She was not arrested for sharing an appetizer. The restaurant was willing to settle for charging the other diners at the table the $15.99 and call it a day.
Instead, the woman got belligerent and made a loud scene. The police were called and she was arrested for disorderly conduct.
The sharing of the appetizer had nothing to do with her arrest.
You may have missed the argument about all that on the previous page of this discussion thread. The headline is not a lie. It says “AFTER,” not “BECAUSE OF.” Correlation is not causation; it was misleading, but not a lie.
Please don’t restart the argument. We’re all FReeper FRiends here.