# You want fries and a larger towel with that? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943 "2011-12-31T14:18:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/1 "2011-12-31T14:18:12Z")
A couple pranksters went through the McDonalds drive thru buck nekkid. 😃😃😃 Naturally the local law didn’t see the humor and arrested them. IMHO I can’t see how the charge can stick. How much can you see in a dark car at 2 AM? People are sitting and their private bits are in the shadows. The woman’s tits were all that were probably visible. I would have LMAO if I was working that window and certainly not called the fuzz. Hell, I would have thanked them for giving me a good laugh on my graveyard shift. > **[CBS News - Breaking news, 24/7 live streaming news & top stories](https://www.cbsnews.com/)** > > Watch CBS News live and get the latest, breaking news headlines of the day for national news and world news today. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/2 "2011-12-31T14:36:40Z")
As long as his Whopper was wrapped, and she didn’t try to eat it inside the McDonalds, I don’t see a problem. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/3 "2011-12-31T14:48:53Z")
You’d think they’d be used to seeing McNuggets. ---
**Author:** ![Al\_Bundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@Al\_Bundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al_Bundy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/4 "2011-12-31T21:40:33Z")
But the thing is that there are a lot of nut jobs out there. They often start their program with nudity. Whenever strange behavior occurs, it produces anxiety for a late night worker, especially young ones who don’t know what to expect and how to handle it. So the culprits deserve what they get, which will be very meager. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/5 "2012-01-01T15:52:30Z")
The thing is, in some situations you can’t tell if it is a couple of college kids playing a stupid prank or a couple of perverts using you for their foreplay. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/6 "2012-01-02T01:09:24Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > IMHO I can’t see how the charge can stick. How much can you see in a dark car at 2 AM? People are sitting and their private bits are in the shadows. The woman’s tits were all that were probably visible. Legally, I don’t think “how much you can see” enters into it. the charge is ‘public indecency’; they were out in public, in an unclothed , therefore indecent state. Seems like an easy case to prove. Especially since most McDonalds drive-thru’s have closed-circuit cameras. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/7 "2012-01-02T04:57:20Z")
> [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > The thing is, in some situations you can’t tell if it is a couple of college kids playing a stupid prank or a couple of perverts using you for their foreplay. Agree, which is why I would always assume the former. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/8 "2012-01-02T04:59:48Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > As long as his Whopper was wrapped, and she didn’t try to eat it inside the McDonalds, I don’t see a problem. 🙂 I think you mean his Big Mac. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/9 "2012-01-02T05:21:36Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > I think you mean his Big Mac. Nope, I meant Whopper. People don’t look at you funny if you eat a Big Mac inside McDonald’s. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/10 "2012-01-02T05:24:35Z")
I think they might beat the charges. Illinois Penal Code (Sec. 11‑30. Public indecency) prohibits _“lewd exposure of the body done with intent to arouse or to satisfy the sexual desire of the person.”_ So the DA’s going to have to show the couple did it to get off rather than as a prank. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/11 "2012-01-02T05:29:17Z")
> [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > The thing is, in some situations you can’t tell if it is a couple of college kids playing a stupid prank or a couple of perverts using you for their foreplay. > [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > Agree, which is why I would always assume the former. As an adult, that’s easier to do. I bet that a teenage girl might be more inclined to think the latter and feel threatened by it, though. My daughter is getting close to fast-food working age, and I wouldn’t want her to have to deal with that. There are a lot of “creepers” out there. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/12 "2012-01-02T05:39:06Z")
I totally see where you’re coming from, but I think your solution is really part of the problem by teaching the daughter than there is even any need to “deal with” anything in the first place. I’m not a parent, but I’d like to think that if I had a son or daughter, I’d want them to just let these sorts of things go with a chuckle rather than giving them the feeling that they should always have their finger near the 911 speed-dial button on the phone. I don’t mean to turn this into a parenting discussion, I know there are as many different views on parenting as there are parents. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/13 "2012-01-02T06:02:14Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > Nope, I meant Whopper. People don’t look at you funny if you eat a Big Mac inside McDonald’s. 🙂 It was clearly a titillating affair. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/14 "2012-01-02T06:22:43Z")
Actually, I was basing my reply more on how I myself would have felt at a young age, when I didn’t have as much life experience dealing with these sorts of things (as **Al Bundy** mentioned above.) And the late-night aspect has a lot to do with it, too. In broad daylight, with more management, etc. around, things would likely be a little different. I’m not sure I would have called 911, but I probably would not have found it funny. I’d be more likely to find it funny now. I guess nudity has become much less sexual over time in my mind. I guess I only brought my daughter up because it’s an illustration of how young some of these fast food workers are, and, yes, as a parent, it’s a situation I’d rather she not have to deal with that young, in an ideal world. I want her to trust her instincts, and if her instincts tell her to call 911 on the creepy naked couple in the drive-thru at 2 am, I would support her in that. (I would also support her not doing that, especially if they did not tip off the “creep” factor.) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/15 "2012-01-02T15:35:06Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > You’d think they’d be used to seeing McNuggets. …yes but a quarter pounder? with cheese? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/16 "2012-01-02T15:38:32Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Illinois Penal Code Heh heh heh. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/17 "2012-01-02T19:55:44Z")
A friend in Germany works evenings at a gas station and they sell the usual stuff inside - chips, candy, beer, cigarettes, etc. One night there were about four or five people in there to pay for their gas and pick up a few things and in comes a guy, totally nude. He paid cash for the gas and then left. My friend, and the others in the gas station, all just laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Pops1963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@Pops1963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pops1963)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-fries-and-a-larger-towel-with-that/607943/18 "2012-01-03T00:05:04Z")
I think a lot would depend on where they hit on the creepy meter.