Knock-down, drag-out at retirement home salad bar

HurricaneGirl · #1 Postby **HurricaneGirl** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:08 am

Seniors Brawl After Salad Bar Dispute
The Associated Press

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - A dispute at the salad bar turned into a food fracas at an upscale retirement home, with a man taking a bite out of another's arm and other residents suffering minor injuries.

Police said resident Lee Thoss, 62, of the Spring Haven Retirement Community was picking through the lettuce, which disgusted 86-year-old William Hocker, who was standing in line behind him.

Hocker told Thoss no one wanted to eat food he had been playing with. Thoss yelled and cursed at him, Hocker told police, and Hocker called him a nasty name. Then, witnesses said, Thoss then began punching Hocker in the face.

In the buffet melee that followed, Allen Croft, 79, tried to grab Thoss, who bit him on the arm, reports said.

Thoss' mother, Arlene, in her 80s and also a Spring Haven resident, jumped in to break up the fight and ended up with a cut arm. Harry Griffin, 92, was standing at the salad bar and cut his head when he was knocked to the ground.

"All the old folks were either getting up to help or trying to get out of there," police spokesman J.J. Stanton said of the scene last Sunday in the well-appointed dining room, which features an ice cream bar and a pastry chef.

Arlene Thoss, Croft and Griffin were treated at a local hospital and released.

Stanton said all involved declined to press charges, but home administrators have asked Lee Thoss to move out.

March 5, 2004 7:36 AM

#2 Postby **wx247** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:13 am

I am sorry, but that is too funny!!!! :lol:

I just get this mental image that is hilarious. :lol:

HurricaneGirl · #3 Postby **HurricaneGirl** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:22 am

The thing that got me was the guy picking through the lettuce. I am really weird about lettuce and I do the SAME THING!! I only pick the pieces I like. If they're too green and wilty I won't take those pieces.
Mostly I avoid salads and salad bars because of that. :eek:

JCT777 · #4 Postby **JCT777** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:30 am

LOL!!

But I am not sure that lettuce is worth having a brawl over. :wink:

Skywatch_NC · #5 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 2:32 pm

Lettuce (LET US) Fight! :eek:

Eric

stormraiser · #6 Postby **stormraiser** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 2:37 pm

I am sure he wasn't using the tongs either. Man, some of these people probably could barely walk. :roll:

What is this country coming too. LOL

Skywatch_NC · #7 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 2:42 pm

The activity director meant well...BUT...their weekly "shadow" boxing got obviously WAY OUT OF HAND! :eek:

Wonder if anyone's dentures landed in the main course elsewhere on the buffet?! :lol:

Eric

JCT777 · #8 Postby **JCT777** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:47 pm

Skywatch_NC wrote:Wonder if anyone's dentures landed in the main course elsewhere on the buffet?!

Haha!

Probably, but I would guess nobody noticed. :wink:

#9 Postby **coriolis** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:20 pm

Sheesh, fighting over lettuce! Bacon bits, perhaps, but lettuce?

Josephine96 · #10 Postby **Josephine96** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:14 pm

Who put bacon bits in that dude's chicken? rotflmao

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