Okay, should they have served it? Probably not. Should she go to jail for it?
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."
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.
Edit: Hmm - okay. From another source, he appears to have vomited after a couple of bites. So it's possible there was more to it than salt. I guess I can see the reasoning now.
ghostrunner wrote:Edit: Hmm - okay. From another source, he appears to have vomited after a couple of bites. So it's possible there was more to it than salt. I guess I can see the reasoning now.
ghostrunner wrote:Edit: Hmm - okay. From another source, he appears to have vomited after a couple of bites. So it's possible there was more to it than salt. I guess I can see the reasoning now.
I do believe salt can be used as an emetic, so yeah, he might have reacted to it in such manner; but, I still don't see this being a criminal matter.
This reminds me of another story like this I saw: I'm pretty sure I watched it on MaxTV or whatever it's called. This police officer goes through a drive-thru at a fast-food place and orders something. He claimed he gave the employee $20 and that he was shortchanged $10. In reality, he only gave her $10. The employee basically argues with him and they go back and forth... eventually he gets fed up with it, drives around, parks his park and goes inside. I'm pretty sure he ends up pepper spraying her and arresting her or something absurd like that.
But yeah, they had a security camera and it clearly shows that the police officer was wrong the whole time.
Unfortunatly, the occupation of law enforcement attracts two types of people: Those who want to serve the public and those who do it for the authority. Most of the bad ones are from the 2nd group.
And what this article doesn't point out is that the officer apparently used the drivethru, the employee in the kitchen could not see who ordered the burger. At one point, the officer claimed she did something to the burger on purpose because he's a policeman.....well, she was in the kitchen and had absolutely no view of the drivethru. I know some people treat cops like crap, and those people deserve to be punished. However, in this case, it truly sounds like the girl made a mistake....this cop needs to get over his self-importance. (Or hang out with Bernie M. and he'll taste test all burgers for him!)
[Couldn't resist the Bernie dig after reading his recent comments regarding TLR...in the baseball forum today]
