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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Man smashes Home Depot checkout stand with pry bar he was trying to buy
Well, let's look at it this way: At least, this guy wasn't buying a blowtorch.
But that age-old adage -- that patience is a virtue -- somehow slipped the mind of a man shopping at Home Depot on Utah Avenue South in Seattle on Thursday.
Around 9 p.m., the man was in line at a self-service checkout stand, ready to buy a pry bar and hacksaw, according to a Seattle police report.
But as a manager told an officer, the man accidentally hit the button for Spanish on the computer screen.
And that was the tipping point for this consumer.
He became "frustrated that the machine was speaking Spanish," the police report says.
So, instead of asking for customer service help, he let loose a blow with the pry bar and shattered the computer. He ran from the store and made a beeline to some nearby railroad tracks, the report said.
A Seattle police officer searched for the customer. But he had vanished.
I keep wondering why we have made Spanish the "second language" of the USA. It would help people to learn English if we immerse them in it instead of tacitly accepting the fact that they are not making too great an attempt to learn the language of the nation that they have immigrated to.
The issue of Illegal Immigration is a sticky one with so many people already across the border but I don't see this as a need to coddle them. Especially the kids in the schools -- let the Parents and Grandparents speak it at home and among their friends but there should be English only in the schools... Education is key to success.
Posted by DaveH at September 3, 2007 6:48 PM