While to most folks, the word “pushing” may evoke mental images of bar fights, MMA brawls, and Scheana Shay’s reaction to uncovering Vanderpump Rules‘ now-infamous “Scandoval” scandal, the verb apparently meant something very different to one disgraced TikToker: Being led gently and calmly down a flight of stairs.

Chicagoan Julia Reel headed to TikTok with a recent tale of bar-hopping woe, alleging a bouncer at local cocktail lounge Hubbard Inn “manhandled” her and shoved her down a flight of stairs while removing her from the premises last weekend.

“I’m immediately grabbed by this man and he’s grabbing my arm, he’s pushing me, he’s manhandling me,” she explained in the since-private clip, alleging that a security staffer was using her handbag to “pull” her out of the bar.

Reel then claimed the Hubbard Inn employee further escalated these already-high tensions, giving her not one, but two shoves down the stairs.

“I’m just pushed down, he sends me flying down the staircase,” she said, alleging that the staffer gave her a second push in her emotional state.

@hubbardinnchicago Response to the alleged incident. #hubbardinn #chicago #allegations ♬ original sound - Hubbard Inn

While her video quickly went viral, garnering thousands of likes and sympathetic comments, there was one problem with her story: A quick fact check proved the whole thing was likely BS.

Shortly after her story began making the rounds on social media, Hubbard Inn decided to offer invested viewers another glimpse at what actually went down that night, sharing alleged CCTV footage showing Reel calmly exiting the bar without a shove in sight.

“She was politely escorted off the premises, ensuring a safe exit,” the cocktail lounge captioned video of Reel being guided towards the exit interspersed with clips of her now-viral tall tale before reiterating that “Ms. Reel was not thrown from two flights of stairs.”

But even though Reels story did not appear to be, well, real, the small business said the backlash most definitely was.

“Since the post, the business & its staff have received considerable negative reviews and messages, including messages of violence and peril,” they concluded.

Though it remains unclear whether Hubbard Inn plans to press charges against the truth-twisting patron, who has since privated her TikTok page and deleted her LinkedIn account, one thing is certain: Bars most certainly do not play when it comes to receipts.