Passengers and a worker clobbered each other with wet floor signs as they brawled in an airport terminal.
Shocking footage filmed by an onlooker shows how one heavyset man in a white T-shirt floors a rival with the yellow caution board to the head.
He is immediately confronted by a third man, who swings his fists at him like a boxer.
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The floored man picks himself up and grabs the thickset man, who floors him a second time.
The man in white then grapples with the would-be boxer as a shorter man strikes the former in the back with another wet floor sign.
During the struggle, the thickset man rips some of his rival’s dreadlocks from his scalp.
The three men on the same team then walk side by side towards their adversary, who is still holding the plucked dreads.
They pick up the wet floor signs as the man in the white t-shirt tries to rid himself of a piece of clothing snagged around his leg.
As they close in on him, he drops the hair and picks up a stanchion pole, causing them to back off.
The bizarre scenes unfolded in Terminal 3 at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in Illinois, US.
The police were called out but made no arrests and chose not to file a report, as reported by Need To Know.
Some reports say the shorter man – seen in the footage with a lanyard around his neck – is a staff member while the other three were travelling that day.
Other reports say all those involved in the skirmish work at concession stands at the airport.
It is still not clear what provoked the scuffle last Thursday (12 Dec).
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