Diner Patron Threatens to Kill Server Over Subpar Food

Speaking of things waiters should "never" do, here's something a diner should never do: throw your food at the server and threaten to kill him or her. On Wednesday night one Steven Scott, 40, was arrested for assaulting a server at the New York Fried Chicken Diner on Fulton Street in East New York. Hapless waiter Baljit Singh says it all started when Scott came in at 11:30 p.m. and ordered mashed potatoes. After a couple bites, Scott "started griping about the nasty tasting food." So he was given a new serving of potatoes, but this didn't satisfy him either. Oh, no it did not.

Scott allegedly "hurled the plate of mush against Singh's chest," smacked him across the face, whipped out a knife and threatened to stab him. Singh says Scott then changed his mind, and promised, "I'm going to come back with my gun and shoot you dead! I know what time you guys close!" Singh called 911, and when police arrived he rode with them looking for Scott, who was spotted nearby and arrested. He apparently has three prior Brooklyn arrests for drug possession and DWI.

The diner manager sums things up nicely for the Post: "I don't know what happened. Maybe the mashed potatoes were too cold or too hot, but we sell a lot. Sometimes, people want things for free. That's why they complain. We always have situations like that. We're open until 3 a.m. This is East New York."

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By John Del Signore in Food on November 6, 2009 1:57 PM

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Amanda Harletsch

Maybe he is a crazy fuck looking for somebody to abuse...anybody that he can push arround into his crazy power crave idiocy.

felixthecatSUX

keeping it real...

Kevin Walsh

Never complain in a restaurant. This is what can happen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfhkuXuQ9eA

www.forgotten-ny.com

freddynyc

I would have added my special "white sauce" to please the customer...

inoyourider

Scumbag

NannyState

Michelin reviewers are so picky these days...

Think2wice

So the hard-working, grave-yard-shifting, minimum-wage-earning, peon immigrant has to provide service with a smile to some obnoxious, thugged out, welfare mooching, baby-mama having ingrate who got the munchies after tripping on crack-laced splife.

Only in New York.

ed_Extinct

here's an idea. close the restaurant at a normal hour. how much legit business can east new york have post midnight?

Snoopy

How many rats, roaches and other vermin do you see in the daylight? Their normal waking hours are midnight until the sun rises.

Billiamsburg

pretty high standards for a guy eating fried chicken in east new york. he should be thankful anyone even has the willpower to run a business in that hellhole. And one that isnt behind four layers of bullet proof glass at that.