Absolute Chaos At A California Popeye’s Drive-Thru When 2 American Families Do Battle

By Edward Era Barbacena

A California woman captured a wild brawl between two couples at a Popeyes drive-thru that escalated after one of the men allegedly honked at the other.

Gigi M Drummond was waiting in the drive-thru of the Popeyes on Temecula Parkway in Temecula on Saturday when she witnessed the shocking fight.

‘Decided to get Popeye’s chicken sandwich for my son – we got front row seats to ‘Saturday Nihght Fights,” she said in the Facebook caption for the videos that have since been deleted.

Drummond posted three videos of the altercation. According to the footage, the fight kicked off when the couple in the black car honked their car horn at the couple in the white car.

The man in the white vehicle – a white man wearing a brown shirt – immediately screams at the couple and Popeyes staff about how he has been waiting for his food for over an hour.

In the first clip, the man in the brown shirt can be heard screaming at the couple and telling them to get back in their car.

He repeatedly calls them ‘n***a’ to which Drummond retorts: ‘But he's  not even black!’

While the man screams, a woman from his vehicle can be seen filming the altercation on her phone.

‘Can I get my sandwich,’ Drummond can be heard asking while recording the video.

The man from the white car continues shouting obscenities at the couple while trying to get his food from restaurant staff.

‘They are f*****g p***y don’t ever honk at me n***a,’ the man shouts. ‘Don’t ever honk at me you p***y b***h.’

‘Eat your f*****g food!’

Turning to the staff, the man continues shouting about how he wants his food. Meanwhile, the couple from the black car can be heard arguing with each other, prompting their assailant to come and shout some more.

But the man turns on the woman from the black car, telling her that she treats her husband like ‘s**t.’

‘You’re a piece of s**t,’ he screams. ‘You’re an ugly b***h!’

At this point, the woman’s man finally steps in and scold the man for screaming at her.

The next clip shows the escalation of the fight, with the woman who was screamed at telling her man that she ‘can’t afford to go to jail.’

She repeats the sentiment when all of a sudden, the man from the white vehicle pushes her in the back.

Drummond is in disbelief, exclaiming her shock that the woman’s partner has not stepped in to ‘defend’ her.

The bystander calls the man in the brown shirt a ‘psycho,’ adding that she can’t believe he called the white couple ‘the little n and two gs.’

At this moment, the woman from the black car tells her partner to back off or he will be going ‘back to jail.’

But their assailant threatens to ‘snap’ the woman’s neck before violently pushing her back.

Staff try to refrain the man, practically hanging out of the window to hold him back.

The woman from the black car declares that she is going to kill the man, taking off her slipper and slapping the man from the white car with it.

The two start fighting before the woman from the other car comes and restrains the man.

She turns to the woman with the slipper and tells her to go so that they can leave.

And as the staff continue trying to break up the fight through the drive-thru window, the man from the white car turns to her and shouts: ‘B***h, I’m getting in the car!’

Part three of the fight shows the woman from the black car hitting the other couple’s car, prompting them both to get out and charge at her.

Soon the woman’s partner also jumps into the fray and all four go falling to the ground. Punches are thrown and screams can be heard as bystanders rush to break up the fight.

Law enforcement officers then arrive on the scene and pull the couples apart.

‘Ohh they got the big boy,’ Drummond exclaims as one of the officers, later adding that Popeyes staff better give them ‘some free chicken sandwiches.’

One of the women is restrained as the officers deescalate the situation.

The fight comes to a close with Drummond singing the iconic ‘Bad Boys’ song by the Inner Circle.

According to Drummond, no one was arrested at the scene.

The altercation is the latest in a series of disturbing incidents, including a fatal stabbing, to have occurred at Popeyes restaurants amid the return of its popular chicken sandwich, which has sparked chaos nationwide.

On November 4, a Popeyes customer was stabbed to death during an argument in a line for the restocked chicken sandwich at a branch of the fast food chain in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

Prince George’s County authorities on Tuesday identified Ricoh McClain, 30, as the man who fatally stabbed 28-year-old Kevin Tyrell Davis following the dispute.

A representative for Popeyes said: ‘What happened in Maryland last night is a tragedy and we are saddened to hear about this senseless act of violence.’

‘Our thoughts are with the victim’s family and friends. We, along with the franchisee, are fully cooperating with local authorities and actively working to gather more information,’ the chain added.

Popeyes resumed selling its chicken sandwich on November 3. It was first released in August, and the chain credited popular demand to its supply selling out that month.

The $3.99 sandwich, which comes in classic and spicy, debuted for the first time in August and was met with a frantic craze that led to long lines and fist fights at several restaurants. The sandwich sold out in a matter of just two weeks.