Police say a South Carolina man was so angry at a local fast food restaurant that he spit at employees, leading to his arrest.
The altercation occurred at a Wendy’s on Rochester Road in Troy on June 20, shortly after 5 p.m., when employees called police due to a customer disturbance.
“Upon arrival, officers observed the customer standing at the drive-through window yelling toward the inside of the building at the employees,” Troy police said in a report.
The problem was that the eatery’s credit card machine was not working.
Initially, the 37-year-old from Sumter, South Carolina, told officers that nothing had happened to warrant a police response. Employees, though, told police the man walked up to the drive through window to yell about the problem and then at the worker at the window.
“The employee closed the window and he tried to open it and spit again, at which point police arrived on scene,” police said. “When asked if he spit at the employee, the male denied it but admitted to spitting at the drive-through window.”
The man was arrested and given a citation for assault and battery, a misdemeanor.