It wasn’t that Curtis Martin, 24, was unhappy with his Moons Over My Hammy order. He was upset that Denny’s employed a gay waiter. So around 3:30am Thursday, after knocking on the window before the restaurant in Santa Maria, California was open and asking to use the bathroom, he approached a table of seated Denny’s employees and asked if a particular waiter was gay. The waiter said yes. Then Martin allegedly stabbed him and fled back to his car
Now the Martin (pictured) is being booked on attempted murder with a hate crime attachment after police caught him driving away from the scene.
The thirty-something waiter, who suffered neck and throat wounds, was hospitalized and is expected to survive.
Hyhybt
Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether something qualifies as a hate crime or not… but this time, you’d be hard pressed to find a more clear-cut case.
ForeverGay
Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. This is why I use the term HATERosexual in describing heterosexuals. I hope the waiter heals both physically and mentally.
S
@ForeverGay:
I agree with you good wishes for the waiter’s healing. What happened is appalling, to say the least.
However, is it possible that you may not be exercising sufficiently critical thinking in your justification for “us[ing] the term HATERosexual in describing heterosexuals” ?
To be consistent, you would also conclude that all whites are racist because some Caucasians commit hate crimes against African Americans, and that all gentiles are Jew haters because some are NeoNazis etc.
While I, and I’m sure others, appreciate your passionate response to this hateful incident, it may not be the wisest approach to impute the motivations of one individual to hundreds of millions of others.
truthteller
Aren’t your parents heterosexual? Do you have siblings? are they HATERsexuals too?
I think you just wanted to brand “your” word.
Jon
Didn’t take long for the comment thread to get hijacked. I hope this young man has support and help in his community because to make matters worse he’s now out of a low paying waiters job for the forseeable future. . .Also. . .when did Denny’s start having hours? I thought it was a 24-hour joint.
Skyler
@truthteller:
Don’t take it so seriously, there’s a 100% chance that that was only a joke.
Hyhybt
@Jon: Most Denny’s are open 24 hours, but not all. The one here wasn’t doing enough business to support the overnight, so they started closing at, I think, 9:00 until they could move to a better location.
L.
This is just uneffingbelievable. I am just glad the poor guy is going to be OK.
Jon
@Hyhybt: Thanks for the clarification.
Perhaps Mr. Martin would like to make pies for Denny’s in the penitentiary kitchen. . .that would be a pretty soft punishment in comparison to waiting on tables for them.
ForeverGay
@S: I’m talking about the hate haterosexuals have for gay people, it’s not just this instance.
jason
http://calcoastnews.com/2010/09/man-stabbed-for-being-gay/
The above address appears to contain a photo of the alleged assailant.
B
He looks psycho enough to get someone an academy award for makeup if it was an actor in a movie rather than a bona fide creep.
JoeyO'H
Is he a drag performer on the side? He has no eyebrows!
junior
My parents are not heterosexual 🙂 @S:
BlogShag
So this psychopath did this so he could be sent to prison and forced to be Bubba’s bitch?
Too bad, someone should have made him take his meds. And perhaps he should have stopped consumption of the liquor, caffeine and aspartame as well
BlogShag
Oh I see what his problem is. He’s fat. Can’t get women or men, so he’s gotta make a name for himself somehow.
alan brickman
a definate hate crime….abosolutely no question…should get 25 years minimun….
scott ny'er
@JoeyO’H: He looks like a psychotic drag performer.
CONVERSATION CHAMBER
Hmmm. A hate crime committed by a young white guy…and oddly enough, no remarks about homophobia in the white community, or slanderous remarks about the culture of young white males. If his skin were about three shades darker and if he had hair (and it was coarse), this post would have about 90 comments, and 2/3 of them would be unabashedly racially themed.
This happened in California too. Gee, I wonder how he voted on Prop 8.
THERE ARE MORE JUST LIKE ME
@CONVERSATION CHAMBER: My sentiments exactly! Jason? Care to weigh in? C’mon, don’t let us down!