In a textbook portrait of unbridled white male privilege rearing its ugly head, a 19-year-old University of Connecticut student learned the hard way what happens when you put it all on the line in pursuit of mac and cheese.
In a nine-minute-long video posted online, Luke Gatti is caught hurling obscenities and shoving staff in the UConn Student Union while clearly intoxicated on Monday night. Gatti repeatedly refused to leave the dining area without some of his beloved “fucking bacon-jalapeño mac and cheese.”
The manager refused to serve the underaged Gatti for bringing an open container of beer into the cafeteria as the video begins.
Gatti, clad in sweatpants paired with sandals and socks, tells the manager “you’re gonna look like a fuckin’ tool,” when he realizes the incident was being filmed. Despite this, Gatti goes on to shove the manager and a student who attempts to intervene multiple times in the footage.
“Just give me my bacon-jalapeño mac and cheese, I will pay for it, and I will leave,” Gatti pleads with the manager, moments after repeatedly shouting “fuck you” in his face.
The manager and another staffer, finally wrestle the student to the ground around 7:30 in. Finally, campus police arrive to take Gatti into custody and the nightmare ends, but not before Gatti has a moment of clarity, when he emphatically says, “I am absolutely fucked.”
It wasn’t Gatti’s first drunken run-in with the police. He was reportedly awaiting an Oct. 15 court date and had two previous arrests, including once calling a detective the N-word and assaulting a police officer.
Watch the full video below:
