{"id":706474,"date":"2026-05-31T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706474\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:59:01","slug":"shirtless-aussie-questioned-over-alleged-cafe-rampage-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706474\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirtless Aussie questioned over alleged cafe rampage in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian tourist is being questioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/vietnam\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-cosLpz kACIXV\">Vietnamese<\/a> police after allegedly going on a rampage in a busy cafe.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s accused of causing thousands of dollars of damage in the city of Da Nang before being marched away by police in his underwear.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from the early-morning spree appears to show the Australian man get up from his chair and smash a phone another customer was using to help translate for him.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/australia-news\/nsw\/sydney-horsely-park-shots-fired-reports-20260531-p602h8.html\" class=\"sc-cosLpz kACIXV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested after reports of shots fired at Sydney home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/07cb174926b5ecc079dd1b89b4a08cb1f7063c90.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Vietnamese police after allegedly going on a rampage in a busy cafe.\u00a09News<\/p>\n<p>Staff say he proclaimed &#8220;you have ten seconds to leave&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, a man appears to use a chair as a battering ram taking aim at the front counter and the coffee machine before the front windows.<\/p>\n<p>He rifles through the bags of customers who&#8217;d made a quick exit, turning a laptop into two frisbees.<\/p>\n<p>A group watched in horror from the second floor as the man headed for them next.<\/p>\n<p>He kicked the door open before putting one man in a headlock.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers begin to assemble outside before rushing in and arresting him.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/australia-news\/wa\/wa-weather-unusually-strong-system-could-bring-destructive-winds-heavy-falls-and-localised-tornadoes-for-western-australia-20260530-p60277.html\" class=\"sc-cosLpz kACIXV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wild weather smashing WA could hit rest of Australia this week<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5cbde93cc7a78e3069911ad4c8d3b8d1768ddf67.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Vietnamese police after allegedly going on a rampage in a busy cafe.\u00a09News<\/p>\n<p>The cafe was forced to shut for up to three days.<\/p>\n<p>Owners are seeking compensation for a damage bill reportedly as high as $26,000<\/p>\n<p>The man remains in temporary detention for questioning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian tourist is being questioned by Vietnamese police after allegedly going on a rampage in a busy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-706474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}