McDonalds in Westwood, CA

Received Friday, February 15, 2008
Physical description of caregiver: Mexican American Nanny between the ages of 25-30, approximate 5'2, 120 lbs, medium brown hair, brown eyes. Nanny was dressed in a white sweater, cargo pants and brown tennis shoes.
Physical description of involved child/children: Three Caucasian boys. Approximately 2, 5 & 7/8 or thereabouts. The youngest child had blonde hair, the other two boys had brown hair. The youngest child wore his hair longer, the middle boy had a buzz cut, and the oldest boy had thick, fairly long hair. The oldest boy was wearing an orange shirt with a brown collar. It had long sleeves and one white stripe across the chest. The boys were well dressed, and very energetic. I noticed them when they passed by the window of the restaurant, and thought to myself, 'those are some good looking boys'.
Address or venue of observed incident: McDonald's in Westwood, On Santa Monica, off Beverly Glen.
Date and time of incident: Yesterday, (2/14) at 12:30 PM, I think. (I should have written this yesterday.)
Detailed description of what you witnessed: The nanny allowed the two older boys to sit together, which would have been fine had she supervised them in any capacity. She sat at the table, with the youngest child. The nanny was reading a paperback book while with her fingers picking at a hamburger that was on the table and without even looking, she was feeding it to the child. She would pull of part of the bun and the burger and somewhat roll it together between her fingers and then put it in front of the youngest boy. While still reading, she would reach in and take a french fry, put in her mouth, like a cigarette and then pull it out, breaking off the part that had been in her mouth and give it to the child. This was disturbing enough, but this is not the problem. The older boys were sitting next to us, behind us, sitting directly behind my girlfriend, I was facing them. While we were eating our meal, a piece of ice came sailing over onto our table. The boys cracked up laughing and I did nothing, not yet. The boys were loud, obnoxious and chewing with their mouth open and making childish jokes about seafood. The nanny paid no mind to them. She continued to read her book, absently feeding the young child the food that was soaked in her saliva. A french free came flying over the table and landed in my friend's salad. At that same time, I made eye contact with the child who I could see, the oldest and gave him a stern look and said, "could you not do that?". They were quiet for two minutes before spilling an enormous soda underneath their table that flooded underneath our table. This caused them to erupt in laughter again. Instead of cleaning it up, one of them at least began to tap his feet in it or march in place, splattering it further towards the back of my friend's ankles. At that point, I stood up, caught the attention of about 4 surrounding tables who all looked at me, waiting to see what I would say and then finally the nanny who looked up quizzically. I said, "you need to do something about this". The nanny looked at me, looked at the boys, the floor, the mess on the table and said to me, "I try and I try with these kids and their parents teach them no manners". Yes, that was her response. It had nothing to do with the total lack of supervision or interaction, or her absorption in her novel. It was of course, the parents fault. The nanny made a half ass attempt at cleaning up the table, and was soon helped by a worker with a bucket. No dount because of the glares of other customers, she gathered the children and left.
Description of vehicle, bag, stroller that may aid in identifying involved caregiver: I noticed they drove out of the parking lot in gold Isuzu Rodeo about 4 minutes later.