The customer became “agitated and verbally abusive” toward employees at a Waffle House in Laurinburg, North Carolina, on Friday night, according to a police statement posted on Facebook.

After the customer was given his food, he started walking toward his car, before turning around and firing two shots, police said.

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    You have to be a special kind of asshole to shoot at someone who just made you waffles.

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      I’d guess at least some chance of drugs being involved.

      I was just in a restaurant where some presumably meth head got a sandwich. Kept talking to the air, doing circuits around the place, couldn’t sit still for a minute, was getting himself agitated talking to the air.

      I remember watching Donut Operator – an ex-cop who used to be on a SWAT team and who does commentary on a bunch of YouTube videos. He’s said a number of times that the people that he least liked having to deal with when working as an officer were the meth addicts. Really unpredictable, could wind up becoming violent after acting normal a moment earlier.

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      Ever been to a waffle house after midnight? It’s a special energy

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    Imagine ruining what little peice of shit life you had over a dude taking too long to make fucking waffles.

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      Lol. My first instinct was to downvote you, but I have to admit this was funny and plays on the long held belief that a waffle house at night is in a different dimension.

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      "It’s the employees fault they’re dead, they shouldn’t have dared work at Waffle House’

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    Waffle House unfortunately always lives up to its bad reputation.

    Crazy shit is almost always going down in a bad way in a Waffle House.

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    This is why the death penalty should continue to exist. This fuckstick killed someone over a fucking waffle. There’s over 8 billion people on this planet now we’ll survive just fine without this piece of shit.

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      The primary argument against the death penalty are the sheer number of people who were executed in spite of later being found innocent.

      Just because it doesn’t apply in this particular case doesn’t mean anything needs to change.

      The legal system does not have 100% accuracy.