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    04/22/2015

    ESPN reporter suspended for, well, being horrible

    By Quentin Langley

    Britt McHenry was facing a stressful time. She was retrieving her car from a tow lot. But there is simply no way to spin this story that presents her behaviour as anything other than disgusting. Even if we assume that her car was towed unjustly and that the fees being charged were outrageous, her offensive tirade belittling the lady collecting the fee was despicable. The clerk was, I think we can safely assume, not the person responsible either for towing McHenry's car or setting the release fee. Just to be clear, we have no reason to assume that anyone at the company behaved anything other than reasonably towards Ms McHenry. It is very clear that her behaviour was far from reasonable.

    As is now, of course, completely usual, the dark side of McHenry's personality was revealed when a YoutTube video went viral.

     

     

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