Jackson Jambalaya

When there is a possibility for you to lose sight of your card, pay cash-always. Why would you trust a minimum wage urchin with your credit card?

Use your brains folks...

To be fair, given what they charge for coffee, you actually do come to Starbucks to get robbed.

So true!

You were going to be robbed anyway just by walking in.

Nice language by the victim in front of her kids.

Several weeks ago on a Friday night I had dinner at an Asian buffet in front of a Walmart in Rankin County. Paid with my credit card that left my sight. Following Monday I used it again at another establishment where it did not leave my sight. The following Tuesday afternoon I attempted to renew a State license online. Transaction was declined. Called the State, they said call your card company. Card company denied it along with the OTHER 22 online transactions earlier that day that I did not make. New card arrived a week later. Memorized the 3 digit code on the back and scraped those numbers off the card. Lesson learned. Never again will my card leave my sight.

Baton Rouge? Plays soccer in college?

Screw the drive thru crap. I would have gone in the establishment & whipped her ass (South Jackson style) in front of her boss, her co-workers, God, and anyone else that wanted to watch. The criminal justice system is just that-system that protects criminals. A good ole fashioned ass whipping would have made the point clear to that thug. I would plead that it was in the heat of the moment & I temporarily lost my sanity (if the bitch tried to press charges). And for the Asian restaurant comment above-I know which restaurant you are talking about. They all come to work in a silver van (all 15 people that work there). They're illegal. Call immigration services on them tomorrow (after you go in and pull my South Jackson Ass whipping described above).

Sorry, I couldn't stand to listen to that filthy skank chewing gum with her mouth open. Probably would've be entertaining, though...

Interesting thought about scratching out the number on the back. Never thought of that.

As to the notion of not letting a card leave your sight, there is not a restaurant on the planet who runs your diners club or american express card at your dinner table.

Lots of illegal chinese walk County Line to work at the new chinese restaurant that just opened just west of Toys R Us. Like the illegal Mexicans, they live in apartments east of Academy.

5:45 and 6:16 - The attitude of apathy and looking down your noses at the victim are major contributing factors for many of the problems society faces today. Too many of us accept some crime because the victim doesn't live in the right part of town, doesn't talk with our hymn singing tongue, doesn't prioritize rearing their children as we think they should. Let's get over ourselves and uniformly stand with the members of society that are making an effort.

Actually in a majority of other countries, they bring the card scanner to your dinner table for this very reason. It's a small portable/wireless one. I've seen it in South Africa and Italy so far... and this was over 5 years ago. America is behind the times.

Just another example of how the U.S. is dropping behind other countries. We used to be No.1 in the world. Not anymore. Thanks to the practice of electing life long politicians and voting for a person's skin color.

Also just another example of the "supersize-me/drive thru" society that we have become. Agreed, no one should have her card cloned, but if she had taken a moment to walk inside and watch the transaction, this could not have happened.