Assault over suspected Bud Light Purchase in Toronto suburb

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couple was reportedly assaulted outside of a liquor store after being confronted by a group of men over their suspected purchase of Bud Light beer, police suspect.

The incident took place on Saturday night in the city of Vaughn, Ontario, a suburb located just north of Toronto in Canada. York Regional Police said in an official statement that a couple was accosted by a group of three men after leaving a liquor store located on Jane Street and Major Mackenzie Drive West, allegedly targeting the 26-year-old male victim's supposed purchase of Bud Light and using various homophobic insults.

When one of the men approached the male victim, the female victim, 27, tried to step between them and keep the situation from escalating, at which point the suspect physically assaulted her. The two other men then got involved and the group began attacking both victims. The group of attackers fled the scene after a bystander intervened. The woman was brought to a nearby hospital for treatment of her injuries, while her partner sustained only minor injuries and did not require medical attention.

One of the suspects commented on the male victim's choice of alcohol and uttered anti-homosexual derogatory slurs as he approached the victim," the York Regional Police's statement explained.

Police also noted later that the victims had not even purchased Bud Light that night, but rather a different, unspecified product that the attackers mistook for Bud Light.

"But it wasn't. He actually didn't have Bud Light," a spokesperson for the department told Global News. "I guess there were some rainbow colors on the cans and so it was initiated that way...Then upon further determination as to what they purchased, they still weren't happy with that. Let's just put it that way. And the insults continued."

The suspects fled the scene in a vehicle with an Ontario license plate bearing the number, CLHL733.

Wait what? What's wrong with Bud Light besides the fact it sucks?

The Bud Light beer brand became a flashpoint of controversy amongst conservatives after its parent company, Anheuser-Busch, sent a commemorative Bud Light can to Dylan Mulvaney, a popular transgender social media influencer, to commemorate her 365-day transition to "girlhood". Despite the fact that the so-called "partnership" between the beer brand and Mulvaney only amounted to a short social media video, the reaction swiftly escalated, with conservatives threatening to boycott the brand and destroying cans of the product on video, while others allegedly called in bomb threats to Anheuser-Busch facilities.

What does a social media "influencer" actually do?

Looks like I'll be buying some Bud Light.

Bud light is tasteless crap anyway, I think everyone should boycott it.

I don't like any light beer.

I actually drink Moosehead, Molson Canadian, or Guinness.