Woman Jailed After Feasting at Seafood Buffet for Four Hours Then Declaring 'Jesus' Would Pay Bill
For four hours on Sunday, April Lee Yates, 51, feasted at the popular Bennett's Calabash Seafood Buffet Restaurant in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, but when it was time to pay her bill she said "Jesus" would pick up the tab.
Management personnel at the restaurant, where you can have all the crab legs you can eat, called local police to the scene at about 9:15 p.m. Sunday to report Yates' refusal to pay her bill, according to wmbfnews.
The police report indicated that while Yates was at the restaurant, she caused a disturbance which affected other patrons and forced management to instruct her to pay her bill and leave.
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When police asked Yates to pay up, she told them she had no money. When pressed further, she said she was aware that she had no money when she sat down to eat, but was assured that someone would pay the bill for her. When a police officer asked her who that someone was she declared, "Jesus."
She was quickly arrested and taken to the Myrtle Beach Jail.
According to the restaurant's website, it specializes in preparing Calabash-style seafood, which has its origins in the famous town of Calabash in North Carolina.
"Calabash-style cooking involves corn meal battering and frying, and is a popular way to cook seafood in this region," explains project543 — a website dedicated to sharing unique retail, restaurant and recreational locations across the state of North Carolina.
There is about one seafood restaurant per 10 residents in the port city of Calabash, which has perhaps the "highest concentration of seafood restaurants for any city its size in the world. And the residents aren't shy about touting their town as the 'Seafood Capital of the World,'" project543 adds.
