Elderly Food Fight At Early Bird Dinner

The place: Golden Corral in Wilkesboro, NC. The time: 3:45 p.m. The perp: 64-year-old Polly Richards. The victims: 69-year-old Lynwood Moore and another senior standing next to Polly in the buffet line.

Eatery surveillance video shows Richards cussing at Moore before grabbing his shirt and shoving him against the wall. Richards then slapped Moore's face.

Just as Moore realized he was in up to his depends and despite recently loading up on garrison of heart stents Moore said later he feared for his life. Despite his fear Moore defiantly grabbed Richard's arms and pushed her hard enough to drive her fall to the floor.

At that point cops say Richards threw a plate of food at Moore hitting 62-year-old Fay Cardwell seated at a table obviously too close to the action. Cardwell is expected to recover but did receive a knot on her shin and knee from after her own face-plant on the linoleum.

Employees later told the cops the video is misleading. In fact, they say it was Moore and not Richards who started the food fight by jumping Richards in the food line.

The cops discounted the employee witnesses and arrested Richards who offered the officers a summation of her sentiments just as the cuffs were applied, "just take me to the fuckin' jail then."

Richards skipped her jail food though and quickly posted a $1500 bond.  Oh yea, she also got slapped herself with two counts of assault and battery.