Carla Neugebauer is the owner of Marcy’s Diner, a restaurant in Portland, Maine, and she’s become the centre of controversy after yelling at a crying 2-year-old child. Carla claimed that the child couldn’t reach the pancakes that her parents ordered, and so she began crying nonstop for an hour. It was at that point that Carla had enough, so she slammed her hand on the counter, screamed “this needs to stop,” and pointed at the child. [googlead]Her parents asked “are you screaming at a child?” to which Carla responded, “yes, I am.” (VIDEO BELOW)
The child’s parents, Tara and John Carson, finished their meal and vowed never to return. But Tara wasn’t done… she took to the restaurant’s Facebook page to share some angry words:
“Who in their right mind would behave like this unless you are deranged?” Tara wrote.
“Yes I am f******* crazy & you are lucky I didn’t get really f******* nuts because being physical is not something I cower from.” Carla responded.
Following the incident, Carla and her restaurant received tremendous backlash from the public. One commenter suggested that Carla should have approached the table and politely asked the parents if they could take their child outside to calm down. But there were also those defending Carla’s action… “not everyone wants to listen to a screaming kid when you go out to have a coffee or a meal.”
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Should the parents have done something sooner? Or did Carla go too far?
