Because we’re all sure its just salt on the burger?
If its just salt on the burger you’re right.
If there is something else like cleaner fluid, If it was intentional then I call and “Oh Come on” on you!
Ha!
Just spank her buns and get it over with.
Well, that’s a whole different story. I guess we’ll find out when the burger comes back from the crime lab.
“Oh come on! That food was fine. The salt content was 10% less than the lethal dose!”
“Uh oh. I shouldn’t have had seconds!”
Gotta say, I feel like getting a big mac after reading this thread.
Well, whaddya know…the total stupidity of these two is greater than the sum of their parts.
Hold on – Someone ate at McDonalds, found it too salty, then threw up?
What, exactly, distinguishes this from any other visit to McDonalds?
At any rate, I hope she fries for that.
All we can go by is the information in the linked article, which mentions nothing except salt.
And…if it were something other than just salt, I’m sure the charges would be a little more severe than misdemeanor reckless conduct, which is what the employee is being charged with.
And BubbaDog, I don’t know how familiar you are with small-town (Union City, GA, pop. 11,621, according to a 2000 census) Georgia cops, but the stereotype that they’re power-mad neckless goobers* isn’t completely unfounded.
*I’m not anti-cop. I like cops, some of my best fri—oops. But just like any other profession, there’s a percentage of power-tripping morons. Perhaps–just perhaps-- Law Enforcement even attracts a slightly higher percentage. What with the uniforms, guns, perceived authority and all that.
Did he eat all of the hamburger?
If I bite something and it tastes too salty, or tastes funny I sure as hell am not going to swallow it! And if he did not swallow it and still got sick then obviously they put some real badass poison there.
- My BSometer is going off the charts at the employee’s story. Wouldn’t a reasonable person, if they spilled a bunch of salt on a hamburger, simply throw the burger in the garbage and get a new one? Most especially if the customer was a police officer?
No, common sense tells me that the employee deliberately put something on the food BECAUSE it was a police officer. Whether it was salt or something else remains to be seen.
- After reading the other threads where pubescent employees admitted to spitting on customer’s food to get even for some real or imagined transgression, I think zero tolerance is a good policy. If you fuck with someone’s food*, you should go to jail.
*Which, sadly, I’m sure has also been done.
I have to disagree, here. As has been discussed thoroughly (and with, I believe, a consensus agreement), zero tolerance is not a good policy. It takes away critical thought and replaces it with a blind adherence to rules without regard to particular circumstance.
For what it’s worth, I also believe that the employee’s statement of it being an accident is b.s. I think she knew it was a cop, and saw the opportunity (perhaps viewing things as a young, African-American woman living in the deep South influenced her decision) to metaphorically spit in the eye of authority. Godds knows, I can’t actually blame her for wanting to do that.
But jail? I don’t think so. “As-salt” jokes aside, I don’t think there’s anything on the books about overcondimentation being illegal.
The proper way for the cop to approach this was to confront the manager with the complaint and allow the manager to worry about how to handle the employee.
And if I had been that manager, her ass would be out the door in a heartbeat. But not in handcuffs.
[milton waddams]
There was salt on the glass, BIG grains of salt!
[/waddams]
The incident report at the Smoking Gun also mentions pepper.
I hope that there are follow-up reports after the analysis of the burger.
It’s not a given that Bull even knew that the burger was going to a cop. It’s pretty rare that the cashier is also the cook. Typically they take the money, grab the burger that someone else made and wrapped, stick it in the bag with a box of fries, fill a soda, and hand it over to the customer. Also, the Smoking Gun link explicitly says the cop was at the drive-thru. At most McDonald’s the cooks cannot see the drive-thru window at all, and the only people who see the receipts are the cashiers. Bull most likely could not have known that Adams was a cop unless the drive-thru cashier told her.
- sturmhauke, ex McDrone
Why do I think that if a kid in a high school chemistry lab in Union City, GA, gets something nasty in hi/r eyes, hi/r lab partner’s first thought is probably NOT going to be “eyewash”? :rolleyes:
Says you. “Throw her back in jail,” sesame.
I don’t get this – I must be slaw.
Isn’t the fact that the officer ended up puking after two or three bites of his burger a pretty good indicator that the food in question is inedible?
Doesn’t the fact that the officer took a second bite indicate that it wasn’t?
Czarcasm, it might be. But it could also be someone was scarfing down his burger as fast as possible.
I don’t know what exactly happened, and at this point, I could go for either the cop is over-reacting, or that it’s completely legit. I’d like to wait to see what the toxicology report on the remainder of the burger reveals.
I will say that the worker’s story doesn’t hold water for me.
No way. Have you ever eaten something too salty? If it were that bad, you would spit it out.
Interesting case, I hope we find out the Straight Dope.