This be the stupidest thing you've ever heard

[LegendofNation]

http://www.wpbf.com/cnn-news/18843229/detail.html

[Chiutfan]

in my opinion, she should be ticketed for making a bogus call. However Im sure some here, would defend her and say she was teaching McDonalds a long overdue lesson.

[Oracle]

The cops should have come to the crime site and beat her head in for making them waste their time.:img59:

[Chiutfan]

only if she kicked a shoe at them..... :img59:

[Orangebutt]

The cops should have come to the crime site and beat her head in for making them waste their time.:img59:

pulled down her pants and stuck a big mac up her ass........

[Blacksheepvol]

I'm calling shenanigans!


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[Chiutfan]

pulled down her pants and stuck a big mac up her ass........

from the clip of her on the news, looks like she could take a couple of 1/4 pounders...

[Oracle]

I'm calling shenanigans!


Every time I read one of your posts I feel like I need a fly swatter-

[Chiutfan]

thats funny cause everytime I read one of Orangebutts, I afraid they will show up!

[Orangebutt]

I'm not sure why you're afraid of a dancing sheep, ChicagoDog....

[Chiutfan]

I'm not sure why you're afraid of a dancing sheep, ChicagoDog....

it looks more like the pile of crap normally in your posts.
cheeto ass.

[OBs Dogs Nutsack Flea]

I hope you gave it a smooth after the inspection.

[bballequalslife]

This sounds freakishly similar to the old man who called 911 at the Burger King drive-thru window because they were out of the kind of drink he wanted (I think it was tea).

Dollars to donuts she got the idea from that dude.

[VenomousVol]

Sorry guys. She was right to raise Hell(Not neccesarily call 911). She paid for McNuggets and was told....A- She couldn't get her money back.......B- She had to accept something she didn't order.

She shouldn't have called the cops. She should have stood at the counter and raised IMMORTAL HAYELL until they refunded her money or they called the cops. If they couldn't produce what she paid for, then that woman deserved a refund, bottom line.

[Chiutfan]

Sorry guys. She was right to raise Hell(Not neccesarily call 911). She paid for McNuggets and was told....A- She couldn't get her money back.......B- She had to accept something she didn't order.

She shouldn't have called the cops. She should have stood at the counter and raised IMMORTAL HAYELL until they refunded her money or they called the cops. If they couldn't produce what she paid for, then that woman deserved a refund, bottom line.

Venom i can buy your ideam but not calling 911

[bballequalslife]

Yeah, I would've raised hell, too, but not called 911.

The old guy actually was offered a refund if he didn't want another drink. (He was also issued a ticket for abuse of the 911 system.) And now that I think of it I'm pretty sure that took place in Florida, too. Something in the water there?

[PitiFulmer]

Once again, the state of FL doesn't fail to deliver the goods.

[bballequalslife]

Okay, here we go:

Man Calls 911 at Burger King Window (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0209092burgerking1.html)

(My bad. It was lemonade not tea.)

Jean Fortune, 66, called 911 when a Burger King employee told him that they did not have lemonade.

But when he got to the window, Fortune was told the fast food outlet did not have lemonade. He was offered Coke, but Fortune decided instead to call police.

[browning]

I thought I was reading the Onion for a minute.

[gallavol]

Is that what that is, a dancing black sheep? I thought it was an insect too.

[Blacksheepvol]

Cut me some slack... I just learned to make animated .gif files yesterday evening.

[SoftballVol]

Sorry guys. She was right to raise Hell(Not neccesarily call 911). She paid for McNuggets and was told....A- She couldn't get her money back.......B- She had to accept something she didn't order.

She shouldn't have called the cops. She should have stood at the counter and raised IMMORTAL HAYELL until they refunded her money or they called the cops. If they couldn't produce what she paid for, then that woman deserved a refund, bottom line.
I don't think most of the people bothered to read the article. She didn't call 911 to complain about a lack of McNuggets, she called to report the theft of her money. They took her money and then refused to give her what she ordered and then refused to give her money back. What if she had managed to get them to give her the McNuggets and then refused to pay for them? Wouldn't the store have called the cops on her? Seems to me she had a legit case. It was petty theft but it was still theft. When the cops got there they should have arrested the manager for theft at the same time they arrested the woman for frivolous use of 911.

