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OT: The Tavern at Phipps "Incident"

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OT: The Tavern at Phipps "Incident" 

Post#1 » by lethalweapon3 » Thu Aug 7, 2008 10:03 pm

I, for one, am totally shocked by this.

I mean, really... JOE BARRY CARROLL was an All-Star? :o

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/08/06/phipps_tavern_lawsuit.html

Former NBA all-star Joe Barry Carroll claims in a lawsuit that he was humiliated and traumatized by the way he was treated in a Buckhead restaurant...

Carroll and attorney Joseph Shaw went to the Tavern after work Aug. 11, 2006. They sat at the bar and ordered drinks and food...

A short time later, a bartender asked them to give up their seats for two white women. There were "several white males" also at the bar, but none of them was asked to move, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw politely declined, but the bartender told them it was the Tavern's custom for men to give up their seats at the bar to women, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw were then told repeatedly by two other Tavern employees to give up their seats, while none of the white men at the bar was asked to do so, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw, saying they wanted to finish their meal, still declined to leave their seats at the bar. So the Tavern management called a security guard who escorted the two men out of the restaurant, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw soon filed a complaint before the city of Atlanta's Human Relations Commission.

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Re: OT: The Tavern at Phipps "Incident" 

Post#2 » by evildallas » Fri Aug 8, 2008 1:25 am

His nickname is misleading. He does care.

After reading the article, I am comfortable in siding against the Tavern at Phipps. If I just have a drink, I may give up my seat if I feel like it, not just to give a bartender easier access to a babe. If I'm eating? No freaking way. It's been years since I've been to the Tavern, but back then I don't recall anyone being asked to give up their seat for a woman. Then again I'm white.
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Re: OT: The Tavern at Phipps "Incident" 

Post#3 » by High 5 » Fri Aug 8, 2008 1:30 am

I don't like people who eat at the bar.
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Re: OT: The Tavern at Phipps "Incident" 

Post#4 » by lethalweapon3 » Fri Aug 8, 2008 8:10 am

Man, I really should've gone into law... talk about job security. Did this case really get dragged along in legal wrangling, going over 2 YEARS, just to get to this point?

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Re: OT: The Tavern at Phipps "Incident" 

Post#5 » by conleyorbust » Fri Aug 8, 2008 2:10 pm

Its gender based discrimination even if Joe Barry can't prove it's racial.
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Re: OT: The Tavern at Phipps "Incident" 

Post#6 » by HMFFL » Fri Aug 8, 2008 10:13 pm

evildallas wrote:His nickname is misleading. He does care.

After reading the article, I am comfortable in siding against the Tavern at Phipps. If I just have a drink, I may give up my seat if I feel like it, not just to give a bartender easier access to a babe. If I'm eating? No freaking way. It's been years since I've been to the Tavern, but back then I don't recall anyone being asked to give up their seat for a woman. Then again I'm white.


I feel the same as you do about this. If he receives any money it's going to be donated to charity.

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