#Bodega customer slashes goods after being asked to wear a mask: video

An enraged customer went on a rampage slashing goods in a Bronx bodega after being asked to wear a mask, the owner said Sunday.

Lizbeth Supermarket owner Wascar Sotos said the woman caused more than $7,000 worth of damages after refusing to comply with mask rules at the store on Watson Ave. near Croes Ave.

“I thought it was simple, I ask everyone coming into my bodega to wear a mask,” Soto said in a statement.

“Some argue, some curse, some want to fight, some simply slam the door and leave but this person was different. She pulled out a butcher knife and stabbed soda cans, plastic soft drinks, sacks of rice — you name it she stabbed it.”

Surveillance video showed the woman going through one of the aisles puncturing drink containers with the knife.

“It went on for some time before a dozen cops arrived,” Soto said.

When the cops responded, they watched the woman destroy more products in the store before arresting her, according to the United Bodegas of America (UBA).

“More than a dozen cops responded but they fear using force, they fear any kind of confrontation,” UBA spokesman Fernando Mateo said.

“In this case, they stood by watching this person destroying the bodega. It is sad to see cops afraid of doing their job.”

UBA President Radames Rodriguez President called the customer’s meltdown “terrifying” and said enforcing mask rules is putting bodega workers’ lives in danger.

“We cannot control the anger people are feeling. We are afraid to lose our life over this mask enforcement thing,” Rodriguez said.