Waffle House has a reputation for strange encounters.
Round-the-clock service makes the bright yellow restaurants an attractive spot for people from all walks of life — students cramming for exams, workers eating after the graveyard shift and drunks and stoners out for a 2-AM snack.
Not surprisingly, Waffle House has also been the scene of many strange crimes.
Kid Rock beats up man in Waffle House
Kid Rock made headlines in 2007 when he beat up a man in a Waffle House in Georgia.
The victim, Harlen Atkins, accused Rock of hitting him when he approached a woman in the same group as the rock star. Rock said he only verbally—not physically—attacked Atkins, but was eventually arrested an hour later.
In 2008, he was sentenced to one year probation and paid a fine of $40,000, according to Mawuse Ziegbe of MTV.com.
A waitress hits a customer on the head with a coffee pot
After a customer at Waffle House started arguing with a waitress who took too long to serve her, the waitress hit her on the head with a coffee pot.
The incident took place at around 3 a.m. on January 14 in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Fortunately, the customer was not seriously hurt, but the situation grew more complicated for the waitress when the cops found marijuana in her pocket, according to the Huffington Post.
A parking lot shootout in Memphis turns fatal
A shootout between five men in a parking lot behind a Memphis Waffle House ended in one death on January 15.
According to WMCTV.com, three of the men had been in a car parked outside the restaurant when Marlon Boyd and another man came out of the building. Both groups got into a heated argument that eventually broke out into gunfight, leaving one man dead and another injured.
Boyd, who confessed to shooting the men, was arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder and attempted second degree murder, reports ABC 24.
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