A 20-year-old man jumped through the drive-thru window of an In-N-Out Burger in Lake Elsinore to confront a threatening woman with a stick, witnesses said according to KTLA.
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Luca Opperman, 20, launched into action on Thursday, Sept. 3, when he jumped through the window to respond to the woman armed with a sharpened wooden stick, a witness said.
Some of the encounter was caught on a cellphone video that is on social media.
The woman was reportedly unhappy with the wait time for her food, according to a witness, and was later taken into custody by sheriff’s deputies.
Opperman jumped through the window and confronted the woman with a spatula while yelling, “Get out of here!” according to the witness.
No injuries were reported from the incident, according to KTLA.
Opperman told KTLA that he is a former gymnast and freestyle trampoline athlete, and he believed the woman could have seriously injured someone.
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Most of the restaurant workers made their way to a back room during the incident, KTLA reported.
The incident was over after Opperman grabbed the stick from the woman, he said in the interview.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the incident and the alleged arrest of the woman.
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