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Grandma Arrested At McDonald's Called Officer 'Evil,' Report Says
MSNBC ^

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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fastfood; grandma; lip; marines; mcdonalds; seniors
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To: La Enchiladita
Have people lost the use of their legs? I’m serious. Was the officer and the driver behind him incapable of getting out of their vehicles and walking INSIDE the McDonalds or whatever it was, and if so urgently hungry, ordering their food inside the establishment?

They offer the drivethrough service specifically to cater to people who do not have enough time to stop and eat their meal indoors or who would prefer to eat their meal on the go or some other location rather than the McDonald's.

Just amazing to me how little THINKING people do.

Well, I'm not sure why anyone would make a bizarre special order like salt-free fries at a drivethrough. "I'm so interested in keeping healthy that I want my loaded-with-saturated-fat snack to be salt-free."

I'm also not sure why anyone who has 20 minutes to waste just idling in an automobile wouldn't choose to just park in the lot 100 feet away and eat their snack rather than blocking everyone else in.

101 posted on 01/23/2008 12:06:51 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: AppyPappy

No one was blocking anything. But the dumb cop had no patience and no brains.

It really is too much to ask people to think.


102 posted on 01/23/2008 12:07:32 PM PST by La Enchiladita (I'm on the Mitt-Mobile!!!)
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To: La Enchiladita
I enjoy being a hermit.

Gee, I'd never have guessed.
103 posted on 01/23/2008 12:07:45 PM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: HD1200

“The host asked her “Suing, for what”, and she wouldn’t answer.”

That’s not exactly true. In response to that question, she told the Fox guy that he would have to ask her attorney that question. Try to be honest.


104 posted on 01/23/2008 12:07:47 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: driftdiver; La Enchiladita

Well, it seems we’re missing some info. Also seems the McD’s is backing the cop. Guess I should reserve judgement.
Incidently, I’m a friend of our mayor. Wouldn’t use that to influence anyone. :-)


105 posted on 01/23/2008 12:07:51 PM PST by gate2wire (Even when you know, you never know.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
...one of these old folk who cruise at 50 in a 70 zone in the left lane because “dammit, I paid for this lane..”

Once I got "The sign says I can do 45, it doesn't say I have to." An old lady doing 30 in the left lane of a 45 zone, I caught up to her at a shopping center we both pulled into.

I have to admit, she had a point.

106 posted on 01/23/2008 12:07:55 PM PST by infidel29 (I think I'd have a coronary if someone ever called Hillary out on her many lies and distortions.)
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To: La Enchiladita

She was blocking the drive thru. Both the cop and the McDonald’s guy said that.


107 posted on 01/23/2008 12:08:15 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: La Enchiladita

“Dumb, mean cop in my book.”

Ya, don’t we all think the same thing when we get that speeding ticket for doing 80 in a 60...........


108 posted on 01/23/2008 12:08:21 PM PST by HD1200
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To: HD1200

“Never mind the fact that cops get lunch and work breaks also.”

If his time was so critical he should not have been in the drive thru. EVERY thinking individual knows drive thru’s can be slow.


109 posted on 01/23/2008 12:08:25 PM PST by driftdiver
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To: Beelzebubba

I withdraw my comment.


110 posted on 01/23/2008 12:08:34 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: HD1200

>>A sad situation this lady put the police in due to her stubbornness.<<

I would think that McDonald’s was actually the complainant- the cop doesn’t have a case but McD’s does if she is blocking the drive through and won’t move.


111 posted on 01/23/2008 12:08:39 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

DUH! She’ll be suing the “deep pockets”


112 posted on 01/23/2008 12:08:51 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: La Enchiladita
I imagine the younger men posting on this thread are the same ones who are rude to me on a daily basis if I am perceived to be “in their way.”

If you're blocking me in a drive-thru for 20 minutes, you're definitely in my way. Talk about rude! This cop was way nicer than I would have been.

113 posted on 01/23/2008 12:09:04 PM PST by Millers Cave (Lurker since 1998)
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To: HD1200

You guys who enjoy being rude and abusive will get yours someday.


114 posted on 01/23/2008 12:09:47 PM PST by La Enchiladita (I'm on the Mitt-Mobile!!!)
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To: HD1200
Yes, it was a sad situation.

Ol' grandma wasn't budging before she got fries "without salt"? One would think that, in less than half the space of the twenty minutes the officer spent trying to persuade her, someone from the McDonalds could have supplied the unsalted fries? Then ask her to move along?
The end of the problem, the solution to the problem, was right there all along, right at the beginning of the [small] problem.

Did she pay for the "unsalted' fries, and did she ever get them? If she did pay for them, I can see why someone, particularly elderly, might dig in their heels until the transaction was completed. Having a policeman talk to her for twenty minutes (while still not getting the dang fries!) was undoubtedly exasperating for the old bird...

It makes me wonder about how many other situations this officer approaches, relying first and foremost, just about entirely [20 minutes?!? sheesh!] on his authority to order folks around, and thus blinded when someone fails to comply.

Being a policeman can be tough, of that we have no doubt.
It's difficult to be graceful, when others around you, are most certainly not.
In the future, instead off running the risk of making bad situations worse, maybe the this officer should try also, using something other than only [default] power of authority, you know, like maybe a brain?

115 posted on 01/23/2008 12:10:02 PM PST by BlueDragon (...second guessing others..just another of the many services i offer!)
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To: The Black Knight
But cop bashing on this site is the norm, which is sad. It doesn’t matter how obvious it is that this old hag had it coming to her. It doesn’t matter that the McDonald’s manager agreed with the cop. You Cop Flamers only can see three words in the title...”Grandma”, “Arrested”, and “Officer”. Who cares about anything else, like reason and logic?

When you see some of these folks show up on this type of thread you can be certain that things are slow over at the anti-wod threads.

116 posted on 01/23/2008 12:10:38 PM PST by AxelPaulsenJr (God Bless George W. Bush)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Did she or did she NOT answer what she was suing for....?

I rest my case.


117 posted on 01/23/2008 12:10:38 PM PST by HD1200
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To: infidel29
I have to admit, she had a point.

Not really. In CA, they can still pull you over for obstructing traffic.
118 posted on 01/23/2008 12:11:39 PM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: driftdiver

Help me out with your logic. If the cop wasn’t there, then it was ok for the woman to block the drive-thru?


119 posted on 01/23/2008 12:12:06 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: La Enchiladita

“You guys who enjoy being rude and abusive will get yours someday.”

Straight talk is now rude and abusive? LOL.


120 posted on 01/23/2008 12:12:12 PM PST by HD1200
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