Notorious woman allegedly trashes buffet at South Beach

A very classy lady.

HUH?

When I read this I could not believe it! South Beach has a buffet!!!!!

Well I guess when you have spent as much time on your back as it has been alledged she has ,then I guess back injuries are common.Picnic tables are cold ,hard surfaces after all!

I'm wondering if the other woman in her booth was maybe....her husband in drag!?!?

It's all about the attention. I bet she'll get out of the charges and then turn around and sue for her injuries. In retrospect, they never should've backed down on the first charge. If they wouldn't have, she'd be locked up and this never would've happened. But, now she's a celebrity. Bah!

I think it’s safe to say when you are caught stealing food; you are going through a pretty rough patch in your life. I would ease up on this woman and her husband.

First off Happy birthday George.

Secondly, like Elizabeth said how much do you want to bet that this piece of work brings a lawsuit against the restaurant for her "injuries" :(

Love the "full self-serve salad bar" sign in the picture!

OMG Gary! Too funny! I am surprised she was clothed while she stole the food! In all seriousness this woman must be really close to rock bottom now. I hope for her sake she can be helped and put on the road to recovery.

This whole story has me dying laughing! What a joke. If she had been any other women, I would almost feel badly, thinking she has starving children, but it looks to me after the first incident, then needing an ambulance...THAT THIS LADY IS CRAVING ATTENTION...and I hope she gets the medical treatment she needs!

Rumor has it she was stealing the fil-lays of fish...

There is also high probability that she was hiding sausage.

Wow, this story was picked up by 13WHAM News in Rochester. They used (with credit) the picture from here on the Batavian.

no paul the other woman was her husband hiding sausage

"Louie Kingsbury, an employee of South Beach owner Ken Mistler, was summoned to the restaurant and he confronted Corona."

Huh? So, Mr. Mistler has his own private security patrolling his establishments?

She better not mess with my "Mac N Cheese!" Best in Batavia! Keep it coming, Kenny! Don't let a whack-job change your business model. The Food Bar is AWESOME!

Kevin,

So what if he does have private security patrolling his establishments?

So nothing, I asked a simple question. I merely wanted clarification about what I was reading.

I'm sure this will be on the Buzz tomorrow.I hope they disinfected the buffet well.......

Sûreté de cusine

Charlie,

I disagree. Stealing food from a buffet in a restaurant is not a sign, whatsoever, of hunger, starvation, or just the urge to snack. It's a sign of disregard. It's a sign of no moral compass, and of questionable disposition. Why excuse such poor behavior with hard times when so many are getting by without such hijinks? Criminal behavior is what took place here. Nothing more.

it sure will, Bob, I sent it to Kimberly.

This girl needs to be locked up. She's a joke, and a disgrace to this area. I would laugh at her to her face.

Isn't she a little old to be called a "girl"? I can think of a few other terms...

"another news source" reports that the alleged incident was caught on surveillance video....is should be on you tube by the morning!!
How pathetic is this woman?? She already had her 15 minutes of fame and now she wants more....and here I am feeding right into it!!

I could just imagine how the conversation went when she was confronted....
Owner: Mam, I need you to pay for these items you are taking from our buffet or I'll call the police.
Suzanne:"No sir, I don't have any thing in my purse; Look, see!"...
*food falls on floor
Owner: "What is that piece of food then?"
Suzanne: "Piece of food?", "What piece off food?"
Owner: "That piece of food!" (pointing to a small sausage on the floor)
Suzanne: "Oh!, that food?".. "Well ya see I was gonna meet my husband at the park to have lunch with him today and I already have a nice picnic table all set out for it, now just getting the food!" Do I really have to pay for it, dont you remember me?
Owner: Your CrAzY, I'm calling the cops!

Who know's maybe she was getting some food to have lunch with her husband in the park at a special picnic table!

She is just craving another 15 minutes of fame. I believe a law suite is in the works; she is probably talking to a lawyer as we speak. I wonder if her role models are Lohan and Paris Hilton.

Like I said, I read "somewhere else" that the event was caught on a surveillance camera, hopefully enough was caught that she won't be able to sue.

I mentioned this story to a friend this afternoon. Before I finished the story, she asked me if they called an ambulance.
I said that she required medical care, but I was curious how my friend could finish a story she hadn't heard. It seems that falling and claiming injury is a diversion tactic she has used before when confronted about shop lifting. My friend said that whenever she walked into the store, where my friend worked, they had to follow her around and watch her.
If caught, she would 'slip' on something on the floor and demand medical attention.
Sorry, Charlie, this isn't a heart tugging story.

