PORT ST. LUCIE — Call it a sobering experience.

A 50-year-old woman was arrested Sept. 23 by Port St. Lucie Police after accusations she ordered a Long Island Iced Tea and didn’t pay her $7.50 bill, an affidavit states.

The case began about 1:45 a.m. when police went to Bogey’s & Stogey’s in the 1000 block of Southeast Port St. Lucie Boulevard.

A bartender said a woman ordered a Long Island Iced Tea at 11:30 p.m. She is accused of not paying her bill and of refusing to leave the business about 1:30 a.m.

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The bartender reported seeing a nearly empty pint bottle of vodka fall from the woman’s purse.

Vodka is an ingredient in the Long Island Iced Tea, a stiff libation wisely not enjoyed in quantity.

Although combinations can vary, the general Long Island Iced Tea recipe involves combining equal parts of the clear alcohols vodka, gin, rum and tequila with triple sec, an orange liqueur, and a splash of cola. The cola imparts the color of iced tea, though the Long Island Iced Tea contains no iced tea.

The Long Island Iced Tea is widely credited to have been invented by a man named Bob Butt at a bar in 1972 in Long Island, New York, but that couldn’t be confirmed immediately.

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Meanwhile, the woman accused of not paying for the boozy beverage at Bogey’s & Stogey’s was described as “severely intoxicated.”

The woman, a resident of East Ridge, Tenn., as opposed to Long Island, New York, was jailed on a charge of obtaining food or lodging with intent to defraud.

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