Will Greenlee

will.greenlee@tcpalm.com

A 71-year-old woman accused of conking her sister with a spatula during a rent flap got a trip to the gray bar, according to reports.

What could be called the case of the spatula-wielding septuagenarian happened September 3 in Fort Pierce.

St. Lucie County Sheriff’s investigators went to a Walmart in the 5300 block of Okeechobee Road and spoke to a 65-year-old woman, who lives with her older sister, Sandra Waller.

Waller’s sister said she and Waller started squabbling over the amount of rent money Waller was giving her.

The sister said Waller grabbed a spatula, which sort of rhymes with Dracula, and struck her on the forearm. Waller then smacked her on the forehead with the culinary implement.

A spatula is a broad and flat kitchen utensil used to flip food, such as patty sausages or grilled cheese sandwiches. They are used infrequently as offensive weapons.

The sister had a red mark on her forearm and a welt and cut on her forehead.

Meanwhile, Waller said her sister kicked her in the upper back or neck area. That, Waller said, is when she struck her sister on the top of her head and her glasses cut her.

Waller said she was standing when her sister kicked her in the upper back and neck area. Waller couldn’t say how her sister could have pulled this off.

Waller, of the 3700 block of Arnold Road in Fort Pierce, was arrested on a battery charge.