An intoxicated woman refused to pay her bill at a Nashville Airport restaurant. Described as a dine and dash, police were called, and body cam footage of the March 15th arrest is just now available.

The woman told the officers that she paid her bill. They asked for her ID, and she retrieved it, but demanded it back after handing it over. She tried to snatch it, and she was arrested for public intoxication. Her response? To argue that “Public intoxication is not even a thing in Indiana!” Except, of course, she was in… Tennessee (which she was reminded).

As she’s taken away, she began screaming uncontrollably, pleading for help from other passengers. The woman was led from the airside area to an elevator, where she attempted to escape but was stopped. She was eventually placed in a police SUV. Although she continued to scream while being secured in the vehicle, she calmed down during the ride to the station. There she inquired, “What did I do wrong?!”

She’s charged with theft of services, public intoxication, and resisting arrest, however disorderly conduct was dropped.

This is hardly the first airport dine and dash incident. But there are cameras everywhere, and until your flight takes off where are you going to go? The getaway isn’t easy here, and police are on-site already. This woman should have taken a lesson from the Delta passenger who dined-and-dashed at an Atlanta airport Buffalo Wild Wings. She grabbed a fire extinguisher, and came out spraying. It did not end well for her.

Skipping out of a hotel bill by making your escape seems far easier.

(HT: Live and Let’s Fly)