😳update on soup thrower..police will investigate as higher level crime/ soc media says shes nurse

[Demovictory9]

https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/soup-throwing-incident-to-be-investigated-as-higher-level-offense-temple-police-say/500-51625c93-97fe-45d7-b428-dcf81729c2d7

Temple police will investigate the case of a woman who threw soup in the face of a restaurant employee as a "higher level offense," a spokesperson for the department told 6 News Friday.

Alejandra Arreguin said the class C complaint that was forwarded to the City Court is being dismissed.

The new charge will be "determined on the outcome of the investigation," Arreguin said. "We are just investigating higher charges."


A video that quickly went viral around the world shows the woman throw a large serving of soup in Jannelle Broland's face as she stands behind the counter. It happened Nov. 7 at the Sol De Jalisco on South General Bruce Dr. in Temple. The woman, who police have yet to identify, then quickly leaves the restaurant.

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Hard to understand why nobody wants to work in service anymore, right?

Just lazy covid unemployment something something right?

[LizBeth]

5. +1

[Hortensis]

16. Restaurants and markets are staffed in our deep red area, and

I haven't read or heard of an incident like this in our county of 200,000. Just looked again, found none.
It's important to keep at least one foot firmly set in reality. Though there must have been some unpleasant confrontations, they're not exactly driving employees home to binge watch The Boys instead.

Some areas are experiencing more, just read about southcentral Los Angeles restaurants that've had to deal with some and are now worried about how their employees are expected to enforce the new vaccine mandate. The city council decided not to make causing disturbance in a restaurant a crime, but managers and teenagers are supposed to make people who refuse and crowd on in show vaccination cards? They might just lose some employees there.

[Maru Kitteh]

21. 25 years ago when I worked in food, I endured abuse like this. Food thrown

at me. Verbal abuse. Threats. Men trying to fast-change me.

Wasn't any pandemic then.

A re-ordring of society is underway.

[Hortensis]

22. :) Where the hell were you? I was a server in a casino restaurant

working swing shift most of the time, plenty of drunks around, and NOTHING like that ever happened. Also worked at Woolworth's, daytime serving in the restaurant and alone at the snack bar, with people of all types including businessmen, workmen on lunch break, women, families with children, teens, unemployed goofs -- NOTHING like that that I saw or heard from others at that time.

Nothing even close to the environment you describe.

No food thrown, unpleasant/unreasonable customers groused about in the break room but no threats, no verbal abuse. Some hitting on us, especially in the casino when I was a teenager, but nothing memorable. Security was out on the casino floor, but the only time they were called in while I was there was now and then to remove a drunk; some could get obnoxious and loud, but usually they'd fallen asleep.

Oh! Evening playroom matron at a bowling alley -- now there's an opportunity for abuse when you offend someone by telling her her child won't be allowed to return and her friends are ready to rumble and threatening you with 14-pounders. That's a joke. There was potential upstairs -- an off-duty cop worked security in the evenings, but no abuse aimed at me.

Things are quite strange right now in general, but what you describe is not normal by far most places, no matter what's posted on social media. And 25 years ago, it wasn't like that either. You apparently worked in a very unhappy place.

But maybe get out and look around for yourself. These days it wouldn't be surprising if people were more easily irritated in general and rudeness has picked up a bit. Haven't noticed, but I haven't settled in to watch either.

[Maru Kitteh]

23. Texas and North Carolina. I don't expect my experiences were

terribly unique. The real fun started when I began my nursing career.

[Hortensis]

24. Sad. Life can be hard and is harder for some than others.

Definitely for a lot of acute care nurses right now.

My rheumatology practice is a serene, civilized place away from the holocaust for its staff, but even there it's felt. They lose more patients to Covid than the average, and a PA told me they've had a bunch of patients return after surviving stays in the ICU and come in traumatized and changed by the torment they underwent.

[taxi]

3. The soup being too hot to eat was the last straw.

She wanted to do more than just make a mess and abuse someone. These crazies empower other crazies, and it brings lots of attention to the groups of the crazies. They all want to be seen on the midway.

edit: language

[tblue37]

9. The victim said the soup had cooled a lot by then, but that the spices really hurt her eyes and

blurred her vision.

[taxi]

13. She was fortunate. It must have been awful.

The thrower needs some help; I'm not sure jail provides for it.

[taxi]

17. That brings up hot soup, meaning what exactly?

The thrower indicated that the lid was misshapen, showing she knew the temperature of it, but did the manager hear about the spicy-hot soup?

Either way, this angry over soup!

[Aristus]

18. Did she know that soup doesn't go in your eyes?

How f*****g stupid is this hamhock?

[blueinredohio]

4. If the soup was too hot to eat wouldn't it be too hot to throw in someone's face?

[GoCubsGo]

7. Yeah, most people's first impulse is to wait a few minutes for it to cool down.

I'm glad they've upped the charges on her. I hope the cashier is okay. Normally, when people get upset about take-out food, it's because it's not hot enough. This woman was obviously bent on causing a scene.

[tblue37]

10. Her main complaint was that it was so hot it melted part of the plastic cap into her soup.

[dalton99a]

6. POS is a public menace

[malaise]

8. She belongs in prison

That is all

[tblue37]

11. She deserves real punishment, that's for sure.

[tblue37]

12. May not be a nurse. That might be a different Amanda Martinez, a video editor and sound

designer at Storycraft Lab. Some articles I've read say that's the soup thrower.

I don't know which one is guilty, but I do think we should wait for a certain identification.

[dalton99a]

19. Not a nurse

[Johnny2X2X]

14. Was the victim injured?

Had the soup cooled enough time not burn her? I didn’t read that in the story.

What a nasty person. People who work at restaurants do not have easy jobs, treat them with compassion and kindness.

[tblue37]

20. The soup had cooled enough, but the spices in it burned her eyes and blurred her vision

for awhile.

[bluestarone]

15. I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY looking forward to someone IDing this IDIOT!

Hope her life changes drastically. Jail time loss of job.