Gross moment ‘Colorado Karen’ spits at gas station worker after being told she needs to wear a coronavirus mask
THIS is the gross moment a woman spits at a gas station worker after being asked to wear a face mask. The interaction, which is believed to have taken place in Colorado, happened between an angry customer and a worker who was serving behind the counter. Footage shows the lady spitting in the direction of […]
THIS is the gross moment a woman spits at a gas station worker after being asked to wear a face mask.
The interaction, which is believed to have taken place in Colorado, happened between an angry customer and a worker who was serving behind the counter.
Footage shows the lady spitting in the direction of the employee as the two argue over the store’s face mask policy.
The shopper – since dubbed ‘Gas station Karen’ on social media – can be seen lashing out and spitting onto the countertop.
Despite being screamed at, the worker manages to keep calm and refuses to serve the lady.
He then asks the customer behind her – who filmed the incident – to move to a different cash register.
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The woman can be heard shouting: “This is ridiculous! There’s no law that says I have to wear a face mask.”
As she walks out of the shop, the cashier replies: “Actually there is!”
Twitter user Jillcattt wrote: “I’ve been hearing about ‘Karen’ but hadn’t been around one. I encountered one in the wild tonight and it blew my mind. She spit on an essential worker bc he enforced the rule of wear a mask. I wanted to cry.”
The incident is just one of many in which a “Karen” – a slang term for an unnecessarily antagonistic white woman – has been witnessed throwing a fit related to the pandemic.
Last week, a woman was filmed going on a political tirade inside a Trader Joe’s after similarly being asked to wear a mask, according to the Daily Dot.
In April, a woman was charged with terroristic threats after allegedly spitting on a fellow customer who was socially distancing herself.
Jacqueline McBride, 27, was shopping at an Italian market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sunday when she apparently became upset that the other customer, Alexis Danilo, was trying to keep her distance.
Danilo told KYW-TV: “She came too close to me and I just backed away from her, and I guess that upset her. She just said, ‘B****, I don’t have the disease.’”
“Bumped into me, and I said something along the lines of ‘That’s rude, there is a pandemic going on.’ And then she just responded, ‘I’ll fight you right now,’ and took off her mask and spit on my face.”
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McBride is also accused of spitting on a store employee in a separate incident the day prior.
Another shop worker was spat at while trying to enforce social distancing at a store in Preston, Lancashire, UK.
In a different incident, a Walmart shopper was filmed allegedly spitting and coughing on an employee after apparently not paying her full bill.
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