Today Terra.com reported that an ATM at “El Ocho de Blanco,” a bar in San Juan, Puerto Rico, printed a receipt with the sentence “WE HATE FAGS,” causing some in the island’s LGBT community to criticize the bar and the ATM owner for the offensive message. The bar’s management insisted that it had no control over what the ATM printed, saying that the ATM is owned by ATM Mobile Services. ATM Mobile Services has since apologized for the incident, but as of the initial posting of this story, there has been no explanation as to how it occurred or who did it.
The bar had to post two Facebook updates in Spanish to explain what happened. Here is a translation of what the bar shared with its fans:
Greetings to all our customers,
This afternoon we learned of a situation in relation to a message that appeared on a receipt from the ATM machine located at our business.
We must inform you, and not because we sympathize or support this type of message, that the machine is run by a private supplier (ATM Mobile Services, tel. 787-244-2001) and we were unaware of the content of the receipts until now.
We have taken immediate action by turning off the machine and making a claim to the supplier.
Sorry for inconvenience and any questions do not hesitate to contact us at: http://el8deblanco.com/contactoHugs,
The Management at El 8 de BlancoGreetings again,
After talking with ATM service provider for El 8 de Blanco, we proceeded to make a complaint in relation to the events that have happened today. The supplier (ATM Mobile Services) has verified the transactions of the last days and, from our end, we have verified our security system to see if it has been some irregularity.
It should be noted that El 8 de Blanco has no key or programming for the ATM, so we have no way to find the root of the matter. El 8 de Blanco just receives a commission for transactions because it is a private service as discussed above.
We have repeatedly said that ATM Mobile Services is at fault for this situation and they have yet to give us an explanation of how someone could enter into the machine’s operating system. Therefore, we hope that the company gives us an explanation.
As a precaution we shut down the system, and we are even considering the removal of the company’s service from our our business.
We reiterate again that we categorically repudiate the expressions that appear on these supplier’s receipts and we sympathize with what happened.
We will continue to report any updates, as we are all waiting for an answer.
Have a good night.
I agree this is totally inappropriate, but why is this a Latino issue?
@VictorH Is that a serious question?
Sorry I only have one “like” to give.
@DignityPeace 🙂
@latinorebels @DignityPeace
Yes it’s a serious question and it’s coming from someone who has been in the trenches for 34 years fighting for social justice. Let me rephrase it, perhaps you misunderstood. Why is this incident a Latino issue?
Let’s try to answer that seriously: because homophobia and anti-gay slurs are still an ugly part of Latino culture? And even if this story happened in Montana, we still would have run it. We don’t box ourselves in. If we see a story we feels need to be shared, we write about it.
[…] An ATM at a bar called El Ocho de Blanco in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan returned a receipt with the message “we hate fags” written in English at the bottom, sparking an uproar among the island’s LGBT community this week, as a picture of the receipt burned through social media and the blogosphere. […]
[…] An ATM at a bar called El Ocho de Blanco in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan returned a receipt with the message “we hate fags” written in English at the bottom, sparking an uproar among the island’s LGBT community this week, as a picture of the receipt burned through social media and the blogosphere. […]
[…] An ATM at a bar called El Ocho de Blanco in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan returned a receipt with the message “we hate fags” written in English at the bottom, sparking an uproar among the island’s LGBT community this week, as a picture of the receipt burned through social media and the blogosphere. […]
[…] An ATM at a bar called El Ocho de Blanco in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan returned a receipt with the message “we hate fags” written in English at the bottom, sparking an uproar among the island’s LGBT community this week, as a picture of the receipt burned through social media and the blogosphere. […]
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