White Castle Creeper Moved On To Bothering Female Bartender At Pepe's: Cops

HOMER GLEN, IL — The White Castle creeper with a thing for a drive-thru worker’s dimples has moved on to Pepe’s Mexican restaurant, where he harassed a bartender and rhymed her name “with a female body part,” police said.

Police did not disclose which body part 41-year-old Michael Calabrese rhymed the woman’s name with but did say the 24-year-old found it “highly offensive.”

Calabrese reportedly popped into the Homer Glen restaurant about 10 p.m. Wednesday and headed for the bar. The bartender introduced herself and “Calabrese then responded by rhyming her name with a female private body part, which the bartender found highly offensive,” police said. “She then observed him asking other patrons if they thought she was ‘hot.’ She asked him to stop at which time he laughed and began bragging about being arrested for a similar incident that recently had occurred at White Castle in Homer Glen.”

That “similar incident” involved Calabrese allegedly harassing a White Castle drive-thru worker. He told the 22-year-old woman “I like your dimples” and “I think you’re cute,” police said, then drove around the White Castle parking lot as he waved to her.

Calabrese allegedly followed this up by calling the White Castle and telling one of the woman’s co-workers, “I really think her dimples are cute.”

The woman quit working the drive-thru for the rest of her shift because of the way Calabrese was “creeping” her out, police said.

At Pepe’s Wednesday night, “Calabrese continued his obscene and unwarranted lewd comments towards the bartender,” police said. “The bartender then advised management and they removed him from the establishment and advised that they would like to pursue a complaint.”

Calabrese was gone by the time the cops got there but deputies located his car and pulled him over. He was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and disorderly conduct, and taken to the Will County jail.

The deputies later learned that Calabrese had been at Mullets Sports Bar & Restaurant but was cut off by the bartender “because she believed he was intoxicated,” police said.

Calabrese was at a loss for why he was locked up and said he never got an explanation from the cops.

"I never got a definite answer of why I was being arrested," he said. "Nobody has told me what I did."

Calabrese also can't recall the bartender's name and does not remember rhyming it with a female body part. He believes he may have been targeted by police.

"Somebody has it out for me," he said. "I don't know what it is. I'm telling you, I pissed somebody off. I don't what it is."

Calabrese posted $1,000 bond and was released from jail Thursday morning.