Tl;dr: 75-yo old woman attacks the employees over a sandwich, rips hair from one of them, put that hair in her purse, calls the police and dies.

At that point, two other employees intervened, and as they were pulled apart, a “chunk of hair” was pulled from the shift lead’s head, “leaving a raw area.”

Once separated, the employees got behind the counter and Grayson sat down, taking a phone call. She was seen picking up the shift lead’s hair and putting it in her bag, police said.

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[–] 53 points 2 months ago

“This is a heartbreaking situation for everyone involved and especially for Ms. Grayson’s family,” the Allen County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said in an update on the case Friday.

And not especially heart breaking for the employee who got their hair ripped put by a psycho and then had to watch that psycho doe and then live for months under the threat of having to go to jail for being attacked?

I'd say the cunt is fine, the family likely is relieved she's gone, I feel for the basic income employee

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  • [–] 49 points 3 months ago (22 children)

    Medical records obtained by investigators after her death showed she had recently been treated for congestive heart failure, hypertension, shortness of breath, and other complaints related to cardiovascular issues.

    But not "being a cunt", so I guess that was her decision, not a medical condition.

    Seriously, who curses at minimum-wage teenage workers doing their jobs and physically attacks them!? The world is a slightly better place now...

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (14 children)

    miserable people who are dying of health issues and whose daily life nothing but despair and pain.

    that's who.

    my dad was the same way as this lady. spend the last 5 years of his life slowly dying and taking it out on other people.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Man that's awful, I feel for you. My dad spent the last five years of his life fighting for every gulp of air in miserable pain and took it out on absolutely no one. Well, unless he happened to see someone park in a handicapped spot without a sticker. Then there was hell to pay.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

    wow cool. your dad was better than my dad.

    too bad I didn't get a choice of what kind of dad to have. Nobody does.

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  • [+] 7 points 2 months ago (8 children)
  • [+] -6 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    I dont know, out of everyone involved, you seem the most like a miserable old cunt taking shit out on other people with your nasty, undeserved, unwarranted comment.

    Projections a hell of a drug, I guess.

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  • [+] -11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Oh, did my comment make you feel personally assaulted and attacked?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Why is it whenever I see your comments you're being a little pants pisser. I just do not understand what your problem is. You must be the most miserable person I've ever seen on lemmy.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Is "taking it out on other people" the same as physically attacking them? Because she could have killed these young people if they hadn't defended themselves and banded together. She might have snuffed out their entire lives because she felt shitty!

    I genuinely feel bad for your dad and for this lady. It's terrible and it's unfair. But, like anyone dealing with something chronic, it's also their responsibility to manage. If they can't, they have no business being in society with other people...

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    just because it's their responsibility to manage it doesn't mean they can manager it. or their loved ones can.

    do you think we should lock everyone up who is dealing with physical and mental problems that may overwhelm them? throw my dad in jail because what, he's in so much pain and depression that he can't think straight?

    what about my mom who had dementia? oh right, well yeah we did put her in 'jail' in a full time care facility, but it also cost us $12,000/mo.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    do you think we should lock everyone up who is dealing with physical and mental problems that may overwhelm them? throw my dad in jail because what, he’s in so much pain and depression that he can’t think straight?

    If they're going around attacking people yeah. People like that need to be handled, not allowed to go around inflicting themselves on everyone else. It sucks but minimum wage workers aren't trained or compensated to be carers for the mentally unwell.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Seriously, who curses at minimum-wage teenage workers doing their jobs and physically attacks them!? The world is a slightly better place now…

    old, kareny cunts who are used to getting placated and getting what they want by tantruming.

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  • [+] -27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    She may have behaved rudely, but nobody should be getting beaten to death for being rude.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago

    She wasn't beaten to death for being rude. She attacked a manager for telling her to leave after berating a 17 year old employee. She punched the manger in the face, yanked her to the ground by the hair and continued punching her while on the ground. The manager only got away after the chunk of hair she was being held by was ripped out of her scalp.

    She died from a heart attack because she started a fight with a 20 year old girl while having congestive heart failure. The manager even brought her a cup of water to a person who just assaulted her because they were worried about them.

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  • [–] 81 points 3 months ago

    What TF were they considering charging the employee with? Toxic hair?

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  • [–] 170 points 3 months ago (27 children)

    'There is no audio, but the employees told investigators Grayson slammed her food on the counter and made an expletive-laced demand for a refund, accusing staff of making her sandwich “wrong on purpose,” according to the report released last week.'

    Well, I have no idea how Anita Grayson lived, but i know how that bitch died. Who treats staff like this? Over a fucking sandwich?

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  • [–] 68 points 3 months ago (20 children)

    Clearly unhinged, world is a slightly better place now.

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  • [–] 60 points 3 months ago (19 children)

    She could have been sick. She WAS 75.

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  • [–] 73 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I would bet money on it. A lot of traumatic brain injuries or degeneration can just look like someone being an unhinged jerk.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago*

    100% correct. Back in the late 70s/early 80s I had an uncle, technically my grandmothers brother. He'd never married and she was widowed so they shared a house together. In retrospect, I think he was probably a closeted gay man.

