I received word of a break-in attempt at Sova. The writer sent along this photo.
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UPDATE
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I'm now told that they were open when after someone ran off with the tip jar. I had received the photo, and the email heading saying attempted robbery. I assumed the author was just using it in place of burglary (apparently not the case) because it looked to me like the glass was smashed, and the metal bent (I guess that was just because the door is actually open). Sorry for the confusion.
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They are getting more desperate. A woman was carjacked at noon on 15th and E NE. That is right by the police sub station. everyone be careful!!!
This is sad new, well just mean I have go back there and drink more coffee.
Scumbags. Good point Robby...time to go support SOVA w/ some cash money.
As someone who works at Sova, I can't imagine that this was a break-in attempt. There's a metal security door that clearly the person would have had to have taken into account! I mean, who breaks a glass door knowing that you can't get through the metal security door? You could MAYBE grab $2 worth of straws and sugar through the metal door you see in the picture.
Senseless act, we'll definitely be there for morning coffee and bagels if their open.
I don't think this can be called an attempted break-in since the store was open when the person broke the glass in the door from the inside (the picture is showing the view to the street from inside). I was upstairs when it happened at about 11:30 this morning and heard the crash but didn't realize what had happened until I went downstairs to exit. I agree that this is even more reason to support Sova since it's such a great community place.
i believe some jungle animal kicked the window out as he was running off with the contents of the tip jar. clearly he was angered by all the riff raff colbert king's free shuttle was bringing to the neighborhood. have an extra cup of coffee or a fancy drink upstairs cuz a new window is expensive and us gentrifiers need all the extra cash we can get.
tonyt
the pug
Anonymous
Do u know if the jungle animal was W or B
what? weird or bizarre? yes both and s for sucky.
tonyt
the pug
Anon 10:06 -- does it matter? Without any more detailed description than that, will you be able to identify who did it if you know the answer to that question?
also I for ill mannered
tonyt
j for jerky? my wife is out and the kids are asleep. i could do this all night. g for gross? doesn't change the fact that some animal can't behave around decent folk. and sova is going to have to pay for a new door.
tonyt
the pug
tony t,
i don't know if anyone has explained to you the racial implications of the term "jungle animal", but i suppose i'll be the first. certain countries have jungles, others don't, so ignorant people "back in the day" took to calling black people slurs like "jungle bunny" and the like. you might want to choose a nice racially neutral phrase like "asshole" for future reference to individuals who randomly destroy property. thanks.
Or we can voluntarily choose not to be so "sensitive" to a "label" that was clearly not intended to be a racial slur in this instance and focus on giving Sova some extra business to make up for replacing damaged property.
Inked had asked us not to be so negative. I was hoping it would last for at least a week before it went down hill again. Looks like it hasn't been able to last the first weekend.
't' for twit. Friggin twit that, as Tony says, has no respect for anyone... Not even his/her self. This crap pisses me off.I'm sorry, but I'll call the perpetrator whatever I want. U think they call me by "polite" names?
There are jungles across the world from the Caribbean, Central and South America, throughout Asia and the Pacific, so there is no specific "racial implication" unless you're trying to make one up, soul searcher.
From Wiki:
"The Law of the Jungle" is usually an expression that means "every man for himself," "anything goes," "survival of the strongest", "survival of the fittest" and "eat or get eaten".
However, Rudyard Kipling in his fictional work, The Jungle Book, uses it to mean an actual law code used by wolves and other animals in the jungles of India." Indians are Caucasians.
It's too cold right now to call any animalistic behavior "jungle" behavior. How about "arctic tundra animal?"
Jesus H christ people. Lighten the hell up. Tell you what..give us all a list of names we're not supposed to call them once and for all. I'm sick of this $hit.
You said we should have called this dude an "asshole" instead? An asshole doesn't even begin to describe the people causing trouble along H street. The simple fact is their behavior resembles animals you find in the wild, not "assholes."
