I wonder if they ask: What would you like for your second cup, an espresso or a 32-DD? But despite a general affinity for coffee and certain round pastries, cops in Seattle are not amused and have thrown the coffee table book at the female owner of a string of espresso joints called "Java Juggs" (which come complete with a drive-thru).
The offense? Well, that involved allegedly serving up a little bump-and-grind along with the daily grind. (Unidentified Java Juggs babes are pictured above and below from the chain's Facebook page).
Cops say the owner -- 49-year-old Carmela Panico -- was not only complicit in the coffee shenanigans, but was also a rather hands-on owner in that she allegedly got in on the action herself at one of the chain's locations.
That particular espresso stand, cops say, was equipped with a "floor-to-ceiling stripper pole," just like a strip joint. Cops say they have nine hours of surveillance video at the Java Juggs, including footage of owner Carmela and another broad "doing pole dances, flashing their breasts, and letting a regular trickle of early-morning customers watch them for tips." I think I could really use a cuppa joe right about now.
In terms of active owners, Carmela reportedly makes Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder look like MIA's, as Carmela -- "clad in hot pants and a cropped shirt" -- allegedly "was seen sitting on a window ledge" at Java Juggs as she was "spanking herself."
Cops also say they have Carmela on tape taking a hold of a man's mush and sticking it right in the middle of her melons, not to mention permitting male patrons to stick buck tips in her damn bra. And apparently Carmela's an even Badder Influence on her young female employees than Rob Lowe in a bad 80's picture:
Cops say one worker was viewed lowering her bikini top and rubbing up her rack right in front of the morning customers. But it seems the baristas were just getting warmed up at that point.
One undercover cop says he plopped down 20 bucks in front of a barista "in a tiger-print, string bikini." The barista then allegedly asked him, "Are you a naughty boy?" When he replied in the affirmative, this day-startin' dame allegedly got some tunes jammin', "slid her bikini top and bottom around, climbed up the pole, and did the splits"!
The same stooly cop says he also ran his little party-pooper sting on owner Carmela. The cop says he bucked up another 20 to Carmela, and in return received "a dance involving some pole-grabbing and butt-shaking." Not clear from the linked articles, however, is whether that description refers to the stripper pole, the cop's own nightstick or (who the hell knows) maybe both.
But that 20 dollar bill won't buy Carmela a cup of coffee on the street these days, since cops have busted her on charges of "lewd conduct" for all the alleged pole dancing and performance of "sexually explicit acts for tips." Sounds like a permanent coffee break for Juan Valdez's best.
Meantime six of the brain juice baristas are also facing misdemeanor charges. I just hope there's probation waiting at the bottom of these babes' coffee pots, since it would be asinine if these baristas have to wake up and smell the coffee in the local hoosegow for such a small bag a' coffee beans.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/128424203.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030247/Bikini-baristas-pole-danced-flashed-breasts-tips-drive-espresso-stand.html
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