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Woman Fights 12 Police Officers with Meat Cleaver After Phone Reportedly Dies While Paying for Restaurant Bill
People ^ | 1/6/2026 | Sabrina Weiss

Posted on 01/26/2026 1:39:53 PM PST by simpson96

A viral video captured a customer’s fight after she allegedly couldn’t pay for her meal with her phone.

On Saturday, Jan. 3, a 32-year-old woman attempted to pay for food at a noodle restaurant in Hong Kong but her phone was dead, Newsflare reported.

Despite restaurant employees offering to help the woman charge her phone in the restaurant and “there was nothing overly unusual about her behaviour,” the restaurant owner said, the situation quickly escalated as the customer allegedly took a meat cleaver and pair of scissors from the restaurant. Other diners fled the restaurant and the owner called the police.

A dozen members of the Hong Kong Police Force were dispatched, each wearing helmets and holding shields and batons, per South China Morning Post.

Released CCTV footage shows the woman standing in the empty restaurant, which has food, phones and chopsticks strewn across the floor. Half of the group of officers entered the restaurant from the main entrance and the woman immediately charged at them, swinging the cleaver at their shields. The other six officers entered the restaurant from a side entrance and came up behind the woman seemingly in an attempt to disarm her. South China Morning Post reports that officers used pepper spray.

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To: fruser1
Cash is king.

Indeed. There's a reason I never fight the police with a meat cleaver and chopsticks at restaurants.

I pay with cash.

21 posted on 01/26/2026 2:02:39 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: simpson96

Man...imagine what would have happened if they got the order wrong!


22 posted on 01/26/2026 2:03:18 PM PST by econjack
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To: MIA_eccl1212

“”When in brits left hong kong, they apparently left some keystone cops to continue the stupidity.””

THAT statement needs some clarification - why the criticism of the police?


23 posted on 01/26/2026 2:03:42 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: simpson96

I’m guessing that an inability to pay her lunch tab that day wasn’t the only issue she was struggling with. Relatively sane, well-balanced people don’t react like this.


24 posted on 01/26/2026 2:03:45 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: dfwgator

I sure miss SCTV


25 posted on 01/26/2026 2:05:08 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: simpson96

Kill (noodle) Bill, part 3.


26 posted on 01/26/2026 2:07:32 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Pam Bondi is the George McClellan of attorneys general.)
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To: simpson96

“Woman Fights 12 Police Officers with Meat Cleaver”

Why do the police have meat cleavers?


27 posted on 01/26/2026 2:22:21 PM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: null and void

W

When the Himalayan peasant meets the she-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail (1)
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

https://www.discoverkipling.net/and-their-hearts-were-nothing-altered/the-female-of-the-species/


28 posted on 01/26/2026 2:23:23 PM PST by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: simpson96

Good morning, June. How’s the Beaver?


29 posted on 01/26/2026 2:30:18 PM PST by rfp1234 (E porcibus unum)
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To: SaveFerris

She’s probably dead already.


30 posted on 01/26/2026 2:34:37 PM PST by Surrounded_too (LE)
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To: simpson96; SunkenCiv; Rennes Templar; The Spirit Of Allegiance
The incident lasted 15 minutes, per reports.

Apparently this is a world-wide time standard.

You think she'll try for the umami defense?

Even it can be proven that she wasn't soba, it really sake-s for the noodle house if she had requested no MSG.

31 posted on 01/26/2026 2:42:19 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, that headline is crazy.


32 posted on 01/26/2026 2:45:23 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: ClearCase_guy

“In my opinion, a dimensional portal opened up somewhere, and the Nephilim have returned and are now occupying bodies of people all over the world. The craziness is widespread and out of control.”

- - - - - - - - -

Recall to mind the portal opening attempt called Babalon Working that Jack Parsons and at least one woman attempted in the 40’s. It was described as successful. Of course, JP was blown up in an explosion in his own company Jet Propulsion Labs a few years later.
Mentioned in biography of Robert Heinlein, also that Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard were in and out of the Heinlein home on Lookout Drive in Laurel/Topanga Canyon at that time. Also that Heinlein’s wife at the time, Leslyn, was a self-described witch. Interesting.


33 posted on 01/26/2026 2:52:22 PM PST by Norski (Why is American no longer Christian? Because of CINO - christians in name only.)
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To: null and void
Hippopotami are in “Fragrant Harbor” - Hong Kong?

Who knew?

Surprising indeed. Is that a variant of the North American Ghettopotamus?

34 posted on 01/26/2026 3:07:56 PM PST by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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To: SaveFerris; null and void

35 posted on 01/26/2026 3:19:53 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: simpson96

I suppose nobody on the staff had a charging cable?

Stupidity Reigns Supreme...

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36 posted on 01/26/2026 4:23:38 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: simpson96

“Leave it to Cleaver”


37 posted on 01/26/2026 4:36:23 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Surrounded_too

Darn 😟


38 posted on 01/26/2026 4:48:02 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: simpson96

She goes in the large pile of strange people.

People Are Strange
—The Doors

People are strange when you’re a stranger
Faces look ugly when you’re alone
Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted
Streets are uneven when you’re down

When you’re strange, faces come out of the rain
When you’re strange, no one remembers your name
When you’re strange, when you’re strange
When you’re strange


39 posted on 01/26/2026 5:05:18 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: TLI

Excerpt says restaurant staff were happy to lend her a cable to charge her phone.


40 posted on 01/26/2026 5:05:57 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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