#8 - Devin Pelham
In June of 2015, 23-year-old Devin Pelham stumbled upon a Comcast worker in his bedroom, which sent
him into a violent rage that eventually led to him being arrested and criminally charged. Pelham,
who was living with his grandmother in Portland, Oregon at the time, allegedly smashed computer
parts and tossed various other objects around the room after finding the worker replacing a
modem. The young man’s grandmother confronted him about his infantile behavior, at which point he
slapped the elderly woman and threw her to the ground. Pelham was asked to leave the house,
but upon doing so, he began breaking his grandmother’s potted plants and shattering her car
windows. He then vandalized the vehicle belonging to his great-grandmother, who tried to stop him
only to be punched and knocked to the pavement. A neighbor who’d witnessed the tantrum up to that
point helped the great-grandmother escape. Pelham subsequently targeted two of the neighbor’s cars,
using a brick, glass bottles, and a wood plank to inflict a myriad of scratches,
break a side mirror, and smash the windshield. Police eventually arrived at the scene,
where they found a shirtless Pelham with a brick in his hand. The young man shifted
his ire towards law enforcement, reportedly kicking and spitting while being restrained
in the back of a cruiser. He was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on charges of first
and second-degree criminal mischief, harassment, and fourth-degree assault.
#7 - Kiley Dippery
In the late evening hours of August the 16th of 2019, the police in Rehoboth Beach,
Delaware heard a woman screaming loudly in the area of 143 Rehoboth Avenue. Officers subsequently
encountered 22-year-old Kiley Dippery, who was said to have been in hysterics because
she’d gotten separated from her boyfriend. Law enforcement helped reunite the young woman with
her boyfriend at a nearby hotel. Then, a few minutes later, the police were called back to
the hotel after Dippery had begun screeching yet again. It was subsequently reported that
she simply “would not stop screaming”, and began to disturb several other hotel guests,
at which point the officers took her into custody. As Dippery was being led into a patrol car,
she allegedly became combative, kicking an officer in the leg and continuing her
incessant yelling. After finally being restrained, Dippery reportedly vomited in the police cruiser
and urinated on the floor of the holding area at the Rehoboth Beach Police Department. The
Pennsylvania resident was booked on charges of resisting arrest with force or violence,
offensive touching of a law enforcement officer, disorderly conduct, and creating a physically
offensive condition. She was held at the Sussex Correctional Institution on $3,200 secured bail.
#6 - William David Scott Jolly
A video in which a man was captured throwing a violent tantrum at a Canadian McDonald’s
began circulating online in the summer of 2021. The footage showed the irate customer,
named as William David Scott Jolly, knocking down plastic safety guards, throwing a garbage
can at employees, and aggressively destroying the fast-food eatery’s displays as workers and
customers alike pleaded with him to stop. The incident, which reportedly took place
at the Ironwood Plaza in Richmond, British Columbia, led to 30-year-old Jolly getting
arrested on charges that included mischief over $5,000, assault, and assaulting a peace officer.
The latter count stemmed from the fact that, upon the arrival of law enforcement at the restaurant,
Jolly became violent with the arresting officers before finally being restrained.
It subsequently emerged that the entire ordeal had been precipitated by Jolly’s order being mistyped
as a Happy Meal. Although the staff offered to refund the man’s money for the mistake, he became
belligerent and hostile, at which point the police were called, which only infuriated him further.
#5 - Passion Shenay Coleman and Laglennda Damona Carr
At about 1:30 pm on October the 5th of 2019, law enforcement in Costa Mesa,
California were called to Maggiano’s Little Italy in the 3300 block of Bristol Street
after receiving reports of vandalism. Officers arrived at the restaurant a short time later,
whereupon they arrested a pair of women, one of whom was a disgruntled former employee,
in a nearby parking lot after they’d allegedly attempted to flee the scene. It was ultimately
determined that Passion Shenay Coleman and Laglennda Damona Carr had targeted
the former’s previous employer in an unhinged outburst in which thousands of dollars worth of
damage was reportedly caused with a baseball bat. The women destroyed a television set,
as well as table settings and plates while shouting and “behaving disruptively”. After
being booked at the Costa Mesa Police Department jail, 27-year-old Coleman was charged with assault
with a deadly weapon, criminal threats, felony vandalism, burglary, felony conspiracy to commit
crimes and a misdemeanor warrant for a suspended license. Her bail was set at $500,000. Carr,
who was 24 at the time, reportedly faced the same charges, but had her bail set at only
$25,000. In February of the following year, Coleman reached a plea deal with prosecutors,
which led to her spending 180 days in jail for the destructive tantrum. Her accomplice also pleaded
guilty and was consequently sentenced to 200 hours of community service, as well as 45 days in jail.
