He wanted a knuckle sandwich.
An irate Subway customer went ballistic on a group of workers when they refused to put extra meat on his sandwich, forcing the store’s manager out of work over her potentially permanent injuries.
General Manager Monique Larios was called into work after her employees argued with a customer over the amount of ham on his sandwich at the Madera, Calif. shop on May 1.
The customer, identified as George Sandoval, claimed he had paid for double the meat than what was already put on the sub, according to KFSN.
Sandoval demanded the workers put 12 extra slices of ham on the sandwich instead of the 6 extra he had paid for the store counter-argued claiming they had proof of his exact order.
The customer then walked around the counter and unleashed a barrage of punches on Larios.
“I did not expect it. He came around the corner and I said, ‘What are you going to do, hit me over ham?’ And he hit me,” Larios told the outlet. “He punched me and all I could remember is just black.”
With the thug towering over the worker, Larios said she didn’t stand a chance.
“I’m 4-foot-11 and this guy was 6-foot-5 and almost 400 pounds,” she said.
As Sandoval launched his attack, a quick-thinking customer rushed to the worker’s aid and ripped the brute away from the woman.
The good Samaritan jumped on Sandoval’s back and struck him in the face at least three times, allowing the workers to run to safety behind the counter.
Sandoval was arrested later in the day and charged with battery.
The Madera Police Department blasted Sandoval’s behavior towards the workers.
“Never. They went behind the counter, I believe, and punched the female manager,” said Madera Police Sgt. Brent Cedarquist.
Larios claimed her injuries have forced her to remain away from work for more than a week since the attack, which has put stress on her family’s finances.
“I have missed worked for over a week, I am a single mom and depend on every paycheck to keep me afloat,” she wrote on a GoFundMe. “Due to my eye being swollen shut and not being able to drive I have not been able to work, I hate to ask for help but I have no other choice I am falling behind on my bills.
“I’m scared. I still can’t feel half of my face,” Larios told the outlet. “There could be some kind of permanent damage. I’ve never been so numb to where my face feels like it’s a mask.”
Larios, who plans to press charges against her attacker, ripped into him for letting the situation turn violent instead of talking it out civilly.
“I did not deserve this at all. I was just doing my job,” she told the outlet. “There was nothing wrong, the sandwich was made to our Subway standards. I don’t know why he didn’t even give me a chance to try to figure out what he wanted.”
“Things did not have to happen the way they did over meat and unfortunately I am suffering the consequences while my aggressor is free with no worries working and living life like nothing happened.”
