Woman is confronted in her car by a stranger who allegedly threatens to call ICE on her. She appears unbothered: ‘You should be scared, little girl’

A California woman sat in the driver’s seat of a parked car while another person stood outside the window and spoke to her aggressively. According to the caption on her TikTok video, the person outside had threatened to call ICE on her earlier and then followed her to the vehicle.

The woman in the car appeared to stay calm as the person outside said, “Careful, okay? I know where you work. You don’t know where I’m at.” She adjusted the sun visor and listened while the person continued, “What’s up? You should be scared, little girl. Little girl, wear your own little eyelashes.” She later sipped from a bright pink tumbler and glanced at her nails as the person outside added, “You fake as f–k. You probably belong in Laos, Cambodia, or Thailand, something like that.”

On-screen text in the car video read, “Being threatened over food is crazy.” The woman filming, who wore a black T-shirt with her hair pulled back, appeared unbothered and smiled toward the camera near the end.

The restaurant exchange that led to the car confrontation

In a follow-up TikTok video, the woman said the other person followed her to the car shortly after an argument inside a restaurant. The clip showed her, identified on her profile as FS, standing inside the venue while she spoke with an off-screen restaurant employee.

The exchange started when the off-screen person asked what happened with her granddaughter’s food. The woman in the black T-shirt replied that the soup takes a really long time to make and apologized for the delay.

The off-screen person then said, “You threatened my granddaughter that she couldn’t come anymore if she didn’t pay?” The woman confirmed, “Yes, yes, that was me,” and explained, “If you don’t pay for your food, you’re not welcome.”

The off-screen person demanded the manager’s phone number, saying they know “the boys” who took up for their mom and asking why the number could not be shared. The woman in the black T-shirt refused, stating, “I’m respecting his wishes because he wants privacy. He does not want his number shared.” She added that she does not know the manager’s schedule and that “He comes whenever he wants.”

The off-screen person called the response unprofessional and said, “He’s your f–king manager.” The woman in the black T-shirt later warned that the matter could “go further” and that the employee would “probably lose your job and everything else,” while claiming, “we know the owners and then the kids took over.” She also said she had given her name and that “He’s gonna call her.”

The employee off-screen asked whether the customer would feel the same way in that position. The woman replied, “I wouldn’t. I would just turn yourself around.” When the employee said, “To me it’s just food,” the woman responded that it was easy to say that because the employee was not paying for it, adding, “So I’m gonna remember that.”

After confirming a camera was recording, the woman told the employee, “Remember that s–t. Yeah, I call my manager.” The employee agreed to call the manager, and the woman said, “Yeah, of course.” Threats aimed at restaurant staff have surfaced in other viral clips, like the one where a Minnesota woman threatened to call ICE on Wendy’s workers.

Viewers who watched the car video reacted to the woman’s calm demeanor during the confrontation. One commenter said they admired her restraint and wrote, “I strive to have this much patience. That door would’ve swung open so fast.”

Others focused on what might have happened after the incident, with one asking, “so did you get fired or did she lie on your boss?” A different viewer responded to the comment about Southeast Asia and wrote, “Laos, Cambodia, Thai. Thats all me, Whats up?! We in hereeeeeee & fineeeee.” Immigration-related tension in restaurants has gone viral before, including a Colorado woman’s restaurant ICE shirt confrontation.