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.
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> grabbed the first potential defensive tool he could find, a metal spatula <
Okay. It worked out this time. Nobody got hurt.
Nevertheless, I renew my call for common sense spatula control.
Post 18? Boy did I beat the Monty Python references or what?
Salt and Buttery.......
Hiring who? The young man wasn’t an employee.
I’ll bet that woman never had anyone give her the “Aunt Jemima Treatment” before...
He turned an IN N OUT into an OUT N IN!
Feel good story of the day!
Even on a topic like this, I feel the need to chime in on the theme that lawsuits are not like winning the lottery. Yes, theoretically she could sue him for assault, which is the apprehension of physical harm, and battery, which is the physical harm. Setting aside that there isn’t a jury in this or any other state that would give her a favorable verdict, the report says no one was injured. Even if she could maintain a lawsuit, and even if she was slightly injured, the value of a case is a function of the amount of hard dollar damages. Punitive damages are allowed in CA only for “conduct that it exceeds all bounds of that which should be tolerated in a civilized society”.
Our legislature has monkeyed in an egregious way with the Penal Code, the Family Code, etc. but they’ve not gotten around to destroying the Civil Code, which largely harkens back to the days when California jurisprudence was a model for the nation.
Maybe you meant it as a throw away line, and I mean no offense. We’re all aware of the fluke miscarriages of justice, but I try to drive home the point on this forum all the time that having a cause of action isn’t the equivalent of getting the winning lottery ticket
Never bring a stick to a spatula fight.
There it is.
Dang, you beat me to it!.
Spatula City, For all your Self Defense needs!
“Them” again...
“They” never quit...
She really flipped when he used the spatula.
Stick a spatula in her, she’s done.
Did you read the article?
I was hoping
Nothing surprises me about California anymore.
And ambulance chasing lawyers are a dime a dozen.
If they think there’s a dollar in it they’ll try anything.
I’ve seen more outrageous law suits than this one would be.
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