A woman having a “hissy fit” at BJ’s Wholesale Club allegedly hit a shopping cart with a shovel when she didn’t get the attention she felt she deserved.
The chaotic day for 29-year-old Jennifer George, of Ocala, began at about 2: p.m. Tuesday at the gas station outside BJ’s in Lady Lake.
According to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, George had requested assistance from the gas station attendant. When the attendant did not help her to her satisfaction, George admitted to deputies that she “threw a hissy fit” and cursed the man out. She claimed nothing physical occurred.
However, the attendant and security footage told a different story. The victim told deputies that George, who stands 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 240 pounds, aggressively approached him and grabbed him by the jaw. The attendant threw his head back to break her grip, walked away, and retreated into the gas station hut.
Not satisfied, George then grabbed a shovel near the hut and violently struck a nearby shopping cart with it before dropping the tool and walking away, the report noted.
George was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of battery and transported to the Sumter County Detention Center.
The drama, however, did not end at booking.
At about 11 p.m. that same night, detention deputies were called to investigate an altercation at the jail.
According to a second arrest report, surveillance footage from inside the jail showed George walking over to a sleeping inmate’s bed and sitting down. She began rubbing the sleeping woman’s back before standing up and attempting to physically rip the blanket off of her.
As the victim struggled, George was seen pulling and pushing the woman, forcefully shoving down on the victim’s back in an aggressive manner multiple times. George then sat directly on the victim’s feet until the woman managed to escape the bed and run to the cell door to flag down a detention deputy.
The victim told deputies she did not know George and had no idea why she was touching her or trying to steal her blanket.
Following the jailhouse altercation, George was hit with an additional felony charge of battery by a person detained in a jail facility. She was being held on $6,000 bond.