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Retirement Home Salad Bar Becomes Battleground

Retirement homes are generally quiet places. The Spring Haven Retirement Community in Florida found their peace disrupted over a nasty incident at the salad bar. Mealtime turned ugly after 86-year-old William Hocker complained to 62-year-old Lee Thoss about picking through the lettuce. Name-calling soon gave way to punching and the police were summoned.

Those in the way paid a price. One resident was bitten in his attempt to stop the fight, another knocked down. Thoss' mother, herself a resident, tried to rescue her son. The octogenarian suffered a cut on the arm. While no one was seriously injured, Thoss now must find a new place to live.

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