Link: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/tim-hortons-employee-wont-face-criminal-charges-in-death-of-customer/

Tl;dr: 75-yo old woman attacks the employees over a sandwich, rips hair from one of them, put that hair in her purse, calls the police and dies.

At that point, two other employees intervened, and as they were pulled apart, a “chunk of hair” was pulled from the shift lead’s head, “leaving a raw area.”

Once separated, the employees got behind the counter and Grayson sat down, taking a phone call. She was seen picking up the shift lead’s hair and putting it in her bag, police said.

Holy shit. That's just wild.

'There is no audio, but the employees told investigators Grayson slammed her food on the counter and made an expletive-laced demand for a refund, accusing staff of making her sandwich “wrong on purpose,” according to the report released last week.'

Well, I have no idea how Anita Grayson lived, but i know how that bitch died. Who treats staff like this? Over a fucking sandwich?

Clearly unhinged, world is a slightly better place now.

and I thought I'd die knowing the craziest story from Tim Horton's featured a group fight and a baby raccoon wielded as a weapon… but no

Jebus. I was gonna make some snark about boomers, but her actions do it all for me. On the upshot, she'll never treat staff like that again!

Is Timmy's the Waffle House of the North?

You may be thinking of McDonald's.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.6720665

Technically that was in a McDs but point taken lol

“99 Rideau raccoon fight” should help narrow the search 😉 but it wasn’t “wielded as a weapon” so much as produced at the scene of a fight

She was seen picking up the shift lead’s hair and putting it in her bag, police said.

Was she a witch or something?

Timmy's is also in Waffle House territory.

Didn't the elderly woman have a history of violence\belligerence against family and the public? Or do I have my stories crossed up?

Was she always like this, and getting that pissed stressed her heart, or was she irrational from some health problem that then finished her off? I had a relative with heart problems who had a widowmaker while out in a field getting mad at a stuck tractor. He had been told "you gotta stop taking that tractor out there. it always gets stuck and then you get really mad and you're going to have a heart attack." At least it happened fast, I guess.

So, did she die like she lived (angry, violent), like he did, or is it sadder?

What TF were they considering charging the employee with? Toxic hair?

She could have been sick. She WAS 75.

She arrived in the throes of death and went out swinging

Hiding evidence

"a Tim Horton's in Indiana"

I would bet money on it. A lot of traumatic brain injuries or degeneration can just look like someone being an unhinged jerk.

North enough.

Boomers. That's who. It's their world...we just live in it.

She arrived in the throes of death and went out swinging

I'M GONNA TAKE SOMEONE WITH ME!

99 Rideau raccoon fight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rideau_Street_McDonald's

This article is fucking gold.

For nearly all of its history, the restaurant was open 24 hours a day, and it attracted customers who came from bars and night clubs in the area. The restaurant's floor was often dirty, and people formed crowds rather than lines at the registers.

Customers witnessed drug use and sexual acts in a long, narrow hallway to the bathrooms dubbed "The Hallway to Hell" and isolated from the rest of the restaurant.

criminals used it as an easy escape from police

The restaurant was a site of frequent stabbings, drug use, liquor licence violations, violent attacks, sexual assaults, and many other criminal acts

"The video begins in the middle of the chaos, with young men punching, kicking, choking, and knocking or dragging each other to the ground as onlookers shout and jeer". Shortly after the start of the fight, a man appears on screen and can be seen pulling out a baby raccoon from his sweater. The man waves the raccoon around casually as a cigarette droops from his mouth.

Other viral videos of unusual altercations were filmed at the restaurant, such as customers beating each other with "Wet Floor" signs

"In fact, even as I draft this letter, another individual is recovering from a stabbing that occurred at that address yesterday.

In 2024, a Cantonese restaurant named 99 VIP Seafood signed a lease and became the location's next tenant.[14] It opened in September 2025 and closed in March 2026.[15][16] McDonald's Canada is open to reopening in downtown Ottawa, the CEO said in November 2024

In November 2025, it was announced that a new McDonald's location was set to open at 377 Dalhousie Street, at the intersection of Dalhousie and Rideau Street. The location officially opened in December of the same year,[18] notably with the owners of the franchise commemorating the occasion by making a donation to "a local raccoon rescue"

yes I as telling my wife about this post and she reminded me it was a McDonalds … d"uh!

yes, my memory is no longer in mint condition

in my mind he was holding it like Steve Carrel holds the granade in the Anchorman fight scene hahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hQwUa10kZU

she drank too much coffee.

Lead poisoning

Not for much longer.

That really sounds to me like there was some underlying health issue and the customer lost absolute control of herself as she succumbed to it.

Well she took someone's hair with her

She died doing what she loved

Nah, she was just collecting her post battle loot.

Yeah, we don't like them up here

She was sick, hypertension and heart disease.

Entitled boomers

Yep, that’s exactly the conclusion prosecutors reached if you read all the way to the bottom.

They need gun to protect themselves from today's modern Super Karens.

What kind of Waffle House hijinks is this?

"I don't see how it'll help, but sure, we can weigh it for funsies."
- Anubis

GLORY TO HER HOUSSSSSSE!

I have a skateboard from a local skate company that did a draw up of the Mcdonalds Racoon. It's a staple in Ottawa.

especially a Tim Hortons sandwich. They could make the sandwich completely "right" and perfect and I'd still be upset because I decided eating something, anything, from Tims was a good idea.

There's also the Wendy's(?) projectile alligator incident.

She knew a shop keeper that would buy anything from her.

Karening to the max