A Chinese restaurant in Queens was vandalized Saturday afternoon by a normal consumer who experienced been kicked out of the institution before in the working day for not sporting pants, the proprietor reported.
The disgruntled man returned to 4 Decisions & A Soup on Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing with a hammer at 4:40 p.m., smashing doorways, windows and the glass surrounding the food items bar, according to the operator and security footage.
‘”He went to our retail outlet numerous instances by now now. I presently asked my employee. My personnel [said he had] been there right before devoid of any trousers,” Jenny Xie, 48, instructed The Write-up in a telephone interview.
“Just disgusting. So we informed him to go out.”
“He experienced no underwear,” the restaurateur extra.
It wasn’t the initial the suspect experienced brought about a commotion at the eatery, the owner reported.
“He pees in entrance of retailer. A single working day, he experienced no [clothes] on.”
The suspect was caught on digicam wearing a pink T-shirt, swinging his hammer with reckless abandon, leaving prevalent destruction and piles of shattered glass in his wake.


The man visits occasionally visits the eatery multiple occasions a day, speaking to himself about his family in Chinese, the operator claimed.
“Everybody is aware of that he has a psychological problem, so most of the time we … provide him suitable away,” Xie reported. “We do not hold out way too very long to get him his food items.”
The unknown suspect was swiftly arrested and fees versus him ended up pending, the NYPD reported.


In spite of his harmful rampage, Xie mentioned she suspected the gentleman was off his meds and hoped he acquired psychiatric aid.
“We believe if he normally takes his medication he is incredibly usual. He comes in and claims ‘hello’ to us,” she stated.
“We never want him to go to jail if he has psychological complications due to the fact from time to time [mental patients] could not regulate themselves.”



The disturbing incident came a day following a guy was arrested for murdering a Queens Chinese food stuff deliveryman in excess of an argument about duck sauce, and amid a steep uptick in hate crimes from folks of Asian descent in the US.
Xie said she has apprehensive about the basic safety of her all-woman team all through the pandemic and even started closing 4 Options & A Soup previously, as a lot more and a lot more homeless and unstable people today congregated on Roosevelt Avenue in new a long time.
“Our restaurant is opened 18 several years. We have by no means experienced this variety of problem. I’m so surprised he is Chinese and he is [an] aged male,” she stated of the suspect, estimating that he is older than 50.