A California woman apparently had enough of a man’s finger-snapping performance outside a Trader Joe’s and decided to call the police. The man was filming her while repeatedly shushing her and snapping his fingers, almost as if he had made it his personal mission to get under her skin. And judging by her reaction, he was doing a pretty good job.
The video begins with someone filming the woman in a parking lot. The moment she notices him, he starts snapping his fingers and shushing her. She responds with an “Excuse me,” only to get another shush. She then tells him, “You definitely don’t do that thing to me.”
But the man is clearly not ready to retire his little routine. He keeps snapping and shushing, prompting her to say, “No, you’re not gonna do that. You’re not gonna film me. That’s totally inappropriate.” She repeats that he cannot behave that way toward her, but he continues as though the conversation is happening on mute.
Another man soon approaches and asks, “What are you doing?” The woman tells him the behavior is “totally inappropriate” and announces that she is calling the police. The other man also tells the person filming, “You’re not allowed to take pictures.” The woman then reaches into her bag, pulls out her phone, and calls the authorities.
During the call, she describes the man as a “press camera guy” and tells the dispatcher that he is filming people outside the Trader Joe’s near Balboa and the San Fernando Mission. She says he is being disrespectful and adds, “He is disrupting our rights as humans.”
Meanwhile, the other man keeps asking the filmer whether he speaks English, apparently wondering if the message is getting through. The man eventually gets into his car and leaves, while the woman walks away with the police still on the phone.
The video then cuts to the officers arriving. Apparently, the man hasn’t run out of finger-snapping energy, because he appears to repeat the same routine in front of them. The officers eventually leave without any visible enforcement action. The clip does not show whether they spoke with the woman or filed a formal report.
Internet Reacts to California Man Shushing Woman and Snapping His Fingers at Her
The footage was shared on Reddit by the r/ImTheMainCharacter community, where viewers were divided. One commenter wrote, “I don’t see the fun in rage baiting like, are they proud of themselves or something?”
Another offered a different take: “I think its hilarious. In this life you can choose to let things bother/stress you out or you can choose to ignore it. He’s really exposing the character of people but in a *expletive* type of way.” A third commenter wrote, “This is hilarious. The dude is clearly being an *expletive*, but the losers who choose to engage with his nonsense are even worse.”
Someone else questioned why the woman did not simply leave, writing, “I don’t understand why people just don’t get in their car and leave lol.” However, another viewer pushed back against that argument: “How is the average person supposed to automatically know what his motives are and what to do to get him to stop? Not everyone is chronically online enough to know about these *expletive* stains.”
One more commenter admitted finding the interaction amusing despite disliking the man’s conduct: “This guy is an annoying piece of *expletive*, but I can’t help but find it funny the peoples whose egos are so big they cant help but take the bait from idiots like this.”
The video does not show whether police took a report or followed up with either person after arriving at the parking lot.
