# Shocking, Disturbing Restaurant Assault Vid: Woman Allegedly Beaten Into a Seizure As Employees Laug **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 22, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398 "2011-04-22T20:05:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ajb867](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@ajb867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajb867)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/61 "2011-04-23T07:12:49Z")
You are going to have to do better then that. I feel like you need a let me google that for you link. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/62 "2011-04-23T07:14:59Z")
> [@ajb867](#): > > You are going to have to do better then that. I feel like you need a let me google that for you link. Okay Dr YouTube, you keep on thinking that. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/63 "2011-04-23T07:16:24Z")
> [@ajb867](#): > > You are going to have to do better then that. I feel like you need a let me google that for you link. > **[McDonald's Employee Took Credit For Filming Brutal Beating In Baltimore Fast...](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/mcdonalds/mcdonalds-employee-filmed-brutal-beating-640128)** > > UPDATE: McDonald’s fires worker who videotaped brutal attack. > A McDonald’s worker has taken credit for filming and uploading to YouTube the latest viral video to capture a brutal assault at a fast foo "The victim suffered cuts to the mouth and face during the attack and was transported by medics to Franklin Square Hospital for treatment, according to a police report " ---
**Author:** ![ajb867](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@ajb867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajb867)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/64 "2011-04-23T07:21:37Z")
Yes bdgr I misread that. However the the man or woman in the video did not have a grand mal seizure. Flailing around on the floor to stop the attack is exactly what they were doing. Hey sleeps your car accident victim, think they had a seizure first causing the accident? Did they have one right there in front of you? Was it just like this video? Relevance? Implied consent? ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/65 "2011-04-23T09:55:01Z")
> [@ajb867](#): > > Yes bdgr I misread that. However the the man or woman in the video did not have a grand mal seizure. Flailing around on the floor to stop the attack is exactly what they were doing. > > Hey sleeps your car accident victim, think they had a seizure first causing the accident? Did they have one right there in front of you? Was it just like this video? Relevance? Implied consent? I’ve seen siezures before. It could be real, it could be fake. You don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/66 "2011-04-23T13:43:44Z")
The hitting was of course out of line, but do women have the right to be upset a man dressed as a woman was going to use the womans bathroom? I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/67 "2011-04-23T13:54:28Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > The hitting was of course out of line, but do women have the right to be upset a man dressed as a woman was going to use the womans bathroom? I dunno. A quick google says that yes, they do have a right to be upset in Maryland. [ > [@](#): > > On Saturday, the Maryland House of Delegates voted to advance a bill that would ban discrimination against trans people in employment and housing—but would stop short of eliminating discrimination in public accommodations. ]([http://www.tbd.com/blogs/amanda-hess/2011/03/maryland-legislators-still-obsessed-with-toilets-9823.html](http://www.tbd.com/blogs/amanda-hess/2011/03/maryland-legislators-still-obsessed-with-toilets-9823.html)) Mind you, I don’t think they have the right to just open up a can of whoop-ass, but yes, they can be upset. From what I remember, in most (if not all) states, it’s illegal to use a restroom specifically denoted for the other sex, as well, so if this was a transgendered man in a women’s bathroom, even if all he was trying to do was take a leak, he could be charged with a crime. I think that’s prolly a lesser offense than the 2 women will be charged with, tho. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/68 "2011-04-23T14:21:47Z")
And the reason transgendered use womens rooms is to avoid getting assaulted. So what’s plan B? Accessorized catheter bags? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/69 "2011-04-23T14:38:54Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I can’t get to the video from where I am right now, and I really don’t want to give Beck’s Blaze any click-through anyway, but I heard about this at lunch, on the radio when I was giving myself my daily blood pressure elevation check by tuning into Limbaugh for 15 minutes. > > Any idea what he was going on about with this shit (paraphrased): “You’ll need to wear an ‘I Love Obama’ t-shirt in fast food restaurants now if you don’t want to get beaten to death.” He’s a Republican propaganda merchant; it’s his job to show how everything bad is the fault of the Democrats. Didn’t you know? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/70 "2011-04-23T14:41:20Z")
