Salty burger lands McDonald's employee in jail

MSNBC.Com ^ | 09/09/2007 | AP

[F15Eagle]

UNION CITY, Ga. - 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.”

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“If it was too salty, why did (Adams) not take one bite and throw it away?” said Bull, who has worked at the restaurant for five months. She said she didn’t know a police officer got one of the salty burgers because she couldn’t see the drive-through window from her work area.

Police sent samples of the burger to the state crime lab for tests.

[F15Eagle]

Time to get David Caruso and the CSI Crime Lab on this one I guess ... :P

[kinoxi]

Didn’t he eat the whole thing and come back later?

[CindyDawg]

If this is true, someone owes this girl an apology.

[fzx12345]

That would be called aggravated a-salt.

[restornu]

What is it coming to when bad food can get you arrected?

[CindyDawg]

Salt being banned?

[F15Eagle]

That’s what it sounded like at first. Also, if she told her supervisor first (it appears) then the supervisor made the judgment call.

[Spktyr]

Wonder if the cop complained and the McDonalds drone mouthed off, saying, “Whatcha gonna do, put me in jail?”

[CindyDawg]

LE in general just seem arrest happy nowdays.

[F15Eagle]

LOL

[Spktyr]

Yes, but doing something like that to an angry cop is pretty stupid. It’s like trying to rob a man with a gun, then taunting him with, “Whatcha gonna go, shoot me?”

[NormsRevenge]

Drop the salt shaker .. or I’ll shoot.

[pgkdan]

That’s an abuse of power and the cop should be disciplined. If he didn’t like the burger he should have complained to the manager and asked for another. This is ridiculous and if this action is an indication of his judgement he should be removed from the force.

[F15Eagle]

I agree. It sounds pretty ridiculous.

[eyedigress]

That’s it.

[mkjessup]

They can have my salt shaker when they pry it from my cold dead hands!

[ozzymandus]

Cops are paranoid about people messing with their food, and it sounds like this one went off the deep end. Some people are defending the cop(as always), but I hope he gets disciplined for over-reacting.

[DManA]

How stupid is the cop that he kept eating it and got sick.

[F15Eagle]

Wanna bet this is a prelude to a lawsuit against McDonald’s for too much salt?

[Grunthor]

“One burger, it’s for a cop.”

[eyedigress]

It may be a prelude to a lawsuit for false imprisonment. I understand there is enough to be tested to make a future determination?

[spunkets]

LOL!

[F15Eagle]

I always put two packages of salt on My McDonald’s burgers - but I’m a salt freak - bad, I know

[Spktyr]

Not that I’m defending the cop, but have you eaten some McDonalds burgers lately? They can be very salty normally.

After you get to a certain point of saltiness, you can’t taste whether it has x amount of salt of x times y amount of salt.

[F15Eagle]

Had it been Janet Reno, she would have called in tanks and burned the place to the ground.

[dalereed]

Anyone that would eat at McDonalds deserves that or worse!!!

[AlexW]

This story is a joke, as from the Onion...right???
I know that small town cops are often on the bottom of evolution, but really !!

If the story is even half true, why did he not sue for
a gigabillion?
The hot coffee girl got rich, but this stupid sap can only brag that he stuck some poor little girl in jail for the night.
Morons on parade.

[Liberty Valance]

I blame this on the demise of sack lunch. ;o)

[F15Eagle]

Please stand back, citizen, and leave this to the professionals

[dalereed]

The last time I ate one of their overpriced garbage burgers they were 13 cents each or $1/dozen.

[ozzymandus]

When I was in college there was a burger joint that sold 11 cent hamburgers. They were no bargain.

[Grunthor]

“Had it been Janet Reno, she would have called in tanks and burned the place to the ground.”

And forced any underage kids working there onto planes bound for Havana.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Now that this awful crime has come to light, too bad arsenic wasn’t sprinkled on his buggers...burgers that is.

(”Buggers” has a different meaning in this part of the world. It means that dried stuff in one’s nose.)

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

"Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail."

Those illegal alien Mexican fast food workers doing shoddy work.......

There almost has to be at least one freeper who was expecting the employee to be a Mexican illegal alien after reading the first sentence.

[AlexW]

“Please stand back, citizen, and leave this to the professionals”

Yes, that is funny, but what is not funny is that many small towns are full of jackbooted thugs as cops.
The change over the last 25 years is like night from day.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

That would be pretty stupid, but it would still be bad for the guy to shoot you.

People with power have an obligation to use their power responsibly and fairly.

[F15Eagle]

And while she was busy with the former, illegal immigrant Ramzi Yousef and company were busy plotting the 1993 World Trade Center attack.

But I digress ...

[Spktyr]

I agree - but it would be completely understandable (if wrong) for the guy to shoot you. Same thing with the cop - if you defy him to arrest you, and he does, I’m sorry but you’re an idiot.

[F15Eagle]

I wouldn’t have thought that unless it included such. I thought of the Maximum Exposure episode where the cop maced the girl at a fastfood joint after falsely accusing her of shortchanging him $10.

She got $60,000 and he, amazingly, remained on the force.

[doug from upland]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

He spent more time in jail than Sandy Berger for his salty burger.

[Grunthor]

And while she was busy with the former, illegal immigrant Ramzi Yousef and company were busy plotting the 1993 World Trade Center attack.

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Not to mention, I’m reasonably sure that Reno is Chelsea’s real Father.

[Nate505]

Wouldn’t most people take a bite, spit it out, and demand a new one?

At least, most of us people who don’t have the power to arrest another?

[F15Eagle]

I think she was assembled from random parts and brought to life by a lightning bolt routed through Tesla coils. She may have tossed a girl down a well, also.

She certainly was the most evil AG we’ve ever had. Koresh was pretty fruity, but I remember some news guy named Rooney at ABC(?) smirking into the camera after the final assault. I always wondered if he was related to Andy Rooney.

[Spktyr]

Don’t know about that. The local McDs (the few times I’ve been there) appears to pour several ounces of salt into the burger mix before serving. I’m not sure that I could tell if someone had added too much salt.

[Nate505]

Someone has defied me to punch them before in my life.

But I’m an adult, not a stupid 12 year old.

[Spktyr]

Nobody said that one *should* take someone up on such a dare.

However, the one making the dare has no grounds to complain if someone DOES take them up on it.

[Grizzled Bear]

They should have just claimed they were test marketing the new “Salty McSandwich” and asked him if he liked it.

[woofer]

What is it coming to when bad food can get you arrected [sic]?

A salty hamburger is still better than a Jesse Jackson Phlegm-burger.

[Nate505]

Sure they do. It’s one thing to act like an idiot, it’s another for someone to actually unethically just because he was dared to.

[NormsRevenge]

Yup, The Food Police .. on a mission .. soon .. at your local drive thru..