Over salted burger lands McDonald's employee in jail

McDonald's employee jailed

No, this isn't from the Onion. It's reported on MSNBC. Apparently you can go to jail in Union, GA if you accidentally spill salt on a police officer's burger. I guess she should've thrown out the meat instead of trying to wipe off the salt. My favorite part of the article is this:

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

For fuck's sakes, it's MCDONALD'S! How healthy is it going to be anyway?!

Lay off the condiments you criminal scum!

I'd love to see the look on the judge's face in court when an assistant D.A. tries to present this case. It's beyond ludicrous. What, exactly, would be the official charges?

Farva: Give me a double bacon cheeseburger.
Dimpus Burger Guy: [into mic] Double baco cheeseburger. It's for a cop.
Farva: What the hell's that all about? You gonna spit in it now?
Dimpus Burger Guy: No, I just told him that so he makes it good.
[into mic]
Dimpus Burger Guy: Don't spit in that cop's burger.
Farva: Yeah, thanks.
Second Dimpus Guy: Roger, holding the spit.
Farva: Gimme a pie... apple.
Dimpus Burger Guy: Want me to hold the spit? Hah, just kidding officer Farva.
[pause]
Dimpus Burger Guy: Want me to dimpa-size your meal for 25 cents?
Farva: Want me to punch-a-size your face, for free?
Dimpus Burger Guy: It's only 25 cents, and look how much more you get.
Thorny: Look, kid, he doesn't want it.
Farva: I can handle this, Thorn. I don't want it!
Dimpus Burger Guy: Uhh, right. Beverage?
Farva: Gimme a litre o' cola.
Dimpus Burger Guy: What?
Farva: [Annoyed] A litre o' cola.
Dimpus Burger Guy: [into mic] Litrecola? Do we sell litrecola?
Thorny: Will you just order a large, Farva?
Farva: I don't want a large farva. I want a goddamn litre o' cola!
Dimpus Burger Guy: [to Farva] I don't know what that is!
Farva: [slowly starts shouting] Litre is French for...
[grabs burger kid by shirt]
Farva: ... give me my fuckin' cola before I break VOUS FUCKIN' LIP!

Hey, it could be worse, the kid could've dropped the burger on the Judge's lucky pants. And we all know how expensive those can be!

Oh, for fucks sake "a salt on a police officer" of course

Yeah, it should be criminal to serve the stuff.

Oh for fucks sake, is this what we've become in this country -- a bunch of whiny bitches who look to punish everyone we can when life isn't perfect? That police officer needs to be tied down and repeatedly kicked in the nuts while having salt poured down his throat. What a fucking tool!

Here's a clue numbnuts....if the burger tastes too salty....STOP FUCKING EATING IT!!! You don't arrest the employee! This is nothing more than abuse of power, and this cop needs to loose his job over this. We don't live in a police state where you arrest people if your burger isn't cooked right.

I'm laughing so hard at this thread that my tummy hurts!

Rogue cop. Not funny. But not all that unusual, either. Not so very long ago, instead of arresting the employee, he'd have sandbagged her in the parking lot.

But I love paying taxes...and here's why!

[Uncle Leo] You don't just over salt a burger, Jerry. [/Uncle Leo]

He should be glad it was just oversalted.

So what does this cop do if he doesn't get enough sprinkles on his jelly donut, give the employee a wood shampoo with his baton?

Absolutely right. The cop should be fired and have criminal charges pressed against him for abusing his power.

The worst part is that he ate the whole burger instead of just complaining and getting a new one.

Yep. If after tasting the first bite, he still proceeded to eat the rest of the burger and got sick afterwards, it's his own fault.

How many people are involved in the process of incarcerating someone overnight in jail? It's hard to believe not a one of them looked at the charge and said WTF?

DEATH BY SNU SNU.

Well in the case of an "over-salting" for sure, but that is too broad of a generalization considering you can get food poisoning from something that tastes just fine. But you don't arrest the cook at a restaurant because you get sick either. You may get some free meals out of it, or just not go back, but we can't let bad cops run around arresting everyone that pisses them off. I can't believe he was fired for this. What a horrible abuse of power.

I'm guessing after the first bite, it was clear that the problem was salt, and he just chose to ignore it until he got sick.

Then again, he did have it sent to a lab

But if he ate it all, what exactly got sent to the lab :flow2:

I definitely agree this was a huge abuse of police power, but at the same time I do think that McDonald's should have scrapped the burgers that they knew were affected rather than try to shake the salt off. That's just lazy.

I hope the cop gets fired...

Nobody is disagreeing with you about that. However, that isn't the more serious of the 2 issues.

He should have sent the burger back and let them put the Special Sauce on it.

It would only be worse if it had been Krispy Kreme and they fucked up his doughnut.

It's as if the police officer thinks that a foreign substance was added to his burger (i.e. someone spit in it) because someone doesn't like cops or something.

Based on the incident report, he only ate three bites before he got sick.

Unless the crime lab finds arsenic in the burger, I don't know what this judge is supposed to do about it.

I'm still trying grasp why he took bite two and bite three.

Intentionally tampering with food served at a restaurant is a crime in many states, and the investigator's report indicates that there was more than enough salt & pepper to suggest that the oversalting was intentional...so much so that they were able to photograph the rather large amount of salt & pepper present throughout the burger.