By Stone Martindale Sep 27, 2006, 17:29 GMT
Morning coffee drinkers got more than they bargained for in a jolt of "wake up." A naked man recently attacked a Starbucks in a local Whitley Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, using a gym sock for of rocks to crash in the windows. The man now known as "scone man" ate all the pastries in their case, until the police arrived and subdued him with rubber bullets.
Being on the Atkins diet will make you do crazy things for a bite of anything remotely carbohydrate.... REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV
The Starbucks currently has their doors boarded up. The coffee employees shared their tale with a local LA newsblogger, reported by Defamer.com:"At 5am this morning, a "drunken naked guy" used a sock full of rocks toshatter the glass on the front door, and stormed inside to eat "all thepastries". Police responded and found the guy running around the store,resisting arrest. He had feathers in his hair and an American flag...although it wasn't explained to me if this was a large or small flag, orwhere it was placed (or, perhaps, raised). The cops had to use rubberbullets and a beanbag shotgun to subdue him."One Barista reported: "In spite of what happened,they still let me come to work today."
Some employees mused it could have been a sympathizer of actor Rupert Everett's, who is currently petitioning to keep the behemoth chain out of his London neighborhood.
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