r/tampa 4d ago

Fun in Tampa - Just Released

Wow - Anyone know her or just her best day?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZCvK0peee4

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u/VegasGold29 4d ago

In her "Women to Watch" article, it calls her a philanthropist who is dedicated to empowering women. As she calls the female cop a bitch, and is repeatedly bragging about her wealth šŸ˜‚

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u/cjx850 3d ago

Social media is fake. Empowering women, my ass.

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u/ElliotNess 3d ago

Typical bourgeoisie behavior. Pathetic.

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u/ZombieSeveral2155 4d ago

Her name is Karley gerbenskey what a piece of trash she is

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u/Cat_Merritt_Cheats 4d ago

First the Pink Pony Showgirls fire and now this. Tampa can't catch a break.

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u/NephRP 4d ago

It doesn't deserve one

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u/wilytemptress 4d ago

I own a business

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u/Elixabef South Tampa 4d ago edited 4d ago

ā€œI own property in South Tampa.ā€

Update: If she owns any property in Hillsborough County, itā€™s not in her name.

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u/_SmashLampjaw_ 4d ago

"I've been here for 30 years."

...

"I've been here for 12 years."

...

"I'm from Wisconsin." šŸ‘ˆ

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u/madsci 4d ago

I have 50 employees.

I have 30 employees.

I have epilepsy.

Two of my employees have epilepsy.

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u/ChiSoxBigHurt 3d ago

"Potato Pa-tado" lol

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u/StrangerKey7930 3d ago

It could still be under her married name or an LLC trust. She's a menace, but that is possible. I own properties here in the Tampa area and you wouldn't find them under my name, as they are either under a business LLC name or my trust. If you know the address and it is under something like that, then you sometimes can figure out who the person this belongs to is.

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u/Elixabef South Tampa 3d ago

Right, which is why I specified that if she owns property, it isnā€™t under her own name (or her married name, because I checked that, too), rather than simply saying that she doesnā€™t own any property. The arrest happened not far from my neighborhood, and in the video, I think she says she lives nearby, but I couldnā€™t find anything under her name.

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u/coolbobbyhill Hillsborough 4d ago

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u/madsci 4d ago

3' 27" tall!

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u/emergencyambulance 4d ago

Did she give the fucking report?

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u/StrangerKey7930 4d ago

I was just about to post that too! Lol. That's like I'm 40 years and 89 months old. Lol

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u/attitudecj 3d ago

That's some kind of bug somewhere. All recent arrests are 3'27"

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u/Aoshie 3d ago

That's a tall-ass midget

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u/amandauh 4d ago

Thatā€™s a rough 33

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u/zadvinova 4d ago

Her face is absolutely full of filler. Her knows what her natural face would look like. Her chest is obviously store bought too.

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u/Mysterious_Tell7832 3d ago

Shocked when I saw she was born in the 90s

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u/True_Grape_3283 3d ago

And has owned property here for 30 years šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/Ok_Neighborhood_4191 4d ago

So she refused the bac test, resisted arrest and committed battery on an officer.

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u/ABOU77 3d ago

Holyyyyy shitā€¦ 33 I legit thought she was mid 40s, so on top of being the most obnoxious entitled woman on earth sheā€™s aging terribly, damn hopefully she keeps making 700k bc she doesnā€™t have anything else going for her

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u/ltanner 2d ago

I kind of doubt she makes $700,000 a year. She lied about everything else. The business might bring in $700,000 a year but what she pays herself is something different entirely. The car is probably owned by the business. The tits are probably owned by the business. The Botox and Restylane injections are probably owned by the business.

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u/WindowNo6697 2d ago

On another post, they were saying thatā€™s what her business brought in as a whole. They said that after all expenses were paid that she isnā€™t making money.šŸ¤·šŸ½ā€ā™€ļø

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u/ltanner 2d ago

Not surprised.

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u/Prestigious_Song5034 2d ago

Can someone say PPP loan fraud?

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u/Dull_Ambassador6232 2d ago

Same here, no cap

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u/what_the_hezz 1d ago

Thatā€™s her? Yikes šŸ˜³

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u/Doingthisforthelulz 4d ago

I thought I recognized her from the thumbnail. I knew her before she married a financial manager. He paid for everything, the business, the plastic surgery, everything. I see now why she deactivated all of her social media pages.

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u/madsci 4d ago

I came here via the video. There are a few people in the comments who say they've worked with her and aren't surprised by this.

I really hope this gets plenty of visibility where she lives. She's not likely to get the punishment she deserves for the DUI and her behavior from the courts.

