Wednesday morning, a Home Depot parking lot in Tampa was the site of a physical fight involving four grown men hurling open cans of paint at each other.
A video of the incident was captured by bystanders, and has since gone viral. In the clip, a large man is seen slinging a can of white paint, while another fights off the other men with a shovel.
Speaking to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, a spokesperson with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the video and said officers responded to the Town and Country Home Depot, located at 6730 Memorial Hwy, on Wednesday, May 20, a little before 9 a.m.
The men told officers that they were in fact co-workers, and they declined to press charges, says the spokesperson.
As of now, it’s unknown exactly what started the paint fight.
This story originally appeared in our sister paper Creative Loafing Tampa Bay.
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