Posted on 10/13/2025 4:29:43 AM PDT by TigerClaws
An angry Olive Garden waitress throwing breadsticks at customers who stiffed her on a tip is a compelling story, especially if police arrested that waitress for assault.
Unlimited breadsticks doesn’t mean unlimited free labor!" she supposedly yelled.
Conservatively, this story has been seen more than 5 million times. It comes complete with a mug shot of a pretty blonde woman with watery eyes and a pink face who has clearly been crying.
But the entire thing is fake. Everything that is—except for the young woman. Her name is Megan Ashlee . She is a student in College Station, and this fake post is wrecking her life. "It's probably like my worst nightmare coming to reality," Davis told Chron. "People are making very inappropriate comments or AI-generated things with my mug shot," Davis said.
The Facebook account "Pure videos" that created the fake post is verified with 1.7 million followers. The majority of its posts—if not all—are fiction. The breadsticks story isn't even original. As of Friday, the post about Davis had 112,000 comments, plus 101,000 reactions and 12,000 shares. And now dozens of separate accounts have copied that post to make their own—complete with her teary mug shot.
Even though the Facebook post did not include Davis' real name and the fake story took place in St. Louis—not College Station—many other people tracked her down on social media and sent her harassing or creepy comments.
"People are disgusting out there—and scary," Davis added. Chron kept Davis' full name in this story because her name is already out there and she believes this will help make the truth wider known. ‘But she has a mug shot—she must be a bad person, right?’ Davis’ mug shot came after a night out drinking in August. She was arrested for public intoxication.
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And vanities. 20 years ago they were heavily frowned upon.
Today some of them are good, many are just a plain waste of time and space. I suspect some are lonely people with no one to really talk to.
There could be some association between Green Tomato, your credit card (if you used one) and your phone. Assuming you used your card and Green Tomato is aware of your phone #, then as soon as you paid the bill the message was automatically sent to your phone.
If there are no associations like that at all, then it’s outright spying.
Wait. They can post things on the internet that are not true? /s
I’ve been on FR since 1998. Hard News was never the mission statement. I remember early threads that were nothing but humor. “A moose bit my sister” comes to mind. Then there was “The Ultimate Insult”, which has apparently disappeared from the internet.
The fundraiser is unfortunately necessary, as nobody has stepped up to finance the whole thing out of their own pocket. Not sure JimRob wants that, anyway.
If any posts annoy you, I suggest you exercise the long-standing freeper tradition of ignoring them.
With AI the original creators could not have also asked it to create a fake photo for the fake story? Why use a real person?
More than messed up.
That sounds rather Hugh and Series.
And by the way - All Your Base Are Belong To Us.
Oh and how could I forget - ***ASH ALERT***
“A moose bit my sister”
The good old days!
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