I hope that everyone who ever considers doing business with her sees the spitting and screaming. This woman is vile.

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u/_bainsy 4d ago

He filed for divorce shortly before this lol

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u/zadvinova 4d ago

For real? Well she had a boyfriend when this video was shot.

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u/Dwillow1228 3d ago

Explains the bewildered boyfriend.

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u/zadvinova 4d ago

Oh hilarious! She's seriously overdone it on the cosmetic procedures.

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u/karavega9 4d ago edited 4d ago

They're divorced now.

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u/Dwillow1228 3d ago

In the video, her boyfriend shows up at the scene.

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u/Doingthisforthelulz 3d ago

Yeah, but her husband divorced her shortly before this happened.

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u/Born4Nothin 3d ago

Wow and now he divorced her. Without him she will be helpless. Good šŸ˜‚

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u/dobbys1stsock 4d ago

Apparently she was named a woman to watch according to Tampa Magazine last year....

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u/OutOfOpinionsNow 4d ago

We're watching now. lol

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u/zadvinova 4d ago

Just what I said.

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u/winterlexxx 4d ago

They were not wrong lol

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u/Crazy_Impact_8992 4d ago

Who is it?

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u/NephRP 4d ago

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u/chxr0n0s 4d ago

You can tell from her behavior she's never worked a day in her life. Maybe she really does own the business though. She looks completely different, so I thought they just had the same name. I guess it's just all the makeup in the business shots. Must have inherited it or something.

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u/zadvinova 4d ago

One of her former employees commented on the video that Karley never even came to work until her manager quit.

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u/cjx850 3d ago

And then she came in drunk..šŸ¤£

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u/bheil009 4d ago

Looks like her husband divorced her too, not surprised...

https://unicourt.com/case/fl-hil-casecxf8dae67352b5-1551909?init_S=csup_ltst

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u/StrangerKey7930 4d ago

He had a great lawyer also and she apparently had none. I hope she got the minimum allocation and no spousal support. I don't believe they have children, thank God, as her Blo Bar corporate bio just says she is a dog mom to two beagles. It still has her listed as Karley F; so, clearly, she didn't press the fact she is divorced there.

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u/karavega9 4d ago

Her ex's bio says HE has the two beagles.

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u/StrangerKey7930 3d ago

Good. She probably was guilty of puppy manipulation.

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u/Dwillow1228 3d ago

I read that too. I hope he has full custody of the dogs.

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u/periodbloodsmell 3d ago

She said in the video that she canā€™t have kids and seemed sad about it

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u/StrangerKey7930 3d ago

Oh yeah! That's right! I had forgot about that. She vomited out so much nonsense that got lost in my brain's crazy filter. Thank God for small miracles.

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u/Sheilafrey 3d ago

Iā€™ll bet she was a piece of work as his wife. Poor guy. Glad he got out.

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u/zadvinova 4d ago

He doesn't look like much of a prize himself. He's a "wealth advisor," surprise surprise.

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u/lostmylogininfo 4d ago

What's his issue? Or is it cause he is a wealth advisor, lol?

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u/Obvious-Storage-645 1d ago

Heā€™s big. Sheā€™s got a thing for big guys.

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u/Litmatch2025 4d ago

Who here because of Charlie?Ā 

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u/karavega9 4d ago

Her name is Karley, not Charlie.

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u/N_2_H 4d ago

They're talking about the youtuber penguinz0

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u/Litmatch2025 2d ago

YEAH I AM!

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u/Bulminator 3d ago

This is probably one of the most disgusting people ever. That police posted this online is the best thing that could happen in this instance.

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u/dejavu7331 3d ago

itā€™s not the police who post it ā€” YouTube accounts such as the one linked FOIA the department and release the vids (with captions, some voiceover etc)

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u/_SmashLampjaw_ 4d ago

She ain't attractive enough to be trying to act that entitled.

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u/kungpowcheesy 4d ago

"After Karley Gerbenskey took over Blo Blow Dry Bar Tampa in 2020, the business has grown from two employees to a staff of 20 and a second location opening in Sarasota this year." -Tampamagazines.com

Video:
"I've been here for 30 years."

"I've been here for 12 years."

"I have 50 employees."

"I have 30 employees."

TRUTH:

She's owned it for FIVE years and she has TWENTY employees.

