A pregnant woman was subject to a tirade of insults from two “park bench Karens” as she sat on a park bench in Florida.
Linsey Kapayou was waiting for her son to return from the bathroom when the women approached her and said her son’s snack bag sitting beside the bench was inappropriate and a sign of disrespect.
Confused, the mother tried to defend herself before being shut down by the two, with one woman claiming the seat had been placed in memory of her deceased sister.In just a couple of days, the clip quickly went viral on TikTok, with nearly 4 million views amassed and 12.7K comments at the time of writing.
The video showed one woman dressed in a green and blue tank top and white shorts staring straight at Kapayou as she said, “This bench I donated because of my late sister who passed away,” her voice breaking near the end of the phrase.
The pregnant woman then explained that her son had just set the snack bag there and would be right back to pick it up and clean the area.
“I am asking if it can be moved,” the “Karen” fired back, to which Kapayou stated the entire ordeal was starting to feel like the two were “attacking her.”
“No, she’s not,” said the other woman in a black tank top and cream-colored shorts
The argument kept escalating, with the women talking over each other until Kapayou insisted she didn’t know what all the fuss was about since her son would be “right back” to clean everything up, labeling the whole argument as “really not that big of a deal.”
But the friend in the black top countered, “For her… for other people, it is [a big deal].”
The heated confrontation then took an unexpected, sensitive turn as the two women berated Kapayou on whether or not a family member of hers had passed, trying to prove that she “wouldn’t know” what it meant to feel that kind of grief.
The woman dressed in blue and green was having none of that, however, as she fumed, “I don’t want trash next to my sister’s f–king bench, b–tch” before dropping another F-bomb as she walked away with the snack bag in hand.
Another clip of the argument showed the situation from another angle, presumably filmed by the “Karen” who said the bench was in memory of her sister.
“We are trying to share with her the story of the lady that this bench is dedicated to,” said the voice behind the camera as Kapayou and the woman in black were arguing once more. “But she will not stop talking. She will not stop just f–cking, like, making her mouth move.”
As the camera panned over, it showed a small crowd gathered around the spectacle.
Kapayou was left distraught by the ordeal, explaining to the Daily Mail that she decided to take her phone out to record due to her growing unease and vulnerability.
“At first, I wasn’t quite sure what was going on,” she said to the outlet. “They walked up and grabbed my son’s food, claiming it was trash. I hadn’t even realized he set it there before he ran to the restroom. I simply said it was not trash and it was his, and they asked for me to move it.”
