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You're dining out with a colleague, and want to split the check, but are told when the bill comes you needed to make that intention clear before you ordered. Would you come back and punch out your waitress? North Hollywood's Della Hamby, was one of two Lil Wayne backup dancers arrested in Connecticut for her role in a scuffle with a PF Chang's waitress that started with a split-check difference of opinion.Hamby, 26, along with Jennifer Slaughter, 24, "were charged with third-degree assault and second-degree breach of peace," following the confrontation at the mall restaurant, reports the Hartford Courant. They had been dining with a third companion, who was not engaged in the fight.
Here's how the fight reportedly went down:
The women paid and left, but they later returned to retrieve a cell phone that one had left behind. They swore at the waitress and threatened her. Then, witnesses told police, one pulled the waitress's hair while the other punched her. They threw the waitress to the floor and continued punching her, police said.
Authorities caught up with the ladies elsewhere in the mall, shortly after the fight. Both women were released after posting bail, and were not expected to perform at the next Lil Wayne show.
Hamby's bio on a dance networking site says the Michigan native calls North Hollywood home these days and that as she works towards achieving her goals in the dance world, she "continues to train and build a strong relationship with God." Ultimately, her culpability in this tussle will be up her higher power...and a West Hartford judge.
To prevent you and your co-workers or friends getting into a split-check smackdown, be sure to study up on how to properly share a tab. And better to ask your server to split things first than come back and beat the crap out of them.
