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.
I didn't say obese, I said 300 pounds.
Unlike you, my experience with cops is that they will go to great lengths to avoid confrontation with large belligerent men, but will be very strict with the mother in the minivan about her insurance card not being current. I'll stand by my contention.
I have no doubt that this woman was a complete pain, but there is no way a cop would have even responded to this if he hadn't been in line right behind her. He was acting on personal motivation, not for the good of the public.
I've tried and failed to get cops to take any action at all in situations far, far more serious than this one.
The manager should have called for a tow truck if she was being that big of a problem.
Cops have no more rights than the rest of us and it burns me when they use their official position to settle a personal dispute that they wouldn't even respond to if it were someone else in the same position.