A brazen woman tried to snatch a man’s cellphone as he filmed the aftermath of her white Mercedes G-Wagon crashing into the car in front of it.
Her full-blown meltdown began when she noticed the unsuspecting man recording the fender-bender scene near the Ridgeway Plaza strip mall in Mississauga, Canada.
Footage, obtained by pop-culture outlet 6ixBuzz TV and shared on Sunday, showed the woman’s luxury SUV smashed into the back of a grey BMW X5.
It appeared that the woman rear-ended the car, and while the G-Wagon was hardly damaged, the X5 sustained a dent.
As the grey car started pulling away, the frantic ‘Karen,’ wearing a black shirt and tan headscarf, started screaming once she realized the scene was being videoed.
‘Excuse me, you cannot do this,’ she said from beyond the camera’s frame. ‘Just give me your phone…Delete it now!’
A few seconds later, she came face-to-face with the person recording, now dramatically upping her antics to get him to stop the video.
‘Give me your phone and delete it now. Show me,’ she demanded as she pointed her finger at the device.
‘Give me your phone and delete it now. Show me,’ she demands as she points her finger at the device
Footage from the scene, obtained by pop-culture outlet 6ixBuzz TV and shared on Sunday, shows the woman’s luxury SUV smashed into the back of the grey BMW X5 in front of it
Just as he responded that the area is ‘public property’ so he is allowed to film, she urged him to delete it once again – this time grabbing the phone and trying to pull it toward her.
‘I’m going to call the cops!’ she said, with the baffled bystander calmly telling her to take her hands off of him and his phone.
‘Call whoever you want, don’t touch me,’ he asserted.
A young woman, who was seemingly the daughter of the entitled G-Wagon driver, tried to intervene and pull her away from the self-inflicted conflict.
‘Mama stop…come stop,’ the mortified daughter, wearing a tan vest, said as she grabbed her mother’s wrist.
But the disgruntled driver continued her squabble, now stuttering over her words as the man explained that she approached him – effectively putting herself in front of the camera – and he was ‘recording an accident, not you.’
Finally, the fed-up daughter said, ‘Okay, let’s go sit in the car,’ dragging her mother – now seemingly stunned and at a loss for words – away.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Peel Region Police and its Collision Reporting Center to see if any reports were made from this accident.
Both cars involved in this accident come with hefty price tags. While costs vary by model, a 2025 Mercedes-Benz G-Class has a starting price of about $150,000
Her full-blown meltdown began when she noticed a man recording the scene of a fender bender near the Ridgeway Plaza strip mall in Mississauga
Both cars involved in this accident come with hefty price tags. While costs vary by model, a 2025 Mercedes-Benz G-Class has a starting price of about $150,000.
The newest model of the BMW X5 starts at roughly $67,000, but can go for up to around $92,000 depending on the trim and other upgrades.
The woman’s public freak-out has gone viral on social media, with the footage circulating widely on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and X.
Many viewers were baffled by her bold move to reach for the cellphone.
‘The moment she snatched the phone her arm would have been twist off,’ one user wrote on Instagram.
‘He has the right to record….what is she talking about?’ another chimed in. ‘And… the insurance will also deny your claim,’ one woman wrote.
‘Mom you’re making a scene,’ someone joked, referring to the clearly embarrassed daughter who was caught in the crossfire.
On X, someone echoed the sentiment: ‘The daughter is embarrassed by her mother’s goon behavior. Mother thinks her sh*t does not smell.’
‘If somebody rear-ended my vehicle, darn right I would be out there taking photos & video. Any smart person would. Especially in today’s Canada,’ another added.