#4 - Andrew O'Keefe
A former Australian television presenter best known for hosting the game shows Deal or No Deal
and The Chase Australia was arrested in January of 2022 for an alleged domestic violence incident
at his Sydney bachelor pad. Andrew O’Keefe, who was 50 at the time of his latest run-in
with law enforcement, was accused of attacking a 38-year-old woman who’d come to his apartment
to discuss the possibility of them starting a business together. Subsequent reports detailed
how the man had grabbed the victim by the throat and pushed her to the ground before unloading
a barrage of strikes upon her. The incident ultimately garnered international attention,
but mostly due to the unhinged tantrum O’Keefe threw while being taken into police custody in
the aftermath. As was recorded by television news cameras present at the scene, the
ex-TV star shouted profanities at law enforcement and kicked the walls of a police van while being
led out of his home. O’Keefe repeatedly cried that he was the “victim of a crime”, while
urging the officers to “get rid of the journalists”. The man was later
denied bail while being held on two counts of intentionally choking a person without consent,
three counts of common assault, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. His arrest
marked the second time in a year that he’d faced domestic assault charges. Back in January of 2021,
O’Keefe had been accused of attacking his partner, but later had those charges dismissed after it was
determined that he’d been “in a hypomanic bipolar state when the offending occurred”.
#3 - 2017 Tube Train Rant
An unruly passenger on board a London tube train went viral in March of 2017 after video footage
of his outburst surfaced on social media. The incident occurred after the unnamed male traveler
allegedly “barged past a woman”, who responded to his perceived impertinence by saying “excuse me”.
The seemingly trivial exchange ultimately provoked the man into unleashing a rage-fueled rant at her
in front of dozens of shocked witnesses. As was captured in a cell phone video recorded by fellow
passenger Nick Craven, the furious man bellowed, “Don't you shout at me, you stupid woman”,
before asserting that he was “the last person” she’d want “to start on”. The other people on
board the Hammersmith and City Line train bound for Barking attempted to calm the man down, but he
continued his expletive-filled tantrum for roughly 3 minutes. The situation organically diffused
itself when the man finally returned to his seat to calm down, reportedly by playing Sudoku.
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#2 - Tina Kindred
Florida woman Tina Kindred was tased and arrested by Ocala law enforcement after
having thrown a tantrum in the nude at a pair of local restaurants on June the 4th of 2021.
The 53-year-old was caught on video smashing glass bottles and breaking other merchandise
while unclothed at both a Mojo Grill and Outback in the Marion County city. Employees
and other diners at the eateries pleaded with Kindred to stop as she wreaked havoc,
destroying seemingly everything she could get her hands on while screaming incoherently.
An Ocala police officer was eventually called to the Outback, where he approached the woman
and attempted to calm her down. Kindred instead proceeded to launch glass bottles at the officer,
who shouted at her to get on the ground after one of them hit him in the arm. The
woman refused to comply, however, at which point the policeman deployed his Taser to
subdue her. She was consequently taken into custody on charges of aggravated battery on
law enforcement and felony criminal mischief. In the wake of the incident, it emerged that Kindred
had been denied service at Mojo Grill before entering both restaurants in search of revenge.
#1 - Lauren Pazienza
On the night of March the 10th of 2022, an elderly New Yorker was tragically killed as
a result of an unprovoked attack in the city’s Chelsea neighborhood. The victim,
a beloved former voice coach named Barbara Maier Gustern, had been left critically injured after a
redheaded woman approached her on the sidewalk along West 28th Street and shoved her to the
ground from behind. 87-year-old Gustern’s skull violently collided with the concrete below,
and she remained hospitalized for about 5 days before ultimately succumbing to her
head wound. The NYPD used surveillance footage to identify Gustern’s attacker as Lauren Pazienza,
who was arrested on 2 counts of second-degree assault. Following the victim’s death, Pazienza
also reportedly faced a manslaughter charge. Investigators subsequently determined that,
on the night of the deadly incident, Pazienza had flown into a rage after she and her fiancé
were asked to leave nearby Chelsea Park because it was after closing time. The woman was alleged
to have been slightly intoxicated after having consumed “a few glasses of wine” to celebrate
their upcoming wedding. Her drunken tantrum continued after she allegedly threw food at her
partner and crossed the street, at which point she shoved Gustern, with whom she had no prior
association. In the immediate aftermath, Pazienza reportedly deleted her social media accounts,
hid her cell phone, and fled to her parents’ Long Island home, but was eventually tracked
down by the authorities and thrown in jail. She was released on a $500,000 bond, but later
re-arrested after being deemed a “serious flight risk”. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
extended multiple plea deal offers to Pazienza, all of which she turned down, ensuring her case
would go to trial. The court proceedings were scheduled to begin in October of 2022.
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