Posted on 11/05/2022 2:09:42 PM PDT by simpson96
A beef over boorish behavior in a Midtown steakhouse ended with a Massachusetts tourist stabbed twice by a diner seated at a nearby table, police said Saturday.
A Manhattan woman was arrested hours after the red-meat ruckus where police said the suspect became outraged Friday night after the 24-year-old victim’s wife made snide remarks about the service and the waitstaff inside Ruth’s Chris Steak House, cops said.
Customer Joan Thompson, 41, intervened in the argument between the wife and a worker before grabbing a steak knife and stabbing the man in the lower back and armpit shortly after 10 p.m. at the restaurant on W. 51st St., police said.
Thompson was charged with felony assault and menacing, police said.
“I’ve never been to Ruth’s,” said Bob Ostrow, who was staying at an adjoining hotel. “But if you’re going to start a ruckus you don’t want to do it at a steakhouse. There’s too many sharp knives!”
Cops spent Friday night searching for surveillance video to help identify the suspect before she was taken into custody. Thompson was sitting near the out-of-town couple when the fracas started, with the situation escalating quickly as the suspect took the side of the employees.
The victim, of Milford, Mass., was rushed to Weill Cornell Medical Center by ambulance.
“When they brought him out he was holding his upper chest,” said a security guard at the neighboring Michelangelo Hotel. “He was stabbed and bleeding, but still talking when they put him into the ambulance.
Thompson and her dinner companion fled the restaurant and headed on foot toward the East Side as witnesses dialed 911. She was arrested a little more than four hours after the stabbing.
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If she reached for the horseradish....
Glad I went through PUBLIC high school in the 70s.....back then it was set up more like college.
Prep
Heheh. Does indeed.
Whoa… She has more chins than a Chinese phone book…
With the many steakhouses in Manhattan, you go to Ruths Chris? That’s like going to Mexico City and dining at Chipotle.
Oh my!
LOL! Exactly...”like going to Mexico and dining at Chipotle.” Great description!
She’s dreamy!
This is why everyone should learn to cook their own food.
I could not make heads-or-tails of that headline.
Who writes these things?
Guilty!
In fact, they need to dig up her basement & yard to find the rest of her victims...
Masshole.
What kind of person vacations in new york after what has happened in the last few years?
Hey, she looks familiar.
“Your cock-a-doody wife insulted the waitress! I’m not your number one fan!”
She needs a snickers - she was hangry.
Tonight it’s chicken livers with biscuits and gravy and rice. And pray over your food.
“I feel that this story could have been written in a more straight forward fashion.”
Thank you. I wondered if it was just me. Couldn’t figure it out.
(This is why everyone should learn to cook their own food)
Yeah, or at least wear Kevlar when dining at Ruth’s Chris.
Took FOUR of them to concoct that headline
Rebecca White, Kerry Burke, Thomas Tracy and Larry McShane
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