UPDATE: The threatening man in the video has been identified as Daniel Maples from Fort Myers. Maples was a Senior Insurance Agent with Ted Todd Insurance, but his profile page and LinkIn page have been removed.
Florida Man, this one wearing a red t-shirt saying “Running the World Since 1776”, screamed and rushed an elderly woman who had asked him to put his mask on and a man who had stepped forward to defend her.
Florida man at Fort Myers Costco in "Running the World Since 1776" shirt flips out on elderly woman who asked him to wear a mask and man who defended her #BecauseFlorida (via @profjaffar) pic.twitter.com/PDOvi33qHK
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) July 7, 2020
The man, who repeatedly stepped toward the two with his fists clenched, yelled “Get away from me!” and “I feel threatened!” as the other man videotaped him, according to an account in the UK Daily Mail.
With what appears to be a mask on the back of his head, the man repeated neared the two others yelling “Back the fuck up and put your fucking phone down,” as the poor woman he was with tried to calm him, calling out “Dan…. Dan….”
It is unclear if the man was unaware of how to properly wear the mask, or if he was simply trying to flaunt the rules of wearing a mask in the store by claiming, “Look! I’ve got a mask on!” while wearing it backwards.
One of the people involved in the incident noted that Costco escorted the man from the store and had a store employee wait with the two victims of the man’s rage, escorting them to their vehicles after they were sure the man had left the vicinity.