Subway gives customers a chance to build sandwiches their way.
That wasn’t enough for one irate customer.
And a Florida man was arrested after this scary Subway order meltdown but it is his last name everyone is talking about.
Edward Cocaine was arrested after threatening Subway employees
Subway became popular because the chain would allow customers to watch employees build their submarine sandwiches to their specifications.
A Florida man went berserk because he was unhappy with the employees at a location of the sandwich chain.
45-year-old Edward Cocaine and a friend went into the Subway location in Merritt Island, Florida.
Cocaine thought he was receiving bad customer service from the employees.
His friend urged him to let it go and leave the store.
In the end, he should have listened to his friend.
The Florida man jumped behind the counter into the area where employees make the sandwiches.
He reportedly shoved one employee out of the way and threatened the other with a knife.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey wrote about the arrest on social media.
“Clearly this guy, Edward Cocaine, (and yes that’s his real name) doesn’t know that in Brevard County, if you Mess Around you’re gonna Find Out…the hard way!!” Ivey wrote.
Cocaine’s friend held him back from attacking the terrified Subway employee.
“Yes folks, you read that correctly, he pulled out a knife and gestured as if he was going to injure them all because he didn’t like the way they spoke to him and his friend!!,” Ivey stated.
Cocaine and his friend left the Subway, but everything the unfortunately named Florida man did was captured on the restaurant’s security camera.
Neither of the Subway employees was hurt in the incident.
Edward Cocaine admits his name has caused him problems
Brevard County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Cocaine on charges of aggravated assault and burglary with assault and battery.
He told the deputies that he might have “crossed the line” by pulling a knife on a Subway employee.
“According to Cocaine, that was him in the surveillance video and while his memory of the incident appeared to be a bit off from what Agents reviewed, he did acknowledge that pulling out a knife crossed the line of what is appropriate behavior!! I’d say that completely crossed the line and did dumb stuff that put others lives at risk!!,” Ivey exclaimed.
The Subway caper earned Cocaine a trip to “Ivey’s Iron Bar Lodge,” also known as the Brevard County Jail.
“In New York, you get arrested for defending people on the subway…but in Brevard County, you get locked up behind bars for attacking people in a Subway!!” Ivey joked.
This isn’t Cocaine’s first run-in with the law.
He was arrested for possession of Xanax without a prescription.
The judge noted his unusual last name.
“How many times have the police told you to step out of the car in your life?” the judge asked.
“Just about every time I get pulled over,” Cocaine replied.
Edward Cocaine now gets to enjoy his meals prepared by the inmates of the Brevard County Jail.
