Axe-wielding man smashes up and terrorises McDonald's customers after woman's rejection

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McDonald’s later bragged about the success of a viral video showing him smashing up the restaurant.New Yorker Michael Palacios was arrested after he produced an axe from his backpack at around 2.30am on Saturday (September 17) and smashed a large glass panel and several tables and walls.Bystanders told reporters that Palacios was visibly drunk, and had lost his temper after trying to chat up a fellow customer who rejected his advances.READ MORE: Couple criticise Ryanair after they accidentally boarded wrong Alicante flight One of them, an Uber Eats delivery driver who gave his name as Ruben G, described how Palacios had been knocked back by the woman.“So basically he got into an argument with a girl,” he told the New York Post, “and then the girl rejected him.

She didn’t want to talk to him"“He kept going at her," Ruben added. "That’s when the guys she was with stepped in and they started arguing.

It all led to that”.“He was trying to talk to her and whatever,” Ruben said. “He was asking for her number, where she was from, and I guess she felt some way.“She replied back in a certain manner that she didn’t want to give too much info and he kept pushing on.”He added that Palacios appeared to be drunk: I can smell the liquor off him”.At one point three other customers set about Palacios, beating him over the head.

He appeared to ignore them for a short time, shrugging off the punches, until he suddenly pulled the axe from his bag.He shattered a floor-to-ceiling glass panel before hacking at a number of tables and walls.A staff member recalled: “Bro, there was a glass here and a glass there.