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- An unidentified woman repeatedly smashed about 500 liquor bottles on the floor at a supermarket in England on Wednesday, according to the New York Post.
- Footage of the incident shows a blanket of shattered glass bottles on the aisle floor.
- The woman was sent to the hospital to treat wounds on her hands and was eventually taken into custody by local police, according to the Daily Mail.
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A woman was taken into police custody after destroying liquor bottles at a supermarket in Britain on Wednesday and the entire incident was caught on video.
The incident took place at a supermarket located in Stevenage, England, the New York Post reported. The unidentified woman is accused of shattering 500 alcoholic bottles at the establishment.
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A video clip of the incident shows a woman smashing the bottles without interruption and an aisle floor almost completely covered in broken bottles. According to the NY Post, the woman caused over $100,000 in damages.
“She didn’t say a word the whole time and had a very vacant look in her face,” an eyewitness told The Sun.
Daily Mail reported that police responded to the scene after receiving a call on Wednesday. The woman was detained after being transported to a hospital to treat wounds on her hands, according to the report.
A similar incident occurred at another supermarket in Surrey, England in September. A woman smashed wine bottles on the floor after refusing to comply with the store's COVID-19 one-way system protocol.