--- title: Man Hit With Chair for Burping at Taco Bell description: Mind your manners, people canonical: https://time.com/30448/somebody-hit-a-man-with-a-chair-for-burping-at-taco-bell/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-20T14:00:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:57.507Z og:title: Somebody Hit A Man With A Chair For Burping At Taco Bell og:description: Mind your manners, people og:url: https://time.com/30448/somebody-hit-a-man-with-a-chair-for-burping-at-taco-bell/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc4c26d911715e06f/6986862fd0b6f20fc13034a9/78741092-e1395257304382.jpg?branch=production&width=600&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 600 og:image:height: 338 og:image:alt: 78741092 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Somebody Hit A Man With A Chair For Burping At Taco Bell twitter:description: Mind your manners, people twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc4c26d911715e06f/6986862fd0b6f20fc13034a9/78741092-e1395257304382.jpg?branch=production&width=600&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Somebody Hit A Man With A Chair For Burping At Taco Bell > Sponsored content. 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Isaiah Morris was eating at noted fine dining establishment Taco Bell on Sunday when another man in the restaurant demanded to know whether he had belched without saying “excuse me.” While there’s no word on whether Morris actually committed the rude offense, a police report obtained by [The Smoking Gun](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/taco-bell-customer-assaulted-over-burp-675432) says that when Morris asked the manners-minded man to repeat himself, he instead grabbed a chair and hit Morris on the elbow. The man then grabbed Morris’s throat and tried to head butt him, presumably to remind him to be more polite in the future. That’s when a restaurant worker intervened and told the man to leave. [According to WYFF](http://www.wyff4.com/news/assailant-sought-after-attacking-man-for-belching/25025452), police said the man left in what might have been a white pickup truck, but there are no further leads in the case. \[Via [The Smoking Gun](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/taco-bell-customer-assaulted-over-burp-675432)/ [WYFF](http://www.wyff4.com/news/assailant-sought-after-attacking-man-for-belching/25025452#ixzz2wQWT3aEb) \] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/30448/somebody-hit-a-man-with-a-chair-for-burping-at-taco-bell/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/30448/somebody-hit-a-man-with-a-chair-for-burping-at-taco-bell/"},"headline":"Somebody Hit A Man With A Chair For Burping At Taco Bell","datePublished":"2014-03-20T14:00:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:57.507Z","description":"Mind your manners, people","url":"https://time.com/30448/somebody-hit-a-man-with-a-chair-for-burping-at-taco-bell/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","Taco Bell"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc4c26d911715e06f/6986862fd0b6f20fc13034a9/78741092-e1395257304382.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc4c26d911715e06f/6986862fd0b6f20fc13034a9/78741092-e1395257304382.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"78741092","caption":"78741092","creditText":"Fuse—Getty Images/Fuse","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/30448/somebody-hit-a-man-with-a-chair-for-burping-at-taco-bell/","name":"Somebody Hit A Man With A Chair For Burping At Taco Bell"}}]}] ```