Man’s Makeshift BBQ Pit — Shopping Cart And Sword — Lands Him In Cuffs: Report

SANTA MONICA, CA — A man who was using a shopping cart and a sword to grill barbecue in the middle of the street — and attempting to use Bud Light to fuel the flames — was arrested Sunday, according to reports.

The incident occurred before 3 p.m., after the man was spotted dragging a shopping card through a bike lane along Ocean Avenue. Video obtained by Fox 11 shows that the cart was filled with burning wood and the man used a sword as a skewer to hold meat over the flames.

The man stopped with the cart at one point and apparently tried to fuel the makeshift barbecue’s flames with Bud Light.

After a police cruiser pulled up to the scene, the man fled with his cart before officers stopped him on the 2000 block of the beach, where the fire was extinguished, the Santa Monica Mirror reported.

The man was arrested on charges of misdemeanor theft (for being in possession of a stolen shopping cart), resisting arrest and reckless burning, the Mirror reported.