>>A sad situation this lady put the police in due to her stubbornness.<<
I would think that McDonald’s was actually the complainant- the cop doesn’t have a case but McD’s does if she is blocking the drive through and won’t move.
"Parco spent about 20 minutes asking Merola to move the car before she was arrested. "
Ol' grandma wasn't budging before she got fries "without salt"? One would think that, in less than half the space of the twenty minutes the officer spent trying to persuade her, someone from the McDonalds could have supplied the unsalted fries? Then ask her to move along?
The end of the problem, the solution to the problem, was right there all along, right at the beginning of the [small] problem.
Did she pay for the "unsalted' fries, and did she ever get them? If she did pay for them, I can see why someone, particularly elderly, might dig in their heels until the transaction was completed. Having a policeman talk to her for twenty minutes (while still not getting the dang fries!) was undoubtedly exasperating for the old bird...
It makes me wonder about how many other situations this officer approaches, relying first and foremost, just about entirely [20 minutes?!? sheesh!] on his authority to order folks around, and thus blinded when someone fails to comply.
Being a policeman can be tough, of that we have no doubt.
It's difficult to be graceful, when others around you, are most certainly not.
In the future, instead off running the risk of making bad situations worse, maybe the this officer should try also, using something other than only [default] power of authority, you know, like maybe a brain?
Drive-Thrus are the problem and must be BANNED.
Sounds like “grandma” is a bit mentally off, but the police officer did the right thing.
Ms. Merola was on private property, specifically the drive-thru lane of a FAST food restaurant, and had placed a special order (french fries without salt). She refused the request of the manager, who was authorized to be in charge of the private property, and subsequently the request of the police officer who happened to be behind her (and was supporting the manager’s authorized request), to move her car so that other drive-thru customers could continue to be served. This is standard practice at drive-thrus, and she’d been told an employee would bring her order out to her car when it was ready — also standard practice, and certainly an inconvenience to the restaurant staff. Ms. Merola has no right to interfere with the operation of a private business on private property, by refusing to move her car upon request, thus unnecessarily delaying service to other customers.
hokay - 20 minutes to make coffee and fries?
100% out right lie, the stupid cop should have minded his own business.
The way things are going, I’m really surprised she didn’t get taser-gunned in the process.
That was her crime - insulting the gestapo.
Should have tased her and taken her unsalted fries.
She was in a line at Dunkin Donuts waiting for her McDonalds fries.
I think the Lady was a very nice person from an interview on Fox news.
She was put in handcuffs and driven to police Hdqrtrs.by a woman police officer who thought the arrest disgraceful.
McDonalds should ha ve serviced her a little faster with those unsalted fries.
From the report the Cop kept blowing his horn at the woman.
She called him a Brat, WOW, what a bad word.
I was surprised to see she was driving a Lincoln. Would have thought this jerk drove a Cadillac.
I’d bust her for false arrest. She prevented the officer and presumably others from going about their business. Actually, she sounds like a case of senile dementia to me.
Evil lives!
IMHO....no laws were broken, it was private property, and really none of the police’s business, what she was doing there...now if Macs, had asked the police to remove her from the property then that would be different, and lawful application of force by a police officer...I bet she cleans up with a nice settlement....
Twenty minutes to get an order of fries? No wonder she was in a bad mood.