#9 - Tianis Jones
A young pregnant woman was arrested for throwing a “violent tantrum” at a McDonald’s in Lakeland,
Florida, on May the 19th of 2022. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the incident
began at around 5:30 pm, when 22-year-old Tianis Jones arrived at the restaurant to
pick up an order she’d placed online earlier. She proceeded through the drive-thru line,
but was reportedly told that there had been an error with her food. The employees asked her to
wait at the third drive-thru window while the mistake was being corrected, but Jones instead
parked her vehicle and stormed inside to confront the workers face-to-face.
Roughly a minute into the ensuing interaction, Jones allegedly became violent, striking a
small plastic sign and several bottles in the direction of the employees. Shortly thereafter,
one of the young woman’s relatives entered the restaurant and attempted to calm her down.
Her outburst continued for about 10 minutes and resulted in approximately $100 worth of damages.
Jones eventually dialed 9-1-1 to report that the McDonald’s had tried to cheat her out of her
money, and officers were subsequently dispatched to the scene. Before their arrival, however,
Jones’ meltdown culminated with the young woman lifting up her shirt to expose her midriff to
the workers before finally agreeing to leave. The following day, she was taken into police custody
on charges of burglary with assault, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, and misuse of 9-1-1.
#8 - The Woolworths Meltdown A viral video posted to Reddit, in
April of 2021, showed an amputee in a wheelchair getting into an altercation with employees at a
Woolworths store in the Australian harbor city of Newcastle. New South Wales police made their way
to the scene of the incident, which occurred on the evening of October the 21st of 2020,
after receiving reports of a man exhibiting aggressive behavior. The wheelchair-bound
individual initially crashed through a security partition at the Marketown Shopping Center.
His public meltdown continued as he then got into a heated argument with a female employee,
allegedly tossing items and spitting at her, before moving to the entrance of the supermarket.
He started hurling shopping baskets at bread displays in the store, prompting a security
guard to intervene. The man charged at the guard, causing his wheelchair to fall over onto its side,
at which point he kept aggressively pursuing him by pulling his body across the floor. A female
bystander eventually helped the man back into his wheelchair and he left the scene. It was reported
that the belligerent man was ultimately not charged in connection to his rage-fueled outburst.
#7 - Martin Alvarez Florida police made their way to a Waffle House
on Del Prado Boulevard South in Cape Coral, on January the 19th of 2022, after receiving reports
of a disturbance. When they arrived at the scene, officers came upon local man Martin Alvarez as he
was in the midst of an outburst about the way in which the restaurant’s employees were cooking his
bacon. The shirtless man wanted to make sure that the workers were preparing the meal to his liking.
His intervention, however, allegedly involved him shouting a barrage of profanities at them that
included racial slurs. He subsequently resisted the police’s attempts to detain him, prompting
officers to threaten him with Tasers. Alvarez was ultimately taken into custody on charges of
disorderly intoxication, resisting an officer, and simple assault with intent to do violence.
#6 - Adam Whittingham
On February the 9th of 2019, during a Ryanair flight from Morocco to Manchester, England,
a passenger got into a row with other travelers, as well as the cabin crew,
and was ultimately arrested for causing a mid-air disturbance. According to subsequent reports,
a fellow passenger had initially approached 32-year-old Adam Whittingham to talk to him
about the Manchester United jersey he was wearing. Whittingham allegedly became abusive
towards the other man, prompting him to move his seat 3 rows back. Shortly after takeoff,
Whittingham reportedly began speaking very loudly to fellow passengers as he drank whiskey straight
from a bottle. He asked the cabin supervisor for a glass, but the staffer indicated that he was
busy. Whittingham then began sifting through the supervisor’s trolley himself, and allegedly pushed
a crew member who’d asked him to stop. The man’s hostile behavior continued after he returned to
his seat, prompting the supervisor to ask him to put his whiskey bottle away. Whittingham refused,
and he subsequently began physically attacking some of the travelers sitting near him. One
witness claimed to have seen him elbow someone in the face, while a number of passengers complained
that he was violently banging his head against the back of the seat in front of him while shouting
a string of profanities. When asked to calm down, Whittingham allegedly mocked a female
passenger’s accent. As the plane finally neared its destination, the belligerent flier was seen
punching the man next to him, knocking out one of his teeth in the process.
