Post #747698 by AceExplorer on Thu, Jul 23, 2015 12:29 PM

Thanks, Skip. I wasn't taking issue with his hometown of Columbus, but the fact that he made his comment as if he dined there twice weekly on a regular basis when the place was barely open for a week. And he left a 5-star rating. I know from others here that there is quite a tiki community in and around Columbus.

The internet has its share of trolls and scoundrels, and also arbitrarily-run and vaguely-managed public sites who are in it more for the buck than for the zen of it all. That will never change.

This whole thing with the restaurant brought the worst out in a lot of people. While Rufus' true fate may never become known to us, it is a fact that the Bahooka was fairly and squarely sold. Whatever the new owners did with the building was theirs to decide. How they did it, and how they handled the animal life, is another story entirely, and probably even they would agree that it poorly handled. (I am shocked that animal rights activists didn't make a bigger deal about it.) The new owners had balls encouraging the posting of fake 5-star reviews on Yelp, and they in turn drew fire from others who otherwise may not have been so irked and would otherwise have left them in peace.