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.
Felony? Holy crap...
PS,, VFW, all the the catfish you can eat..........$7.50........you guys can take those high priced restaurants and shove it!
Very clever.
Four things come to mind when I think of "The Sixth Sense": the quotation from the Prophecy of Joel during the opening credits, the neat music when the "directed bys" introduced the episode, Gary opening a door and falling into a gigantic spider web, and an episode centering around the Man in the Iron Mask (which I didn't know anything about at the time and which scared me to death!).
Dang it, NOW I’m HUNGRY!!!!!!!
Looks good to me. No prob running up US$60 with a cocktail or bottle of vino...or 2...;)
I recall he, and his wife, if I’m not mistaken, used to emcee some kind of infomercial, too. Can’t remember what it was about. Healthfood, one of the new mattresses? Can’t remember.
touche
“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.”
I feel that way about the Second Hundred Years.
I remember that! David Hartman was the guy who's son was played by Monte Markham, who also played the Hartman character's father, who had been frozen in a glacier and hadn't aged a day. I think that was the basis.
Remember "The Ugliest Girl in Town?"
Gary Collins could be Cosmo Kramers father..
I remember that show now that they mentioned it. I don’t remember anything about it, though.
I could eat two of those soft shelled crab poboys right now.
He is probably a Democrat who moved to escape the high taxation that he wishes to impose on everyone else. Best, Bob
Is that the one they interlaced into Night Gallery in reruns?
I doubt it.
The originals are lost to us.
Remember “The Ugliest Girl in Town?”
Whoa! Nope, when/what was that?
How about It’s about time, lol.
I had no idea that he is a demorat
What State do you live in?
Illinois.
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