Yet another Washington incident has put the state’s “sexpresso” stands in the headlines.

It happened early last Thursday at the Java Girls espresso stand in Parkland. A man dressed in women’s underwear drove by the stand and exposed himself to the baristas, panties covering his face. The baristas working there tried to get a look at his license plate, but that, too, was covered by panties. He came back again, this time dressed in a different bra and panties.

When the man came back a third time, one of the baristas had enough.

“She grabbed a 16-ounce cup of piping hot water straight from the Americano valve and hit him in the chest and legs,” said Steve McDaniel, president of Java Girls, a national franchise.

“He said, ‘Oh yeah,’ as if he enjoyed it, but he left immediately after that.”

The store has a “panic button” to contact police, McDaniel said, but the baristas forgot to hit it.

“I told them, ‘In the future, the second you witness something like that, something bizarre, you should immediately hit the panic button,’” he said. “‘I would not resort to throwing hot water on some guy, some weirdo, ’cause you never know if this guy is going to come back and retaliate and wait in the parking lot.’”

McDaniel, who said he adjusted the angle on his security cameras to get a better angle at customers’ faces, says his business model rests on “stimulating the sexual imagination,” but his baristas wear nothing less than what you’d see at a public beach.

“Once you begin to expose more than what you’d see at public lake, beach, swimming pool, you’re running an adult establishment. I think a lot of them are crossing the line, a lot of them should be shut down,” McDaniel said.

In response to the sentiment often echoed online that businesses like his are asking for this kind of incident, McDaniel said that opinion was “warped.”

“I don’t think anybody deserves that kind of surprise. I think its completely inappropriate,” he said.

P.S. - Oddly enough, last time a man exposed himself to a barista in Washington state it was at a coffee shop that did not serve in skimpy clothing - but only sounded somewhat like it did. The shop is called Wear To Get Espresso.

I feel a frivolous lawsuit coming on. yes, “frivolous.” I know that he didn’t physically attack her (as some people have pointed out), but I think exposing yourself warrants physical retaliation. I only wish that she had aimed just for his, um, weenie, and not his chest.

Okay, I have a problem with this “Amber Alert” that was issued for the 5 kids that Rhonda Tavey kidnapped. Yes, she kidnapped them. If she was not white and the kids were not black, the media would not be telling this back story about how she took them in after Hurricane Katrina, blah blah blah. Apparently if a white person kidnaps black kids and “saves” them from their horrible black parents, authorities will try to “work it out without filing charges” against the white kidnapper. Unbelievable!

The bottom line is that she does not have any legal rights to the children (even authorities have stated so), so she has kidnapped them.

I’ve only heard about this three times and each time, it’s been mentioned that the children were taken in from their 22-year-old mom after Hurricane Katrina each time. They need to just stop with the sympathy for this kidnapper and focus on getting the kids back.