'My McNuggets are an emergency'

Yeah, yeah, we know how fond you are of the Chicken McNuggets at McDonald's. After all, you ordered the 10-piece pack.  And we understand how you might have gotten a tad upset that you didn't find out until after you'd forked over your cash that this particular Fort Pierce McDonald's was out of McNuggets.

Still. Did you have to go and call 911?  Not once.  Not twice.  But three times?

Dedicated public servants that they are, the police did show up at the restaurant.  The cashier told them that she'd offered you "a larger portion of food for the same price to make up for it," but you would not be mollified.

"This is an emergency," you insisted. "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.

"This is an emergency."

Police officers did not agree with your assessment, according to TCPalm, and so you -- Latreasa L. Goodman, age 27 -- ended up charged with misuse of 911.

The Smoking Gun offers a copy of the arrest report and additional details.

Photo:  Associated Press

Comments

[Denis Baldwin]

McDonalds is the crack of the masses.

[Nike]

with a first name like Latreasa, it only makes me smile.....lol

[Sharon DePauw]

About the lady in Fort Pierce, FL. who called 911 3X re: No chicken McNuggets & No Refund on 3/3/'09:

Setting aside the more imperative issues in our country for the moment:

This lady should NOT have called '9-1-1'--certainly NOT THREE TIMES, BUT she should NOT have been arrested either!

1. The FIRST time she called 9-1-1, the operator could have given her the NON-emergency number to report her criminal complaint--THEFT on the part of McDonald's for NOT giving the woman her money back when the woman told them she didn't want to order anything else from their menu.

Evidently this woman was finally referred to the NON-emergency number to report the problem/theft. Instead of informing the McDonald's manager that he had committed a crime and should have been charged with THEFT and, yes, arrested! Instead the lady/customer was not only robbed, SHE was arrested! The McNuggets lady didn't clearly articulate the complaint as THEFT by McDonald's, but that should have been clear to the officers who responded to the call. At that point McDonald's SHOULD not have the chance for reverse their crime.
Turn it around, if the McNuggests lady had been given her McNuggets and then ran off without paying, you can be sure McDonald's would have reported the crime of theft. And and do you REALLY think the McNuggets lady would have been given the chance to pay once the police arrived to investigate the THEFT? NO way! The thief is arrested and hauled off to jail for their crime and NOT given any chance by police to reverse their crime of theft.

About the THREE CALLS to '9-1-1': Poor judgment at the very least, but the THEFT of money had been committed AGAINST her, not by her. Most of us know better than to call '9-1-1' for anything but a TRUE life threatening EMERGENCY. IS IT POSSIBLE to come up with an 'easy-to-remember' number for NON-emergencies & criminal complaints on a smaller scale?? Evidently we need one! The McNuggets lady is NOT the FIRST person to call '9-1-1' for what MOST of us would consider a 'NON-emergency' and sadly, it WON'T be the LAST.

[coffee]

i'm glad somebody's finally cracking down on the fast food industry; they are destroying the population with their addictive, tasty trans fats and dollar menus...