Crazy Lady

[customersruinmylife]

I don't know where this should go under, seeing as I wasn't present for the event. I'm off work sick at the moment, but a co-worker actually phoned me after this happened to give me the gossip.

So, it's a normal night at the bar, it's quite quiet, and everything seems fine. All of a sudden...

Crazy Lady: YOU BASTARD!!

SMASH!

Crazy Lady smashes a glass over her boyfriends head. Boyfriend falls to floor. Crazy Lady somehow develops super strength, picks up the table and proceeds to drop it on him!

Two co-workers and the manager run over. A third co-worker calls the police.

CL: HE JUST FUCKING DUMPED MEEEEEE!!!

She starts picking up random objects from other tables and starts hurling them at her now ex-boyfriend.

Manager: GET OUT! THE POLICE ARE ON THEIR WAY! I SUGGEST YOU LEAVE!
CL: YOU CAN'T THROW ME OUT! I'M A WOMAN!

Manager is in no mood for this, and proceeds to attempt to restrain the crazy lady as she is still throwing anything she can get her hands on at the ex. Crazy Lady punches the manager in the face, cutting him badly due to the rock hard ring she was wearing.

The two co-workers jump in. The three of them proceed to literally pick up the woman, and carry her towards the door. She is going crazy, she actually ripped off a co-workers shirt. They take her outside and literally drop her in the middle of the street.

Crazy Lady re-enters.

CL: I HAVEN'T FINISHED MY DRINK YET! I PAID FOR THAT! GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK!

The three of them went over, and picked her up again.

The police came. She was taken away in cuffs. Her ex-boyfriend was taken away in an ambulance.

[Nyoibo]

Ok, so just out of interest, what are the implications of punching said crazy lady out, given she threw first?

[crazylegs]

Ok, so just out of interest, what are the implications of punching said crazy lady out, given she threw first?

The law states you may use reasonable force to protect yourself (or others if they are unable to do so).

I'd have suggested that a full restraint would have been in order to protect others as she'd already glassed one person then threw a table at them (if CRML works at the pub chain I think he does then the tables are never lightweight and flimsy). Saying that though if the people doing the restraining aren't trained to do so then they risk injury to themselves, hence why she was dumped in the street.

[walking with scissors]

Oh yes, this must be why some people recommend breaking up in public places, because the dumpee won't make a scene.

[mharbourgirl]

Oh yes, this must be why some people recommend breaking up in public places, because the dumpee won't make a scene.

No, it's so when the dumpee DOES make a scene, there are witnesses.

If you're breaking up with her because she's psycho, best to do it in a public place so that hopefully someone will stop her before she does more than break a glass over your head.

[Evil Queen]

CL: YOU CAN'T THROW ME OUT! I'M A WOMAN!

Try me.

[Kitten in the box]

We had a similar situation a crazy lady except she didn't get dumped...she was shoplifteing and when we tried to stop her she went apeshit fighting the whole way. She bit one of my managers who despite being man grabbed her and pinned her against the wall so she wouldn't be able to turn and bite if she wanted to. She then went into a screaming fit saying she was pregnant and they should not have handled her that way. She was led in cuffs to the break room by security right where i was eating lunch. Joy. Then she felt it was her duty to tell me what happened. (I saw part of it before going to break room. Frankly I didn't wish to see that and plus my lunch was done cooking in the microwave.
She asked me what my thoughts were and I simply said "Shoplifters piss me off" and went back to eating. She was about to go into piss mode when the cops came. Get this....if she WAS pregnant then she should not have been fightig like a rabid dog when she was caught. (I doubt that she was but I could be wrong.) The thing she stole? A bottle of vodka....now what stupid fucknut would drink that knowing she was pregnant and knowing it would pass to her baby?

[Geek King]

I would rather get into the ring with three of Mysty's hulking wrestler friends then a single 98-pound crazy person. The really, truly crazy are scary in a fight. A crazy person will use all of their strength, with no reguard for the damage they are doing to themselves. I've heard an account from a first-hand witness of a lady who pounded on a police officer until her hand was litterally pulped so badly that they couldn't reconstruct the bones broken.

[taxguykarl]

Get this....if she WAS pregnant then she should not have been fightig like a rabid dog when she was caught. (I doubt that she was but I could be wrong.) The thing she stole? A bottle of vodka....now what stupid fucknut would drink that knowing she was pregnant and knowing it would pass to her baby?

That could well be some kind of scam to get off easy. Hormones you know. Equally likely, she was losing the fight and tried to get some opening to gain an advantage in the fisticuffs.

[Nyx]

CL: HE JUST FUCKING DUMPED MEEEEEE!!!

I think I might know why.

[AlmightyALT]

I would rather get into the ring with three of Mysty's hulking wrestler friends then a single 98-pound crazy person. The really, truly crazy are scary in a fight. A crazy person will use all of their strength, with no reguard for the damage they are doing to themselves. I've heard an account from a first-hand witness of a lady who pounded on a police officer until her hand was litterally pulped so badly that they couldn't reconstruct the bones broken.

I used to work at a pysch hospital in East Texas. Let me tell you I agree whole heartedly. There wasn't a month gone by when a nurse or nurse assistant wouldn't call a 'Code GET ME HELP NOW SOMEONE'S GOIN NUTSO!' at least once. The record was ten times one month. Half from the same patient! We even had a 'Code GAH! BIG AND BURLEY GET HERE NOW!' one time from the outpatient clinic where the people who walk there in are supposed to be saner or else they'd be inpatients!

[InsanityInc]

I have to agree with don't mess with the crazy. One 14 year old I knew of was in a mental ward, and when she flipped out routinly needed 4 orderlies to restrain her.

[Hyndis]

I would rather get into the ring with three of Mysty's hulking wrestler friends then a single 98-pound crazy person. The really, truly crazy are scary in a fight. A crazy person will use all of their strength, with no reguard for the damage they are doing to themselves. I've heard an account from a first-hand witness of a lady who pounded on a police officer until her hand was litterally pulped so badly that they couldn't reconstruct the bones broken.

Adrenaline can do incredible things. A person can single handedly pick up a car or keep on going despite being riddled with bullets. Once it wears off those injuries remain of course, but an adrenaline fueled rage is a scary thing to witness.

[Chromatix]

Hence the legend of the "berserker" warriors.

Edit: Try reading Alan Garner's "Red Shift". It's not an easy read, being set in three time periods simultaneously, but it does illustrate a berserker.

[SuperB]

Sounds like the guy made the right choice.