Rochester channel 10-WHEC picked up the story and mentioned the batavian:

http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S1770645.shtml?cat=566

She should be treated like the farm animal she most frequently portrays.

I disagree with Paul. Her past proves she prefers the sausage to be out in the open for all to see.

Now that I KNOW South Beach has a BUFFET I am SOOOOO THERE !!!!!!

This story disgusts me. To be put on the news again because of her disgusting actions. Why cant we ever be put on the news for something good?
And obviously her actions of pretending to fall and hurt her back really worked.No charges yet.
This woman obviously needs help! Stop giving her the attention she obviously wants.

Does anyone else think that her recent behavior could be the result of a substance abuse problem??

I tossed her out of Backhoes YEARS ago for being drunk and beligerent (?)...then she gets caught intoxicated with picnic table-gate, NOW she's trashing the lunch buffet... Was she intoxicated???not to make excuses for her, bit maybe she need either mental help and/or substance abuse treatment.

And regarding Joe, he was always a really nice guy.

Just sayin'

Andre, We seem to be in short supply of anything good to write about, always negative events making the news. It does make one wonder what has happened to morals, and for that matter,Batavia and Genesee County.
Scams, gypsies,credit card ripoffs, Is this a result of a poor ecomomy, are people just giving up on the American dream? are we becoming Rochester, or Buffalo junior? What has changed so drastically, that could warrant such a decline in values?
Maybe people just like reading about dirty laundry, so those are the types of stories the media feeds on. Look at the posts this story generated. Gives everyone a little something to kick around, and maybe feel better about themselves, or their lot in life, and who cares about some "crazy" or her possible problems, not us, it's just so much easier to kick them when they're down. Everyone gets a chuckle, and life goes on. A small percentage of readers were empathetic, but the majority seemed to enjoy other peoples problems.

Phil, in the not-too-distant past editors balanced news value against prurient interest. We used to joke about small-town papers that published lists of out-of-town guests invited to Christmas dinner. Back then, drunken, salacious tidbits were family matters.

Trashiness has become the grist of modern news mills. The press has adopted an editorial bias once reserved for barber shops and barrooms.

Populations residing under rocks have not increased. Reporting from under rocks has become profitable. The drawback, under-rock residents now crawl out in daylight. Give credit for America's cultural remake: Jerry Springer!

Wow julie I cant believe she was drunk and beligerent in a bar.......Apparently alot of people were drunk and beligerent at your bar and were all kicked out yea its well known you asked all your customers to leave after you got them intoxicated..And as far as substance abuse people in glass houses shouldnt throw stones,...

People enjoy negative news stories because it makes them feel good about themselves. There are people like this woman who are troubled in every town, Batavia isn’t any different. Almost everyone wants to believe the worst about this woman but, she could have a substance problem or she could be down on her luck and need to feed her kids.

Bad karma has a way to finding its way back to you so; you don’t kick someone when they are down. She will have her day in court, until then no one knows what issues she is dealing with so, I’ll say again, I would give her some space.

C.M., let me please correct a little history.

In 1835, James Gordon Bennett printed the transcript of a murder trial in his penny paper, the New York Herald. The more established publishers were shocked at this sensationalism. Those six-penny publishers stock-in-trade was editorials about political matters, not crime coverage.

Ever since then, crime coverage has been part of every newspaper's repertoire.

William Allen White, the dean of local newspaper publishers, did it -- covering Maybelle's tea party right along with brother Alfred getting busted for public drunkenness.

To try and dismiss such coverage as merely salacious or sensational is to volunteer to bury ones head in the sand about what is happening in one's local community. It's what's happening in the community and simply that.

Does it help, in this case, to bring people to the site? Of course. But to ignore these sorts of stories would also be irresponsible.

Phil, I don't think you'll find any statistics -- or next year when the new crime stats come out -- to back up the notion that crime is getting worse here. We'll see. Just because you read about it more doesn't mean it's increasing.

C.M.,

Have you ever read old (1800's) issues of The Batavia Daily News? While they did include "social" news, it certainly wasn't on the front page.

Front page news was even more salacious than it is now because they didn't concern themselves with political correctness or bother to use words such as alledgedly. People were often referred to as "town drunks" or "insane". It even reported who was sent to the County Poor House. Suicides were reported in detail.

