You don’t mess with the barmaids in Malaga, if this incident is anything to go by: a waitress was arrested after stabbing a customer in the chest, who had refused to pay for his drinks.

It all started one Wednesday in June, at around half four in the morning in the Cruz de Humilladero area of the city. Two men had rolled in drunk; both in their 30’s. The bar at the time was almost empty, so this was the type of ‘arrival’ that bar owners just luuvvvvv.

They asked for two drinks, she supplied them and directly asked the two men to pay for them, which in nightclubs and discos is the norm, especially when they’re packed, although this was not the case in this instance.

They refused, so the waitress took their drinks away, telling them that she would return them when they paid, which was the point when one of the two men allegedly reacted aggressively. When a female friend of the waitress tried to intervene she was pushed violently away by the man.

The waitress then ran out from behind the bar to tackled the man, armed with a knife used for cutting lemons slices, one can suppose.

Well before you can say, “Is that a knife I see before me…,” he had the aforesaid 12cm-blade sticking out of his chest and somebody was calling the police…

(Regional News: Malaga metropolitan area, Malaga, Andalucia)