A Florida woman and her mother have been arrested for skipping out on a restaurant check after the daughter told the cashier that she would go to heaven if the meal was free, or go to hell if she insisted on charging the meal to her credit card.
According to NewsChief.com, Willie “Mother” Lewis, 78, and her daughter Ruthena Lewis, 44, ate breakfast at the A&G Restaurant in Winter Haven, Florida, with the bill coming to $18.46.
After finishing, Ruthena Lewis took her mother out to the car and then returned to the restaurant to pay her bill. Lewis presented A&G cashier Crystal Henson with her credit card which was subsequently declined. According to the restaurant staff, Lewis held the cancel button down as the Henson attempted to process the charge.
According to the police report, “(Ruthena Lewis) stated to (Henson) that if she gave them the meal for free she would go to heaven. If she ran the credit card again, she would go to hell.”
Lewis then handed the cashier a business card with the name of her church pastor , Bishop Joseph Lewis of the Church of God the Bible Way, on it, saying to call him and he would pay the bill. Lewis is not related to the two women.
Ruthena Lewis then left the restaurant, got into her car with her mother and drove off, however a restaurant employee got her license number and turned it over to Winter Haven police, who arrested the pair soon after.
The mother, Willie Lewis, who was in the car and couldn’t see what had transpired, had $80 cash in her purse at the time of her arrest.
Following the arrest Bishop Joseph Lewis went to the restaurant and paid the women’s bill, getting assurances from owner George Paragios that he would ask police to drop charges against the women.
According to police reports, officers arrived at the restaurant to have Paragios sign a waiver of prosecution and Paragios declined.
Since that time, members of the Church of God the Bible Way have been picketing A&G Restaurant urging customers to stay away.
Let's see, so you threaten that people who make you pay for food will burn in hell, drive off without paying even though you have the money, and then have your church members try to bankrupt the restaurant for holding you accountable.
This must be an example of the kind of morals that one can only get through religion.
Damn the religious folk are getting goofier and goofier with each passing day.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's an insidious, and for some, debilitating disease. Many never recover.
DeleteAh, Flor-uh-DUH. Religious wackos who feel their beliefs entitle them to free crap. I bet they're republicans, too.
ReplyDeleteThe Flock should flock elsewhere..............
ReplyDeleteLike the sheep they are.....
DeleteThe owner should prosecute them. The only way to stop it is to make an example of them.
ReplyDeleteHe is going ahead with the charges.
DeleteGood for him. I hope the book is thrown at this two fuckwits.
DeleteAnd too bad I don't live near this restaurant. I'd probably stop in and have myself a meal. I'd definitely pay the bill and I'm a good tipper.
Jennifer K
Jeremiah 7:9-10 Will ye steal, ...and swear falsely...then come and stand before me in this house (CHURCH), which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
ReplyDeleteIn Arizona she could have declined to pay the bill because it was against her religious beliefs.
ReplyDeleteReligious that think only of themselves? How come so many, many of them are like that on the right and extreme right? They make me sick to my stomach!
ReplyDeleteTalk about thinking they are 'entitled'!!
That restaurant owner was a stupid idiot and cheapskate for turning down guaranteed entry to heaven (and a free "get out of hell" card to boot), for a measly $18.00.
ReplyDeleteI take it they're not big on tipping either? This was the BEST free advertisement for the restaurant.. What I don't get is why did Bishop Lewis stick his nose in this man's business and offer to pay in exchange for a waiver? What's "moral" in that?
ReplyDeleteMr Paragios and the cops did the right (moral) thing.