Photo : LindaJoHeilman ( iStock ) Today from The Takeout’s ever-growing Florida files: A man was arrested at an Olive Garden, because while he might have been there, he was certainly not family. Advertisement The Miami Herald, one of the great American resources for unusual daily news, reports of Ben Padgett, who was picked up outside an Olive Garden in Naples, Florida, after police were called regarding a disturbance at the restaurant. According to a police report from the Naples Police Department, officers were dispatched to the restaurant around 3:30 p.m. Sunday about a disturbance. The caller reported that there was a man asking patrons for money outside the establishment and yelling expletives. When cops arrived, they encountered a shirtless man sitting outside on a bench shoveling spaghetti into his mouth with his hands. ﻿ Truly, whom among us has managed to avoid such a scene at some point or another in our own lives? Let he who has never hand-served himself pasta cast the first stone. The Herald also includes this oddly specific detail: ﻿Before being placed in handcuffs, officers gave Padgett paper towels so that he could clean the pasta off of his face. Thoughtful. Padgett was charged with disorderly intoxication and the nonviolent resistance of an officer, before being released on bond. You know, weird things happen everywhere. As some Takeout commenters have observed, a big part of the world’s hyper-awareness of weird Florida criminals has to do with the state’s Sunshine Law, which legally mandates the public accessibility of most government records, including those of the police. Perhaps this is the enduring power of Florida Man: He might pop up with the greatest frequency in God’s waiting room, but in reality, he’s everywhere all the time.<doc-sep>The police were nice enough to wipe the sauce off his face before the mug shot, though. A man in Florida was arrested on Sunday after causing a disturbance at an Olive Garden location in Naples, during which cops found the suspect sitting outside the restaurant, shirtless, "shoveling spaghetti into his mouth using his hands," per a police report. SEE IT: CAR CRASHES THROUGH RESTAURANT, RESTAURANT JOKES ABOUT NEW 'DRIVE-THRU' Prior to the arrest, the man had allegedly been harassing patrons both inside and out in front of the restaurant, asking people for money and shouting profanities, according to a report provided by the Naples police. Police had also received a report that the man, identified as 32-year-old Ben Padgett, entered the restaurant and threatened to kick the “a—“ of an employee, while also asking about the employee’s genitals. "[An Olive Garden employee] then stated that after Padgett went outside and sat down on the bench and began eating food, with his hands, he locked the front door of the business to prevent Padgett from coming back inside," the police report reads. Before placing him in handcuffs, police did assist the 32-year-old with wiping food off his face. The report added that the man was intoxicated and “muttering obscenities” the whole time. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The man was placed under arrest and later charged with disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer without violence. He was transferred to the Naples Jail Center following a stop at a Naples Community Hospital, where he was treated for a cut he reportedly sustained while bashing his head into the cop car’s partition. He was later released on $2,000 bond, per the Miami Herald.<doc-sep>
Olive Garden famously claims that when you're there, you're family. But that distinction evidently has its limits, considering a man was arrested outside the popular Italian restaurant chain earlier this week for belligerently eating pasta and harassing customers. The incident, which you'll be absolutely shocked to learn took place in Florida, occurred just outside an Olive Garden in Naples, where police were dispatched to deal with a man who was allegedly disturbing customers, according to The Miami Herald. When cops arrived they found the man shirtless on a bench, "shoveling spaghetti into his mouth with his hands" and reeking of booze, per a police report from the Naples Police Department. The employee who made the call to authorities said the man had been asking patrons for money and yelling expletives outside the restaurant, then came inside and began to cause a scene. Cops tried asking the man, now identified as Ben Padgett, what he was doing on the bench, but arrested him for disorderly intoxication after he responded by muttering obscenities. As the Herald so wonderfully points out, they offered him some paper towels to clean the pasta off his face before they cuffed him. Once in the back of the squad car, Padgett allegedly continued to cause a commotion and flailed around so hard he smashed his head against the partition and had to be treated at a hospital. He was later transferred to a local jail and also charged with resisting an officer. To be fair, we'd be pretty upset too if we were forced to leave Olive Garden without getting the chance to house some unlimited breadsticks. h/t The Takeout