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I hope the staff spat in their food

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 65 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So these dangerous criminal aliens were perfectly safe while preparing and serving them food and running the restaurant, but became dangerous as soon as they closed up for the day?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Snowflakes probably couldn’t handle the pico. And that’s just embarrassing.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Simple response: Don't feed the animals.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Oh you feed them you feed them the off menu special.

That actually reminds me of a story.

So in 2002 I worked at a place where the old owner still owned the property and he would come by to collect his rent cheques. German fellow, old guy.

He told a story once about growing up in Nazi Germany, he was very young at the time but old enough to remember it things.

In the town he grew up in, it was a small town, turns out one day the local butcher and his wife had the SS show up and take them off to be executed.

What they found it was Gestapo officers kept going missing in the area and everyone thought that they were taken to be questioned. No no it turned out that the old couple, who's children had long left the town and had lived elsewhere, were snatching Gestapo officers and then butchering them and selling them by turning them into sausages.

He said the sausages tasted completely normal and everyone was quite surprised how good the sausages were given the fact they they were all eating human sausage

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean they're pigs, must be pork.

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[–] Cruel@programming.dev 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It is unclear who the individuals arrested are or what the reason was for their arrests

Wow great reporting. Didn't contact the restaurant or anything. Just writing about videos people post on social media.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

That is unfortunately SO much media these days. We should demand better, the media is the fourth pillar and its corruption and failure is to blame as much as anything else.

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[–] crimes_of_ICE@lemmy.4d2.org 35 points 6 days ago

If anyone wants to help document their crimes, check out https://crimesofice.org/ :)

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago

Ah, so that explains a few things. A place I went to get some food yesterday, had the front doors locked. Someone had to let me in. Every time I've ever been there, it's usually busy Being vague just in case ICE were to read this.

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Hypothetically, how would the police determine who on the staff accidentally added rat poison to their dish if there were no witnesses?

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Realistically, all of them would be considered guilty of the crime by simply being in the kitchen when it happened.

A conviction hungry DA would use the same laws that apply murder charges to the guy who drove the car. If it happened, and you could have theoretically known it was going to happen, and you still participated in any conceivable way, you also legally committed the crime.

This is one of the many ways this country persecutes black and brown people to feed the prison labor industry.

[–] Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Working in a kitchen isn't a felony though, nor is serving food normally. Now, if someone said they spit in the food and you knew about it but still served it, that could be a felony. If that 'spit' turned out to be rat poison and killed a guy, that's felony murder.

There has to be a level of participation before felony murder happens. If you knew about something bad happening and did nothing to stop it. But, they have to be able to prove that you knew about it, or at least convince the judge/jury

Agree with you about it being used disproportionately on non-white though, there's some fucked up felony murder charges out there.

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 6 points 6 days ago

Head chef, venue manager, and operator are all likely to face criminal charges for something like that. Regulators do not fuck around, least here in aus

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

Hope someone doxxes these bastards. Presumably they had to take the masks off to eat.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

So they got booed out of one Mexican Restaurant and arrested a bunch of people at another in a fit of petty revenge?

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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Evil. Gimme a better term and I'll use it. But for now: evil.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

evil implies the only way to beat them is to be "good'. it demonizes them into being monsters, which is no different than what they do.

a better term is reprobate.

an unprincipled or depraved person

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would add unscrupulous, but it may be redundant.

Having or showing no regard for what is right or honorable.

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[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

At least I hope the staff spit on their food.

And they also arrested the people who hired these Illegal staff members right? Right?

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 5 points 6 days ago

I have midwest crisis fatigue and so Does most of america.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I hope the staff spat in their food

They probably didn't, hoping to prevent exactly what happened.

[–] toeknee@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

I hope all their future meals taste like piss and flies

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

anybody know how to read the independent without an overlay telling you to swipe to read the next article covering up the current article you're trying to read?

makes me want to just add them to my network blocklist

[–] Valo85@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

On mobile I use Firefox (I know I know just but hang on a minute) and there's the option to turn to page reader friendly with a tap of an icon in the address bar, near the right side.

That usually gets rid of intrusive overlays, formats the text into a more readable face type and also uses dark mode.

On topic - I'm so sorry America is infested with ICE

NoScript so it blocks JS by default

[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Boogers and cum

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Appropriate

Edit: it's the song from the South Park Yelp episode. 🙄

[–] jago@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Please don't post links to video (esp. Youtube) without, at the least, a description of their contents. Thank you

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