Posted on 03/03/2009 1:59:17 PM PST by rawhide
MARCH 3--Angered that her local McDonald's was out of Chicken McNuggets, a Florida woman called 911 three times to report the fast food "emergency." Latreasa Goodman, 27, last Saturday called police to complain that a cashier--citing a McDonald's all sales are final policy--would not give her a refund. When cops responded to the restaurant, Goodman told them, "This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one." Goodman noted, "I called 911 because I couldn't get a refund, and I wanted my McNuggets," according to the below Fort Pierce Police Department report. That logic, however, did not keep cops from citing Goodman for misusing the 911 system. Even after being issued a misdemeanor citation, Goodman contended, "this is an emergency, my McNuggets are an emergency."
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“McDonolds food and customer service suck anyway.”
The food is pretty much the same anywhere, but the service varies by franchise. The one near by house will kiss your ass if you bend over far enough.
I have no quarrel with her calling the police if she believed a crime had been committed, but they have regular telephone numbers just like everyone else. The 911 system is for emergencies and she should have been cited for misuse of the system. There is a reason that the law provides for such a citation. She had no emergency -- let alone 3 calls worth of emergency. I simply don't understand how anyone can justify this situation as an emergency, or even a "crime" for that matter.
I will say that, as usual, something seems to be missing from this story. Could it be that she swiped a credit card for the transaction, in which case the procedures at Mickey D's may have been to not refund in cash? It is difficult to understand why a manager -- even a complete dumbass manager -- would refuse to give somebody a couple of bucks back if the order couldn't be filled.
1700 is 1600 adjusted for inflation.
Again, if you accept that you can call 911 after a bank robbery where the perp is gone or a car accident when no one is hurt, then 911 is appropriate for non emergencies?
Or is it just ok after a bank robbery because the deposits are insured by the government so it is its money but not ok when it is the citizen who has had her money taken?
Is there a dollar amount that justifies calling 911 and today “The Great Filling Station Hold Up” would have gotten proprietor cited for calling 911 because the crooks did not get enough?
If she had swiped a credit card, then that could have been refunded with a credit back on the card. Maybe she was lying about them not being willing to give her back her money. I doubt that, but if so she was wrong to call 911 and should have been cited, again if they offered her her money back. I suspect they just did not like her there for whatever reason and thought they would just keep her money. The police should have threatened an employee with arrest and had the situation resolved right then. Sometimes that is the job of a cop to resolve a situation to keep it from esculating into a court matter.
Oh, good grief. It was an order of McNuggets ... and you want to take the discussion to government insured accounts and bank robbery? LOL! Have a nice evening.
Upset that she missed all the hip-hop on pennsylvania Lane
Sweet.
I was once chewed out by a State Trooper captain because I did not call 911 after a minor hit-and-run accident. Since nobody was hurt, my vehicle was not disabled, and the other party was long gone, I didn't see any point to calling 911 (it was no longer an "emergency" in my opinion) and instead looked up the regular police number to report it when I got to my destination.
They reveal themselves anytime there is a thread of this nature. Either the food nazis, nannystaters or those that think a McNugget shortage is a serious crime. LOL! Leaves a bunch of us shaking our heads.
Where do you find a phone book these days, excepting your home? I forgot my cell phone one night and had to call my son - I drove 10 miles to places that used to have pay phones and they’d all been removed. So no phone books. When I once called the local police to report my NON emergency - my son’s bike had been stolen - they told me I had to call 911. I said “But it’s not an emergency!” and they told me I still had to call 911.
Nope, I called the local PD to report my son’s bike had been stolen and they told me I had to call 911. Even though I protested that it was not an emergency, they told me I still had to go through 911.
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