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A 19-year-old Wendy’s manager in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was accused of tying a neurodivergent worker to a grill at the restaurant and restraining him with trash bags.

According to police, the incident happened on August 30 at the fast food restaurant. Another worker saw what was happening and recorded part of it, and he later spoke publicly about what he had witnessed. He said the manager told him she needed the alleged victim to remain where he was while she worked in the back of the restaurant.

Police interviewed the manager on September 6, and she allegedly told them the incident was part of a TikTok trend. The coworker who recorded the video disputed that explanation and said he had not seen anything online supporting the manager’s claim of it being a trend.

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A Florida woman was accused of hitting another driver in the face with a glass bottle of vegan mayonnaise during a road rage confrontation in Estero.

According to deputies, the incident began around 4 p.m. on August 20, when a van allegedly cut off another vehicle. The driver of the other vehicle honked her horn. The authorities said the passenger in the van responded by yelling profanities and making an obscene gesture.

After the vehicles went through an intersection, the van moved into another lane. The other driver pulled alongside the van, and the two women reportedly began arguing through their open windows.

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A Florida man was accused of striking a pedestrian with his car after police said he admitted he drove to a farmers market with the intention of hitting someone.

According to a probable cause affidavit, the suspect told investigators he woke up depressed on September 13 and wanted to hurt someone besides himself. He reportedly drove to the Boys Farmers Market in Delray Beach, backed his vehicle into a parking space and waited for someone to walk in front of it.

Police learned more about the incident after arriving at the parking lot after a report of a pedestrian being hit. The alleged victim told officers he was walking toward the market entrance when a white vehicle suddenly moved toward him. He managed to push away from the car, but it struck his lower leg.

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A father and his son were allegedly beaten with brass knuckles during a dispute as they tried to leave the Eastern Idaho State Fair over Labor Day weekend.

The father told deputies that he saw his son being attacked after being knocked to the ground. According to the arrest affidavit, one suspect pushed the son against a vehicle while holding him by the neck before throwing him down and stomping on his stomach.

The father was also allegedly attacked after he told a group of people to move out of the roadway. One suspect allegedly responded with gang-related comments before pulling out brass knuckles and striking the father in the head.

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A Georgia mother is accused of giving her teenage daughter a golf club during a dispute between several juveniles, leading to an attack that left one 14-year-old girl hospitalized with a skull fracture.

According to the authorities, the confrontation began as a verbal dispute between several juveniles and later turned physical. During the altercation, the 36-year-old woman allegedly went inside her apartment, retrieved a golf club, and handed it to her 16-year-old daughter.

The authorities said the teen struck the alleged victim in the head with the club. The 16-year-old allegedly later gave the club to her 15-year-old sister, who reportedly used it to strike a second girl.

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A Florida woman is accused of attacking a teenager inside a Target store after allegedly becoming enraged because he was Jewish.

According to a criminal complaint, the incident happened in the store’s Starbucks seating area. The police said the 43-year-old woman was sitting at a table when the teen arrived and sat on the other side of the seating area.

The woman allegedly got up and began yelling before approaching the teen and reportedly hitting him twice with her cellphone. According to police, the teen was struck once on the left side of his head and once on his shoulder.

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A West Virginia woman reportedly told police that a coworker pulled a handgun from his car during their lunch break and pressed it against her leg.

The woman and the suspect worked together at a Walmart in Fayetteville. According to the criminal complaint, they were sitting in his car on August 23 when he began talking about problems with his girlfriend. The woman said he told her that he wanted to take his own life before pulling out a handgun and asking if she had ever had a gun pointed at her.

Police said the man removed the magazine from the firearm before pressing it against the woman’s leg. The woman did not report the alleged incidents to police until several days later.

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A dispute over a parking space ended with a 71-year-old man on the floor of an Elk Grove convenience store after an Amazon delivery driver allegedly punched him.

On March 30, the alleged victim stopped at a gas station and convenience store. He had gone inside to use the bathroom and get a drink when the Amazon driver allegedly confronted him over the parking spot he chose and said he intended to park there himself.

The argument continued inside the store after the alleged victim walked away from the initial confrontation. Video from the store’s surveillance camera reportedly showed the driver standing close to him and threatening to beat him.

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A Florida man was accused of refusing to let a passenger out of his truck before leading police on a chase that reached 100 mph and ended when the vehicle crashed into a ditch.

The passenger reportedly begged the 38-year-old man to stop and let her out, but he allegedly refused. According to a probable cause affidavit, he told her, “I got this,” before continuing to drive.

The truck eventually became too damaged to make a turn and crashed into a ditch, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The driver allegedly ran from the wreck and hid in nearby grass before troopers found and arrested him.

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A Kentucky daycare employee is accused of making threats to “shoot up” the facility in an effort to force a lockdown during a stretch of extreme summer heat.

The 27-year-old woman allegedly told investigators she did not want to be outside with the children in the heat and knew a threat would keep everyone inside the building. Temperatures in Bowling Green reached the high 90s on August 13 and 14.

The investigation began August 13, when Warren County sheriff’s deputies were called to the daycare over reports of violent threats. Investigators initially suspected a former employee or her husband and located the pair nearby.

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