A crabby customer was arrested after he called 911 to complain about the size of his meal at a seafood restaurant.
Nelson Agosto, 51, called the emergency line twice to complain that the clams he had ordered from Crabby’s Seafood Shack in Stuart, Fla. were too small, Treasure Coast reported.
“He was complaining that the clams he was eating were so small. He didn’t want to pay for them,” police spokesman Sgt. Brian Bossio said.
Agosto ordered the meal after a server had warned him of its small size, an incident report shows, Treasure Coast reported.
He complained, and the restaurant gave him a second order of clams free of charge, an employee said to police.
Agosto took the matter up with police—he dialed 911 to say, “I ordered something, and it was extremely so small.”
In audio released by police, the dispatcher is heard providing Agosto with the phone number for non-emergencies—which he allegedly forgot, prompting him to dial 911 a second time.
He insisted that an officer respond to the restaurant to help him settle the dispute.
“Nelson was refusing to shell out money for the food and attempted to call the police using the 9-1-1 system,” the Stuart Police Department wrote on Facebook.
Agosto was arrested on a summons for misdemeanor charge of misuse of 911, police said. He was released from the scene.
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