News Barista Stalker Gets Seven Months
posted by March 12 at 13:30 PM
onA few months back, I wrote about an incredibly popular story in the Seattle Times (it topped the Times “most e-mailed” list for weeks, inspired a defensive followup editorial, and eventually traveled all the way around the world) about “bodacious baristas” who serve up “sexpresso” at Eastside drive-through coffee shops. Three things seemed noteworthy about the story: 1) Many of the girls who do these minimum-wage, zero-benefits jobs are underage; 2) One popular theme is “sexy schoolgirl”; and 3) Most of their customers are middle-age men, only one of whom was willing to tell the Times his name.
In the same post, I noted that a grown man had been arrested for stalking a 17-year-old high-school barista (and threatening to kill her and her family) in Kirkland—a bit of synchronicity that gave a creepy context to the Times’ “sexpresso” story.
Last week, the creep was sentenced to seven months in jail (the max is five years), plus ten months’ suspended jail time, for stalking and threatening the barista and her family. He also has to go through alcohol and drug treatment , and he won’t be able to buy a gun or contact the victim for at least five years.
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Good thing about the gun aspect.
A nice tidbit from the article about the guy who was arrested:
Hard to imagine how such ignorant assholes wound up raising a stalker/potential murderer.
There's no connection between the barista who was stalked and the sexpresso story. The victim worked at Starbucks and the 20-year-old "grown man" became obsessed with her at the store.
Semi-related, did they ever catch that guy who was holding up drive-thru espresso stands? I just remember the image of the barista sitting on the floor crying waiting for the cops to show up. (Maybe this should be in the thread about how the SPD just won't do their jobs.)
http://www.thesweetspotcafe.com/baristas.php
I watched Idiocracy last night. Not a very good movie but an enlightening vision of the Starbucks of the future, in relation to this story.
I don't see the connection. This barrista worked at a plain ol' Starbucks. She could've just as easily worked at any department store. The guy didn't become a stalker because she dressed as a sexy barrista.
3 & 7: I think Erica mentioned the Kirkland barista stalker story because there is "a bit of synchronicity that gave a creepy context to the Times’ 'sexpresso' story." So, they are not exactly the same, but they are similar in mabye even more than one aspect. It's interesting to consider what those aspects might be.
Smegmalicious at #5,
Went to the website - funny thing about the Sweetspot logo - that silhouette of the busty lady looks like she is steaming (or burning) her nipples with her mug of coffee.
@8-I understand the connection Erica was trying to make but it was a reach. Many men and women are stalked all the time and it has nothing to do with being scantily dressed. It has more to do with the mentally disturbed individual whose doing the stalking.
I wasn't attempting to draw a connection, I was pointing out a creepy synchronicity of two stories -- one about weird middle-age men showing up every morning to gawk at girls in lingerie, the other about a stalker who thought he had the right to harass a teenage girl who happened to have a job where she couldn't escape him (without risking her job). The two things are different, obviously, but part of the same society that makes men actors, women objects.
"weird middle aged men wanting to look at girls in lingerie"
erica, just how un worldy are you?
called sexual attraction, as basic as breathing
not weird at all - you are indeed a prude from small town America - get into some honest talk with the folks around you, it seems mom and dad utterly failed you
would that be most of the men at the Stranger, most 10-15 years your senior, "weird" if they had an erotic interest in you if you were in your under ware?
of course they would, maybe the dykes too - age means nothing, nothing, nothing
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