mlssv92 438 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Prime Minister John Key has apologised to a waitress who accused him of repeatedly pulling her hair at an Auckland cafe. Labour says the incident did not match the standards expected of a Prime Minister, while the Green Party says Key's behaviour was "weird" and showed he was out of touch. The waitress made the claims in an anonymous blog post. She is said to be a waitress at a cafe frequented by Key and his wife Bronagh near their Parnell mansion. In a statement, a spokeswoman for the Prime Minister said: "It's a familiar cafe which he regularly visits with Bronagh and both have a good relationship with those who work there. His actions were intended to be light hearted. It was never his intention to make her feel uncomfortable and he has apologised to her." On Left-wing blog The Daily Blog, the waitress said Key would often visit the cafe with his wife and security detail, and "playfully" pull on her ponytail. "In the beginning, the first time he pulled on my hair, I remember thinking to myself he's probably just trying to be playful and jolly, seeing as the general consensus of most who meet him is 'he's such a nice guy'". The waitress said the behaviour began during the election campaign, but continued on for months through to March, 2015. She detailed a specific date, February 28, 2015, where she said Key approached her from behind, pulled her hair and then joked that Bronagh did it. She claimed the Prime Minister approached her again at the cafe on March 13, but the waitress made her views clear. During that visit, she said Key asked her manager: "she really doesn't like me pulling her ponytail?" to which the manager said "well...no". The waitress said that on Thursday March 26, Key and Bronagh visited the cafe again, but while Key did not pull her ponytail, he joked around making gestures. The waitress said Bronagh told him to "leave the poor girl alone". The waitress said she told him to stop, "or I will actually hit you soon". It was a "short while later" she said the Prime Minister reappeared at the cafe and handed her two bottles of his JK 2012 vintage Pinot Noir saying "this is for you, sorry, I didn't realise." The claims follow a Campbell Live segment last year where Key, as part of a wider political leaders story, was filmed touching the ponytail of a young girl at the Matakana market, north of Auckland: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/67949918/prime-minister-john-key-pulled-waitress-ponytail Quote taken from The Guardian: In an anonymous blog post the waitress accused Key of acting “like the schoolyard bully tugging on the little girls’ hair trying to get a reactionâ€. On numerous occasions over the course of about six months, Key had pulled at her ponytail during visits to a cafe he frequented with his wife, she said. Despite her attempts to avoid his attention, “the game continuedâ€, wrote the waitress. “He would come up behind me when I was at the ordering terminal, tug on my hair and then pretend that his wife, Bronagh, had done it (much to her embarrassment), and she would tell him to stop it. As he rounded the corner behind me he commented ‘that’s a very tantalising ponytail’,†she wrote. Despite her objections, in late March, Key again yanked at her hair, having approached making “scary, suspense sound effects, like the music from the movie Jawsâ€, the anonymous author wrote. She shouted at him, “Please STOP or I will actually hit you soon!†she said. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/22/new-zealand-prime-minister-john-key-apologises-for-pulling-waitresss-hair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masketta 2,783 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 wtf, hes a creep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puremystic 3,078 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Is pulling a ponytail some sort of.. cultural thing I don't understand other than being super rude and annoying?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoonaXII 313 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 That's so embarrassing. He's weird af Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlssv92 438 Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 That's so embarrassing. He's weird af Especially this.. “He would come up behind me when I was at the ordering terminal, tug on my hair and then pretend that his wife, Bronagh, had done it (much to her embarrassment), and she would tell him to stop it. As he rounded the corner behind me he commented ‘that’s a very tantalising ponytail’,†she wrote. Despite her objections, in late March, Key again yanked at her hair, having approached making “scary, suspense sound effects, like the music from the movie Jawsâ€, the anonymous author wrote. She shouted at him, “Please STOP or I will actually hit you soon!†she said. Like wtf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlssv92 438 Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 Is pulling a ponytail some sort of.. cultural thing I don't understand other than being super rude and annoying?? I think it's something people would expect a Prime Minister of all people not to do. Plus even a regular person wouldn't pull a waitress' hair. Hair pulling is something you'd expect of a little kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponstar 902 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 omg what a weirdo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgl 5,919 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 What the....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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