[PitiFulmer]

Cut me some slack... I just learned to make animated .gif files yesterday evening.

You mind sharing how to do that? I found tutorials online, but I don't understand Nerdspeak.

[ZippyVol]

...to the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Dont get me wrong, it's pretty stupid. But at least here I can kinda see where she was coming from by calling the police. She was pissed (which I can understand), and the two results she could see were

a) kicking the cashier's ass

b) calling the police

She chose b, which was probably one of the few brighter decisions this woman has ever made. The only problem was she just doesnt 'get' what 911 is for. Lots of people mistake 911 for just another police number. So yes, stupid...but hardly the stupidest thing ever. I mean really, have you ever actually READ a smithy post? This should be obvious if so.

I think my response, in the grand scheme of things, would likely be dumber than hers. If I'd actually gone to McD's (which I havent done in at least 5 years anyway...) and paid 2 bucks for something they didnt have and would not refund, I'd just leave. 2 bucks isnt worth spending more than 5 seconds arguing about, in my eyes. Giving away money isnt all that bright either, but that's what I would have ended up doing.

[ZippyVol]

I'd agree with that. In an odd way, I have some respect for her for making a stand I would not have made.

She was right, McDonald's was wrong. She stood up for herself rather than deciding to let what really doesnt matter slide. I would not have seen the benefit from doing so, and would just have let it go...but I'd have been irritated.

Again: the only thing stupid here is that she just does not understand the difference between 911 and calling the police. This is common knowledge to you and me and most of us in the thread, but it certainly is not so for a LOT of people... so even I would stop short of actually calling that stupid. Ok, calling them 3 times after being told it was not an emergency is kinda dumb...

[SoftballVol]

I'd agree with that. In an odd way, I have some respect for her for making a stand I would not have made.

She was right, McDonald's was wrong. She stood up for herself rather than deciding to let what really doesnt matter slide. I would not have seen the benefit from doing so, and would just have let it go...but I'd have been irritated.

Again: the only thing stupid here is that she just does not understand the difference between 911 and calling the police. This is common knowledge to you and me and most of us in the thread, but it certainly is not so for a LOT of people... so even I would stop short of actually calling that stupid. Ok, calling them 3 times after being told it was not an emergency is kinda dumb...
What I don't understand is why the cops - once they were on the scene - didn't at least threaten to arrest the store manager if he didn't give the lady her money back. At that point they were in a position to observe a crime being committed before their very eyes. A petty crime for sure but a crime nevertheless. How could they ignore the one petty crime while arresting the lady for her petty crime? And since when is reporting a petty crime against the law just because she used 911 to do it? That's just not right. This whole thing is so odd that I can't help but wonder if there's some piece of critical information being left out of the story. Like did the lady originally accept the substitute food, eat that substitute food, and then decide after the fact that she didn't want it?

[TREX]

Gotta go with Zippy on this one. Dumb yes. But no where near the dumbest thing I have heard.

I have heard some people with MBA's say some pretty stupid crap

[ZippyVol]

Well, different laws/penalties for different things would be my guess. Hell if I know what the penalty is for an improper 911 call; but that and a dispute over 2 dollars are clearly different things that would thus be treated differently.

Now, that said:


Like did the lady originally accept the substitute food, eat that substitute food, and then decide after the fact that she didn't want it?

To edit your sentence with what would be the more likely outcome based on conversations I've had with other similarly situated people, in similar situations (yes, I've had them. Unfortunately!):

Like did the lady have a 15 year old warrant because she 'forgot' about the speeding ticket, and pretended that made it go away?

[Blacksheepvol]

I use gimp to create the sequence of images as layers in one file... so the bottom layer is the first, the top layer is the last. I save it as a photoshop file, then I open it with Adobe Photoshop Elements and "save for the web", click the animate box, then look at the preview. If it is right (or close, as my work shows), I just right click, save as at that point. There are probably 1000 better ways, but I was figuring it out without help.