Snatching tip jars, pissing/shitting in the streets, fornicating in people's cars, yards, etc. This is the kind of $hit you see on the discovery channel. We are classifying them according to their BEHAVIOR, not the color of their skin or wherever the hell they are from.
at the time i was too busy to type inbred white trash meth head red neck, so i went with jungle animal. a rose by any other name is still a rose. i'm still not positive it wasn't colbert king trying to get his revenge on the businesses skimming money from the city with the subsidized h street shuttle.
tonyt
asshole
the pug
and i apologize to any lions, tigers, bears, or other wild animals whose feelings i inadvertantly, and unintentionally hurt.
that asshole from the pug
tonyt
Tony:
As a member of the Bear community, I am so offended by your 'jungle animal' insensitivity. So much so that I can bearly / barely stand to download additional Bear porn as a work-avoidance technique. My entire crappy Monday is shot, thanks to your insensitivity.
You may not be aware, so I'll be happy to educate you (free of charge, unless I can get a government grant), but us older less body-conscious gay men like to call ourselves 'bears'.
So much so that we've invented an entire subculture around the term. Amazing, we've actually convinced other gay men that putting on some weight, getting older, and refusing to shave no matter how much back hair we get is in fact a virtue. And a sexy one at that.
As the designated representative of the Bear Defamation League, I find your slur against us to be, well, shocking.
Shocking.
Now, some may argue that bears are more forest animals than jungle, but I'd say that you simply weren't man enough to come right out and slur us by using the term 'forest animal', so you wimped out and called us jungle animals instead.
But I see your hidden, craven slurring anyway. I mean, really, does a bear and/or the Pope crap in the woods and/or the jungle? Could it be more obvious?
Really, the only way you can make amends is to offer me free drinks pretty much indefinitely.
Free yourself from your hateful past, one free drink at a time.
Just tell me when I can come by to accept your intoxicating apology.
Can't we all be a little less niggardly with our stores of goodwill in the New Year?
oboe, too easy. hillybearman, the whisky shots are almost always free at the pug if you are nice to the bartenders. i might be able to whip up some frothy sweet bear cocktail for you, but you'll also have to explain what the gay rodeo is because i don't want to offend any western animals. alos remember levity does not really what this dummy did. go get a cup of joe at sova.
tonyt
I'd recommend the use of glass-break security film. It applies like window tint film, but it's untinted. Once applied, it's nearly impossible to break through a glass (though still possible to shatter it).
On the next warm day, I'm going to install it on the diner's windows. Even if someone were to smash a window, it wouldn't come apart.
Matt
Store owners need to be creative in deterring robbers.
I recommend watching Home Alone for innovative strategies.
I personally like the flame torch to the dome.
this thread is HILARIOUS!
thanks for the comic relief.
y'all are freaks, and i love it!
I would recommend using Llumar window film. Not only will they cut back on solar gain, but are blast resistant too.
http://www.llumar.com/en/CommercialSafety.aspx
Hey, Oboe! Watch it! Do you remember when that DC Government employee had to resign in 1999 for using the word "niggardly?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/jan99/district27.htm
No amount of dictionary-displaying could persuade the less-literate that he hadn't used a racial slur.
It "sounded" like one and hurt their feelings anyway, so he had to go!
Update from a fairly reliable source says the guy was seriously "high" and barged through the line asked for a coffee, pointed at the tip jar, (not sure if he took it), then barged back out kicked right through the door? Seems he was barely understandable through whatever fog he was in... Anyhow, seems to be another incident that adds to the local instability...insanity...
The baristas at Sova need to be getting hazard pay. Go give 'em a tip or two.
anon 4:49pm: it's good that you explained the history of that expression in DC, because I'm sure oboe had no idea when he used it. no chance he was subtly referring to it in his post, no, no chance at all.
(why isn't there an emoticon for eyerolling?)
"(why isn't there an emoticon for eyerolling?)"
There is. It's just limited to the Malibu Barbie and OMG/LOL crowd.
As for the 'history of the expression jungle animals'.....
My grandma used to call us very white kids 'jungle animals' all the time. As did my parents. And plenty of other white people I know.
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