According to the victim > [@](#): > > Polis told police that she was walking to the restaurant’s bathroom when she “got into a verbal argument with two black females” who “began punching her in the face with their fists and pulling her hair.” The transgendered person never made it inside the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/71 "2011-04-23T14:50:32Z")
> [@ajb867](#): > > Yes bdgr I misread that. Okay, so, you were wrong – and aggressive about it. > [@ajb867](#): > > However the the man or woman in the video did not have a grand mal seizure. Grand mal? Now you’re moving the goalposts. > [@ajb867](#): > > Did they have one right there in front of you? Was it just like this video? Relevance? Implied consent? Pretty aggressive comeback from someone who’s admitted being wrong, misunderstood what the thread said, and is openly moving the goalposts. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/72 "2011-04-23T15:20:21Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] The transgendered person never made it inside the bathroom. [/QUOTE] That would be a great opening line. Or a good sentence for an English grammar textbook. I’m hoping Charm gets in serious major trouble as well for crimes against language if nothing else (“Tha” is not a word you moron!). And that McDonalds learns they can’t keep toying with people by offering the McRib and then not offering it. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/73 "2011-04-23T15:30:43Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > And that McDonalds learns they can’t keep toying with people by offering the McRib and then not offering it. I’m lovin’ it! > [@sleeps with butterflies](#): > > I’m a nurse who has worked in emergency rooms and trauma centers since I got my license. I’ve seen plenty of seizures and I’ll still say you are an idiot. I-d-i-o-t if you think you can armchair quarterback whether or not that person had a seizure from your keyboard. > > I’ve been with an ambulance crew where a car accident victim seized twice and refused transport. > > Fucking idiot. EMT chiming in to add that I’ve seen situations very similar to what you’re describing. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/74 "2011-04-23T15:37:08Z")
Transvestite and transgendered are two different things. Obviously the whole story is just a transparent attempt at race hustling, though, and dishonestly presented at that. I’m sure this will saturate Fox News for the next month or so. They love to scare whitey with pictures like this. Remember that black guy with the stick that stole the election for Obama. For the record, the assault looked like a criminal act and these women should be prosecuted. It wasn’t the job of the employees to put themselves at physical risk, though. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/75 "2011-04-23T15:41:46Z")
Does anyone honestly believe if two white women were beating a lone black woman into a seizure in a business filled with black employees not a single one of them would have intervened other than to film it on their cell phone? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/76 "2011-04-23T15:44:44Z")
Why would they behave any differently? I suspect that if two white women were videotaped beating up a black transgendered woman, the righty attitudes would be completely reversed. The victim would be getting depicted as a vicious sexual predator. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/77 "2011-04-23T15:46:49Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Does anyone honestly believe if two white women were beating a lone black woman into a seizure in a business filled with black employees not a single one of them would have intervened other than to film it on their cell phone? Let’s see… wait, am I black too? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/78 "2011-04-23T15:47:13Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Why would they behave any differently? > > I suspect that if two white women were videotaped beating up a black transgendered woman, the righty attitudes would be completely reversed. The victim would be getting depicted as a vicious sexual predator. Considering how quickly people are jumping on the “it was a dude dressed like a chick trying to get in the chicks’ bathroom” I’d say we’re already seeing that in action. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/79 "2011-04-23T16:03:35Z")
I don’t get how everybody is saying “no one intervened.” Watching the video, I see a black man in a blue shirt (the manager?) pull both the attackers off the victim. He then tries to head them off again a minute later when they come back toward the victim. The attackers continue beating on the victim and then an older white woman tells them to leave her alone and physically tries to push them away and block them with her body. It also appears that a black employee in a red shirt picks up one of the attackers and moves her away from the victim. All the while, someone is yelling, “Stop!” in the background. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398/80 "2011-04-23T16:04:58Z")
I hope the older woman gets some recognition, because she was truly heroic considering her age and the fact she human-shielded the victim. Was the guy in the blue shirt an employee? He wasn’t wearing the red-shirt uniform but it did look like a work uniform of some sort. In any case, McDonalds should reward him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-disturbing-restaurant-assault-vid-woman-allegedly-beaten-into-a-seizure-as-employees-laug/579398.md?page=5)