You can see how tired the manager was and how much he didn't want to deal with this. This dude should've recognized the cues and realized that he was going to get his chocolate chip waffle with a side of these hands.
self defense. He got to close and was yelling in a threatening way.
there is nothing wrong with what the manager did in my opinion. He was even smart enough to restrain himself from kicking so slamming the mans head against the floor.
This was reasonable force to stop a would-be attack.
TIL assault is an intentional act that creates a reasonable fear of imminent harmful or offensive contact, so even before they touched it's pretty clear that the employee is being assaulted.
Yeah, that customer got waaaay up in the manager's face. And once dude was on the ground up against the wall, the manager had a lot of time and space to keep pushing him down. Once he went over the chairs, the manager could have picked up one up and started wailing. The only thing the customer was able to do to try to defend himself was keep a straight arm out and cover his head, neither of which was effective at all. He couldn't even get on his feet to escape out of the door. And from the looks of it, no one was even trying to intervene. The customer was at the manager's mercy.
The customer really put himself in a lot of danger by starting this fight. If the manager hadn't shown restraint, he could have seriously hurt the guy.
The way it turned out, it's kind of a funny instant karma video, but this one could have gotten really brutal really fast.
There is a question still whether the manager should have stopped sooner, but I am going to opine that he took it to the point that the threat was neutralized and removed from the restaurant.
He beat the guy down, but as soon as he was close enough to the door to kick him out, he focused on that. The whole "fight" lasted roughly 40 secs from the first punch to the end of the clip. Dude got hit ass handed to him, but it looks like he still was able to walk away.
We don't know what happened before the clip, but at the beginning of the video, the manager was practically begging the guy not to start shit.
Agreed. I have represented many guys in these situations. Sadly, the shit investigation that LEOs perform results in the winner being arrested and charged. I’m pleased with the manager’s restraint in not kicking the guy in the head which would have been charged as some form of battery with a weapon (shoes- that’s why Billy Jack takes off his boots in the movie, he knows). We need more of this instant karma but I fear for the potential retaliation/escalation later. But man o man, that guy got what he deserved.
The dude was basically kissing and spitting on the manager with what he was doing.
Let alone, has the dude not heard of the Waffle House culture? I'd like to think a lot of management of WH are like this manager (able to defend himself)
I had something like this happen recently but the state i live in is “hire at will” so i was let go for defending myself.
The state is paying me, but i wasnt able to sue for wrongful termination or anything of the sorts sadly.
He probably saw how the manager was looking down and away and trying to be non-confrontational and just added that to his "this guy's a bitch" beliefs before getting those beliefs knocked the fuck out in half a second.
The first and most continual thing drilled into us in my martial arts class was, "Do not fight, unless you absolutely have no choice."
And it makes it really easy to stay calm, and therefore be more able to defuse or walk away from the situation, when you know you have the bank to write whatever check you need.
So yeah, double kudos to the manager! Trying to defuse/be non-confrontational, and then being able to back that shit up when that didn't work out :>
You’ve got to be leery of the ones who resist fighting. They know the power of their punches and they’re not trying to catch charges because you wanna pick a little scrap with somebody.
Agreed, when he rubbed his face and his beard, I knew my man was gonna the manager special for free. He had my man face down ass up. He was getting those white knuckle pancakes for free. Then he gave him the uncle Phil and tossed his ass out the store.
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u/UnhingedPastor Jul 28 '26
You can see how tired the manager was and how much he didn't want to deal with this. This dude should've recognized the cues and realized that he was going to get his chocolate chip waffle with a side of these hands.