I can't, I CAN'T leave this one alone. Philly has their own Naomi Campbell-like servant beater. Seriouly, some Main Line Broad apparently has not only beat up her NANNY/HOUSEKEEPER, but pilfered the nanny's purse.
Hmmm. Misplaced sense of entitlement? You think? Well as a wise old dame I once knew used to say money don't know who owns it
Here ya go, with giggles galore (not that assault is funny, just the premise of some rich babe beating her servant in 2006 like it was 1806):
NBC 10:Main Line Woman Accused Of Attacking Housekeeper/Police Say Employer Also Stole From Employee
VILLANOVA, Pa. -- A Villanova woman has been arrested after police said she beat up her nanny and housekeeper inside her Main Line home.
According to court documents, the suspect, Susan Tabas Tepper, attacked her nanny, Xiomara Salinas, and then told her not to call police. The documents say Tepper told the Salinas, "I'm important. You're nothing. No one will believe you."
Lower Merion police said the incident happened inside a house on Eagle Farm Road in Villanova.....Court documents said, "As Salinas was cleaning up the floor, Tepper picked up a bag of carrots and threw it at Salinas, striking her in the chest."
Police said the fight escalated when Tepper criticized Salinas for not speaking English well and then threw Salinas into the refrigerator. The criminal complaint went on to say: "Tepper continued the attack on Salinas by pulling her hair, scratching her face, pulling her eyeglasses off of her face and then breaking her glasses."
Lower Merion police said Tepper also stole $800 from Salinas.
Tepper has been charged with robbery, theft and simple assault.
And...
Philadelphia Inquirer: Main Line woman is charged in assault on nanny :
A Main Line woman has been charged with robbery, theft and assault after her nanny and housekeeper complained to police she had been physically abused on her employer's multimillion-dollar estate in Villanova.
Lower Merion police were summoned Sunday to the Eagle Farm Road mansion of Susan Tabas Tepper, 43. The housekeeper, Xiomara Salinas, told officers that Tepper was upset about the contents of a refrigerator in the kitchen. Salinas said she was first hit in the chest by a bag of carrots thrown by Tepper. After telling Tepper she could not work for her, Salinas said, she was pushed into the refrigerator and struck on the top of her head with a telephone handset.....
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This is nuts. My former employer told me about this and I couldn't resist looking it up. Ms. Tepper actually hired me to shoot her 20th high school reunion several years ago, and she was the rudest, most uncivilized person I have ever met in my life. When I called her to set up the date, she was yelling at the employees in a McDonald's for not giving her kids ketchup with their fries, and demanding that they bring some immediately. She tried to gain my sympathy by saying how lazy and good-for-nothing all the employees were these days! I should have known then.
When I went up to shake her hand upon meeting her, she looked at it like it was disgusting and said, "What are you doing here? Go take the pictures!" Then she got angry over my method of shooting photos, telling me that a long lens and a tripod were no good for closeups, I needed to "get in people's faces." When I didn't follow her very ignorant directions, she started yelling at me in front of everyone, telling me I was childish and immature, and to get out of her event. I told her I was leaving anyway, and added that she had been rude to me on the phone.
She later asked the woman who had put her in contact with me, to get the photos I had taken and tell me that she would reimburse me the cost of the film and prints. Of course I refused. I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt for a long time, thinking maybe it was just too stressful for her to be organizing such a big event, maybe she had PMS, maybe she was bi-polar and forgot her meds. Hehe. Now I know that she's just a psychotic witch.