In defense of the first twat, that looks like a Jen-Air type down draft exhaust in the middle of the stove. Something the spin doctors have not included in their gloom and doom discussions.
They have to tell us, and do so blatantly or in riddles to be decoded. but we refuse to believe them or the possibility because it seems so absurdly challenging to our paradigm that they're summarily dismissed as impossible.
He protected not only the people in that restaurant, but the people in the next one this asshole was undoubtedly going to rob too.
I think this is proof the CPSC needs to go.
Ignorance is no excuse. So I have been told.