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Diner Attacks McDonald's With Axe Over 'Cold Fries'
The Local ^ | 10 Dec 2013

Posted on 12/12/2013 5:17:22 PM PST by nickcarraway

A diner at a McDonald's drive-thru near Paris skipped the usual customer complaints procedure recently, after being served fries he deemed too cold. Instead, the man grabbed an axe and launched into a violent and terrifying attack, according to Le Parisien.

We’ve all been let down from time to time by the discrepancy between what appears in fast food commercials, and what we get served in reality.

But for one McDonald’s customer near Paris late on Saturday night, the disappointment was too much to take, it would appear.

According to French daily Le Parisien, a customer at a drive-thru restaurant at Garges-lès-Gonesse, in the northern suburbs of the French capital, didn’t take kindly to the temperature of his fries, after pulling up to the fast-food outlet on Avenue de Stalingrad at around 2am on Saturday night.

After complaining they were too cold, and apparently not getting satisfaction from the staff-member behind the drive-thru counter, the 26-year-old man descended from his Renault Master van, brandishing an axe.

The incident escalated rapidly, as the enraged man swung his axe at the drive-thru counter, smashing the glass window to pieces.

Apparently not convinced he had made his feelings clear, he then threw the axe into the restaurant itself, where it landed amid a group of terrified late-night diners, narrowly missing them.

The angry McDonald’s customer drove off in his van, and attempted to flee police officers, who had been tipped off by witnesses.

In the end, however, he was stopped and arrested by law enforcement, who found him bleeding heavily from a deep wound in his right arm, apparently incurred during the attack on the drive-thru counter.

Emergency services were called to the scene and patched up the deeply dissatisfied customer, a local man, before he was taken in for questioning by police.

The 35-year-old McDonald’s employee with the misfortune to be working the drive-thru counter at the time of the incident, suffered cuts to the face from fragments of the shattered glass window, but was not hospitalized, according to Le Parisien.


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To: bmwcyle
Why didn’t he call 911 like everyone else?

It happened in France, they're metric!

21 posted on 12/12/2013 6:55:09 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!

So why didn’t he call 9.11?


22 posted on 12/12/2013 6:59:39 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: nickcarraway
I assume that the McDonalds business policy is the same in France as everywhere else.
France is a very strange place. If fries are habitually cold and the holder of the franchise is indifferent to complaints, McDonalds should pull their franchise.
23 posted on 12/12/2013 7:22:22 PM PST by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good grace to resign!)
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To: SamAdams76

Col’ fried pertaters, uh huh, sil vous plait woolly woolly.


24 posted on 12/12/2013 7:26:52 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: nickcarraway

“they always f*** you at the drive through”


25 posted on 12/13/2013 3:33:40 AM PST by jocon307
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To: Revolting cat!

I wanna axe you somethin’ about these fries...


26 posted on 12/13/2013 12:15:15 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: jocon307

no extra charge?


27 posted on 12/13/2013 12:20:08 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: a fool in paradise

Cold fries with his McSnails? Mon Dieu!


28 posted on 12/13/2013 12:27:13 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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