conspicuously absent from the news these day.

  • Ben

    Agree!!!!!

  • BLKMN

    LOL!

  • jackbenimble

    Too bad conservatives are too morally righteous to end the nonsensical “war on drugs.”

    Too bad that during the two year period where Democrats controlled the Presidency , the House and the Senate will veto proof majorities that liberals did not end the nonsensical “war on drugs”.

  • Allen Martin

    Somebody skipped the new Obama “We The People” website addressing precisely why his administration continues to engage in the war on drugs, despite campaign promises.

    The really sad, pathetic lie as to why: “It’s science!”.

  • seanoairborne

    What’s this have to do with drugs,IDIOT?

  • StaticKlingon

    Welfare/entitlement/beggar class is out of control. We should establish work farms for people who want to throw in the towel and leech off the system. Snug hut, climate appropriate uniform, work to eat. It’s the socialist utopia they all long for. Give it to them. After a good taste of it, they might appreciate the opportunities society affords those who are willing to strive for what they want in life.

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  • chech

    nonsense, you better not get involved unless you’re ready to be killed

  • Tom Tucker

    And why shouldn’t he? This is the exact position of not only the Occupy mob, but the present administration. What’s yours is mine and you had better give it to me or I will take it by force. He’s just doing what he’s been taught.

  • Booger

    90 percent? Nice number you pulled out of your butt there moonmac.

  • Susan Fischer

    No ! This morning Joe who couldn’t get his morning fix of free coffee suddenly realized that the Wall Street Occupiers that had more to give of other peoples money would no longer redistribute the wealth to him and his mind was blown when he realized that they now are the Corporate pigs that he came to destroy. It blew his mind out!

  • robert g

    Sounds like you basic occupy wall street type. “gimme YOUR hard earned money so I don’t have to work.”

  • Diego Roswell

    California is a state of victims. Only the government has the guns and force to make citizens comply with its billions of arbitrary laws. Continue being a victim. Die on the street. Die in the doorway of your home. Die in your car. Die at Starbucks. The far left fringe mad men have succeeded at disarming the law abiding, hard working, tax paying Californians, securing the streets for the illegal gun wielding gangs and violent criminals. You built your coffin, die in it.

  • Dave

    Typical left wing progressive behavior when workers refuse to turn over THEIR hard earned money. Look at how obama is behaving after his latest stimulas II hand out program was denied. Two peas in a pod.

  • Ding Chavez

    Spoken like a true Soros/DNC libtroll. Hope they are paying you well.

  • Truthie

    Seriously, this man is the poster child of mental illness among the homeless population. Red/Blue, Lib/Con – the rate of illness is astounding.

  • be rational

    Sure, until your daughter ends up addicted to heroine. “But dad it is legal. I paid good taxes on those drugs!” Then we can pay for her government health care, her doctor prescribed methadone/morphine treatment program, her housing and food. We can give her child “free” food in the schools they only throw away. Then we can all live on the streets after we loose our homes unable to keep up with the taxes to help pay for all this regulation and big government entitlement programs. Let them have a true consequence. Don’t work, don’t eat. YOU want your drugs so bad and YOU want that baby so bad and don’t think a dad is important. Then YOU have chosen your life of poverty and I am not responsible for YOU when you are hungry and living in a slum. Perhaps our kids will then see there are consequences to their choices and choose a better path.

  • Em Jones

    Obviously, this caffeine addict’s destructive outburst is Bush’s fault. Thank you for your cogent insight.

  • Ni**ger Joe

    Obama’s gonna pay my rent for me !

  • Charybdis

    Occupy Starbucks!

    Why the outrage here? This guy is simply demanding what he’s entitled to. It’s not like he’s asking for his college loan for a Master’s Degree in Underwater Basket-weaving to be waived or anything.

    Why you all be hatin’?

  • Daisy

    How did I know that this happened in California before reading that it happened in California? I’m only surprised that the homeless guy hasn’t been given his own Starbucks franchise to make up for any insult/injury he may have suffered at the hands of the insensitive to his needs Starbuck’s employees/customers.

  • Firedog

    What gets me is how so many people sit back in shock and don’t do anything when you read about an animal like this going berserk somewhere and threatening the safety of them. Someone should have at least picked up a chair with legs pointed out and forced him into a corner until cops arrived – it would have kept separation too in the event this homeless degenerate had a disease.

    Hey how are you Californians liking your liberal policies on the homeless out there, huh?

  • Firedog

    I vote that comment by “stopthe” as the most brainless so far! Democrats have controlled Washington more than Republicans have over the last 40 years. So considering how much power the Dems have wielded between the White House and both chambers of Congress (for you Obama voters, that’s the House and the Senate) in those decades, put the blame – or at the very least INCLUDED in the blame – Democrats for not stopping the war on drugs. It’s about as useless and stupid as the war on poverty.

  • Armed Texan

    ..or to be PC, someone should have occupied his cranium with a bullet.

  • paul ford

    he wants his free coffee. he has obama inpower and he wants what he was promised . “I don’t have to pay my mortgage anymore. I don’t have to put gas in my car”. etc etc

  • Armed Texan

    The usual suspect, as usual.

