Ranting UConn student demands mac and cheese, berates staff before epic takedown [Vid

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Ranting UConn student demands mac and cheese, berates staff before epic takedown [Video]

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STORRS, Conn. — A University of Connecticut student has been arrested after a video surfaced of the apparently drunk 19-year-old demanding mac and cheese then berating campus staff when they refused to serve him.

According to FOX CT, Luke Gatti of Bayville, Long Island, was arrested by University of Connecticut police Sunday night and charged with breach of peace and criminal trespassing.

Police responded to the Union Street Market in the Student Union where employees say Gatti argued after being refused service for drinking alcohol in the market. Gatti then became physically and verbally abusive to the employees.

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It was all recorded on a cell phone camera and posted to YouTube.

The video shows Gatti refusing to leave until he gets his [explicit] bacon jalapeño mac and cheese.

Gatti is also seen calling the employee anti-gay slurs, then pushing him before being wrestled to the ground by another employee.

"I told you, you don't touch my boss," the employee yells as he holds down the student.

Gatti responds with, "I was just trying to get my [explicit] food!"

As Gatti escorted out by police, Gatti spits at the employee.

According to MassLive.com, Gatti was arrested twice in 2014 while a student at UMass Amherst.

 

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Re: Ranting UConn student demands mac and cheese, berates staff before epic takedown

College Kid Who Got Arrested for Macaroni and Cheese Rant Has Finally Apologized

Luke Gatti, the drunken college kid who was arrested for his macaroni and cheese rant, apologizes; says the incident was “a wake-up call”
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October 15, 2015 | 04:59 PM By Joanna Fantozzi, Editor

The video of Luke Gatti’s late night drunken rant at the University of Connecticut will forever be known as one of the angriest confrontations with macaroni and cheese in the history of college cafeterias.

Gatti, 19, a college sophomore from Bayville, New York, is finally speaking out after footage surfaced of his angry, violent rant at the school’s student union.
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He begins his YouTube apology video by saying, "My name is Luke and I saw the video of me and I'd like to just get a few things out there. I've got some problems I am addressing. This was seriously a wake-up call.”

Gatti spends the rest of the video apologizing to the staff that he harassed and assaulted saying, “I couldn't even believe it was me in it. I was watching it and thinking, 'Oh my God. What the hell's wrong with me. This is not what I'm all about. I don't treat people this way.'"

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Gatti has been arrested twice previously for similar disorderly conduct charges at his former school, the University of Massachusetts. He is due to be arraigned in court this week on charges of second-degree breach of peace and criminal trespass for the incident that occurred on October 4. The Gatti family is looking to get a continuance.

"He's a kid that made a bad mistake," Vincent Gatti told The Hartford Courant. "My son was wrong and feels terrible about this."