I want my McNuggets

[HTA!]

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090303/ODD.McNuggets.911/

This lady called 911 because she didn't get the McNuggets she paid for.

I would personally recommend a mental ward....
She was charged with misuse of 911, thank god.

[Doodle]

A McDonald's spokesman says Goodman should have been given a refund, and she's being sent a gift card for a free meal.

Moral of the story: Whine and call the cops, you'll get a reward.

[Titus Andronicus]

I think this is kind of legitimate. I mean, they essentially stole from her. The right thing to do would be to get to someone higher up than the manager, but she just wasn't thinking rationally.

I feel like arresting her was totally unjustified. She was stolen from. In her mind, that's an emergency.

[TheDarkChief]

She also had a southern accent.
Need I say more?

[Silverhawk79]

I want to make a racist joke about chicken nuggets and black people here, but that'd be too easy.

[Tupin]

Meh, I prefer the guy who called the police because they were out of lemonade at Burger King.

[Beatnik]

Sometimes I think restaurants should have a trap door in front of the counter, so when some dumb intercourse  is whining and moaning about they got the order wrong, they get dropped into the basement. The basement that is home to six hungry tigers.

I'm going to fantasize about that for a while now.

[PsychoYoshi]

My mom's a medical coder, and she's come home with lots of lulzy stories about idiots calling 911 because their kid has a cough or low-grade fever.

Hey, must be nice living on welfare and having the taxpayer pay for the ambulance and ER visit.

[Friendly Hostile]

I think this is kind of legitimate. I mean, they essentially stole from her. The right thing to do would be to get to someone higher up than the manager, but she just wasn't thinking rationally.

I feel like arresting her was totally unjustified. She was stolen from. In her mind, that's an emergency.

Working in retail, that's a load of poop.  The person behind the counter isn't perfect.  We make mistakes, such as in a rush to bag your poop because you're being impatient about getting whatever you've ordered, we miss something.  Our bad.  If you come back and let us know, it's usually minimum hassle, and you get a giftcard or what not sometimes.

We aren't standing at the register thinking "how can I rip this person off."  If we were, then yeah, we're stealing.  But otherwise, no, it's a simple mistake that could have been easily fixed.  She overreacted, abused a service reserved for emergencies, and rightfully deserves being arrested for doing so.

[Beatnik]

Well said, Hostile. Well said.

[Titus Andronicus]

I think this is kind of legitimate. I mean, they essentially stole from her. The right thing to do would be to get to someone higher up than the manager, but she just wasn't thinking rationally.

I feel like arresting her was totally unjustified. She was stolen from. In her mind, that's an emergency.

Working in retail, that's a load of poop.  The person behind the counter isn't perfect.  We make mistakes, such as in a rush to bag your poop because you're being impatient about getting whatever you've ordered, we miss something.  Our bad.  If you come back and let us know, it's usually minimum hassle, and you get a giftcard or what not sometimes.

We aren't standing at the register thinking "how can I rip this person off."  If we were, then yeah, we're stealing.  But otherwise, no, it's a simple mistake that could have been easily fixed.  She overreacted, abused a service reserved for emergencies, and rightfully deserves being arrested for doing so.

I was a bagger/cashier at a grocery store. No one is more mad off than when food gets intercourse ed with.

What you're saying and what this situation is is completely and entirely different. You're assuming the person at the counter was doing all they could to help this woman out. This woman did not talk only to the person at the counter, but to the manager, who refused to refund her money. This is not a restaurant policy, and the manager said that it was. In this way, when the sale that was made was not fulfilled, she had every right to have her money back.

I can understand where you're coming from. If you work in retail, you're not trying to screw someone over, I've done it and it can be very nerve wracking. But when someone came to me with some sort of problem that I may have made, I will either call a manager who is competent enough to know my error or fix it myself. The person at the counter called their manager over, and he was not competent enough to give her her money back, and it was rightfully hers.

When you take something from someone and refuse to give it back, you have effectively stolen from that person. That's all there is to it. I don't care what your intentions are.

The only thing that this woman did was overreact. Had she contacted someone even higher up, then the problem could have been resolved before being taken to the justice system. But had the problem not been resolved, she would have had every right to take them to court, even over such a small amount of money. It's the principle of the matter.

[Gwen Khan]

My mom's a medical coder, and she's come home with lots of lulzy stories about idiots calling 911 because their kid has a cough or low-grade fever.

Hey, must be nice living on welfare and having the taxpayer pay for the ambulance and ER visit.

I work in a grocery store, and I noticed the most annoying people on the ones on foodstamps/WIC, beggars can't be choosers

[Rayquarian]

By reading the comments of this thread, it seems most of you really hate poor people.

[Friendly Hostile]

I was a bagger/cashier at a grocery store. No one is more mad off than when food gets intercourse ed with.

What you're saying and what this situation is is completely and entirely different. You're assuming the person at the counter was doing all they could to help this woman out. This woman did not talk only to the person at the counter, but to the manager, who refused to refund her money. This is not a restaurant policy, and the manager said that it was. In this way, when the sale that was made was not fulfilled, she had every right to have her money back.

I can understand where you're coming from. If you work in retail, you're not trying to screw someone over, I've done it and it can be very nerve wracking. But when someone came to me with some sort of problem that I may have made, I will either call a manager who is competent enough to know my error or fix it myself. The person at the counter called their manager over, and he was not competent enough to give her her money back, and it was rightfully hers.

When you take something from someone and refuse to give it back, you have effectively stolen from that person. That's all there is to it. I don't care what your intentions are.

The only thing that this woman did was overreact. Had she contacted someone even higher up, then the problem could have been resolved before being taken to the justice system. But had the problem not been resolved, she would have had every right to take them to court, even over such a small amount of money. It's the principle of the matter.

It doesn't say anywhere in there if it actually was or wasn't restaurant policy.  Because a spokesperson says that they should have been refunded doesn't mean that's what's on the books.  They could simply be saying that to cover their asses and simply blame the management.  The problem with corporations of this nature is the understanding of what policy is varies quite a bit between the levels of employees.  What the cashier might think is policy might differ from management's and management's might differ somewhat from the district office.  The district office's policy can differ even from what home office claims is policy.  Interpretation and understanding varies as you travel down the chain of command.

Additionally, managers are forced to make decisions in cases like these, since people love to scam companies.  Sometimes it is hard to differentiate between someone raising a stink because there has been a mistake and someone who knows if they scream and whine enough, they'll get their way and money.  The manager probably made a bad call here, but again, he wasn't trying to steal from this woman.  He probably thought she was trying to steal from them, and thus made the call not to refund her.

And of course, this woman didn't help either.  She called 911 not once, not twice, but three times.  She could have simply demanded the number for the district and/or home office.  She would have been dealt with that way, and management at the restaurant would have probably gotten a slap on the wrist for making a bad call.  She'd have gotten her refund, avoided much of the pointless drama and life would go on.

[BOSSNIG]

I want to make a racist joke about chicken nuggets and black people here, but that'd be too easy.

Fried chicken, watermelon, Cadillac car.
We ain't as stupid as people think we is.