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VIDEO: 20-Year-Old California HERO Leaps Through In-N-Out Window, Grabs a SPATULA, and Takes Down Stick-Wielding Woman Terrorizing Workers
The Gateway Pundit ^ | September 4, 2026 | Jim Hᴏft

Posted on 09/05/2026 11:29:01 AM PDT by Red Badger

A California college student is being hailed as a hero after he launched himself feet-first through an In-N-Out drive-thru window and confronted a woman allegedly threatening employees with a sharpened wooden stick.

Twenty-year-old Luca Opperman was waiting for his burger at an In-N-Out in Lake Elsinore early Wednesday morning when he suddenly heard loud banging coming from inside the restaurant, the KTLA reported.

Opperman looked through the window and reportedly saw a 53-year-old woman smashing a large, branch-like stick against the counter.

The stick was broken at one end, leaving a jagged point that Opperman believed could seriously injure someone.

Employees reportedly fled into a back room as the woman continued her rampage.

But Opperman did not lock his doors, pull out his phone, and watch from a safe distance.

He jumped out of his vehicle and dove feet-first through the drive-thru window!

https://youtu.be/Y3Jm03nDVQE?si=taC77-rFcizwZIm9

A witness told the LA Times that the incredible maneuver was something out of “Spider-Man” or a “Jackie Chan move.”

Opperman, a college student and former parkour instructor who also participates in freestyle trampolining, landed inside the kitchen and grabbed the first potential defensive tool he could find, a metal spatula.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: california; hoftisafairy; jimmyisextragay; opperman

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1 posted on 09/05/2026 11:29:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

In before the Monty Python references.


2 posted on 09/05/2026 11:39:38 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Red Badger

Holy Spatula, Batman!

(Soon yo be outlawed in New York, Illinois, and Californicate. )


3 posted on 09/05/2026 11:41:32 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Red Badger

Now that’s Animal Style!


4 posted on 09/05/2026 11:43:12 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Red Badger

“But Opperman did not lock his doors, pull out his phone, and watch from a safe distance”

So was his car stolen?


5 posted on 09/05/2026 11:43:28 AM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: Red Badger

California.....she’ll probably be allowed to sue him into oblivion for assault and battery.


6 posted on 09/05/2026 11:43:36 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: Red Badger

This kid is a national treasure.


7 posted on 09/05/2026 11:44:00 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Quite literally.


8 posted on 09/05/2026 11:44:39 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Red Badger

There have been a number of cases reported where someone at a fast food place is angry about something. And goes on the attack.

Do some people have poor impulse control, poor ability to think things through, as far as consequences of their actions, etc.?

Does threatening someone with a weapon really make them cook that burger faster? Is that what the perpetrator was thinking?


9 posted on 09/05/2026 11:44:41 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Red Badger
Opperman looked through the window and reportedly saw a 53-year-old woman smashing a large, branch-like stick against the counter.

 

Need I look?

10 posted on 09/05/2026 11:44:50 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (TDS: Trump Deification Syndrome)
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To: Responsibility2nd

yes. ... Hispanic


11 posted on 09/05/2026 11:47:18 AM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: Red Badger

“ woman allegedly threatening employees with a sharpened wooden stick.”
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Sharpened wooded stick? Was she of the H. erectus species of hominids?


12 posted on 09/05/2026 11:48:14 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: House Atreides

Different branch.........


13 posted on 09/05/2026 11:50:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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Student hero in action.

14 posted on 09/05/2026 11:52:41 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of Gd; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: V_TWIN

She’ll at least be out in a few days to terrorize more citizens. The few mental hospitals that still exist are full.


15 posted on 09/05/2026 11:53:30 AM PDT by Deo volente ("Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.” -Niccolò Machiavelli)
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To: V_TWIN

Yes and sue In-N-Out for hiring him.


16 posted on 09/05/2026 11:55:16 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: EvilCapitalist

John McClane: “Damn hamster!”


17 posted on 09/05/2026 11:55:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

How to defend yourself against someone who attacks you with a banana.

And a pointed stick?

SHUDDUP


18 posted on 09/05/2026 12:10:12 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Col Frank Slade

We’ve already done strawberries!


19 posted on 09/05/2026 12:12:37 PM PDT by bwest
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To: Red Badger

Great! No further comment so as to not cause meltdowns by liberals reading this. Also, don’t want to warn them about what is going to happen if I am in the same situation.


20 posted on 09/05/2026 12:20:56 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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