Posted on 04/21/2016 10:30:13 AM PDT by Teotwawki
A McDonalds customer has been charged with robbery after he emptied a cup of water and filled it up with soda from a machine in a restaurant in Arkansas.
Cody Morris, 18, and two pals went to a drive-thru in Springdale and and asked for large cups of water. But they then parked their car and dumped their cups before filling them up with soda. [snip]
But Morris reversed his car and drove off, allegedly hitting the manager as he made his getaway. Police arrested Morris at a nearby bowling alley. It is unclear if he will face any charges apart from felony robbery.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I do not know for certain, but I suspect it is felony robbery because he hit the manager with his car while committing theft.
The automobile incident may make it a felony.
Dumb kid.
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The headline is a lie.
If something had not been stolen, it would have been assault. Since something was stolen, it is not just assault, but robbery.
The ridiculous thing here is that these guys hit the manager with a car over a couple of cups of soda. The law should be very interested in people this stupid and violent.
Hitting the manager with his car is the felony... Read the entire story, not the headline.
Most likely bumping the Manager with the car, otherwise it should have just been petty larceny at the most. However, I’m not sure what was dumber, risking a criminal record by stealing a soda or the manager seriously risking his own life trying to prevent some kid who stole a soda from fleeing.
Crud-stache gave him away
Stealing soda = petty theft.
Stealing soda by force or fear = robbery.
If thief obtains property non-forcibly via petty theft, but during flight uses force or fear to retain same = robbery.
Arrested for possessing 20 ounces of Coke?
-PJ
Exactly Describe hitting the manager with a car. Then it becomes a felony.
The headline is so inaccurate that it is misleading. He wasn't charged with robbery for taking a cup of soda. He was charged with robbery for assault while committing theft. He reminds me of this "gentle giant".
Petty theft, if he did it unobserved and had no interaction with a person. Robbery if he interacted with a person while performing the deed. Like burglary vs. robbery; if no one’s home it’s burglary.
I don’t know Arkansas criminal law, but I would have guessed theft rather than robbery. The interaction with the manager may have qualified it for the stiffer charge.
I read the story. In fact I excerpted from it, beginning and end. The police did not charge him with anything related to hitting the manager. They only charged him for taking the soda.
And to think Obama has not been arrested for what he has done...
The headline is just a way to get people to read it. I’m sure if the headline said he hit the manager with a car, not as many people would have looked at it.
This water cup scheme has become almost SOP in the ‘hood. The employees aren’t supposed to try and stop it - hope this guy keeps his job.
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