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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but that wouldn’t get all these fun responses...
The true, and untold, part of this story is, how many other decent law-abiding citizens have fallen into this nefarious trap?
Now, see, you do have a sense of humor. There is hope for you yet...:)
Once upon a time I was a fast food manager. It is an inconvenience, because it takes an employee’s time away from serving other customers. In a busy fast-food restaurant during a meal rush period, 2 or 3 minutes of having an employee off the line can inconvenience a lot of customers.
One shop I managed for a while was in a busy mall — no drive-thru, obviously, but sometimes special orders had to be taken out to a customer’s table to keep the lines moving. There was a dearth of eateries in this mall, so we were always busy, but the Christmas shopping period was especially intense. We had two cash registers, each supported by a line of order-takers and order-fillers working with assembly line efficiency. One time when we calculated how fast we were able to serve customers when we had an unlimited supply of them (they were already lined up at the gate before we opened, and we had to bring down the gate on a remaining line at closing), it turned out that over the course of an entire day, 9AM to 10PM with extended holiday mall hours, we averaged one customer every 7 seconds, so 14 seconds for each line. If I had an employee take 90 seconds to take an order out to the dining room, that meant 6+ potential customers who we just weren’t able to serve at all that day.
You ain't kidding.
I thought the 700-800 replies on various threads from yesterday would have settled the issue.
But Noooooo.....
Here we are at nearly 250 today.
I wonder what tomorrow will bring?
Ok, now you are going to send me to the dictionary. LOL
She was asked to move twice. First by the drive thru worker. She did this.
Then the cop approached her after honking and waving at her. He said she was parked illegally and told her to move. She refused at this point because MD had asked her to park there and did not feel she was illegally parked.
Good line. Bobby has a way of nailing the truth.
“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.
Good point. And now, he will possibly think twice about accosting female senior citizens....*Grin*.”
Naw, the 300 pound biker probably had a record and wouldn’t want trouble so he would do the right thing and get his vehicle out of the way of the cops and patrons. This old battle axe is in a world of her own thinking everybody owes her the time of day....
Let me know what it says...
LOL, you were just called a hermit again.
“Oh, so now it’s about FEELINGS. How very liberal of you.”
Nice witty comeback. Next you’ll claim I’m from DU. Beware Godwins rule though.
“She was conducting business with this establishment which gives her the legal right to be there until they advise her she is trespassing and request she leave. Are you a lawyer and a game warden?
The key part of the ordinance “so as to endanger the safe movement of pedestrians or vehicles thereon”
She was not endangering pedestrians or vehicles so that code does not apply. Nor was she blocking the entrance to prevent free access.”
The endangerment would occur as soon as one of the two dozen or more people decided to force their way out of the line, or worse yet, confront the old lady in their own way for not getting out of the way of humanity. It was the cops job to enforce the law; he could see a situation that would endanger someone as soon as people tried to bust out of the line or force her to move. He did his JOB!
LOL, I don’t care. It’s just because it’s raining anyway...:)
Sorry to inform y’all, I get out there and get in the mix. 99% of the time it works out okay.
I believe she was on a power trip. I would never burden the drive thru with a special order. The drive thru is for quick orders and standard stuff. People who are in a hurry/have to get back to work/etc., use the drive thru. If I want a special order, I go inside.
I might add that blocking a drive thru for 20 minutes probably caused a large loss of revenue for that business. There were some very unhappy customers lined up behind and possibly trapped there, as well. I think trying to reason with her for 20 minutes was generous. Had the police not arrested her, how long would she have stayed there?
Yes, she had already paid for her order. Good grief.
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