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• Two grown women are facing federal charges after getting into a slap fight while on a Carnival Cruise in March, Fox 10 reports.
During their return voyage from the Bahamas, Tonya Nelson, 58, and Lisa Horace, 51, were in line to settle their cruise accounts. Nelson told investigators that she was trying to be helpful when she suggested to Horace and Horace’s husband that they were in the wrong line.
According to Horace’s statement, she ignored Nelson, but took action after Nelson kept touching Horace’s husband’s shoulder. Horace said that Nelson threatened to slap her, so she slapped Nelson back.
The fight escalated from there, with crew members stepping in to separate the two.
The women, who did not know each other before the encounter, were issued federal citations for simple assault.
The women report that they have both been banned from Carnival cruises and have lost their Diamond member status.
"Things happen sometimes on a crowded ship," Buzz Jordan, Nelson's attorney, said.