Crime & Safety
Post-Dinner Rampage At Nashville Mall Caught On Video
A 30-year-old man finished his dinner at the Macaroni Grill at Opry Mills and as a digestif, went on a guitar-bashing rampage.
NASHVILLE, TN -- A 30-year-old Nashville man went on a bizarre tirade Friday after having dinner with his mother at the Opry Mills Macaroni Grill.
According to an affidavit, Garrod Hathaway finished his meal, walked out of the restaurant, grabbed a metal stanchion, busted the window of the restaurant, destroyed a nearby sign and then climbed on a stage set up for holiday musical performances.
In the manner of The Who's Pete Townshend and former WWE Intercontinental champion The Honky Tonk Man , he lifted a guitar over his head and executed a tribute to Nashville wrestling legend Jeff Jarrett's "El Kabong," bashing the guitar on the stage. According to a police report, he also destroyed a speaker.
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The entire incident was, as one might expect in 2017, captured on video by a mall patron.
Hathaway is charged with four counts of vandalism. He was arrested without incident and there's no indication as to what led to the rampage.
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