A brawl has erupted at a supermarket in Australia as three women began fighting over toilet paper amid coronavirus-inspired panic-buying.
The incident occurred at a Woolworths in Chullora, NSW, where police were called onto the scene after three women got into a fight because two of them were unwilling to share one packet of toilet paper with the third one.
In the footage, the women were seen pulling hair and smacking each other before the staff intervened in an attempt to alert the authorities and separate the trio.
“I just want one packet,” one of the women said while the two women who had their shopping cart filled with toilet paper responded by saying: “No, not one packet.”
After the police intervened, the women were sent off home whereas no charges were laid against them.
“We just ask that people don’t panic like this when they go out shopping. There is no need for it. It isn’t the Thunderdome, it isn’t Mad Max, we don’t need to do that,” police inspector Andrew New said following the brawl.
“There is no need for people to go out and panic buy at supermarkets, paracetamol and canned food or toilet paper.”
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The incident followed days after the police have rushed to a Sydney Woolworths after shoppers started a fight over toilet paper amid panic-buying caused by coronavirus outbreak.
According to the reports, the incident occurred around 1:30 pm whereas the customers were fighting over toilet paper.
After several police officers arrived at the scene, the woman had difficulties explaining her actions to the authorities according to what the staff told Daily Mail Australia.
“There was a fight over toilet paper – you could hear a commotion coming from down the end aisle. There was a knife pulled and the people started running around,” one of the witnesses said.
“It was all over in a few moments, security were here and the police came and talked to a woman.”
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