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Police: Grandmother Arrested At McDonald's Drive-Thru For Not Pulling Car Forward
Local6.com ^
| 1/21/08
Posted on 01/21/2008 10:17:39 AM PST by Abathar
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A 75-year-old woman was arrested at a Clearwater McDonald's drive-thru, because police say she wouldn't pull her car forward.
Authorities said Jean Merola, a grandmother of eight, was arrested for disorderly conduct after she refused an officer's orders to move her car while she waited for the coffee and fries she ordered at the drive-through window.
Merola said the McDonald's employees told her to wait there for her food.
Merola was handcuffed behind her back and put in the cruiser.
Another officer arrived and took her to the Pinellas County Jail .
Merola said she was searched, photographed and fingerprinted.
Jail records show she was released about 90 minutes later on her own recognizance.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: badcopnodonut; donttasemebro; donutwatch; doyouknowwhoiam; fastfood; grannygonewild; mcdonalds; policestate; seniors; thugwithabadge
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Geez, it wasn't even a Dunkin Donuts she was waiting in line for, this cop must have really needed his coffee...
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:17:41 AM PST
by
Abathar
To: Abathar
Didn’t this cop have a taser yet?
2
posted on
01/21/2008 10:20:43 AM PST
by
Slump Tester
(-What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: Abathar
I can only imagine what would have happened if she had had a dog in the car with her ...
3
posted on
01/21/2008 10:20:44 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: Abathar
Was it a super sized order of fries?
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:20:49 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Abathar
Was it a super sized order of fries?
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:20:49 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Abathar
IMO, IF the cop’s car was locked in behind hers and he received a dispatch call and she wouldn’t move, then it’s a valid charge.
Any other reason is false arrest.
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:21:53 AM PST
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Global warming is the new Marxism.)
To: Abathar
Her jury will have 12 more just like her. That should be a pretty interesting verdict.
Even though this happened about 1000 miles from me, I feel safer already.
To: Slump Tester
Grandma: “Don’t taser me, sonny!”
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:22:47 AM PST
by
Rennes Templar
("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
To: Abathar
Something tells me that McDonalds is going to make good on this. I think the cop is going to become the ridicule of the community. Granny should have experienced chest pains and become incontinent in the back of the squad car.
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:23:17 AM PST
by
blackdog
To: Abathar
Many times, if cops weren’t cops, they’d be thugs.
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:23:17 AM PST
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Checkmate Cruiser")
To: Rb ver. 2.0
I doubt it was, he waited around until another car took her to jail for him so he must not have been in too much of a hurry.
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:23:20 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
Merola said the McDonald's employees told her to wait there for her food. I always follow orders from McDonald's employees before those from armed patrolmen. It always ends up so much better for me.
I suspect there is more to the story.
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:23:45 AM PST
by
AmusedBystander
(American by birth, Republican by choice.)
To: blackdog
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:23:50 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
Surprised this isn’t my dad. He does the same thing...refuses to pull forward. lol
To: Rb ver. 2.0
As a police officer he should have never pulled so close to a car that he was blocked in.
Heck, I'm not even a police officer and I know THAT.
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:24:40 AM PST
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: Rb ver. 2.0
There is no such thing as false arrest. It’s a contradiction of terms.
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:24:48 AM PST
by
blackdog
To: Abathar
A more appropriate action would have been to let the pissed-off people behind her deal with her.
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:24:49 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
To: Rb ver. 2.0
If that was the case, it must not have been a very important dispatch call, if the officer chose to ignore it and instead arrest and book a little old lady at a drive-thru.
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:26:00 AM PST
by
Turbopilot
(iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
To: Slump Tester
What the hell was a cop doing in the drive through anyway? Dumbass
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posted on
01/21/2008 10:26:16 AM PST
by
Rick.Donaldson
(http://www.transasianaxis.com - Visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/Etc --Fred Thompson for Prez.)
To: Abathar
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