Public shaming: Adam Cripe v ‘furious woman’ at En Salon hairdressers in Escondido, California
To Escondido, California, where Adam Cripe is displeased with the $18 hairstyle he got at En Salon. “It was so terrible, I went home and I shaved my head,” says Cripe. At the salon, he met another customer:
“The lady who was getting her hair cut comes around the corner screaming at me. She gets up in my face and says you’re uneducated, you’re a tattooed piece of shit… And ‘her husband] says, ‘quit being a sissy, it’ll grow back.’”
Cripe alleges salon employees did not intervene.
Cripe’s haircut aroused passions
It gets messier.
“She starts coming at me accusing me of assaulting her, which you can see on the video,” he adds. “I never even touched her, I was holding my phone up, hands in the air…. Pushing me, pushing me. You know a little bigger lady, bump me with her chest, she chest bumped me…
“Then at one point she grabbed my little love handle right here and squeezed it really hard and tried to push me back with that.”
Outside, he says the lady told him in words that suggest English is not her first language: “Get out here and pound it down.”
Adam Cripe then takes to his Facebook page. Having avoided swearing on the TV news, Cripe is happy to utter lots of swears in this video:
Is this an example pub public shaming? We don’t know the woman. It’s a small spat in a small shop that has escalated, fanned by the media. Is it fair that the woman is filmed, humiliated and called names on the giant echo chamber that is social media? Had the police been called, then, sure, the video, such as it is, might well have been useful. But this doesn’t look like justice. It looks more like revenge.
Posted: 31st, July 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews Comments (7) | TrackBack | Permalink
