ESPN reporter insults parking lot attendant

[vollygirl]

Sorry, no e on blond? :redface: I'm a brunette. Don't type yellow too often.

 

[Cdywolfe]

If it's obvious, then state what she's lashing out at. The company?

I already have, several times actually. Like I said if it isn't fairly obvious by now it probably never will be but here's one of the many...

So we have a company known for being scumbags jacks her car from the lot of restaurant she was a patron at right after they close. Then they use it to force her to pay a fine (one I'm sure was extremely unreasonable). She comes to the tow company and starts getting treated like crap and lashes out.

 

[Slydell]

I could ask the same question to all of you who want to crucify the girl.

Didn't realize that I'd crucified anyone.

 

[vollygirl]

I obviously don't mean crucify literally. I know that no one is suggesting we nail her to a cross.

Take it for what it's worth but I think I'd actually be defending her more passionately. I'm not a fan of pretty, spoiled, entitled little girls who think they're 10 times more important than they actually are. Which from what I've read, it appears she is.

With that said... I also call them like I see them and in this instance, it couldn't possibly be more obvious that she was the victim.

First, thanks for just talking back and forth. But you're avy is still creepy as hell.

I just don't see her as a victim. She left her car and it got towed. There's nothing about that, in my opinion, that makes it okay for her to attack the personal appearance of the clerk. Not once do you hear her comment on the business. It is nothing except attacks about the appearance and station of the person behind the counter. And if you are honest when you watch it, there probably wasn't a lot of discussion about the practices of the business. She just completely unloaded nastiness on the person she was in front of.

I already have, several times actually. Like I said if it isn't fairly obvious by now it probably never will be but here's one of the many...

You park so you can eat at the restaurant. When your meal is finished and you're done, you get your car and go. She didn't. And she got mad because she wasn't given a pass because she's on TV. That's how I see it.

 

[Cdywolfe]

I feel like it's completely reasonable to assume that after eating at a restaurant you can walk around to a few stores and your car still be there when you get back. The sign says to not leave your car over night. It doesn't say the minute we shut the doors they're hauling all your cars away.

Because you can just isn't a good enough reason to do that to somebody. I'm all ears if somebody can give me a legit reason why her car needed to be towed. As of right now, I've thought about pretty hard and because they could is all I can come up with. Keep in mind it was late Easter Sunday and everything was closing down. It's not as if that spot was in high demand.

 

[Cdywolfe]

Didn't realize that I'd crucified anyone.

You didn't. My bad.

 

[Slydell]

This is not all about a towing company's policies or the restaurant/bar's warnings regarding towing after hours. It's about one individual berating another individual who is doing her job. And, in the childish, entitled way she goes about it.

 

[Cdywolfe]

This is not all about a towing company's policies or the restaurant/bar's warnings regarding towing after hours. It's about one individual berating another individual who is doing her job. And, in the childish, entitled way she goes about it.

We'll have to agree to disagree. In my opinion that's certainly not what it's all about. When looking at this situatin in its entirety, I don't have to look very hard to see at least 3 things that I find far more despicable than the actions of the reporter.

But let's pretend (which is what we'd have to do btw) that her hissy fit is the most important aspect of this story. It would be incredibly negligent (as well as convenient and lazy) to formulate an opinion based soley off a video that's been edited to only show half the conversation and ignore all other context.

 

[salutethehill]

If Parking Wars isn't scripted, then I've seen plenty of times where people treated meter maids, towing companies, etc. like dogs without being provoked. They simply parked where they shouldn't, or didn't pay their tickets. They got mad because they got called out. People don't like getting called out.

My favorite line of the whole video is "lose some weight baby gurl". This is what immediately popped in my head:

 

[Plano Vol]

CNN had an editorial in which the writer felt that the hatefulness that poured out was not the result of exasperation or just a bad day but rather the product of years and years of cultivated *****iness. I tend to agree. Most of us (and my children) were raised to be polite and recognize that you get more with honey than vinegar.

I have experienced a few venues in which such a tirade would have resulted in the loss of a few teeth.