A deranged Michigan woman was caught on camera allegedly hurling a large cup of piping hot coffee at a McDonald’s worker following a fiery outburst this week, according to police and disturbing footage.
The unhinged customer, reportedly identified by police as Casharra Brown, was seen furiously confronting the manager of the fast food chain’s Saginaw location Tuesday morning, apparently raging that she’d waited more than an hour for her online order and demanding a refund, the nearly 2-minute clip showed.
Brown could be heard screaming at the calm worker, repeatedly calling her a “liar” as she spiraled out of control, according to video shared by the Buena Vista Police Department.
“You’ve got your coffee,” the manager responded.
“That’s all that you were charged for. Your refund will take up to 48 hours.”
As the worker turned to walk away, the crazed customer tore off the lid of the large cup, leaned over the service counter and threw the scalding coffee onto the worker’s back, the shocking footage shows.
“F–k you, b—h,” Brown yelled during the insidious act.
“Catch that hot-a– coffee!”
The unidentified manager let out a blood-curdling scream as Brown stormed out of the McDonald’s.
The worker suffered minor injuries, police told Fox News.
A warrant has since been issued for Brown’s arrest after authorities posted the alarming video on social media earlier this week and received about 100 tips identifying the irate patron, MLive reported.
“I must have gotten about 100 tips,” Buena Vista detective Russ Pahssen told the outlet, noting that cops know exactly where the 48-year-old woman lives but have been unable to locate her.
“Within about two minutes, we had her identified.”
Pahssen added that police have since asked prosecutors to charge Brown with felonious assault.
The manager’s injuries were thankfully nowhere near as severe as the third-degree burns suffered by 79-year-old Stella Liebeck in 1994, when a scalding cup of McDonald’s coffee spilled on her inner thighs and genitals and sparked her infamous lawsuit, according to the American Museum of Tort Law.
A jury awarded Liebeck $160,000 in compensatory damages and initially ordered McDonald’s to pay her $2.7 million in punitive damages. But the trial judge ultimately reduced that to $480,000.
Although McDonald’s coffee cups carried warning labels, her attorney argued the chain should have specified the liquid’s extreme temperature — between 180 and 190 degrees.