    Anyway, All through my young years he was a very kind and generous man. Smart too. He bought a Commodore home computer when they first came out and let me play games on it. He used it to write up a family history of everything he knew about our family's past. He also make a cookbook of all my grandmother's recipes. He printed both of those out and gave a copy to every household in the family. He had a shocking level of technological aptitude for a 60ish year old man in the early 80s.

    Then one day he changed. I was young and nobody told me exactly what it was. Maybe a stroke or something. From that day on he was as mean as a snake. He'd rip into anyone over anything. Not violently, I don't think, anyway. But he'd scream and swear and slam things and be generally viscous. It was as if my uncle just died and was replaced by a scary, mean old-man who looked just like him.

    While this woman may have been a bitch all her life, I've known plenty of healthy, young people who were no better than this. She might also have been emotionally disturbed and no longer the person that she was. Without more information, we'll never know.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    She arrived in the throes of death and went out swinging

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    She arrived in the throes of death and went out swinging

    I'M GONNA TAKE SOMEONE WITH ME!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    She could have been, but that doesn't excuse her actions, unless maybe it was totally uncontrollable (like Tourette syndrome) and she was doing everything she could to get help and fix it. If you're not trying to change it then that's just who you are, and if it's something that could be changed then you're just an asshole.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

    WHO ASSAULTED SOMEONE WHO WAS PROTECTING THEMSELVES

    Funny how all you hand wringing creative writers are trying so desperately to leave that part out and invent some fictional narrative that she was a kind, sweet woman who was ravaged by undiagnosed psychosis that no one has any evidence of.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I never said she was a sweet woman. I said mental illness MAY have been the cause of her abusive nature. And you don't know it isn't any more than I do, you stupid assclown.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    mental illness that you have NO EVIDENCE of.

    You are sitting here desperately trying to pull an AI hallucination to invent scenarios that fit the prompt you want.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Actually, no I'm not. I guess you struggle with reading comprehension.

    Probably be seeing you in your own video soon.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago*

    Jebus. I was gonna make some snark about boomers, but her actions do it all for me. On the upshot, she'll never treat staff like that again!

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago

    Holy shit. That's just wild.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    To all of us who have worked a drive thru before, utterly unsurprised. Of course she was willing to give her life up over a sandwich.

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    She was seen picking up the shift lead’s hair and putting it in her bag, police said.

    Was she a witch or something?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    and I thought I'd die knowing the craziest story from Tim Horton's featured a group fight and a baby raccoon wielded as a weapon… but no

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  • [+] 11 points 3 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago* (7 children)

    “99 Rideau raccoon fight” should help narrow the search 😉 but it wasn’t “wielded as a weapon” so much as produced at the scene of a fight

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    99 Rideau raccoon fight

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rideau_Street_McDonald's

    This article is fucking gold.

    For nearly all of its history, the restaurant was open 24 hours a day, and it attracted customers who came from bars and night clubs in the area. The restaurant's floor was often dirty, and people formed crowds rather than lines at the registers.

    Customers witnessed drug use and sexual acts in a long, narrow hallway to the bathrooms dubbed "The Hallway to Hell" and isolated from the rest of the restaurant.

    criminals used it as an easy escape from police

    The restaurant was a site of frequent stabbings, drug use, liquor licence violations, violent attacks, sexual assaults, and many other criminal acts

    "The video begins in the middle of the chaos, with young men punching, kicking, choking, and knocking or dragging each other to the ground as onlookers shout and jeer". Shortly after the start of the fight, a man appears on screen and can be seen pulling out a baby raccoon from his sweater. The man waves the raccoon around casually as a cigarette droops from his mouth.

    Other viral videos of unusual altercations were filmed at the restaurant, such as customers beating each other with "Wet Floor" signs

    "In fact, even as I draft this letter, another individual is recovering from a stabbing that occurred at that address yesterday.

    In 2024, a Cantonese restaurant named 99 VIP Seafood signed a lease and became the location's next tenant.[14] It opened in September 2025 and closed in March 2026.[15][16] McDonald's Canada is open to reopening in downtown Ottawa, the CEO said in November 2024

    In November 2025, it was announced that a new McDonald's location was set to open at 377 Dalhousie Street, at the intersection of Dalhousie and Rideau Street. The location officially opened in December of the same year,[18] notably with the owners of the franchise commemorating the occasion by making a donation to "a local raccoon rescue"

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    [–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Was she always like this, and getting that pissed stressed her heart, or was she irrational from some health problem that then finished her off? I had a relative with heart problems who had a widowmaker while out in a field getting mad at a stuck tractor. He had been told "you gotta stop taking that tractor out there. it always gets stuck and then you get really mad and you're going to have a heart attack." At least it happened fast, I guess.

    So, did she die like she lived (angry, violent), like he did, or is it sadder?

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  • [–] 67 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    That really sounds to me like there was some underlying health issue and the customer lost absolute control of herself as she succumbed to it.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    That may be the case, but there are countless videos of people committing felonies in restaurants/fast food chains because someone made a mistake on their order. There must be a lot of underlying health issues in the US 😆

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    Didn't we literally just have a headline that 90%+ of US adults do not seek healthcare because they can't afford it?

    There's something called Penrose's law: the prison population plus mental care population is a constant. So a country that doesn't take care of mental health needs to handle it as crime. Pretty simple when you think about it, but the dude had stats to back up his assertion.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    She died doing what she loved

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