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LINDSAY LOHAN ACTED LIKE MEAN GIRL OVER LOST PHONE
Temperamental actress Lindsay Lohan turned into a really mean girl when a worker in a delicatessen refused to give back her “lost” mobile telephone.
The absent-minded star went ballistic when the man refused to automatically hand over the precious Blackberry that she had accidentally left behind because she could not verify it was hers.
The row with Mohammed Hashan at Mott Corner Deli in Manhattan's Little Italy got so heated that 23-year-old Lohan demanded a friend call the police.
The bizarre bust-up began when the Mean Girls star popped into the shop for a cup of ice, left without the Blackberry and leaped into a passing taxi.
Hashan noticed that she had left the phone on the counter and ran out into the street to find her.
He knocked on her cab window to ask if it was her phone and she said it was.
But before he handed it over to her, the Good Samaritan asked her to verify the number since there had been many customers in the place.
When she could not remember the number, Hashan insisted on checking the shop's security tape to make sure it was hers before handing it back – which sent Lohan into a rage.
Perhaps miffed that he didn't recognise her, Lohan tried to grab it out of his hand but failed to snatch it away from him.
According to witnesses, Lohan screamed: "I'm calling the police. I'm going to arrest you for not giving me my phone."
Lohan's friend Patrick Aufdenkamp then made an emergency 911 to the New York Police Department.
When officers arrived around 7.30 pm, the server handed them the phone and after the police verified it was her phone they returned it.
"I was just trying to be honest. Now I have police and trouble already," said 37-year-old Hashan. "Who is she? Is she a star? I'm no celebrity. I'm not nothing. I'm only a restaurant worker."
Hashan said that he sprinted after Lohan when he realised the phone was on the counter and banged on the window of her cab.
"I said, 'Is this your phone?'" he recalled. "She said, 'Yes.'
"I said, 'Give me proof because there were more customers. If this is your phone, you know the number. If it rings, I'll give it to you.'"
One of her friends tried to phone the number but the Blackberry didn't ring and Hashan asked Lohan to look at security video with him.
“She went nuts,” he said.
When the police arrived, the officers unlocked it, saw a photo of Lohan, and gave it back to her, Hashan said.