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Actor Gary Collins arrested for walking out on bill (Biloxi, Mississippi)
Daily News and Analysis / Reuters ^ | January 6, 2011

Posted on 01/06/2011 5:45:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Television host and actor Gary Collins has been arrested for leaving a restaurant in Biloxi, Mississippi without paying his bill, police said on Wednesday.

Collins, 72, a former host of the Miss America beauty pageant, was charged with defrauding an innkeeper, said Rodney McGilvary, assistant chief of the Biloxi Police Department. He said Collins walked out on a $59.35 restaurant tab on Tuesday.

Restaurant employees followed him out of the restaurant into the parking lot, but he refused to stop, police said.

Collins had been drinking alcohol, McGilvary said, and was later arrested at his home but was not breath tested because he was not driving a vehicle at the time. Collins later posted bond of $5,000.

"He told me they were taking too long to bring his steak and he did not eat his steak. He said he was afraid he would be too drunk to drive by the time they brought it so he decided to leave," detective Tim McKaig said.

Collins starred in the 1972 TV series The Sixth Sense and was a guest star on may shows such as Perry Mason. In the 1980s, he hosted talk show Hour Magazine, The Home Show, and the Miss America Pageant for several years.


TOPICS: Food; Local News; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: biloxi; garycollins; mississippi; whatutalkinbout
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This happened just a few miles from us. Why he lives down here I have no idea.
1 posted on 01/06/2011 5:45:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe he is a Yankee and he thought he could stiff the locals on his dinner bills.

I guess that idea did not work out so well.


2 posted on 01/06/2011 5:50:04 PM PST by Frantzie (Slaves do not have freedom only the illusion of freedom & their cable TV to drool at)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Perhaps it’s the home of his wife, Mary Ann Mobley (former Miss America.)


3 posted on 01/06/2011 5:50:16 PM PST by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: Frantzie

Southerners can count?


4 posted on 01/06/2011 5:51:23 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s the big deal? Here in Pittsburgh, it’s a known fact that Ben Roethlisberger does this all the time but yet never gets arrested. Imagine that.

I’m being sarcastic of course. People should always be held accountable for dishonesty


5 posted on 01/06/2011 5:53:52 PM PST by surroundedbyblue
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is a booking mug of television personality Gary Collins of Beverly Hills, Calif., provided by the Biloxi, Miss., Police Department and taken Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, after Collins was charged with defrauding an innkeeper of $59.35 after leaving a Biloxi restaurant and refusing to pay the tab. According to Mississippi law, refusing to pay a restaurant bill of more than $25 is a felony.… Read more » (AP Photo/Biloxi Police Department)

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6 posted on 01/06/2011 5:54:28 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Collins starred in the 1972 TV series The Sixth Sense

I can't believe they actually mentioned that series. I thought I was the only person on earth who remembered it. As a matter of fact, sometimes I wonder if it was just a product of my imagination.

7 posted on 01/06/2011 5:56:05 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Vayhi be`etzem hayom hazeh; hotzi' HaShem 'et-Benei Yisra'el me'Eretz Mitzrayim `al-tziv'otam.)
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To: surroundedbyblue

It amazes me what the celebrity athlete class is allowed to get away with and even worshpped for. May the “cult of ball” die one day.


8 posted on 01/06/2011 5:57:24 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Collins, 72, a former host of the Miss America beauty pageant, was charged with defrauding an innkeeper, said Rodney McGilvary, assistant chief of the Biloxi Police Department. He said Collins walked out on a $59.35 restaurant tab on Tuesday.

He should run for office as a democrat, then he wouldn't have worry about such slandering of his reputation by such trivial wrongdoing.

9 posted on 01/06/2011 5:58:48 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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Go all the way and drive a GM sedan (since no more Olds)over a bridge with a younger woman and allow her to drown. Put on a neck brace for sympahty and all transgressions will be forgiven.


10 posted on 01/06/2011 6:00:31 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

$60 bucks for a steak???? Not in Boloxi!,, Ah,, maybe $30,, the rest was booze. He walked out on the bar tab, bad decision, should have left a few $20’s.


12 posted on 01/06/2011 6:01:39 PM PST by MrPiper
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To: hole_n_one
Refusing to pay a restaurant bill over 25.00USD is a felony.What has happened to America and what about if the food stunk and you refused to eat it?That's insane!
13 posted on 01/06/2011 6:02:44 PM PST by taxtruth (Don't end the fed,jail the fed!)
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To: MrPiper

The menu:
http://jazzeppis.net/biloxi-ms-menu.htm


14 posted on 01/06/2011 6:08:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Please donate to FreeRepublic, sanity in a world gone mad!)
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To: 1rudeboy; Frantzie

Most of them can count.

It’s just that some of them are no ‘count.


15 posted on 01/06/2011 6:09:03 PM PST by dblup
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wasn’t he just arrested for drunk driving (there in Mississippi) as well, not too long ago? Seems to be a real mess. Always liked his stunningly-pretty wife.

Collins had two short-lived series in the 60s, the tv-version of “Wackiest Ship in the Army,” supporting Jack Warden, followed quickly by “The Iron Horse,” supporting Dale Robertson.


16 posted on 01/06/2011 6:13:08 PM PST by greene66
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He accompanies her (his wife) to the Miss Mississippi Pagent held up here every July. He always looks drunk.


17 posted on 01/06/2011 6:14:09 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC BY DONATING NOW!)
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To: hole_n_one

Wow..he didn’t age well. Used to be attractive when he was young.


18 posted on 01/06/2011 6:17:59 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: greene66
I think he was in a hit-and-run accident in Mississippi last year.
19 posted on 01/06/2011 6:18:11 PM PST by Hotmetal (An Irishman is not too drunk if he can hold on to a blade of grass and not fall from earth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a shame.

He used to seem like a real stand up kind of guy.


20 posted on 01/06/2011 6:19:10 PM PST by Mr. Jazzy (God bless the United States of America and protect her from the enemies of freedom.)
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