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It was a bass-erk brawl!
Shocking video captured the moment a massive brawl broke out between customers at a Texas Bass Pro shop that was allegedly sparked over a restroom argument.
The fist began flying at the outdoor superstore’s grand opening weekend in Odessa on Saturday around 3 p.m., when two men waiting in line for the restroom got into a verbal altercation that quickly turned physical and spread to multiple rowdy customers joining in on the violence, Fox 4 News reported.
Footaged posted on X shows two pairs of men sparring in front of a crowd of frightened bystanders, whaling punches down on each other and grappling on the ground.
As the chaos escalated, a man donning a Texas Longhorn jersey jumped into the action, swinging at one of the men and pushing him down.
The brawls drag on for a few more seconds before Bass Pro Shop workers and fellow customers start prying the fighters apart to end the pandemonium.
The incident brought so much tension that one visibly upset woman is heard screaming at the fighters for acting like “idiots.”
“Grown ass men acting like idiots!” she’s heard shouting as the men were separated.
“And you wonder why our schools are falling apart! It’s their fault! Look at the example that you’re setting!”
Investigators found that the confrontation ignited after a man waiting in line with his wife and child became agitated after another individual took too long in the bathroom, a police report obtained by TMZ revealed.
The Odessa Police Department said that all the men involved declined to pursue criminal charges, but the suspects who started the melee were issued criminal trespass warnings and banned from the store, Fox 4 News reported.
Those same men also suffered minor injuries but did not need to be taken to the hospital.
When the man inside the bathroom eventually emerged, he confronted him for taking too long.
The pair then went outside to hash things out, but eventually came back inside the store, where the situation escalated, police said.
Bass Pro Shops was founded in 1972 in Springfield, Missouri, by Johnny Morris, who began selling fishing gear from just eight feet of shelf space inside his dad’s liquor store, according to the company’s website.
Over the years, it has grown into a major outdoor-gear retailer, selling everything from fishing and hunting equipment to camping and boating supplies, with massive destination stores featuring aquariums and wildlife displays.
Bass Pro Shop has more than 200 locations across North America, with 18 in Texas.
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