I know this because one of my earliest Batavia ancestors was reportedly an insane town drunk that spent time in the Poor House before finally committing suicide.

well said charlie,everyone should know misery loves company....And i would bet there are plenty of people reading this that knows someone who in there college years may have survived on lightening up a buffet or a bowl of pretzels and peanuts at there local pub ,im willing to bet she was harmless and hungry,HEY PEOPLE WISH HER THE BEST NOT THE WORST!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yea one more thing besides the occasional shooting (in my front yard)batavia is a very safe community come on i mean we have 3 police agencys right here in town and i might add they do a hell of a job I sometimes walk late at night and im usually passed by at least 1 cop good job batavia p.d.

"Buffet Brawling", that is just a t-shirt waiting to be made.
Frank, you mentioned that we seem to be in short supply of anything good to write about. I disagree. The Batavian publishes news everyday about all that is good in Batavia. Just no one comments.

Phil, this community could be spotless, and right now you wouldn't be satisfied. You made up your mind a long time ago that Batavia wasn't up to your standards. You've mentioned it enough times.
It was a long hot summer, we've had worse with an equally bad string of unfortunate events. Yet, in the long run, this city is still much safer than the major cities.

The buzz was hillarious this morning :)

Rats, I missed it Tim and it's not on their website yet.

I don't understand why people are defending her. Sounds like she disrupted an entire restaurant to me. All the customers currently eating could no longer eat because she was throwing the food back on the buffet and then the food had to be discarded. That does not sound like someone who is hungry. She had a food storage bag with her...she clearly had planned to take food before even walking into the restaurant.

Who would want to watch such nonsense when they are out trying to have an enjoyable meal?

Phil, how many knife fights in the past two years? Two, three? Maybe four. How many shootings? I can only remember some wild shots fired on Tracy Avenue. Is there something I can't remember. If so, there haven't been many.

And how many in the two years before that? And the two years before that?

Lorie, do you really think that some of these comments are appropriate for someone who was caught stealing food? There is little defense being offered other than to ask for a little compassion for a person who is obviously been the target of an enormous amount of public ridicule. There is little doubt she is troubled but, how many times is it appropriate to kick a person when they are down?

Phil,
In the 70's I remember at least 3 people shot to death here in Batavia. One was a girl killed by her boyfriend, one was a gas station attendant on Clinton Street and the other was a guy killed in a rental house owned by a friend of mine.

Compared to that, things are tame now.

Charlie, I agree that people do tend to go overboard with their comments. BUT, she did more than just steal food. I am sure that her episode cost South Beach quite a bit of money and I am sure the owner and staff were extremely embarrassed by the situation. After all, who goes to work thinking this is going to happen to them.

And from another article I read she had gone up 5 times to get food and stick it in the baggie. Have I seen people do this before? Absolutely! Have I been out to eat with people who have done this? Absolutely and I told them their behavior was wrong and embarrassing (and NO they were not starving) and I never went to another buffet with them again. Some people feel a sense of entitlement.

Come on kids, lighten up it's FRIDAY!!
Let's have some music!

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i heard the owner of the resturant on the radio talking and he is pressing charges on her and he had to give all the other customers (he said like 18) all free meals due to the disturbance and the ruining of the buffet. Im glad hes pressing charges. she really needs a wake up call cause it just seems like she is slipping under the radar. she obviously needs help

Lorie,

One very interesting thing that i learned this morning while listening to the buzz was that this piece of work walked right into the restaurant, sat down and started getting food off the buffet, when asked by the staff who her server was, she just pointed out one of the servers and said "that one", then the longer the "investigation" went on the more her lies started coming to the light and thats when they found the HUGE bag she was stuffing all the food into. And lets be clear this was not a small bag, nor was it just a "little something" to get by, we are talking the GOOD STUFF. Steak and seafood. By this point she started getting VERY unruly.

All this came from the owner Mr. Ken Mistlers mouth, he called into the show and was sharing the details. The sad thing is he obviously had to throw out all the food in the buffet because she started going "ape shoot" and dumping all the stolen food back into the buffet bins from her huge bag, then shortly afterwards she faked her fall.

So now all of the food is tainted and ruined. There were 18 other customers in the dining room at this point and the very classy Mr. Mistler promptly went around to each one and gave them a refund. Now even though I believe that was the ONLY right thing to do at that point, its still something he didnt have to do and to me shows ALOT of class. He estimated all the damages from her psycho rampage to be right around $1000.00. In my opinion SHE should be responsible for every last penny of that. Here is the kicker, where do you suppose Mr. Mistler called the morning show from? A restuarant supply store in buffalo trying to restock on food.

