As seen in the video below, Nick McCune, also known as “Manic” in various indie wrestling promotions, showed off his abilities at a Denny’s restaurant when he helped police detain a drunk man wielding a knife.<\/p>\n
At a local Denny’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, McCune was seen holding down a suspect until backup officers arrived on the scene to make the assisted arrest. Fox News was on the scene and spoke to McCune after the incident took place.<\/p>\n
“I was overly hungry. I wanted to get my food,” McCune told Fox News. “[A wrestling fan] was upset, so I sat down with her to try and figure out what’s going on. She said there was a guy back there that was calling her all kinds of names and threatening her, so she was texting everybody asking them to get there because she didn’t wanna leave. She asked the manager, he asked the guy to stop but she still didn’t feel comfortable.”
\nIt was later reported by WTAJ that the man being detained was 31-year-old Richard Hart. McCune arrived at Denny’s after finishing up with a wrestling event that just took place and it was then that he was approached by fans about a man harassing them. Police were then contacted when Hart brought up the fact that Hart had a knife.
\n“So I sat next to the guy and I had every intention on trying to make him go and say he’s sorry to her until I saw he had a giant knife on his side,” McCune explained. “So I sat there for a couple seconds and then the manager came back over because the guy was ranting and rambling. He told him if he didn’t stop he’d have to leave. That’s when the guy grabbed a hold of his knife, he didn’t pull it out, but he grabbed it and told them if they wanted to kick him out, he’d give them a reason to kick him out.”
\nMcCune then said that this was his cue to call the police and officers arrived just minutes after to escort Hart outside, as seen below:<\/p>\n
“When he went to go handcuff him is when the guy tried to get away, and he struggled,” McCune said. “So, that’s when I went outside and tried to help the cop. I never dealt with a guy with a knife before, but my wrestling training definitely came in handy.”
\nPolice retrieved the knife from Hart and placed him in custody. McCune took to his Facebook Page and explained the events that took place on that day, as seen below:
\nAs we got there, there was this drunk guy mouthing off to one of our fans,” McCune said. “He was threatening one of our fans! I called the cops on him! So now that everyone knows that when I say I’m going to call the cops, I mean I’m going to call the damn cops! Then the cops came and that drunk guy, he had a knife on him. He tried pulling it out on the cops…<\/p>\n
“So, Manic goes outside and this guy is resisting arrest. Manic helped the cops arrest that guy because he was getting the attention,” McCune continues. “Everybody was staring out the windows at this drunk guy, and they weren’t paying attention to me. So, that’s the reason why I helped the cops arrest him. The spotlight should be on us, and that drunk guy was taking that from us, and we couldn’t have that.”
\nYou can check out McCune’s full video below from his Facebook Page:
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