Woman gets police warning for pitching coffee cups at man and parking in disabled spot

A woman who pitched two cups of coffee at a man when heconfronted her for parking in a disabled parking spot outside aTim Hortons has received a police warning after a video of theincident garnered international attention.

• Video of woman pitching coffee at man over disabled parking spot at Tim Hortons goes viral

Toronto police spokesman Mark Pugash said Wednesday thevideographer, Ryan Favro, had declined to press a criminal complaintbut officers still paid a visit to the woman.

"We've cautioned her for assault and parking in a disabled spot,which is really what we can do under the circumstances," Pugashsaid.

Pugash declined to name the woman.Favro, in the interim, was trying to put the genie back in theInternet bottle.

In a Facebook posting, he explains why he removed his YouTubevideo -- shot Monday -- which has been viewed more than a milliontimes and shared by tens of thousands.

"I don't want to grind this woman into the ground," Favro says."There has to be a way for her to recover."

The video, still widely available and posted by outlets acrossCanada and as far away as the U.K. and New Zealand, sparked howls ofsocial media outrage, with manycondemning her as a "brat," amongother things.

Favro, however, said some of the comments directed at the woman,who appears to be in her 20s, went too far.

"Her behaviour and attitude may be unsavoury but that does notwarrant the many comments being posted inciting real violenceagainst her," Favro said.

Repeated requests to interview the videographer went unanswered.

Favro's video begins with his politely asking the woman why shehad parked in the reserved spot as she returns to her Jeep with herTimmies coffee and iced coffee.

The man asks the woman if she is disabled and she says no.

"Record me, I'll break your (expletive) phone," she says as shegets into the driver's seat, and slams the door.

The woman then gets back out, and hurls what appears to be theiced coffee -- along with profanities -- at the videographer.

When he then persists in asking, "What makes you so special?"she throws the coffee at him.

"I'm taking this to the police, you assaulted me," he says.

"Good for you!" she yells, before backing up and driving away,licence plate clearly visible in the video.

Regardless, Favro's efforts to pull back the video demonstratedthe difficulties of tamping down on a video gone viral.

"Unfortunately, once it's on the Internet, it's hard to take itdown," said his Facebook friend, Natasha Marie.

"Yes, you candelete your video on YouTube, but this video has been posted onother news outlets."

Laura Dixon, in a Facebook comment, said Favro was wrong to tryto undo what he had done.

"If the guy was feeling remorse for publishing it, perhaps heshould not have posted it online and just gone to the police,"Dixon wrote.