Just when I thought I've heard it all...I'll be DAMNED if I get arrested for not paying a tip if the service was crappy, and I'm a VERY generous tipper. Justice needs to be served.
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STORY:
No tip leads to trip in police cruiser for pair of local college students
By Express-Times staff

Moravian College senior Leslie Pope and John Wagner, a Lehigh University graduate student, were handcuffed and transported from the Lehigh Pub to Bethlehem police headquarters Oct. 23 after failing to pay a mandatory 18 percent gratuity.

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Pope and Wagner, members of a party of eight during happy hour, refused to pay a $16.35 service charge on top of their $73.87 tab because of what they say was shoddy service as well as a surcharge that was nearly 5 percent higher than the 18 percent listed on the menu.

"Gratuity is thanking you for your service," Pope, 22, said. "You can't give us terrible, terrible service and expect a tip."

The group reportedly had to wait more than an hour for salad and wings and had to approach the bar themselves for drink refills and find their own napkins and silverware as their waitress smoked outside.

The general manager of the Lehigh Pub, at 4 S. New St., declined to comment.

Pope and Wagner, 24, have pleaded not guilty and await a summary trial before District Judge Nancy Matos Gonzalez.