Also for any fans of the show, Kimberly is going to be at the TVFCU tomorrow, then afterwards she said she was going to eat at south beach :)

Absolutely Andre. And I also read that it was not a BAGGIE she was stuffing food in. It was a 10 gallon plastic bag. I use 13 gallon bags in my kitchen trash can and I cannot even imagine what she was shoving into that big of a bag.

Yes Lorie your right 10 gallon bag, that came out in the interview this morning as well. A writer in hollywood could not come up with stuff this good :)

Charlie, I am just wondering...do you think Ken or any of his staff did anything wrong handling the situation? If so, what?

It would have really topped it off if she got tasered-do the police in Batavia even have tasers? I missed most of the show this morning-it was the first thing they started talking about shortly after 5 this morning. She definitely needs to go to rehab to dry out-I wonder what her next episode will be......

Lorie, it sounds like Ken and his business were the victim of a crime. I'm not defending a criminal act. I just have trouble seeing people getting kicked when they are down. This woman is obviously troubled, I don't think it's right to pile on.

Charlie, and people wonder how incidents like the one at Rutgers happen, it's all fun and games, until someone ends up dead.

This lady is and always will be a complete idiot for what she does in public !!! Think before you act stupid!!!

I see people stealing off the buffet all the time ..not as bad as this lady ..but it is a common practice..its wrong ..she should have to pay for every penny it cost Mr.Mistler...Has she been charged yet.. I have never heard of any one ever being charged with taking food home off the buffet....

Frank, I couldn't agree more. The Internet is the new forum for the public lynching. Everyone needs to understand there is only so much humiliation a person can take. What used to be done in wispers is now blasted out for all the world to see.

And it's NEVER deleted...

Charlie, I appreciate your compassion. It is a commodity that is in short supply.
I also agree that there is so much humilation a person can take. I know of someone who contributed to humilating another and then when the person reacted, that person was labeled "crazy and insane".
Is there compassion for the injured party? Mr. Mistler didn't deserve to be targeted by Mrs. Corona. I know you agree with that.
Mrs. Corona does need professional help. Hopefully, this time, she will get the help she needs. Unfortunately, if she continues to make headlines, discussions will still be focused on her.

http://www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/media/media.html

Charlie,

The "public" did not go looking for Mrs. Corona. She was the one that went looking for "public."
Any ridicule that has resulted is a direct reaction to her actions.
Hopefully she is ready to address her personal and medical issues with some maturity on her part.

Some people become so emotionally, or mentally ditraught, they no longer have the capacity to think before they act, I'm not saying that is the case with this person, but it does happen to people of all walks of life. Drugs and alcohol can hide underlying problems.
Obviously, Ms. Corona has a lot to sort out.

Jeremiah, not likely. People who are in a position of ridicule usually do not proceed with good judgement and maturity. They stay on the defensive. Like several have said here...many people have stolen from buffets, but how many would carry their actions out to the extent this woman did? Something tells me she has some other problems that we all should hope get addressed, and if it takes the court system, I hope they do the right thing for her. I read the link above from C.M., interesting that over 75% of people form their opinions based on media reports.

With all that goes on in Batavia, with all that is wrong with Batavia, the escapades of a very strange woman, causes some 73 people to post comments....very interesting.

CM, Were those studies based in California? I read as much of the article as I could, and came to some conclusions as well. If you are a steady viewer of programs like cops, bait car, etc.etc., almost all the suspects are African American. I would think this also plays into the equation.Any L.A. based studies would be flawed for many reasons, number 1 would be gang affiliation. I don't believe any study based in large metro areas can justify an accurate picture of the entire nation, and its perception of crime, criminals , and color. I'm not saying I refute the results, but don't believe these areas truly represent the entire spectrum of crime,perpetrators, and victims of crime.
Do you think the results would be the same if a study was done in Nebraska, or N.Dakota?.

That study was just one of several; the results were more comprehensively treated. ...Google "crime, media." Everyone expects high crime levels in big cities. Non-urban areas immersed in overdone media crime coverage are more at risk from skewed representations of crime and violence.

That's what I suspected, media driven fear,through biased coverage.

C.M. What is your definition of "overdone media coverage"?

The one thing that was glaringly absent from the study you cited was a definition of "coverage".

