SURREY - The store might be called Safeway, but not so much for him.
A 46-year-old Surrey man was tasered twice and arrested under the Mental Health Act after barricading himself inside a flower cooler at a Safeway grocery store in Whalley on Monday afternoon.
Surrey RCMP Cpl. Bert Paquet said police received a call at about noon about a man "acting irrationally" inside the grocery store, in the 10300-block of King George Boulevard.
He said the man, whose name has not been revealed, holed himself up inside the cooler "after aggressively confronting customers and staff."
Paquet said the man had a knife and some other kind of implement from the flower shop and was holding these out while talking to himself. He ignored the police and was "muttering unintelligible words" while "displaying a body posture" Paquet said was "consistent with a combative stance."
The officers tried to talk with the man but he continued to behave in an "aggressive manner" towards police, Paquet said.
After police used a taser on him, the man was was wheeled out of the store on a stretcher and was taken by ambulance to hospital for medical assessment.
"He is reported to be in stable condition," Paquet said. "None of the customers or staff suffered any injuries during this incident."
Surrey RCMP's Serious Crime Unit is investigating the incident.
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