Tale of the Golden Arches: Crime in rural Georgia

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UNION CITY, Ga. (AP) — 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."

The full article: http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/related/200532.php

It's about time a McD's employee was called to account.

Isn't that amazing? Talk about abuse of authority ...

That takes whining to an entirely different level!

What's amazing is they let a guy who's to stupid to stop eating a salt burger until it makes him ill to pack a pistola around!

I saw this on the news.The lady said she spilled the salt by accident,and told management about it.The manager should have thrown it out if if it was that covered in salt,and told her to bring out fresh meat.And I agree with Pat T Hat.this guy is packing a gun and he's too stupid to stop eating the burger? Glad I don't live there.
She never should have been arrested in the first place.
If anybody should have gone to jail,it should be the manager for serving the meat anyhow,just to keep the almighty dollar flowing into McDonald's coffers.While not a fan of the ACLU,this is one time I think they get invovled.This is clearly a case of a police office overstepping the boundries of the law.

Was she charged with...a salt and battery?

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Originally posted by Gizmolito

Was she charged with...a salt and battery?

OH BAM!!!

I can't believe I missed it!

RURAL GEORGIA (???)

There are many charged in the Atlanta area with "a salt & battery". Union City is on the outskirts of Atlanta, BTW. Much of the original story, and especially just why said employee was charged, I see, was not posted here. Let's get the entirity of all facts out in the open here. HollyDolly seems most correct here, but the cook caused the problem in the first place; accident or not. The effected product should have been disgarded at that point. There was no need for managment to get involved at all.

This whole story brings to mind an old joke.

Two nuts were walking down the street.
One was assaulted.


Groan.

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Originally posted by IndyRick

This whole story brings to mind an old joke.

Two nuts were walking down the street.
One was assaulted.


Groan.

I hear he was really creamed.

(oh yeah I did!)

I get the feeling there are missing chunks of this story. Some things don't add up, especially when one reads the FoxAtlanta version: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296155,00.html

1. Since when does McD mix hamburger meat in a bowl? Isn't their meat pre-frozen in patty form?

2. How can one get that sick from what I would assume was one bite of an over salted hamburger patty? One bite is all it would take for me to spit out the over salted product.

Cop should be thankful it was only salt. Usually a malcontent cook will spit a loagie or toss a booger into a cop's sandwich. I was a cop for 13 years (many, many years ago) and recognized almost all the short-order cooks from having worked the jails for 4 years. County jail turns out an awful lot of fry-cooks. It's where they get their "rehabilitative training." That's why I almost always packed my lunch from home.

The following website published images of the front and back of the police incident report:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0910071salt1.html

With the big crackdown on restaurants here by the NYC Department of Health, I wonder why the police department did not get the health department to shut the restaurant down. Maybe its because the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published that cops get free food at that McDonalds:
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2007/09/08/mcdonalds_0909.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

Maybe the cop thought the salt was heroin or cocaine or rat poison. Since the story hit the AP wire, the cop better be right, for some shyster lawyer is going to come calling on the girl to mount a lawsuit against the city. The girl's home address is right on the police report.

^^^

The story from that police report:



After reading this, I really have to suspect she may have been trying to make that cop's dining experience less than satisfying. But on the other hand, excess salt and pepper shouldn't actually make anyone sick. Do they not have steak au poivre in GA?