Violent reaction to stale donut complaint
6:10 p.m. Thursday, June 26, 2008
A store clerk in Kansas City, Kansas used a baseball bat to go after a customer who complained about some donuts.
And it was all caught on tape.
This week, Leonard Hill spent 50 cents on a pack of Little Debbie donuts for his son.
He came back to the store and told the clerk the treats were stale and wanted to return them.
But an argument began, and the video shows the clerk taking a baseball bat from his car trunk and swinging at the customer's truck.
"First time, he just swung straight down on me and I was trying to get outta there - and he swung it this way."
"We were both talking about getting into a fight. You know, he was going to kick mine and I was going to kick his," victim Len Hill said. "I think it's all pretty ignorant over a 50 cent package of donuts and a 10 year-old child. I would've given the 10 year-old child some donuts or the 50-cents back."
"He should give it to them free, donuts. But I mean, when someone come in and start arguing and so on, so on so you know, that sometimes problems create," store owner Khalid Cheema said.
Hill had several dents in the truck.
The store owner says the donuts had not expired and that the customer was yelling at his employee.
But he agrees, the worker was wrong in his response.
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