The customer became “agitated and verbally abusive” toward employees at a Waffle House in Laurinburg, North Carolina, on Friday night, according to a police statement posted on Facebook.
After the customer was given his food, he started walking toward his car, before turning around and firing two shots, police said.
You have to be a special kind of asshole to shoot at someone who just made you waffles.
I’d guess at least some chance of drugs being involved.
I was just in a restaurant where some presumably meth head got a sandwich. Kept talking to the air, doing circuits around the place, couldn’t sit still for a minute, was getting himself agitated talking to the air.
I remember watching Donut Operator – an ex-cop who used to be on a SWAT team and who does commentary on a bunch of YouTube videos. He’s said a number of times that the people that he least liked having to deal with when working as an officer were the meth addicts. Really unpredictable, could wind up becoming violent after acting normal a moment earlier.
Chances are, the kid who got shot wasn’t even the cook…
That’s like… Waffle House’s main clientele.
Ever been to a waffle house after midnight? It’s a special energy