NEW YORK—A woman who couldn’t get a beef patty at her favorite New York eatery resorted to a baseball bat in protest.
On Saturday, Feb. 9, police released surveillance video of the woman in action in the Bronx—smashing a restaurant’s windows after learning the eatery had run out of her favorite food.
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Police say the woman at the Back Home restaurant in the Morrisania neighborhood came in on the afternoon of Jan. 15 and ordered a patty. She was told they'd run out, and she got upset.
Authorities say she left and came back to the Jamaican restaurant with the bat. The video shows a woman bashing in two windows.
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She fled and police were still searching for her on Saturday.
The video shows a woman dressed in a black and white jacket and matching sneakers, swinging a multi-colored aluminum bat as bystanders tried to stop her before she walked away.
No one was injured during the incident.
The Back Home restaurant in the Morrisania neighborhood is a simple, affordable spot that offers Jamaican specialties like curry goat and oxtail, drawing people from around the city.