Footage shows woman smashing through Bristol shop door using melon

'I didn't want to stop her, who knows what a person in that state might do?'

A woman who tried to break into a shop using a watermelon was caught on camera as she threw the large fruit at its glass front door.

A member of staff said she had appeared outside the Emmaus vintage furniture store on Bristol's Gloucester Road on Saturday evening.

As members of the public looked on, she began hurling the watermelon at the door.

“I'd left at five, so the shop was empty. She seemed the worse for wear, I think the police arrested her later,” the staff member, who asked not to be named, said.

Members of the public can be seen watching on in amazement as the unknown woman hurls the large fruit, which she had allegedly stolen from another shop, at the glass door.

A worker from the neighbouring greengrocers said the woman had walked into their shop, where she became abusive, before stealing the fruit.

She can be seen in the video, barefoot outside the shop, repeatedly throwing the melon at the already smashed front door.

“She was drunk or maybe on drugs, she was shouting. I didn't want to stop her, who knows what a person in that state might do?” the worker said.

The whole glass panel on the front of the shop was destroyed in the attack. The Emmaus shop worker said she had moved on down the road before police arrived at the scene.

The worker from Emmaus said: “I walked past not long after to find police staring at a broken water melon.”

Police have been approached for a comment.

Additional reporting from SWNS