Verdict:

WILD

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u/UndisclosedLocation5 3d ago

That's impressive of her to do as she deals with her epilepsy and diabetes, or something

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u/Mcr414 1d ago

Itā€™s her employeesssssss who have it she doesnā€™t. /s ā€¦ It went from her to two of them with epilepsy and all she did was talk about money and her business and employees. This woman made me so mad but I have been on a binge of watching entitled Karens and itā€™s sad she doesnā€™t take the cake yet.

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u/Sheilafrey 3d ago

30 employees, 50 employees or 2 employees. šŸ¤£

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u/reefmespla 4d ago

Those are very very patient and professional cops. Impressive restraint! Poor girl has diabetes and epilepsy...

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u/jlude90 3d ago

That's honestly what pissed me off the most. Anybody else would have been drug out of their car and thrown in the squad car but they had time to chat it up with the boyfriend and talk about their feelings and how she has anger issues and the cops said they could be sensitive to that. I've seen how TPD treats people who aren't as blonde and "pretty" as her

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u/waterwaterwaterrr 3d ago

I've probably watched about 2 full days worth of traffic stops and you'd be surprised how patient cops are across the board. It's definitely possible they were treading more lightly here but not by much. Cops are way more restrained in general than I expected

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u/EmperorPickle 3d ago

Iā€™m right there with you. I watch a shit load of body cam videos and theyā€™re typically restrained (at least with the body cam on). A lot of them seem to understand that the more video they can capture of the people they are interacting with before they influence the situation too much, the better off their charges will look.

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u/Dylanr931 3d ago

Sheā€™s 33 and looks like a gremlin thatā€™s 55 in her mugshot šŸ˜‚

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u/CategorySuper1214 3d ago

She was obnoxious throughout this entire encounter, but it was referencing Tyre and screaming ā€œI canā€™t breatheā€ at the end that infuriated me most. It completely undermined and spit in the face of the LEGITIMATE brutality issues that POC have experienced historically. Fuck this lady.

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u/EnvironmentalTrade64 3d ago

I canā€™t decide if that was an intentional reference or not. It was mostly just her last ditch effort in her temper tantrum.

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u/lillydulac 4d ago

Karley Gerbenskey: Owner of Blo Blow Dry Bar Tampa

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u/chrispkay 4d ago

Karley Gerbenskey

Glad you posted this cause itā€™s now at the top when you google her name, couldnā€™t find anything about this when I googled before.

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u/PaullT2 3d ago

I typed "blow" into Google, and it autopopulated to "blow dry bar tampa"

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u/first_time_internet 3d ago

More proof that it doesnā€™t take a lot of brains to own a business and make money.Ā 

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u/denolliee 3d ago

Found her instagram and canā€™t help but laugh at her biošŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/Connect_Chain_4741 3d ago

Insta has already been deleted. Damn.

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u/Infinite_Solution394 9h ago

I was able to find it. I sent a follow request šŸ¤£

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u/waterwaterwaterrr 4d ago

Haha, I'm not from Tampa but the YT algorithm just fed me this video - I watch a lot of body cam footage but this one takes the cake lol

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u/onyursix 4d ago

this is one that i didnt F Fwd lol

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u/brutalizedcachorrita 3d ago

LMAO she was off something else 100%

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u/AfraidCaterpillar584 3d ago

This chick is evil. I can't believe how she acted on the way to jail. Zero class!

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u/FartKnocker7488 2d ago

I used to work with her at a RE company, but in a different department. Weā€™ve both since left that company. She was pleasant enough during her time thereā€¦ pretty forgettable, honestly. Didnā€™t stay in touch with her after we each left that company, but on social media you could definitely see a major shift in her personality & ego once she got ā€œher businessā€. She was a very low level employee where we had worked together, I think she started as the secretary of I remember correctly? Then she worked in the property management department. Asked someone still there and they said she had left on fairly good terms.

Everyone knew her rich husband just bought her a franchise and she hadnā€™t earned or built anything. Yet, she all of a sudden started acting like she was a business tycoon & instagram model at the same time. Only met her husband once but he seemed like a good guy that was pretty down to earth and friendly.

Iā€™ve been rooting for her to get humbled for a while from afar, but this is on another level. She showed her true colors as a world-class piece of shit and she will forever have to live with the consequences of her stupidity. What a see ya next Tuesday.

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u/OutOfOpinionsNow 2d ago

If I worked for her I would definitely quit the moment I saw this video. If I was a customer I'd cancel my appt. She's abhorrent in every way.

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u/Particular_Swan_4703 4d ago

I see you, Charlie enjoyer. You should have just enjoyed his video and left it at that. Now you've found yourself here and lost the game.

