‘Wanting to knock me out’: Video of alleged dine-and-dash in Ontario goes viral

Charges person been laid against a Brampton, Ont., man who allegedly assaulted a waiter aft an attempted dine-and-dash successful The Blue Mountains, according to Ontario Provincial Police.

The alleged battle was captured connected video and yet recovered its measurement to Michael McWhorter, who is known as @tizzyent on societal media.

He shared nan footage connected respective societal media channels, which garnered hundreds of thousands of views.

In nan video, which was extracurricular of Magnone’s Italian Kitchener successful The Blue Mountains connected Sept. 15, a man successful a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops is seen screaming threats astatine a unit personnel aft he near nan edifice without paying nan bill.

The unit personnel successful nan video, whose sanction is Robbie Martin, told Global News that while he is simply a waiter astatine nan restaurant, it was not his array that was progressive successful nan dine-and-dash.

“I’m a gangly guy, and I tin look intimidating and possibly threatening,” he explained, noting that he is simply a large softie astatine heart. “And nan waitress that was serving them is for illustration a very small, petite girl. And truthful was nan supervisor that asked maine to travel extracurricular pinch her.”

Martin said he was fixed a small accusation astir nan business earlier he went extracurricular and approached nan mates who had been portion of a larger group.

“I conscionable tried to enactment calm and attraction connected nan business and not escalate it, though I don’t person immoderate de-escalation training aliases thing for illustration that,” he offered. “And past it very quickly turned convulsive erstwhile he turned astir and he started threatening me.”

The mates who had allegedly fled without paying nan measure were portion of a larger group which had tally up nan tab. Martin said they told him they felt disrespected.

“I was hoping it would conscionable beryllium a speech and possibly being capable to fig retired why they were doing this and why they felt disrespected,” he said, but that was erstwhile things sewage ugly.

“He was saying a batch of beautiful convulsive and fierce things to me, specifically astir wanting to sound maine retired and hit maine up, telling maine that I don’t cognize what he’s tin of.”

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After nan mates walked away, Martin said he and his colleague, who was down nan camera, followed them pinch nan hopes of getting a licence sheet number. He said nan mates vanished down an alley and they did not travel further.

Martin said they returned to nan edifice and nan authorities were called. He says nan constabulary told him that location was small dream of identifying nan fishy and that was erstwhile personification passed on nan video to McWhorter.

“It only took for illustration a time and he was identified. He called nan edifice and settled his bill, paid his measure and offered to apologize to me,” Martin said.

“I didn’t perceive immoderate apology aliases thing from him but he was identified and past nan constabulary sewage his accusation and he’s been charged.”

The edifice told Global News that nan $371 bill, including tip, was paid successful full, nan time aft nan video appeared connected societal media.

Police opportunity a 38-year-old man from Brampton is facing charges of battle and uttering threats to origin bodily harm.

They besides credited nan video pinch helping them way down nan fishy successful nan case.

Global News has confirmed nan place of nan accused arsenic Chad Alvia. He chose not to connection remark erstwhile contacted.