All Hell Breaks Loose At Memphis Birthday Party When Mom Tells Her Son To Pay Up

If we've learned anything here at OutKick over the years, it's that you just never know what sort of crime Memphis is going to give us on a daily basis. 

Take the case of Mason Hibbs, who was reportedly out for a birthday dinner along with his mom and her boyfriend. Hibbs was booked into the Shelby County Jail on Tuesday over a July 9 incident where Hibbs (allegedly) pulled a gun on his mom after she told him to pay his bar tab at TJ Mulligans, a Memphis sports bar. 

(Mason Hibbs is charged with aggravated assault and simple assault over a disagreement at his 23rd birthday dinner. / via Shelby County Sheriff's Office)

"A woman told police she walked to the parking lot to ask her son, Hibbs, who was sitting in his car, to pay his tab. During their talk, Hibbs reportedly pulled a handgun out of his backpack and said, ‘Do you want me to get out with this?’" Memphis CBS affiliate WREG 3 reports.

Police later recovered a 9mm from the scene. 

Memphis police say mom's boyfriend decides to confront the birthday boy and these two decided to go a couple of rounds. The boyfriend was left with swollen eyes, a bloody nose and bloody lip. 

According to the Shelby County Sheriff's Office, Hibbs bailed out of jail Wednesday on a $5,000 bond. 

Now, let's forget about Mason & mom's boyfriend getting into a brawl for a minute. I want to focus on birthday bar tabs and at what age your son or daughter should pay his/her birthday bar tab. 

Unless there's some sort of underlying problem here between mom, the boyfriend and Mason, I think the parents have to pick up birthday tabs. There wasn't enough bad blood to where mom and the boyfriend chose not to spend time together on Mason's birthday. 

Was it a cool move to pull a 9 on mom? 

Absolutely not, but there seems to be plenty of blame to go around here. 

1. I blame Mason for pulling the 9. I don't blame him for having the 9 while living and going to dinner in Memphis. Pulling it on mom, though? Bro, too far! 
2. I blame mom for not just forking over the money for the tab. Your son is only going to celebrate his 23rd birthday once. Make it special. 
3. I blame the boyfriend for not grabbing mom and heading back into the bar to buy one more round and pay Mason's bar tab. Look, you can always cut off Mason from future birthday gatherings. Mom could always just send him a card with a $25 Chick fil A gift card in the envelope until he can control his 9. 
4. I blame Joe Biden. Have you seen a bar tab lately? Gen Zs have now resorted to pulling 9s on their own mothers because these tabs are so high. Thanks, Bidenomics. 
5. I blame the state of birthday etiquette. There are so many rules. It's entirely possible mom and the boyfriend didn't set the birthday dinner ground rules. Maybe Mason didn't know he wasn't allowed to get steak. Etiquette expert Diane Gottsman says "it's implied understanding that if a group has invited someone out for a birthday dinner or other celebratory occasion, the group will pay for the guest of honor." However, this should all be worked out ahead of time and everyone should be on the same page entering the birthday dinner.