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10.11.2010

some craigslist idiot accuses restaurant of serving cats

Last night, I received an infuriating message from an angry reader named Malina, who described some of the terrible crap she has to deal with in her "meth/tweaker" town of Eureka. I actually receive a lot of emails like this, and I can't help but feel sympathetic to her plight...

Her family owns one of the few Asian restaurants in the area, a Thai/Vietnamese place called Hue, and has had to deal with some awful people and harassment. They've been robbed five times this year, and someone just ran in and stole the tip jar the other day.

They've put up with a lot of hooligan-ass crap, but this racist Craigslist she just found out about was apparently the last straw:

HUES ASAIN CUISINE RESTURAUNT ON 4TH & L BAD PEOPLE (EUREKA )
Date: 2010-10-10, 7:19PM PDT

so i just found out that a friend of mine that lives behind me had to go get his cat from HUES ASAIN resturaunt they had a bunch of cats caged up ouside of their building in back. they said that that were going to kill them. and my daughters cat has been missing fo 4 days now. and we all live in the same area as that resturaunt.... 5 cats have been missing in the last week in a half.....

SO IF YOU EAT THERE YOU BETTER THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE EATING ALL OF OUR CATS AND THAT IS HORRIBLE ..... I AM GOING TO START A BIG THING BOUT THIS PLACE ALL OVER THIS IS SUCH BULLSHIT FUCKERS CANT EAT THE NORMAL FOOD WE ALL EAT THEY HAVE TO KILL OUR HOUSE PETS

FUCK THEM NASTY FUCKERS I AM NOT RACIST BUT THIS REALLY PISSES ME OFF.

BELOW IS MY CAT THAT IS MISSING AND HAS BEEN SEEN BEING CHASED BY THEY RESTUARUNT EMPLOYEES..... AND ALSO THE RESTUART PIC
Seriously? The cat-eating stereotype? This Craigslist troll is really going to go there? And to what end? Whoever the hell it is, they've got a chip on their shoulder, just starting shit because they think Asian restaurants are easy targets. In America, any idiot can accuse an Asian restaurant of filthy food practices -- going as far as accusing the restaurant of serving cats -- and unfortunately, someone who doesn't know any better is bound to believe it because these prejudices and stereotypes are rampant. It's grossly unfair.

Big props to Malina, her family, and Hue. Stay strong and hang in there.