McYummy.
Another headline on that page:
“Walt Disney Continues to Expand”
Now there’s a mental image. :dubious:
Petty theft is a crime and enough of a crime that I don’t mind 911 being called. And not delivering on the McNuggets after taking the money is theft.
Seriously?
Tying up an emergency phone line over MCNUGGETS? Over three bucks?
There’s somebody somewhere having a car accident. A heart attack. Somebody’s home is getting burglarized. Somebody’s business is burning down.
And the 911 dispatchers are fielding calls about three bucks worth of compressed chicken?
That’s not okay. The McIdiots should have given her a refund of course, but what happened to…I dunno…TALKING TO A SUPERVISOR?
I wonder if this woman votes in elections?
Yeah, she was probably completely reasonable and polite, the clerk probably started the whole thing.
Or . . . she freaked out the minute she found out there were no McNuggets, and the clerk asked her to leave the store before refunding her money.
Hmmm . . . which is more likely?
What next? Call the fire department when Taco Bell is out of Fire sauce?
I gotta admit. I was pretty flabbergasted when I realized that reason she called the cops was actually MORE stupid than her calling the cops in the first place.
Talk about taking it up a notch.
That assumes that she was actually a reasonable person (at least to start with).
I’d have raised holy hell too (eventually that is).
This. Calling 911 wasn’t the best idea, but she was in the right for calling the cops.
There’s also this undetermined 911 call about a cheeseburger.
Bottom line, the woman should have asked to speak to a manager. The clerk should have refunded her money. 911 should not have been called.
But is it an emergency? A life or death situation? If you can’t solve a three dollar dispute without police involement, at least drive to the police station to file a report or call the non-emergency line.
I’m with others; what if a family member was having a heart attack and the ambulance was delayed because a dispatcher was pissing around with a dissatisfied McDonalds customer?
I’m a little confused. Why would the clerk even take her money in the first place? I mean, wouldn’t the ordering process have gone something like this?..
Clerk: may I help you?
Customer: Yes, I want a 10 piece chicken mcnugget.
Clerk: I’m sorry we’re out of mcnuggets, can I get you something else?
??
But 911 is not meant to be used to report crimes; it’s an emergency number. If a burglar breaks into your house while you’re inside? Yes, that’s a reason to call 911, because you are in a position where serious harm could be imminent. If you witness a serious car accident? Yes, because the people involved could require immediate medical attention.
Minor theft between you and a business is not an urgent matter, because no one is at any serious physical risk, and hell, that McDonalds is not going to run away. If it takes the cops an hour to get there, the restaurant will still be right there.
Also, she called three times, even after being told that an officer was on the way, so even if in some insane universe anything about McNuggets short of a tragic deep-fryer accident is an emergency, the two further calls did nothing but potentially delay a reaction to a real emergency.
I read somewhere else on the interwebs that she did talk to the manager, and the manager wouldn’t return the money. HeckifIcan find the link. But if that was the case, how is that different than a pickpocket taking my wallet with a couple bucks in it. It’s theft.
Weird. I thought he’d been cremated.
Actually, I have had non-emergency, non-life-threatening things to report (thought my car was stolen) and when I called the police precinct, they told me that the correct thing to do would be to call 911. In fact, they could not dispatch an officer to take a report unless I did so.
Same experience as Hello Again, when my car had been stolen.
I wasn’t in any danger, and seeing I had no idea when (exactly) it had been stolen (I could narrow it down to “sometime between 11pm last night and 7am this morning”). There was no emergency response needed. But I called the precinct who told me to call 911.
ETA: that said, the first response to a cashier in error should probably not be the cops.
I don’t doubt that in some jurisdictions that’s the way it works. But if you call - whether 911 or the non-emergency number - and they say, “OK, an officer is on his way,” do you then call again, and then a third time? It’s the combination of A) immediately going for the emergency number and B) doing it three times that just makes me think this woman is a colossal idiot.
I have also been told that, in my area, if you want to speak with an officer, you should call 911.
Why the heck couldn’t McDonald’s refund her money? Why didn’t they tell her that they were out of McNuggets before taking her money? “All sales are final”. They didn’t give her the McNuggets. There was no sale! I’d have been pissed, too. If the cops are as stupid as everyone else involved in this story, perhaps it did take three 911 calls to get her point across.
I’ve actually never heard “All sales are final” at McDonald’s. What if they get the order wrong? Are you just out of luck? I’ve taken things back that were wrong and gotten new sandwiches before. I always assumed that getting my money back would be an option as well–is it really not?
Grand theft is emergency-response business whether or not you’re standing around watching the thief drive off. If you were calling to report that you’d had a couple of CDs stolen from your car, it would be a bit different.