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Red Lobster Assault (WTF?!)

Post by tattuchu » Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:13 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/0 ... 08327.html

A Missouri woman is facing felony charges for attacking a waitress at a restaurant in southwest Illinois after the wrong food order was delivered to her table.

Cell phone videos caught the brutal attack on a female server at Red Lobster in Fairview Heights, Ill. Dec. 30.

Police say the food orders for a table of four women were handed off between waitstaff, resulting in a mix-up, the Associated Press reports. When the wrong meals were delivered, one woman threw a drink in the waitress' face before all four women began punching and pushing the server, who suffered cuts to her nose and forehead and a swollen eye.


I'm a little confused. The four women who assaulted the server continued to eat their meal, I read, but then were eventually escorted out. Not sure if they actually were able to finish the entire meal :? But why in god's name weren't the police called? Why weren't the women arrested right then and there? One of the four was arrested some time later, and police are trying to identify the others :? :?
Would it be considered not a good idea to try and detain these people while the police were en route? It looks like you wouldn't even have to try and detain them, since they appeared to be intent on eating their meal despite the fact that they'd just assaulted someone :? :? :?
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Re: Red Lobster Assault (WTF?!)

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:19 pm

Were they wearing hoodies?
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Post by tattuchu » Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:26 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Were they wearing hoodies?
Dunno, I couldn't see jack shit in that video. In fact I couldn't see a video in that article at all. Could you? Was it there? I don't know why I can't see it but that happens to me all the time with HuffPo articles. They say there's a video, but it's simply not there for me. It's not that I can't play it. It's entirely not there.
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Post by Faithfree » Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:30 pm

"Red Lobster Assault" would be a good name for a band - just say'n.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:31 pm

Faithfree wrote:"Red Lobster Zombie Assault" would be a good name for a band - just say'n.
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Post by Ronja » Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:00 pm

Weird people will be weird.

Poor waitress! :?
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:03 pm

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Post by mistermack » Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:11 pm

The waitress should be grateful she wasn't shot.
The customer was entitled to believe that her life was in danger, she could have had an allergic reaction to the wrong food.
If she FELT that her life was in danger, she had every right to pull a gun and shoot the waitress.

As did the waitress, of course.
This is a classic case of not enough guns.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:17 pm

If the waitress had been making coffee there would be reason to invoke "Stand Your Grounds."
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Re: Red Lobster Assault (WTF?!)

Post by maiforpeace » Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:22 pm

tattuchu wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/0 ... 08327.html

A Missouri woman is facing felony charges for attacking a waitress at a restaurant in southwest Illinois after the wrong food order was delivered to her table.

Cell phone videos caught the brutal attack on a female server at Red Lobster in Fairview Heights, Ill. Dec. 30.

Police say the food orders for a table of four women were handed off between waitstaff, resulting in a mix-up, the Associated Press reports. When the wrong meals were delivered, one woman threw a drink in the waitress' face before all four women began punching and pushing the server, who suffered cuts to her nose and forehead and a swollen eye.


I'm a little confused. The four women who assaulted the server continued to eat their meal, I read, but then were eventually escorted out. Not sure if they actually were able to finish the entire meal :? But why in god's name weren't the police called? Why weren't the women arrested right then and there? One of the four was arrested some time later, and police are trying to identify the others :? :?
Would it be considered not a good idea to try and detain these people while the police were en route? It looks like you wouldn't even have to try and detain them, since they appeared to be intent on eating their meal despite the fact that they'd just assaulted someone :? :? :?
The manager at that restaurant deserves to be fired...he/she is the one who should have called the police immediately. In a big chain like the Red Lobster, I guarantee that there is something in the manager's training handbook that would have covered this...I don't see a manager anywhere in that video, they should have been there on the spot within minutes to deal with it.
Police say tips helped them identify three of the four suspected assailants, and more charges are expected to be filed soon.
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Post by FBM » Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:29 pm

maiforpeace wrote:...
Police say tips helped them identify three of the four suspected assailants, and more charges are expected to be filed soon.
So you have to tip policemen for service now!??!! :nono:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:31 pm

So nobody had a cell phone in that restaurant?
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Post by Svartalf » Sat Apr 07, 2012 4:13 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:If the waitress had been making coffee there would be reason to invoke "Stand Your Grounds."
If she'd had a pot of boiling coffee, she might have been able to defend herself.
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Post by Faithfree » Sat Apr 07, 2012 4:36 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:So nobody had a cell phone in that restaurant?
Too busy videoing with the cell phones to make a call.
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Re: Red Lobster Assault (WTF?!)

Post by PsychoSerenity » Sat Apr 07, 2012 4:56 pm

Faithfree wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:So nobody had a cell phone in that restaurant?
Too busy videoing with the cell phones to make a call.
That's actually a really good reason for why you shouldn't have all-in-one gadgets.
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