Salty burger lands McDonald's employee in jail

[Dark Fact]

Oh yeah, I'm lovin' this. :rolleyes:

Source Link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20677230)
UNION CITY, Ga. - A McDonald’s employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer’s burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick.

Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail.

Bull, 20, said she accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat and told her supervisor and a co-worker, who “tried to thump the salt off.”
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On her break, she ate a burger made with the salty meat. “It didn’t make me sick,” Bull told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

But then Police Officer Wendell Adams got a burger made with the oversalted meat, and he returned a short time later and told the manager it made him sick.

Bull admitted spilling salt on the meat, and Adams took her outside and questioned her, she said.

“If it was too salty, why did (Adams) not take one bite and throw it away?” said Bull, who has worked at the restaurant for five months. She said she didn’t know a police officer got one of the salty burgers because she couldn’t see the drive-through window from her work area.

Police sent samples of the burger to the state crime lab for tests.

City public information officer George Louth said Bull was charged because she served the burger “without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it.”
Advice to all would be McD's employees: If your burgers get too salty, don't serve them, ok? :sweat:

[The Falcon]

i'm going to have to go with the employee on this one. seems to me like the officer is majorly overreacting. if the officer went though the drive thru and the employee was in the kitchen with no vision of the window, how would she know it was for a cop unless told? also, if her story is true that she alerted her supervisors, who did nothing, then it should have been the management to spend time in jail, not her

[Dark Fact]

I agree. The cop just flat out overreacted. Throwing a person in jail over a salty burger is not on the same level as refusing to pay a parking ticket or stealing a lady's purse. No law was being broken here. The employee just made a mistake.

[Captain Highwind]

Omg, the extra salt could have thrown off a diabetic's blood levels!

Or something.

Oh wait, the burger would have done that anyway.



I like how the employee tried to scrap the salt off the burger as a solution to the problem. That's gold. :anime:

[Shawn Hopkins]

"Double Baco Cheeseburger! It's for a cop."

Good thing to see they're going after the real, hardcore criminals in Union, by the way. I'd hate to think what would happen if they wasted their time busting drug dealers and murderers instead of protecting people from careless fast food workers.

[Elven Moon]

Oh, brother. Forget drug dealers, we need to lock up the people who put too much stuff on stuff! :p

[jeff_iz_XLent]

Go to Subway.At least it's healthier.

[Dr.Pepper]

That is one car-azy cop.

[Robin2099]

Boy, and people wonder why cops are always so hated by the population.

[John Dorian]

Okay, so if I throw a piece of gum in the trash can and miss the can, will I have whole police and SWAT on me?



Seriously, a small thing nowadays turns to a crime when it's not even that serious to begin with.

[TyUnlimited]

Wow,people are idiots these days.........It's the end of the world If you eat a salty burger?

[.bg]

Oh my God. These salty-burger flingers are menaces to society. Worse than murderers! :p

Seriously, that was a severe overreaction. The worst the poor kid should have recieved was a scolding from the manager. What a world we live in, huh?

[ElBarto]

if the officer went though the drive thru and the employee was in the kitchen with no vision of the window, how would she know it was for a cop unless told?
So she shouldn't serve bad food to a cop but it's ok if it's anybody else? Thats an inane statement.

[tucsoncoyote]

I personally think this is about as deplorable as say someone throwing a piece of paper on the sidewalk and being jailed for littering.

But then when you read down the article further, you find out that the issue was "Blatant Disregard for those consuming the burger?" Excuse me? Blatant Disregard? I mean here the worker told the manager about this, she tried to fix the problem, and in the end, she ends up in jail just because a cop over-reacts and thinks she's trying to poison him..

But then you have to think back to all those other horror stories we hear of fast food folks putting things that shouldn't be in a burger (remember about 11 years ago about a story in Tennessee about a fast food worker that put a condom (and not a condiment) that landed them in jail. Or how about all those times we have heard about "E.coli" bits (Remember last year with Taco Bell in New York?)

But I've also seen cops over react.. I remember one time a cop got totally hostile on a worker because he gave her a 10 dollar bill and she gave the correct change.. The Cop lied that he gave her a 20, and yet the camera that was in the store showed that he worker was in the right.. yet the cop came in and got all hostile and eventually arrested the poor woman.

So is this a mistake? yes it is.. in fact it's odd that the Union Georgia police are all up in arms because of a mistake.. what's next? Having a cop bust a convience store owner for gypping him out of 2 cents? When it gets that bad, well then it's time to "Drop the rock" on all of us.

:coyote: