Trumpers attack wrong Red Hen restaurant

[left-of-center2012]

Threats, Bad Reviews For Connecticut Restaurant After Sarah Huckabee Sanders Was Refused Service At Virginia Eatery With Same Name

Shelley Deproto, who has owned the restaurant (in Old Saybrook, CT) for five years picked up the phone and “They said, ‘You’re done, and we’re coming to get you’. She soon realized the callers didn’t care. “You calmly and politely explain there’s no affiliation, but they’re so wound up it doesn’t matter what you say,” she said. “They’re ready to go. They say what they were going to say, which is usually something incredibly insulting and threatening.”

Soon, the Facebook pages and Instagram accounts of the Old Saybrook Red Hen were flooded with vitriol. Deproto took them down. The restaurant’s online reservation system was flooded with fake bookings for large parties. A “Nancy Reagan” and a “Sarah Sanders” took out reservations. Callers placed large, expensive takeout orders for 100 people that Deproto was not naive enough to fill.

She changed the voicemail greeting to stress her restaurant was in Connecticut. But the calls kept coming, mostly from area codes in North Carolina, Colorado and Texas, she said, a new snarling voice every 15 seconds. “As fast as I could delete the messages, we’d get another one.”

She’s now working with Yelp and TripAdvisor to expunge the scores of poor reviews left by people who have never set foot in Connecticut. She has not ruled out a name change.

Full story here http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-red-hen-old-saybrook-20180624-story.html

[Wounded Bear]

1. Ready, fire, aim!

In this way, they attempt to take away our tools to resist them. I guess we're supposed to read this and be scared into not facing up to them.

[underpants]

9. ++++

[CountAllVotes]

2. Typical idiocy

Are we winning yet?

Dump tRump!

[bdamomma]

3. reacting without facts??

seems suitable to their way of thinking or non thinking.

[MrScorpio]

4. Well, no one has ever claimed that Trump cultists were ever smart

[still_one]

5. It is time to see if telephone harassment are a violation of law. I am pretty sure if threats have

been made those are a violation.

The people doing this are scum of the earth, and if it is a violation of law, I hope charges are followed through

[NutmegYankee]

10. Time to trace some calls and file charges. Extradition should be fun...

Sec. 53a-183. Harassment in the second degree: Class C misdemeanor. (a) A person is guilty of harassment in the second degree when: (1) By telephone, he addresses another in or uses indecent or obscene language; or (2) with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person, he communicates with a person by telegraph or mail, by electronically transmitting a facsimile through connection with a telephone network, by computer network, as defined in section 53a-250, or by any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm; or (3) with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person, he makes a telephone call, whether or not a conversation ensues, in a manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm.

(b) For purposes of this section such offense may be deemed to have been committed either at the place where the telephone call was made, or at the place where it was received.

(c) The court may order any person convicted under this section to be examined by one or more psychiatrists.

(d) Harassment in the second degree is a class C misdemeanor.

[lpbk2713]

6. It must hurt to be that stupid.

Morans.

[MoonRiver]

7. The gang that can't shoot straight

[Initech]

8. You really can't make this shit up.