Melee breaks out at Florida retirement home salad bar...

[Maddy McCall]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/hp/content/gen/ap/FL_Salad_Bar_Melee.html

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.

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[underpants]

1. Hmm Bobby Knight is vacationing in Florida this winter huh?

:bounce:

[GOPisEvil]

2. Fiesty old folks! I love it!

:bounce:

[ComerPerro]

3. Wow

Just,

wow

[bobbieinok]

4. fair warning to all you 'young uns': just wait for the baby boomers

and I hope the veterans of the 60s take our battles into politics and not into nursing homes.

[Jack from Charlotte]

5. This is a direct result of Bobby Knight...........

the Texas Tech basketball ball coach who got into an altercation at a sald bar a few weeks ago.

Goes to show that sports people are real role models, good or bad, for other folks.

[cprise]

6. It's that 62 y.o. / 86 y.o. Generation Gap

Those 86-year-olds just don't grok the younger generation.

[Rowdyboy]

7. Wouldn't you just love to make a salad after

someone had picked through the lettuce-mmmm, tasty!