Saturday, December 7, 2013

Another Gay Hate Hoax

People were so darn gullible to believe this evil person and now those believing her look like damn fools.
From Fox News: A New Jersey waitress who received thousands of dollars in gratuities after claiming she received an anti-gay note in lieu of a tip is reportedly issuing refunds to those who gave donations.
Dayna Morales, a 22-year-old former Marine, claimed last month that a family of four who racked up a $93.55 bill at the Gallop Asian Bistro in Branchburg, N.J., left her no tip, only a note saying they couldn’t leave any extra cash for her service because they “do not agree with your lifestyle.”
Morales quickly emailed the story to a gay advocacy website and later posted a photograph of the purported check on her Facebook page. The alleged incident made national headlines and resulted in thousands of dollars being donated to Morales, who said she would send all proceeds to the Wounded Warrior Project. ....
Meanwhile, a representative of the Florida-based Wounded Warrior Project could not confirm Morales had made any donations as of Wednesday, Bridgewater Patch reported.
A representative for the nonprofit group that caters to veterans returning from overseas checked for donations by Morales’ name and within the ZIP codes for Bridgewater, N.J., where she worked, and Bedminster, where Morales said she lives, and was unable to locate any correlating donations. The donations may have been made from a different ZIP code or by a third-party, the representative told the website....
The couple accused of leaving the note for Morales has since denied doing so, telling NBC 4 New York they did in fact leave an $18 tip on the $93 bill. The unidentified couple also provided the station a credit card statement that indicated the tip, according to the report.
NBC News has also reported that a Pentagon source said Morales was dismissed from the Marine Reserve Corps in May because she was not attending drills and that she was discharged under “less than honorable” conditions.
Several of Morales’ acquaintances also since questioned her credibility. Kristina Calamusa, who described herself as a former friend of Morales, told The Daily Caller late last month that the waitress claimed to her that she was “blown up by a land mine overseas.”
But, according to Calamusa, that story was false; Morales was never on active duty. The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y., has also quoted acquaintances of Morales who say she lied about her military service.
Julie Howat and Karolee Larkin, both 23, related to the newspaper a story Morales supposedly told them about her serving in Afghanistan and surviving an explosion that killed everyone in her platoon, leaving her as the unit’s sole survivor. But Maj. Shawn Haney, a spokesman for the Marines, said in an email to The Journal News that while Morales did serve in the Marines Corps reserve from July 2009 to May 2013, there’s no indication in her record of combat service in Afghanistan or Iraq.  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/07/waitress-in-anti-gay-receipt-flap-reportedly-issuing-refunds-to-donors/?intcmp=latestnews
People were so quick to believe her story just because she was this waitress and the supposed evil doers were evil conservatives.
But it was very obvious from the first time the story hit that this story was false.
She claimed she wanted to spit into the food of the evil conservatives when she was carrying the food out.
How many sit down restaurants do you know that will bill you and the customers pay a tip before they even get their food?
But people believed her, paid money to her and she stole it from them and the veterans.
This lady needs to be prosecuted for theft and a hate crime.

1 comment:

  1. I don't think she'll be prosecuted for a hate crime. She didn't identify the diners in question, so there's no victim except people who bought her story and sent her money.

    She's a grifter, obviously has some emotional issues, and has done wrong, no doubt. The reason her story was believable is that similar (non-hoax) stories have really happened, one actually fairly recently, and witnessed.

    It's unfortunate, and she diminishes acts of actual hate and discrimination by perpetuating a hoax. But I think your headline is kind of crass. This isn't exclusively a gay/straight thing. There have been other hoaxes that are left/right political, black/white racial. It's a copycat hoax, and believe me, she's getting solidly negative treatment in the gay blogosphere. No winner here.

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