Warning – the video below contains scenes of an extreme snowflake.

Mask meltdowns are all too common over in the US, which is what happens you politicise the simple act of wearing a mask in order to reduce the chance of spreading COVID-19 to somebody else.

South Africans aren’t immune to meltdowns either, and just last week we watched as Fish Hoek anti-masker Craig Peiser threw a tantrum at his court appearance.

Peiser has now been referred to Valkenberg Hospital for assessment and observation, with his court date pushed back from February 10 to February 17 (tomorrow).

Let’s focus on what occurred at an Anytime Fitness outlet in Chicago last week, with 30-year-old Anthony Myers arrested following his altercation with trainer Adrian Aguilar.

Over to Newsweek:

In the video, Myers—who is seen with a mask around his chin—says he was wearing his mask properly while working out…

“It’s a joke. You’re ruining my f****** country,” he later adds, pointing at Aguilar and other people in the vicinity.

After Aguilar says he is Mexican, Myers responds: “It’s not a racist thing, it’s a liberal thing.”

Later in the video, Myers claims to be a lawyer and threatens to sue.

“What I am is a lawyer and I’m going to sue the f*** out of you,” he says. “So I hope at the end of the day when I file this report and when I sue you guys that this is all worth it.”

So he went with the classic ‘I’m a lawyer’ line, hey?

Nobody has yet been able to verify his claims, and Myers’ name does not pop up in the Illinois State Bar Association’s “Lawyer Finder.”

Here’s the footage:

I’d like to speak to the manager about the choice of music, but other than that, wholly on the side of Aguilar, who is simply doing his job.

But wait, it gets better:

Aguilar said he called the gym’s owner and had him speak to Myers directly. “He hung up on him and still refused to leave,” Aguilar wrote…

“I also continuously told him, ‘I’m not going to touch you or do anything to you.’ Despite all of that, he closed the distance and got physical. At some point, he called the cops himself and told them that I was a threat and a danger and that he didn’t feel safe in my presence…,” he wrote.

Myers told police that Aguilar had threatened him, but the cops took one look at the video footage, as well as the gym’s security cameras, and brushed aside Myers’ complaints.

The anti-masker was then arrested, and has been charged with two misdemeanours – battery and criminal trespassing.

I’ll assume that Myers will draw on his considerable legal prowess to defend himself. Failing that, you can be almost certain that his father will bankroll an actual lawyer to help him get off the hook.

[sources:newsweek&