Man trashes store in crack rage

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A man in Florida has trashed a grocery store after becoming infuriated by the spiralling cost of crack cocaine.

According TCPalm, Gus Young Jr. entered Dixon's Food Market and smashed a counter partition and DVD case.

A police report stated that Young smelled of alcohol and was "challenging people to fight".

The report said: "When Young calmed down, he said he was upset that the price of a rock had gone up to twenty dollars from ten dollars.

"Young claimed he swung his fist at a drug dealer in the store, but the drug dealer ducked and Young struck the partition and DVD case instead of the drug dealer."

The 46-year-old was arrested on charges of criminal mischief and disorderly intoxication and continued to protest the price of the drug at the jail.

"I brought me a ten and they're twenty tonight!" he remarked.