McMeltdown!

Over the past year, at 3:00 pm on Monday's, via a Google news alert that I created, I have received a summary of the previous weeks "incidents" that have occurred at or around a McDonalds.   Ever since, 3:05 on Monday's has become one of my favorite times of the week.  Here are some of my all time favorite "McMeltdown" (is what I call them)  headlines, along with my commentary...

"McDonald’s snake wrestling incident leads to the arrest of 2 men"

Basically, these 2 men decided to steal a 23 foot python from a local zoo/animal shop in Australia.  Then they proceeded to do what any two guys would do with a stolen snake, they took it to a McDonald's parking lot and began to wrestle with it.   Ultimately the men got arrested and thrown in jail, the snake remains on the loose.

"Woman hiding sandwich down her pants is in jail again"

Now the word that sticks out to me in this headline is “again”.  Apparently, this is not the first time that this woman has received a McDonald’s sandwich, stuffed it down her pants, and then tried to convince the employees that she didn’t receive it in an attempt to get another one.  No, this is actually the third time.  Overall, the Spartanburg South Carolina resident has had 14 run-ins with the police over the past couple of years.  She is now stuffing food down her pants in the slammer! 

“On Tape: Rage over McNuggets Not Being Served”

This lady was not “Lovin it”.   She attempted to order a 20 piece McNugget meal at 6:30am; what better way to start your day?  When told that they don’t server nuggets at that hour, she then drove up to the drive-thru, got out of the car and punched the attendant in the face.  The manager then punched her, after all what’s a McDonald’s manager there for if not to punch angry customers in the face at 6:30 in the morning.  The Toledo Ohio woman was charged with assault. 

“Hot Chicken Fries Dinner, McDonald’s Settles Suit”

Now I don’t have any idea what this headline means, but the story revolves around a Florida Carnival Worker who claims that a McChicken sandwich somehow had a grease bubble in it, that exploded in his face and burnt him.   Now, ask yourself, is there a more reputable type of character out there then a Florida, Carnival Worker?  And I don’t get how this is scientifically possible unless the man bit into his McChicken within mille-seconds of it being pulled out of the fryer.  I can’t think of any other explanation.  Apparently McDonald’s thought he had a good enough case to settle out of court, so now he can probably put a pony-ride and an elephant ears stand in the back-lot behind his double-wide. 

“Princess Di's niece kicks man on crutches”

Apparently royalty is not immune to the occasional Mac Attack.  In this case, a man in South Africa cut in front of Princess Di’s niece at a McDonald’s in Cape Town.  Without a moment’s hesitation, she flicked a cigarette at him and then just basically kicked his ass.  The Royal family is claiming that she acted in self defense.  The niece is also thinking of pressing assault charges.  Either way someone is going to have a rather expensive trip to McDonald’s on their hands.

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These are just a few of the many examples of horrendous things that occur at McDonald’s on a weekly basis. I would suggest setting up your own alert within Google news to share in the fun on a weekly basis.