Posted on 01/23/2008 11:31:08 AM PST by HD1200
CLEARWATER - The 75-year-old grandmother who was arrested Thursday at a McDonald's on a charge of disorderly conduct gave an officer lip, according to a police report. Jean Merola swore at the officer and said, "You are an evil man. Your wife is going to divorce you. Your kids probably hate you too. You are going to hell," according to the report.
Officer Matthew Parco was behind Merola in line and had received his drink; he asked her to move up so he could get around her but she didn't respond. Parco spent about 20 minutes asking Merola to move the car before she was arrested.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
I guesss google maps beats actually having been to this McDonalds. Ya beat me there.
Read what it says, not what you think it should say
Yes, but the old lady's car would still have been blocking the drive-thru window. Fast food restaurants have internal policies -- designed to comply with their insurance policies as well as with prudent legal advice re liability -- against serving pedestrians through the drive-thru window. If the woman was blocking the window, thus creating a situation where it could not be used to serve the growing line of customers behind her whose food was ready without their getting out of their cars and walking to the window, the officer was right to arrest her after she refused the manager's request to move her car.
Yeah. Someone posted the exact statute earlier. So, the cop was well within the law to arrest this woman. If anything, he probably exercised alot of restraint.
The article spins it to make it sound as though the cop was abusing his authority.
“Do me a favor and link one.”
I’d rather not, there are links in this thread and your condescending manner doesn’t incline me to be nice. Of course if you’re a cop I’ll jump right to it Sir.
Get a grip. She’s not a “horrible woman.” You don’t even know her. You are simply on the wrong side of this. And you are mistaken to believe that you are not going to encounter obstacles in life. Life does not owe you or me a smooth, trouble-free path.
And, she wasn’t “blocking everyone else.” Your animosity towards this person is disturbing.
“You Cop Flamers”
I spent the last 25 years of my working life servicing law enforcement agencies with my own business.
In the last 10 years, I have noticed a considerable decline
in the quality of police officers... Yes, many are now “jackbooted thugs” that take the job to show their power.
It is an entirely different class from what I knew in the past.
I do not know any details of this story, but it seems suspicious. Yes, if the owners of the property filed a complaint then the old bag should have been carted away.
She was legally obligated to move from that point on.
When the cop asked her to move again she refused.
This isn’t rocket science.
The fact that the cop continued to try to get her to move instead of arresting her on the spot for refusing both the employees and his orders shows some restraint, not the other way around.
My condescending manner?
You’re a hoot!
(By the way, here’s a link to the story more favorable to the woman:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22743780/
As I said, I was commenting on the story that started the thread and the facts as presented therein.)
Drivethru lanes in general, and this particular one specifically, are broad enough for two cars to drive abreast. Why? Because one lane is for the drivethru and one lane is clear for non-drivethru customers leaving the parking lot.
No, but you get to pass them if the righthand lane is clear and they are not blocking both lanes with their car.
Isn't the positioning of cars in a drive thru the business of the McDonald's manager, vice a moving violation?
Since a restaurant is a public accomodation, a police officer is allowed to direct traffic in and through the parking lot and drivethru lanes.
I greatly suspect that if the person in front of him in line had been a 300 pound biker, the cop would have just waited until the biker got his food and left.
I've never met a cop who was scared of a biker - especially an obese one.
I'm not a cop and I'm not afraid of fat guys in costumes who think they're tough.
Other people’s freedom annoys you, doesn’t it?
Wrong, wrong and wrong. http://www.ksdk.com/news/watercooler/hot_topics_article.aspx?storyid=138867
Bingo. Excellent post.
It's easier to measure distances using a bird's eye map that's right in front of you rather than trying to measure distances from a streetlevel memory in your head.
The way things are going, I’m really surprised she didn’t get taser-gunned in the process.
Your link only further confirms what I wrote in 175.
“75-year-old Jean Merola was asked to pull forward and wait when she placed her daily order for a cup of coffee and unsalted fries at a Clearwater McDonald’s.”
She refused.
Then when a cop told to move forward she still refused.
Explain.
Links to the original thread and other articles have already been posted on this thread. That thread has numerous links which are very informative. Prove me wrong or retract. I have no time for lazy folks.
I think some of the anti-cop folks are kinda wishing she had been... :)
I quote: ""You are an evil man. Your wife is going to divorce you. Your kids probably hate you too. You are going to hell."
Who says that kind of stuff to someone who asks her to move her car?
Answer: a horrible person.
And, she wasn’t “blocking everyone else.”
Indeed she was.
She was blocking the lanes that are the drivethru exit and the parking lot exit, so no one else's car was able to leave the restaurant.
Your animosity towards this person is disturbing.
How about telling someone that they hated their own dearly departed grandmothers? Does that kind of animosity rise to the level of disturbing?
Yes I am, and I think you need to work on your grammar.
Sonny.
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