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Woman Arrested After Calling 911 (3 Times) When McDonald's Runs Out of McNuggets

posted March 4, 2009 - 11:14am
Woman Arrested After Calling 911 (3 Times) When McDonald's Runs Out of McNuggets

No more McNuggets, better call 911! No, it's not an episode from "Reno 911," it's a real-life incident.

A Florida woman was arrested for misuse of the 911 service when she called the emergency line three times to complain that a McDonald's was out of Chicken McNuggets after she had paid for them. The woman, Latreasa Goodman, says the complaint wasn't about the nuggets, but about the fact that while the store offered her another meal in place of the golden brown nuggets, it wouldn't refund her money. She said that that constitutes theft.

The McDonald's in question is in Fort Pierce, Florida.

"She don't have what I want and she can't force me to eat something that I don't want," Goodman said to 911 dispatchers.

"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, this is an emergency!"

There are unconfirmed reports that the woman was buying the McNuggets for a friend who goes by the online name "Whatup."


Website: http://www.cbs12.com/news/keep_4715268___article.h...

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McIDIOT

Im not at all surprised by the intelligence of this woman as McDonalds isn't exactly brain food. But we have idiots in australia who dial 911 for things just as stupid. At least this idiot knows the right emergency phone number for her own country.

Too greasy!

My girlfriend worked at a Mickey Ds before as well, and the stories she would tell me about the customers would make you question the intelligence of people who eats there. For example, a customer once orders some combo, that includes your burger, drink and fries, but the guy comes to complain about his fries being "too greasy." I mean, who complains about food being too greasy at a fast food restaurant? Is not that a given?

Chicken nuggets 911

Yeah, that's why she was arrested. I'd hope this discourages other people from trying to solve such trivial disputes in a similar way.

Misuse of emergency services

Misuse of emergency services should be punishable with couple of years behind bars. I am sure the incident is too trivial and the concerned woman could have arrived at some kind of an understanding with the Mc Donald guys had she made an attempt.

It's always possible for humans to eat badly

We're a highly inventive and adaptable species.

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Twinkies

I wasn't saying that you believed it was true, just pointing out that the junk food/going crazy connection has been used in the extreme. I'm more of a Yodels/Ho-Ho's man myself, though I loved me some Little Debbies (of all kinds) when I was a kid. Wonder what all that has done to my gray matter...

"Twinkie Defense"

Idlewild, I said it was no excuse. If I were an attorney there's no way I would represent that woman. I was just expressing my opinion that McNuggets aren't really food. I suspect that in this case there may be additional chemicals involved that didn't come from a steady diet of McNuggets. Toxins in food probably do damage the nervous system, but we still have the responsibility to make wise decisions about what to put it in our bodies. There's no doubt that the sorry state of our "food supply" is causing all kinds of health problems including obesity.But adults have a choice. Choices have consequences. Peace. Tyla Mac http://www.xomba.com/referral/777b5ae7">Get Paid To Write For Xomba Become A Squidoo Lensmaster

Excito-toxins

"I'm not saying that's an excuse for this woman's crazy behavior but I don't think that stuff should be in our food supply. " Sounds like the famous "Twinkie defense"... Hmmm, wonder how much aspartame I've consumed in my life...

Vegan junk food junkie?

I had not idea there was such a thing. I guess a person can want to eat badly, but not eat animals. "Chemical vegan" -- another phrase that makes my brain do convulsions!

I went through numerous veggie "phases" in my life also, Idle

in between all the animal chomping, and what got me finally settled on and dedicated to plant-based living was good old-fashioned ethics. That easily trumped any other reasons (if I just did it for health, vanity or trendiness, I never would have stuck to it.) I just wanted to add also that it's quite possible to live your life as a vegan junk food junkie, although it would be a rather short one. There's a class of vegan food called "chemical vegan" that you can find in the cheaper sections of the supermarket. It consists basically of flour, sugar and/or salt, a truckload of synthetic chemicals (excitotoxins?) plus those hyperlethal vegetal trans fats. Like McNuggets, it's pleasant-tasting, highly toxic faux food that's fun to indulge in once in a blue moon when you're feeling suicidal.

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