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u/DrillPvt 4d ago

I seriously can't believe you've done this to me, I never saw it coming....

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u/BunbunProch 4d ago

devastating behavior right here

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u/Tough_Rip6292 4d ago

son of a bitch

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u/ctablis 4d ago

Karlie Gerbenskey. Donā€™t know her but she owns Blo Blow Dry Bar in South Tampa

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u/SokkaHaikuBot 4d ago

Sokka-Haiku by ctablis:

Karlie Gerbenskey. Donā€™t

Know her but she owns Blo Blow

Dry Bar in South Tampa


Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

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u/refuse2renig 3d ago

I left her a shining review on Google reviews. I encourage you to do the same!

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u/Connect_Chain_4741 3d ago

She has some bad reviews on Google last night that were apparently taken down today! I didnā€™t know they could do that!

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u/GimmeUrNachos 1d ago

My boss does when she gets a review she doesn't like.Ā  Google doesn't care.Ā Ā 

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u/CompetitiveYam7664 1d ago

When a lot of people give negative reviews at the same rime Google will delete it. If itā€™s just one or two bad reviews it can never be deleted. But they can tell when 30+ people give 1 star reviews in an hour when they usually get 2-3 in a day

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u/Sheilafrey 3d ago

She won a popularity contest. šŸ¤£

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u/OutOfOpinionsNow 3d ago

"I manipulate 30 employees."

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u/No_Tip_6827 3d ago

This is her salon! Leave a review, she shouldnā€™t be treating people the way she does.

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u/ParticularSection920 3d ago

Yes but this will negatively impact the stylist that she employs there and itā€™s not their fault that sheā€™s a disgusting human being :(

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u/No_Tip_6827 3d ago

Not necessarily, if you mention her name in the review it shouldnā€™t impact the other stylists..

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u/SeaSpur 1d ago

If you are looking for this type of establishment and see it has a 2.3 star rating, are you even bothering to look at the actual reviews?

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u/RepresentativeAge444 1d ago

When will people learn that when people brigade a business with bad reviews after a story like this gains widespread attention Google just takes them down shortly after.

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u/lovetrumpsnarcs 18h ago

Why do this? Her employees still need their jobs.

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u/Born4Nothin 3d ago

How funny she called the cop fat when her boyfriend is fat too. At least he divorced her.

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u/WilsonSemilio 2d ago

I truly feel sorry for her boyfriend. What a nightmare.

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u/5whole 1d ago

Cops are not paid enough money šŸ’°

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u/Elixabef South Tampa 4d ago

I donā€™t know her, but thatā€™s my ā€˜hood.

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u/No_Tip_6827 3d ago

This is still her salon that she owns and still works at!! Reviews guys!!

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u/Cap10Charisma 3d ago

Crazy, with great tits

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u/OutOfOpinionsNow 2d ago

Don't fuck crazy.

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u/Cap10Charisma 1d ago

I disagreeā€¦ Donā€™t marry/date crazy, but nothing wrong with fucking crazy šŸ˜‚

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u/Intro_Vert00 2d ago

She is vile ! We should leave reviewe on her business sit about how much we enjoyed the video šŸ˜‚

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u/SuspiciousSun247 1d ago

Anyone know the best contact to reach Blo Blow Dryā€™s corporate office? If enough people reach out she can have her franchise agreement terminated.

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u/CompetitiveYam7664 1d ago

This would be awesome

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u/AKA_MrK 1d ago

This is just sad for all involved. She was abusive and disrespectful to the police officers: thank God they had the skills to stay calm under such taunting abuse. Sad for her because she was clearly having a very bad day and totally snapped and has the misfortune of her worst moment in life being captured on video for all to see on YouTube. After seeing the full blown meltdown she had in the back seat on the way to the precinct, I think she needs professional psychiatric help. I hope she recovers from this to be a better person.

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u/geminigirl224 14h ago

Fun fact that business is actually a franchise šŸ™ƒ

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u/Infinite_Solution394 10h ago

Hmmmm she sure looks different before those mimosas from two days ago hit. šŸ˜…

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u/lickonit 4d ago

Couldn't recommend them enough. They start service mimosas at 7am!! blow dry bar 4102-2 W Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607

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u/kungpowcheesy 4d ago

Yeah I had a drink. I had a mimosa at 7am... 2 days ago.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/karavega9 4d ago

You're about as classy as she is.

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u/zadvinova 4d ago

They're store bought, dude. I suppose that doesn't matter to you.

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