A pair of 7-Eleven clerks took matters into their own hands to defend their Tribeca store from an unhinged man who bizarrely claimed to be Saudi royalty.
In a shocking video posted on Reddit, two store staffers at the chain’s Broadway location are seen wielding a stick and dustpan, as well as a long piece of plastic, as they drive out a shouting man in a red-and-black jacket and sweatpants.
The employees proceeded to guard the door in a roughly 3-minute-long standoff with the nutter, who repeatedly tried to re-enter and screamed at the exhausted staffers as they swiped at him with their makeshift weapons.
“You know who you just hit? Mohammed Bin Salman! You’re f—ing dead!” the loon shrieked, calling the Saudi Arabian prince his “brother” and “cousin” before eventually storming off.
Musician Rick Habeeb, who documented the Monday morning scuffle during a coffee run, told The Post the deranged man began acting “unruly” and suddenly snapped after noticing that one of the clerks had been watching him.
“The customer took offense to the clerk, and then he got heated at that point,” Habeeb, 47, said, adding the man began shrieking, “You better not touch me,” before the staff grabbed their tools from behind the grill.
Habeeb, who commutes from the Poconos in Pennsylvania to his IT job in Tribeca, said he regularly frequents the Broadway location — and it has been routinely plagued by crime and chaos.
“I’ve gone there a couple of times where the door has been broken, glass has been shattered,” he said, recalling how last year he witnessed a person destroying the candy racks inside.
“I’m sure these guys know or deal with a lot of stuff.”
Police officers briefly showed up after the outraged man left, Habeeb said, though an NYPD spokesperson said no complaints or reports had been filed. A employee who answered the store’s phone said he had no knowledge of the incident.
Major crimes for the 1st Precinct, which comprises Tribeca, are down 0.3% through Nov. 5, with robbery down 4%, compared to the same time period last year, according to NYPD data.
But when compared to two years ago, crime is up a staggering 43%, with robbery up 7%.
“It’s definitely gotten a little grittier,” said Habeeb, who records and posts clips on social media of people violently chucking chairs and trash cans at others near his workplace.
Monday’s 7-Eleven scrap, which was first reported by The Tribeca Citizen, is among several recent examples of vigilantism coursing through the Big Apple.
On Tuesday, subway vigilante John Rote opened fire at would-be mugger Matthew Roesch, who had allegedly been harassing a woman for money after holding the emergency gate open for her at the 49th Street station near Times Square.
Roesch, 49, was charged with attempted robbery, while Rote, 43, was slapped with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a firearm, reckless endangerment and menacing, the NYPD said.