Hate Crime Accusation Is Fraudulent, Shows Whole Food's Video Surveillance

Agree.

Also notice how the first thing he mentions is that the box is sealed. Speaking like a magician before a trick.

IMHO, he would had a better chance leaving the tag on the top, or moving it slightly, where you could claim it partially obscured the window.

Btw, if I were the DA here, I'd go for 1st degree cake tampering, because it's clearly pre-meditated, who writes at the top of a cake with nothing in the middle?

There are plenty of idiot comprised juries that would gladly "stick it to the man" even if it is a a green friendly place like Whole Paycheck.

It's too bad the video quality is so 2001, I know the security rep that deals with a majority of the Whole Foods, will have to call her and give her a hard time.

This guy takes the cake.

There seems to be a brief glimpse of the label as he brings it up to the counter, where it appears to be on top on the box and facing toward him. When the cashier scans it, it sure looks like he waves his scanner over the top of the box, and reaches toward the far side of it.

If the label was oriented the way it is in the original video, it would either be facing toward him and thus probably picked up on the countertop scanner, or the clerk would have to reach WAY over to scan it on the side of the box facing the customer.

Add to that, it seems really silly that the cake guy would put the label like that when it would generally require tilting the box enough to cause the cake to slide within and damage the frosting. Anyone who makes or loves cakes knows, you keep that box as flat and level as possible.

What would be the point of "sealing" a custom cake anyway? I can see it for a generic cake that sits in a display case, but in this case, you decorate it, box it, hand it to the customer... it's not like it sits in a publicly-accessible cooler in that state that would require protection in the form of sealing the box. Admittedly, I've only ever been in a Whole Foods once in my life and it wasn't for a cake, so I don't know what their practices are in this regard, but the whole idea seems sketchy to me. And like U1 says, he's trying WAY too hard to point out to us that it's "STILL SEALED".

I dunno, I'm not a lawyer, but I think I could destroy this guy on the stand.

Further stupidity:

He claims he told the bakery worker what he wanted and she went in the back, piped it out and labeled it and gave it to him.

Which would mean that this woman would have been prepared for this likely question

• Baker: "Here you go, sir!
• Pastor: "Why did you write 'Fag' on it?"

What could she have possibly said to that? Not,

• Baker: "First because I have deep hidden hatred of homosexuals, like I'm guessing you probably are, second because I am quitting anyway, and third because you left the whole center of the cake open."

This guy gives professional con men a bad name.

The guy accusing Whole foods released a video zoomed in showing him opening the "sealed" cake box by cutting the label. However in his video the UPC code and label are on the bottom of the box. The security footage clearly shows the label on the top and the clerk scanning bar code in that area. The two videos together are what makes Whole Food's case.

Have you never picked up a cake at a bakery? They ask you what you want on the cake. You of course will look at the cake the second they hand it to you. You will be able to easily see the cake through the window of the cake box. There is ZERO chance you leave that store without knowing that the word is there.

Greg, the slam dunk of the video evidence is that it show the UPC label was moved from the top to the side, which should be enough to convince anyone who wished to believe that he somehow missed seeing the mistake right after he was handed the cake.

Jon, thanks for sharing. Good to know. Also, interestingly, the 'victim' has hidden his original video of him sobbing.