St. Louis - home of Beer and... prudes?
Mashed potato wrestlers stir up trouble at bar
MADISON COUNTY - Four scantily clad women who wrestled in a swimming pool filled with mashed potatoes have whipped up a legal mess for a bar owner here, police said Monday.
Rhonda Cato has been cited with a misdemeanor charge of obscenity and with a liquor license violation for Thursday's performance at the Palace Tavern, 5150 Illinois Route 140.
The wrestling match turned raunchy when the women pulled up each others' shirts, said Lt. Brad Wells of the Madison County sheriff's office.
Police say Cato, 48, locked the door to the tavern during the match, which took place in an inflatable children's swimming pool filled with the mashed spuds. About 40 people watched, Wells said. Advertisement
The partial nudity violated the terms of Cato's liquor license, as well as obscenity rules, Wells said.
The only advertisement for the event was a message on a dry-erase board at the bar, Wells said. The wrestlers could face criminal charges, he said.
Cato, of the 200 block of Jennings Avenue in Wood River, was arrested and cited Friday after someone tipped off police. She posted $100 bail.
A woman who answered the phone at the bar Monday said the allegations against Cato had been "blown out of proportion."
MADISON COUNTY - Four scantily clad women who wrestled in a swimming pool filled with mashed potatoes have whipped up a legal mess for a bar owner here, police said Monday.
Rhonda Cato has been cited with a misdemeanor charge of obscenity and with a liquor license violation for Thursday's performance at the Palace Tavern, 5150 Illinois Route 140.
The wrestling match turned raunchy when the women pulled up each others' shirts, said Lt. Brad Wells of the Madison County sheriff's office.
Police say Cato, 48, locked the door to the tavern during the match, which took place in an inflatable children's swimming pool filled with the mashed spuds. About 40 people watched, Wells said. Advertisement
The partial nudity violated the terms of Cato's liquor license, as well as obscenity rules, Wells said.
The only advertisement for the event was a message on a dry-erase board at the bar, Wells said. The wrestlers could face criminal charges, he said.
Cato, of the 200 block of Jennings Avenue in Wood River, was arrested and cited Friday after someone tipped off police. She posted $100 bail.
A woman who answered the phone at the bar Monday said the allegations against Cato had been "blown out of proportion."