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A Florida attorney Mark Roher, 52, is accused of assaulting a man with a dinner plate at a wedding reception, following a dispute over line-cutting at the Boca Lago Country Club in Boca Raton.

According to Palm Beach County Jail records, the altercation escalated from a verbal confrontation to a violent incident, resulting in Roher's arrest. The clash unfolded on January 18, with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office detailing the events that transpired at the prime rib carving station during the wedding reception.

Roher allegedly became incensed when two young girls purportedly cut in front of him at the buffet line. Enraged by this breach of etiquette, Roher confronted the father of one of the girls, setting off a chain of events that culminated in a physical altercation.

Eye-witnesses and the victim provided their accounts of the altercation, painting a picture of escalating tensions and sudden violence. The victim recounted how Roher approached him, engaged in a heated argument, and then struck him on the head with a dinner plate without warning. The situation quickly spiraled into chaos as other wedding guests became involved in the melee.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Florida Man vs Slimmer Man.

[–] makuus@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They Might Be Giants’ next hit: a sequel to “Particle Man”.

[–] cdf12345@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or Pearl Jam’s better man

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or Soundgarden's Spoonman.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Or somethingawful's Slenderman

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

that mugshot says flordia man all by itself.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Florida Man vs Slenderman would be more interesting.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Not to Slenderman, it wouldn’t.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 1 month ago

Oh Slimmer Man, where you gonna run to?

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No cutting. Thems the rules.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

You cut, you eat the plate.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Literal tabloid journalism to frame it as a weight thing when WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY was both right there and still framing it as a weight thing if you think about it.

Line cutting absolutely justified a physical altercation, the dad should in fact be ashamed of raising two degenerates, not guilty.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

This shit would not be tolerated if we lived in a civilized society that respects the sanctity of the queue.

Letting this slide would be a step towards belly-to-butt queuing. This man is a soldier on a wall defending us from this:

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Oh how I wish there was video of this.

I imagine it like that church scene from Kingsman