[HD1200]

A sad situation this lady put the police in due to her stubbornness.

[AppyPappy]

Here we go again

[Atlas Sneezed]

Parco spent about 20 minutes asking Merola to move the car before she was arrested.

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I guess they don’t train cops simply to step around some stubborn citizen.

20 minutes on the taxpayer dime being a jerk.

[highimpact]

A sad situation the police officer put this lady in due to his power trip.

[sonofagun]

Sad situation that law enforcement can’t deal with a crotchety old ladie without having to arrest her.

At least he had the good sense not to Tase her.

She was lucky!

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Parco spent about 20 minutes asking Merola to move the car before she was arrested.

They didn't get her fries done in 20 minutes? Sounds like someone else needed to be arrested by Parco.

[willgolfforfood]

Apparently, she was extremely rude, uncooperative, and expressed a profound lack of judgement. No manners, bad upbringing, etc. etc. etc.

Having said that, I don't think any of that is against the law. If her car wasn't interfering with his officcial duties as a peace offer (if he didn't need to get around her to respond to a call) then she shouldn't have been arrested. It's just not against the law to be a vindictive crank.

If she was ever in front of any of us in the line, we wouldn't be able to make a citizen's arrest to get her out of the way. We would just have to fume and take it.

And how did it take over 20 minutes to get her the fries with no salt, so that she could move on off the premises?

[YOUGOTIT]

This is private property and as I understand the people told her to wait there for her order. But of course one must understand that the SS or KGB has the authority to kill you if you do not move when they say so. Good thing she was not shot or run over.

[forkinsocket]

You are an evil man. Your wife is going to divorce you. Your kids probably hate you too. You are going to hell

LOL

[patch789]

nobody likes having a cop car one inch behind their
rear bumper.
if that is not the case here,
please enlighten me.

[vietvet67]

Fries without salt. How dare she? :-)

[Defiant]

I read the story. She sounds like a beyotch with issues. Even so, I don't know what law she violated. If the McDonalds asked her to move, and she refused, the McDonalds could call police and have her removed. If she resisted that, then she could possibly be arrested. I doubt, however, that McDonalds made such a call against a customer in this instance. They try to avoid confrontation. Most likely the cop took it upon himself to do some self-help.

Some people become cops so that they can make jerks (or even non-jerks) do what they want. The rest of us just live with them. Depending on what the missing facts are, the cop's employer may have some liability, and the cop may be in for discipline.

[mountainbunny]

I'm no fan of pushy law enforcement officers, but if an officer asks you to move, you move. You do not begin reciting the "Oh, you're in big trouble now. I know the Chief" speech and refuse to follow a lawful order unless you want to get arrested. Had she been a 35 year old man doing what she did, she'd have been arrested. She deserved to be arrested.

[La Enchiladita]

I love, love, love this lady.
She has retained her spirit in a spirit-killing society.

[AlexW]

“A sad situation this lady put the police in due to her stubbornness.”

This whole story stinks...typical MSM garbage, I suspect.

To begin with, we can assume this is on private property.
The woman has every right to be as stubborn as she wants until the owner of the property complains. I see no mention of this.

This sounds more like a increasing example of the “jackbooted cop”.
I doubt that this story is anything like reality.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Why did it take 20 minutes for her to get her food, wouldn’t she have moved after getting her order. Why do cops go through drive-thrus? I think they were both a bit jerky and stubborn.

[domenad]

This officer was, without question, a very large Wal-Mart brand douche. However, when he demanded her license and registration, she refused. That will get you arrested, end of story.

[RabidBartender]

There you go, stirring up the “Free Mumia” crowd again...

:p

[LibWhacker]

What a witch.

Bring back the Salem witch trials!... Crazy old hag would definitely have been burned at the stake back in the day.

[4yearlurker]

Wow!! That’s awful. You want abuse from old ladies. Try working a deli counter during a sale in a supermarket or answering the buzzer in the meat room when the old gal wants the best cheapest ham on sale right before Easter.

Give me a brake!! This officer better grow a thicker skin when dealing with the public. Sheesh!!

[SJSAMPLE]

Ask them.
Tell them.
MAKE them.

It’s SOP and grandma shoulda thought of that before becoming a PTA.