Let's say a minor crime occurs in Batavia and it is covered in the news....1 crime = 1 story. That would be an accurate representation of crime vs coverage, wouldn't you say?

But if the crime were a murder in Batavia, it would generate significantly more coverage: from the discovery of the crime, the investigation, arrest and prosecution, etc. So now, the coverage of this 1 crime, results in the increase of crime coverage as a whole, even though it is for the same crime. The increase doesn't translate into media-driven fear when it is reasonably expected coverage.

The study doesn't differentiate whether the increased coverage was follow-up for a single crime or crime reporting for sake of sensationalism.

I think that an increase in local crime coverage is necessary and justified because it allows citizens to gauge the efficiency and effectiveness of our local law enforcement tax dollars.

I believe what the article refers to is something like this: a police investigator checks into something and forms a quick opinion and writes up a story...this appears to the community as news (ie: person steals $30,000.00 from someone else) Later after a more thorough investigation, they find out that $20,000 was the persons own money and $5,000 was paid back via another source and $5,000 was paid out for the alleged victims expenses. That part doesn't get printed. So what does the public believe? The person charged is a crook because their name was in the paper. Often our local paper prints things as told by the local police, often however it is exagerated or reported incorrectly or interpreted incorrectly. The accused often are at the mercy of news accounts because facts that the accused wants disclosed are tight lipped until trial. Their lawyers don't want them to show their cards. Your last statement says it all! You are going to believe the story you first read and they better get a conviction (or they are wasting your tax dollars). Correction, I cannot say that is what you are saying, maybe I misinterpreted that! Maybe what you mean is that you want to see full coverage of the trial. That is a bit different, however. The problem with that is everyone is not going to follow the entire story, just parts. I saw on here once though I do not remember who to credit: I never believe what it says in the police blotter, it is nothing but a rumor mill. The only thing you should really believe is that the person was arrested if that is what it says, the rest is heresay. I also recently saw a thread someone posted here that had a guy from law enforcement that said a person sitting at the defense table comes in with 2 strikes already. Even the jury has already made interpretations of guilt. The more that gets printed, the more rumors fly and it is hard to decifer what is or is not fact. Thats why they call them allegations. To Howard's credit (and Billie) they are trying to be careful in their wording about what they post though again, they often are given false info from the source. At least they have been covering the bigger trials here and have done so without adding sensationalism.

JoAnne, the coverage of crime and violence compared to non-criminal, non-violent news is out of balance. I just grabbed the Friday, Oct. 1, Democrat and Chronicle as a random example. There are 8 stories on the Local & Business page one. "Midtown Tower sold for $1," "Cuomo, Paladino race takes a nastier turn," "Homicide victim recalled as 'wonderful woman,'" Caledonia wetland tribute to slain activist," Pastor pleads not guilty," Girl Scout cookies on sale," "Grant awarded," and Re-elected." Approximately half the page is devoted to a women killed in a knife attack in her suburban home and a Perinton woman killed by her husband last December. The Pastor pleads guilty to repeated sexual contact with child story occupies as much space as the Cuomo/Paladino story. The girl scout cookie story accounts for 1/20th of the page.

Greece, NY (population 94141): 1 resident sex offender, #13 on top 25 "safest cities" list, Greece residents have a 1 in 598 chance of being a victim of violent crime compared to 1 in 221 for the rest of NY, there are 7.27 burglaries per 1,000 residents, and the town is ranked at the bottom of the FBI list for murder rate- 2.1 murders per 100,000.

Perinton, NY (population 5680): 4 resident sex offenders, crime risk .16 compared to national avg of 1, violent crime rate is 1 per 1136 vs. 1 in 221 for the rest of NY.

By comparison there are 80 registered sex offenders in Batavia (population 16256), 0 murders/100,000, 4 rapes/100,000, 46.2 robberies/100,000 (approx 6 robberies per year).

Howard, I'd be interested in reading a story about those sex offenders in Batavia. How they are monitored, who monitors them, case load, treatment & support services, were they Batavians before their crime or after & if after why choose Batavia?
Cheap rent, lack of supervision, or camaraderie ?

About 5 or 6 years ago their was a registered sex offender living on the street behind me. Less than a 3 minute walk away. Neighbors on the far end of my street were notified but not residents living past the half way mark of my street. We were out of bounds.
Talk about a hard sell to families considering relocating to Batavia.

I think charlie mallow has the hots for mrs. corona he keeps defending her, whats up with that!