Holyoke, Massachusetts
Everyone gets mad at machines and inanimate objects once in a while. At my job, for example, it takes all the patience I can muster some weeks just to restrain myself from
beating the crap out of our copy machine.
But on Sunday, October 6 of 2013, 26-year-old
Brenda Diaz decided that she was no longer going to take any crap from the slushie machine (known as a
Flavorshot and valued at approximate $2,000) inside of her local Shell gas station.
Around 6:30 AM that morning, Brenda charged into the store and began randomly hitting the walls in an effort to establish dominance and intimidate any store employees or fellow food processing devices that may try to intervene. Brenda then turned her attention to the slushie machine, which she
began hitting before eventually
knocking it violently to the floor.
It was kind of like this scene from Office Space, but with
only one person (and most likely a large amount of PCP).
Having successfully vanquished her opponent, Brenda then ran across the street to a Holiday Inn parking and
removed her clothes. A state trooper who was headed over to the Shell station to investigate the disturbance observed the naked slushie machine conqueror and decided that something had to be done. He also called for back up before proceeding, which ended up being a very smart decision.
While waiting for the other officers could arrive, Brenda at least had the decency to put her clothes. But once they got there and attempted to use pepper spray and a stun gun on her,
she refused to yield. The police were eventually able to physically subdue the suspect despite the fact that
she continued to claw, scream, and kick while being being arrested.
Brenda Diaz was
charged with destruction of property, three counts of assault and battery on a police officer, and good old fashion disorderly conduct. Brenda was also hit with two counts of child endangerment since her
8 and 11-year-old children were waiting in the car while she went on her rampage.
I'm guessing they didn't get slushies (or any form of good parenting) that day.
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