An irate woman reportedly maced a couple in a California dog park because they weren't wearing face masks while they enjoyed a picnic lunch together.
The disturbing incident happened Thursday afternoon when Ash O'Brien, her husband Jarrett Kelley and their three-month-old puppy visited Rhodes Dog Park in San Diego.
Footage taken by a concerned witness begins halfway through the confrontation and shows the woman, wearing a black face mask, deploying pepper spray at Kelley.
O'Brien wails in the background as Kelley tries to wrestle the pepper spray canister out of the woman's hands
The woman soon stops and is confronted by witnesses, while Kelley is temporarily blinded by the pepper spray.
'What is your problem? You just maced him!' one female witness says. A man beside her chimes in 'That's just wrong!'
'You just maced them and their food because you disagree,' the female witness adds.
The unidentified woman and her dog then quickly leave the park without another word.
According to O'Brien, the couple had just sat down for lunch and were not wearing masks at the time because they were eating food
She claims the woman bothered them first by calling them 'idiots' and flipping O'Brien off.
'We were not wearing masks because we were eating. You can’t wear a mask and eat at the same time,' wrote O'Brien in a Facebook post.
'Then she started saying more stuff and I told her to leave the park and stop harassing us.'
O'Brien said the woman then approached the table the couple was eating at and without warning aimed the pepper spray.
'She then came right up to our table wear we were eating, pointed the mace at me first and got a little on me, and then my husband stepped in and took the entire can,' wrote O'Brien.
The couple drove to the hospital for Kelley to receive medical treatment afterwards.
Now, they want the woman to face jail time and have filed a misdemeanor battery report with the local police department.
'I want her to go to jail, she assaulted my husband, and I’m angry about it,' O'Brien told ABC 10
She added that Rhodes Dog Park does not have a food policy and if there had been one, they wouldn't have brought food.