  • Pocho Basura

    #OCCUPYSTARBUCKS

  • Susan Fischer

    And the huge grants that supplied Solar panel companies that are now bankrupt and others to follow throwing our money down the drain where the sun does not shine. And we keep hearing how our country is broke. Wall street occupiers and those wanting handouts, even demanding handouts from those that work hard and earn their keep, where is your god now? How come he did not pay your rent? How come you did not get that new car with no payments?
    How come you cannot find a job anymore, did they go overseas? The small company you worked for only pays minimim wage and cannot supply health care but not to worry Obamacare will come to the rescue, yes your god will take care of you, yes we can

  • george

    Well, this is what happens when mental health facilities stop getting public funding. The crazy folks end up in the streets and become a danger to society. Or maybe he was just outraged at having to pay two bucks on up for a lousy cup of coffee. Or maybe he realizes that the unmitigated proliferation of Starbucks is exactly what is wrong with the world.

  • Charybdis

    What do you expect? While we’re living in Obama’s “post-racial” America, the whiteys have the nerve to spend money on a little coffee for themselves instead of giving it to a brutha’. We’re still the RACISTS! Especially since President Soetero has dropped in the polls as of late. I guess we still just don’t get it.

  • Bombastic

    Just great! How are you liking being cold?

  • Bombastic

    @george

    “Or maybe he realizes that the unmitigated proliferation of Starbucks is exactly what is wrong with the world.”

    What? Home brewing can save the planet? You’ve been watching too much Al Gore TV, pal.

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  • TruthHurts

    Or maybe he’s just a criminal George. Enjoy your gourmet McDonalds coffee and don’t forget to add your double smarminess.

  • morgan

    And all could have been avoided for a few pennies, but no, too much greed and prejudice . . .

  • mg

    Homeless are empowered in CA. Most look like ex-college students on an experiment.

  • stebo35

    Amazing what a little class warfare from the top mixed with a little intitlement mentality will create. I fully expect stories like this to be on the incline.

  • Truth Monger

    Not do anything about it?? If I had been there, I would have taken his actions as a threat to my safety, and I would have shot him without losing a momen’t s sleep over it.

    Oh…….it happened in CaleeeFORnia…..they all deserve what they get out there. Never mind…………….

  • Telling it like it is

    Tell it like it is……………..just another ghetto thug doing what they do.

  • Ewe Jankass

    Beware the homeless – here’s another one about a homeless dude who didn’t get his spare change: “…beating an elderly man to death with a baseball bat at a Lakewood Walmart store.

    Witnesses say the suspect, who appeared to be homeless, approached a 74-year-old man in the store’s sporting goods section Tuesday and asked if he could spare some change.”

    This happened in LA….again…bunch of loonies out there. Tight-a$$ republicans not giving their fair share.

  • A Non-Liberal Californian

    5 stars Firedog

  • NogHater

    Hey moron! California is ran by demorats! These bums get all the gibs me dats they want and then some at the expense of those of us that pay the tax’s. You would know that if you didn’t suck on the welfare teet yourself.

  • Mark Konen

    Ha ha, snappy comeback!

  • Jerry Adams

    If you really want a panhandler to go berserk, give him a few pennies.

  • Mark Konen

    Explain “greed and prejudice”. How does that relate to this thug going on a rampage?

  • girlswthguns

    You obviously have no idea what youre talking about. If we had more republicans and acted a little more like texas, thugs would be thinking twice before they messed with people. I work hard for the little money I make and get the same taxes taken out as everyone else, if some guy wants a coffee or some change, go pick up cans or go to a shelter and get the help they are offering to help get your life on track. Its the “liberals” that are running this country into the group…

  • Phid

    I have wondered about that lady’s situation for a few years now. I’d like to see the media follow up and ask her if she is not worrying about her mortgage or gas payments now that Obama’s been at the helm.

  • broketaxpayer

    I was just thinking that same thought.

  • Pamela

    Whatzamatta? This is OWS at its finest… entitlement… have vs have-nots… filthy, lying Startbucks customers… $3 for a coffee, but zilch, zippo, zero for humanity.

  • stan_in_usa

    looks like another who’ll vote for Obama in 2012.

  • Pamela

    That’s right Stan. We’re gonna come and take all your stuff, and Obama’s gonna help us do just that. You don’t own nuthin… all your base are ours. Live with it.

  • fgill

    Hey, these patrons should count themselves lucky that they only had to witness a little acting out. A customer in a Lakeside CA Walmart was beaten to death with a baseball bat yesterday when he failed to give one of our Holy Homeless angels some spare change. As California goes, so goes the nation.

  • Silhouette

    Keep thinking that “sista”…I’ve got just the ticket for U…in fact, I’ve got boxes and boxes of tickets in case th’ OWS group feels left out (kinda like Obummer will feel this November)….want something for “nuthin”….there’s plenty to go around…just ask and ye shall receive.

  • Yogi Bears Tie

    Does the rest of the country have Professional Panhandlers possing as taking donations for charities that you never heard of? Many have the same wood boxes and a fake sign for some unknown charity. They camp out in front of stores day after day after day. Many have a card table and a chair. 100% phony, and they are everywhere.

  • grannyb

    get a job & buy yourself a cup of java.

  • Bob Trelka

    Im a gun owner,i would have shot these people.

  • Aaron

    Sounds like he belongs at an occupy rally.

  • Mike G

    The guy is just a victim of white racism and/or a Democrat member of the California Assembly.

  • DEUS VULT

    oK CHUMP….you go apeease the bums/flea-bags and CRIMINALS!
    I have nothing againest charity and helping others BUT I will be damned if I will give my $$$ to any and all bums/flea-bags/criminals!
    ..45 rounds centermass (X2) is the perscription that solves the problem when one of these low-lifes goes off the reservation!
    2012-SAVE THE REPUBLIC!
    NO MORE “resident” obama, mooochelle “antionette” and the cabal of marxist czars!!!!
    GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD “SAVE” THE REPUBLIC!

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