Man Fined For Egg McMuffin Assault

WFTV ^ | 2/5/05

[KidGlock]

Man Fined For Egg McMuffin Assault

Customer Convicted For Throwing Breakfast Sandwich

POSTED: 2:13 pm EST February 5, 2005

HOLLAND, Mich. -- A man has been convicted of assault and battery for throwing a breakfast sandwich at a McDonald's restaurant manager.

Authorities said the man and his young son stopped one day in October to get four Egg McMuffins at a McDonald's in Michigan.

He returned to the service window to complain when he realized at least one of the sandwiches had sausage instead of ham.

He threw it at the shift manager when she asked him to give it back.

The customer has been fined $600 and put on probation.

He is also banned from entering the McDonald's restaurant.

[KidGlock]

When egg mc-muffins are banned, only criminals will have egg mc-muffins.

FMCDH!

[MisterRepublican]

This a**hole sure is teaching his son how to interact with others. Get mad and throw things.

[CindyDawg]

I don't know about the battery but the sentence sounds ok, as long as he spent the night in jail.

[An American In Dairyland]

LOL! But honestly what is this parent teaching his kid? And with this sort of parental example what will the kid grow up to be?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

You deserve a break today.

[SamAdams76]

The customer sounds like a jerk and he deserves what he gets.

But this reminds me of something that's been bothering me for quite some time, I was watching some "Smokey And The Bandit" type movie a few years back and this car (probably driven by Burt Reynolds) is going about 80mph down the highway and he is trying to get away from the cops. He pulls behind a tractor trailer truck that is also going about 80mph and it drops down a ramp. Then Burt Reynolds just drives up the ramp and into the truck after which time somebody inside pulls up the ramp and closed the back cover.

Isn't this impossible based on the laws of physics?

I mean, if Burt Reynolds was going 80mph and the tractor trailer was going 80mph, and Burt Reynolds drives up that ramp, isn't he then going 160mph? Wouldn't his car suddenly accelerate as soon as it hit the ramp and smash through the front of the truck and into the cab? After all, wouldn't Burt Reynolds at that time be traveling 80mph FASTER than the speed of the truck? I mean, in the movie, it shows Burt just going up the ramp and nonchalantly hitting the brakes and stopping inside the truck. Wouldn't that be impossible?

Anyway, getting back to the Egg McMuffin. Does it really matter if there is Canadian bacon or sausage in it?

[PAR35]

I could see someone who keeps strict kosher getting bent out of shape if they saw some pork on their food, but substituting sausage for ham? Now I'm getting hungry for some pork skins.

[cardinal4]

Who made the arrest? Mayor McCheese? Grimace?

[SolidRedState]

A.) How did he know the difference?

2.) You are at McDonald's!

D.) Good thing it wasn't the coffee!

[sticker]

At least it wasn't a McGriddle, then it would have been assault with a deadly weapon

[Arkinsaw]

Okay, so the customer is a jerk. But really, we have people writing million line computer programs, we have surgeons transplanting hearts, we have people dealing with gigantic vats of molten steel, we have people doing genetic research.

If your job is to assemble an item made up of LESS than 5 ingredients AND YOU CANNOT EVEN DO THAT CORRECTLY half the time then you deserve to have the contempt of those around you.

This is why I have contempt for my local Wendy's restaraunt. I have not thrown anything at them yet, but I desire to.

[Jaysun]

I hurled a burger back into a drive-thru once. It was at a Burger King. I saw one of the kids spit on it before they brought it to the window. I don't know if it matters, but I was alone.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Do you think the shift manager assembled the sandwich?

[Hebrews 11:6]

The question isn't their highway speed but rather their speed relative to each other. Burt would have traveled only 5-10 mph faster than the truck as he drove up the ramp.

[cyborg]

I call it an egg mcbiscuit...

[fhayek]

I think what Sam is saying is that if Burt is traveling 80 mph on the road pavement, as soon as the back tires are on the ramp, the car would be traveling 80 mph over the back of the truck bed. Interesting question.

[Arkinsaw]

Do you think the shift manager assembled the sandwich?

I worked at Dominos Pizza for four years. The manager there insisted that we get the orders right. More important than 30 minutes or less. If we messed it up they got both pizzas for nothing.

Yeah, the shift manager sets the tone. Thats his job. Slightly more complicated than putting meat and egg on bread, but not that much more complicated.

[Fruitbat]

I wish my biggest issue in life was sausage instead of ham...!

[lmr]

No one deserves to have anything thrown at them. If this guy wanted a refund, I am sure he would have been obliged. As far as assembling breakfast sandwiches, in your world no one is entitled to mistakes. Forget the fact that the practice of assembling sandwiches occurs at a single McDonald's location, hundreds if not thousands of times everyday, in an assembly-line style fashion, with multiple people involved. It is very efficient, gets you your order in under 60 seconds, but it is not infallible. I have noticed that these days people are more impatient, less understanding, more demanding and downright mean when it comes to dealing with others. Whatever happened to civility?

[balls]

I just finished listening to a radio show on Einstein and now feel very confident to reply to your note. Theoretically, if Burt is doing 80 mph and the tractor trailor is also doing 80 mph, Burt will never catch up to him. However, if Burt is doing 81 mph and goes up the ramp, he will be doing 161 mph for a very brief period! Incidentally, the show I was listening to is fantastic. It's at:

realaudio.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/connection/audio/2005/02/con_0204b.rm (I've forgotten the link tag)