Upon the aircraft’s arrival in Manchester, Whittingham was met by police officers,
who pinned him to the ground and handcuffed him, reportedly as witnesses cheered them on. The man,
who reportedly bit one of the arresting officers, was ultimately jailed for a period of 20 months
following a trial at Minshull Street Crown Court. #5 - Henry Arce-Cabellero
Florida man Henry Arce-Cabellero got into an argument with workers at a Checkers restaurant,
in Largo, on November the 4th of 2020. Police officers were called to the scene at about
11:30 pm after employees had reported that an angry customer was shouting and beating on the
glass window of the drive-thru. The source of Arce-Cabellero’s ire was that his order had been
botched because there was no lettuce on his sandwich. The man reportedly refused to identify
himself when approached by the officers, despite their repeated requests that he
produce his driver’s license. Law enforcement removed the suspect from his vehicle and,
although he’d allegedly behaved uncooperatively at first, they ultimately managed to take him
into custody. Court records indicated that Arce-Cabellero was charged with resisting
an officer without violence and disorderly conduct in connection to his public meltdown.
#4 - The Attack on the WUSA9 Crew Staffers from the WUSA9 news station
in Washington D.C. went to a house in the city’s Southeast region to cover a hostage situation that
unfolded in the early hours of October the 30th of 2013. Reporter Bruce Johnson and his photographer,
Danielle Gill, were speaking with nearby residents when a woman watching from the second floor window
of the house they were covering began yelling at them to leave. They refused to comply with
her demands, at which point the unidentified woman became incensed and went down to the
street to confront them. The news crew contended that they were under no obligation to leave,
as they were standing on a public street, but the woman continued to shout at them before spraying
mace in their general direction. She then struck both Johnson and Gill with one punch,
and knocked over the latter’s video camera. To avoid further violence,
the news crew left the area. While speaking about the incident later on, Johnson indicated that he
wasn’t sure whether the woman had been involved in the reported hostage situation, but added it was
clear she’d been “under a lot of stress”. #3 - Anna Storelli
As reported by multiple news outlets in April of 2017, California woman Anna Storelli was waiting
in line at a restaurant in Santa Monica when she became enraged by a couple sitting nearby.
Storelli’s meltdown was captured in a 7-minute video, during which she was shown yelling at
a man and woman for allegedly kissing in public. She proceeded to launch an expletive-laden tirade
at the couple, claiming that their public display of affection was making her and
others feel uncomfortable. The man involved in the interaction later clarified that he’d only kissed
his girlfriend on the forehead in the moments leading up to Storelli’s outburst. The latter
reportedly accused the young woman of being an escort before demanding a refund from the
restaurant and threatening to have the cashier fired for their perceived mistreatment of her.
Upon the video’s release on social media, Storelli was widely ridiculed for her behavior,
with many considering her reaction to the couple’s kiss to have been an extreme overreaction.
#2 - Blake A. Fleisig and Anna C. Koosmann Law enforcement in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
received reports of a midair meltdown by a pair of unruly airplane passengers,
on December the 28th of 2016. It was reported that, roughly an hour after Delta Flight 2565
had taken off from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Blake A. Fleisig and
his girlfriend, Anna C. Koosmann, had gotten into an altercation with others on board the
aircraft. It started after the latter had allegedly left her seat to use the bathroom.
She’d done so within moments of the plane being airborne, which was prohibited by air
travel regulations. A flight attendant requested that she return to her seat, at which point she
“became aggressive and created a disruption in the cabin”. Koosmann and Fleisig reportedly got
so belligerent that the pilots were forced to divert the Los Angeles-bound flight back
to the airport from which it had departed. The aircraft was met by Minneapolis police officers,
who took the two suspects into custody. As Fleisig was being escorted off the plane, he allegedly
punched another passenger, prompting the officers to tackle him to the ground. Both Fleisig and
Koosmann were initially charged with disorderly conduct, although it was reported that the former,
who was the Vice President of Citibank, had the charges against him dropped by prosecutors.
#1 - Jessica Mims Shortly after 10 pm, on January the 3rd of 2017,
Illinois woman Jessica Mims entered a Subway restaurant in Evergreen Park and requested to
use the restroom. The 23-year-old subsequently left without ordering any food. However, a short
time later, she reportedly returned and asked to go back into the bathroom to look for money
she’d purportedly left behind on accident. A store employee accompanied Mims to search for
the misplaced cash, which they couldn’t find. The young woman's behavior then became erratic,
and she accused the unnamed worker of having taken the money she’d lost. The situation ultimately
devolved into a physical altercation between the two. Mims’ public meltdown began with her pepper
spraying the worker and progressed to her, exiting the restaurant and smashing one of its windows.
The young woman was consequently arrested and charged with unlawful use of a weapon
and criminal damage to property. It subsequently emerged that Mims, who suffered from schizophrenia
and depression, hadn’t been taking her prescribed medication at the time of her outburst.
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