Eli Coleman was just trying to help his girlfriend carry groceries to her apartment when an out-of-control Karen in a caftan exploded on him in a spectacular exchange.
A viral video posted to TikTok on Aug. 25 showed the woman’s erratic behavior, which included angrily pacing the hallway shoeless while clutching a scared-looking Yorkshire terrier mix.
After ordering Coleman to “Go! Go!” she pointed to an exit door and screamed: “Take the stairs, motherf*cker, you’re too slow…Don’t make me put you out.”
Coleman warned her to step back, saying, “You touch me…”
“Don’t you make fun of me,” she responded, “I didn’t touch nobody.”
She did, however, slam the hallway door and bellowed “Get out” so forcefully that one commenter likened her to Batman losing his temper.
“She turned into Batman for a second: ‘GET OUT 👹,” wrote a TikTok user.
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Coleman told her he was leaving, but instead of calming down, she turned up the drama and screamed, “Murder me! Murder me!” during a tense standoff in the stairwell.
In a later comment, he told worried viewers he called the police to report her. Even more people worried about the small dog she held throughout the ordeal. Hundreds of people wrote “poor dog!”
“That dog is like ‘please help me,’” wrote one commenter. Another cried, “Go back for the dog!” Referring to the pup’s calm demeanor, a third viewer joked that it was “blinking for help.”
Coleman said his girlfriend, the resident of the complex, was downstairs at the time and didn’t witness the incident, but now she’s well aware of this neighbor’s antics. Between the footage from the building’s security cameras and his own phone, the internet is now aware too.
Amid the jokes about how they’d have handled the woman, one commenter argued that unless she posed a real threat, the situation was best left to police: “Let the authorities deal with the situation. … Credit to the young man for his emotional control, because not everyone would have that.”
