After a man got into an altercation with three other males, customers were not “lovin’ it” inside a McDonald’s located on the Lower East Side, in NYC.
Amidst orders popping off for Big Mac’s and Milkshakes – four men found themselves at odds with one another.
In a truly bizarre scene of verbal shouting, and what looked like the Texas two step scuffle, the altercation quickly degenerated into fisticuffs with one man getting punched in the head by multiple men baring fists.
Non-interfering customers recorded the incident from a short distance, commenting intermittently.
From the looks of it, the man taking the brunt of the flying fists, who police have identified as Michael Palacios, tried to nonchalantly stand his ground whilst being pelted.
At one point, resting his head on his hand as if bored.
From the fierce look in his eyes he was anything but – in fact he was just gearing up.
In the video you can clearly see Palacios go to his backpack, angrily rummaging around. What he took from his backpack wasn’t a napkin to accompany his meal.
Unless that napkin was shaped like an ax.
Palacios then started rampaging around McDonalds smashing things to-and-fro with his newly acquired ax.
He bashed with no regard – tables, walls, a large glass wall divider shattered to smithereens. He waved the ax threateningly towards customers and slapped a sitting man multiple times. Palacios was on the warpath.
He trashed the McDonald’s and accosted the patrons inside it.
“The suspect intentionally caused property damage to the establishment. The individual was taken into custody by responding officers. A search incident led to a lawful arrest, an additional knife was recovered from his backpack. Victims did not report any injuries” said NYPD Spokesperson.
Michael Palacios was arrested and charged with criminal mischief, three counts of menacing, and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
No one knows how the initial argument came to be, so one can only speculate. But if it had anything to do with fries…a rash of violence has popped up recently related to cold fries, not enough fries and one incident – the denial of fries.
