For most of us, a visit to a restaurant is a chance to treat ourselves to good food and
good company in a great atmosphere.
Spare a thought, then, for these patrons who were trying to have a nice night out, only
to have it ruined by the strange behavior of others, leading to the police being called
in.
Here are a few bizarre ways that people have been arrested in restaurants.
Eating bad seafood has given many of us plenty
of reasons to complain, though our complaints were probably more about the gastrointestinal
after-effects than the size of our servings.
But one man in Stuart, Florida was arrested for misusing 911 by calling to complain about
the size of the clams he had ordered.
The man called three times before police showed up and arrested him, though he was ultimately
not taken to jail.
Hopefully he learned a lesson about not being so selfish about shellfish.
Also charged for misuse of 911 was a woman in Alliance, Ohio, who complained to the emergency
service about the Chinese food she had just picked up from her local restaurant.
"I have bought some Chinese food and it's not to par."
The police determined that her sub-standard sweet & sour chicken was not a life-threatening
emergency and the woman was arrested after her real motives were revealed.
"We just spoke with the folks at Mainman and who say McLeod ordered several different items
from the menu and even ate some of them, and paying with a credit card.
But then she wanted cash back."
Diners in a Cape Coral, Florida fast food
restaurant got an unpalatable performance in August 2011.
For 10 minutes, a man dubbed the "McDonald's Pimple Popper" stood by the entrance of the
food franchise and popped zits on his back.
After receiving complaints from the deeply disgusted diners who were not lovin' it, the
police arrived.
Though the Pimple Popper was not charged for the gross act, he was eventually charged with
driving without a license, resisting arrest, giving a false ID, and possession of drug
paraphernalia.
"That's really life folks…it really happened.
. I don't get it… but you gotta love it."
People really love their chicken nuggets.
"How to I look?"
"Delicious.
Golden brown is your color."
One woman in South Hill, Washington loved them so much that she pulled a gun on the
drive-through attendant who served her one less than she was expecting.
After complaining her drink was late and that there was something in it, she started getting
irate.
Then, discovering she was one nugget short, she threw her drink at the staff, and started
banging on the window when staff closed it.
Before anyone knew what was happening, she had pulled out a handgun.
Police arrested her in her home after tracking down the car and the woman was later jailed.
We've all felt frustrated with how we've been
treated in a restaurant or coffee shop.
Thankfully, people usually don't express that anger the way one man in Houston, Texas sadly
did.
Three months after being banned from a branch of Starbucks, the man retaliated while drunk
by smashing a bottle on the ground before picking up a chihuahua and throwing it at
the store.
Despite suffering from head injuries, bleeding from the ears, and a broken leg, the dog fully
recovered and was the recipient of a viral fundraising campaign by a local animal shelter.
The same can't be said of the man, who was jailed for animal cruelty.
Two residents of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, took
their love of Breaking Bad to the extreme when they turned a utility room of their local
Taco Bell into a meth lab.
Justice finally met up with them when the Iowa police found the two men acting suspiciously
in front of the Mexican fast food restaurant in the early morning.
"Busted!
Cooking meth in a Taco Bell..
Yum!"
When police moved into the restaurant, they found pieces of the pair's makeshift meth
lab, leading to charges of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine for the pair and a possession
charge for one of them.
Management promised that the Taco Bell would be thoroughly sanitized before reopening.
We all love a freebie, but few of us would
ever go as far as one resident of Delray Beach, Florida.
Across 10 days in September 2017, a Floridian visited 10 different restaurants and slipped
glass into her own food in order to try to con each eatery into offering her free food.
"What she was doing was toward the time she was finishing her meal she was then taking
glass cutting herself, and she was then blaming the glass on the food preparers."
She eventually turned herself in to the police, who arrested the glassy gourmet on a charge
of scheme to defraud.
"Police say that suspect apologized and says, ti was like an adrenaline rush and now she
just wants to get this behind her and move forward."
Step back in time by a decade to remember
Nicky - "Sister of Paris" - Hilton.
Though most of Hilton's exploits have been lost to the era of MySpace and interviews
with talk show hosts no one remembers, a weird restaurant-related story remains from February
2009.
That's when Hilton made a citizen's arrest in a Hollywood branch of IHOP.
Leaving the International House of Pancakes at 5 a.m., the so-called "celebutante" was
pushed from behind, leading to her restraining the perpetrator until deputies arrived.
There's a lesson to be learned from all this.
"Stay out of trouble."
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