Charlie Sheen tips $1000 on LeSean McCoy's burger tab
Charlie
Sheen jumps into tiny tipping controversy, pledging $1,000 to the
Philadelphia waiter who claims he was stiffed by NFL star LeSean McCoy.
Sheen pledged the grand
in a tweet to Tommy Up, the owner of Philadelphia's PYT burger joint
where McCoy, an Eagles running back, dined Monday afternoon.
The "Anger Management"
actor was responding to a controversy cooked up after PYT waiter Rob
Knelly noticed the tiny tip, which amounted to just .3% of the $61.76
lunch tab.
Sheen tweeted Wednesday:
"dear Tommy Up at PYT in Philly. Please tell Rob K I'm pledging 1000
dollars to him for the tip debacle just wanna help. c #NoJudgement"
The 26-year-old McCoy,
who has a $45 million, 5-year contract with Philadelphia's NFL team, has
not directly responded to the restaurant's beef, but a local sports
reporter quotes him saying "It's bull****, man."
Philadelphia Daily News
writer Les Bowen also tweeted "my understanding is, he was really ticked
about service. But org wishes he'd handled it differently. He
understands"
PYT owner Tommy Up posted
the receipt on his Facebook page and tweeted it to the world. Many
Eagles fans objected to his apparent effort to shame the popular player
-- whose nickname is "Shady."
"I decided to take action
after some serious thought," Up wrote on Facebook. "And while I'd like
to apologize to Mr McCoy, I cannot in good conscience do so. I stand by
my actions one hundred percent."
He disputed the
suggestion that McCoy had been given bad service, justifying the
minuscule tip. Up said he was sitting nearby watching. "They were given
excellent service. Impeccable service. If anything, our server was a
little nervous as was our food runner, because they are big, big fans."
The owner accused McCoy and his friends of being "verbally abusive to our staff in the most insulting ways."
As for Charlie Sheen, he tweeted that he was "an American hero and a gentleman."
CNN first learned of Sheen's offer through Twitter.
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