Posted on 09/09/2005 8:20:01 AM PDT by Millee
Talk about your tossed salad and flying meatballs.
A night out at a local Olive Garden Restaurant landed six people in jail after two families who've had a long-standing beef with one another brawled inside the restaurant.
Valerie Baca, Lawerence Bettale Jr., Rene Bettale, Lawrence Bettale Sr. and two teens were arrested after an off-duty police officer used a Taser gun to control the fight.
Westminster police said two families who've been feuding were seated near one another Wednesday night and it came to a boiling point when one of the families was leaving and made a snide remark or gesture to the other family.
Police say bottles were broken, furniture was thrown, food was flying.
An off-duty police officer had just walked out of the door when the fight broke out so a person ran out to get him, said Stephanie Topkoff with Westminster Police Department.
The officer tried to tame the fighting families and eventually had to use his Taser gun, Topkoff said.
The group now faces charges of assault, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief.
Damn! We never have that kind of entertainment at our Olive Garden.
So...who got their salad tossed...?
I'd take that over a meatball upside the head any day!
LOL! Good one!
That's pretty lousy Italian food. Might have set them on edge.
You're probably right. A big meatball hitting your head at high speed could break your noodle.
I could understand if they were fighting over the breadsticks. Mighty tasty little buggers.
Prolly the lousy food that did it.
Safe? From what? A food fight?
"When you're here, you're family" -- The Olive Garden.
"Uh-oh... Someone's gonna get grounded!" -- Me.
were arrested after an off-duty police officer used a Taser gun to control the fight.
Which makes one wonder why not fight insde Sizzlin' Sirloin.
Mafia!!!!
Closest thing I ever saw to this was at a shopping mall food court. Some teenagers started throwing food at each other and the mall cops started swarming. I could hear over the walkie-talkies "Disturbance at the Orange Julius." The funny thing was that the mall cops were younger than the kids throwing the food!
Leave the gun...take the cannoli.
**LOL**
Mom..dad...zat you?
I think it may be the altitude there in the "mile high" city. Lack of oxygen makes you do really stupid things....you don't believe me?....look at Nancy Pelosi because Bush has been denying her oxygen for many years now!!..it's a secret plot hatched by Karl Rove and if it works, he will try it on Howard Dean, Ted (Fatty)Kennedy, and selected other Dims!!! :)
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