Strange encounter during dinner

[LACamper]

We went to Lakeview Harbor tonight with my brother in law and his wife. Great burgers, btw! Anyway, they sat the 5 of us at a table for up to eight next to the entrance. A scuzzy looking young guy walked in as we were finishing up eating and proceeded to sit in the empty chair next to my b-i-l. My first thought was that they knew each other somehow. That disappeared with the look on my b-i-l's face! He started saying something about being hungry. He and I started telling the guy to get up and get out. No immediate response, the guy continued trying to talk to us. As we started to stand up the punk headed back out the front door. Strange...

Anybody else ever been panhandled during dinner at a restaurant???

 

[louis488]

I am shocked that the restaurant allowed that. I have seen gutter punks on Harrason ave. on the other side of Pontchatrain.

 

[LACamper]

They didn't really allow it. The guy working as host was distracted by someone at the bar. The whole encounter was under a minute. When we told the waiter what had happened they were ticked. One of the bar backs went out to see if they could spot him, which by that time he was a block down.

I just thought it was pretty gutsy, not to mention unusual, for someone to try that in a restaurant.

 

[323MAR]

Do they serve chicken fried steak?

 

[JR1572]

Lakeview (the area in general) isn't as awesome as people make it out to be.

JR1572

 

[Cajun Camper]

Drunk, high on something, who knows anymore.

 

[louis488]

Lakeview (the area in general) isn't as awesome as people make it out to be.

JR1572

just need to fix the streets and get rid of the roaches

 

[JR1572]

just need to fix the streets and get rid of the roaches

Those problems existed long before Katrina.

JR1572

 

[Leonidas]

just need to fix the streets and get rid of the roaches

'Specially when they try to join your dinner party at the restaurants.

 

[LACamper]

Do they serve chicken fried steak?

Fried chicken sandwiches are supposed to be pretty good but I've never passed on their burgers!

 

[swampfoxx]

Eating at the Fro stop in BR once and this black guy goes over to a chick's table, grabbed her burger, and stuffed it in his mouth. If had not been with my wife and kids I would have given him a beat down.

 

[velociraptor]

There is a large population of untreated mentally ill people in the NOLA. This guy sounds like a member of this population.

 

[calcagno45]

That's crazy but I love some Harbor burgers.

 

[Nomad.2nd]

Eating at the Fro stop in BR once and this black guy goes over to a chick's table, grabbed her burger, and stuffed it in his mouth. If had not been with my wife and kids I would have given him a beat down.

That's the type f encounter they make OC spray for....

 

[323MAR]

Lakeview (the area in general) isn't as awesome as people make it out to be.

JR1572

It is a good place for Delagado and UNO students to get drunk though! I prefer Midcity by far!

 

[SicilianSecrets]

You should have given him a hug and a hamburger.

 

[323MAR]

Back in the "good ole days" he would have been dragged to the back and given a beating. They do not return after that is done.

 

[Peacemaker]

Lakeview (the area in general) isn't as awesome as people make it out to be.

JR1572

Why would you say that?

 

[JR1572]

Why would you say that?

Aging infrastructure.
Below sea level.
High taxes.
Understaffed police department.
High flood insurance rates.

Those are right off the top of my head.

JR1572

 

[Emperor]

Those problems existed long before Katrina.

JR1572

What?

I lived there (near old bomb shelter), my entire life up until 2002. There wasn't a safer more close knit neighborhood in all of Orleans Parish. Leading up to Katrina was an inordinate influx of Hispanics on the Jefferson parish side, and some crime was starting appear in places where there was never any fears; but overall it was tampered.

I still have dozens of family members and close friends there. They still run all over Lakeview with no issues.

Now those hipsters?!?