I completely busted out laughing when I read this news article of a Florida woman calling 911 because Mcdonalds ran out of chicken nuggets. Turns out that she called 911 three times because Mcdonalds ran out of them and refused to offer her a refund.
Latreasa L. Goodman went to Mcdonalds, ordered a 10 piece chicken McNugget meal and paid. Soon after, the cashier told her that they were out of McNuggets and told her to choose something else off of the menu. She offered Goodman a McDouble but she wouldn't take it. The store had a no refund policy and Goodman claimed her call was an "emergency." A policeman came to console her and cited her for a 911 misuse charge. She's due to appear in court next week or so.
"When you feel that you've been mistreated or misused or robbed out of your money, you have the right to call 911," Goodman said. "That's the purpose of 911, so I thought."
Latreasa L. Goodman went to Mcdonalds, ordered a 10 piece chicken McNugget meal and paid. Soon after, the cashier told her that they were out of McNuggets and told her to choose something else off of the menu. She offered Goodman a McDouble but she wouldn't take it. The store had a no refund policy and Goodman claimed her call was an "emergency." A policeman came to console her and cited her for a 911 misuse charge. She's due to appear in court next week or so.
"When you feel that you've been mistreated or misused or robbed out of your money, you have the right to call 911," Goodman said. "That's the purpose of 911, so I thought."
I think the whole no refund, all sales are final policy for a McDonalds is pretty ridiculous. I guess it's pretty complicated pressing those cash register buttons with the little pictures on them (I kid.) Of course, calling the 911 because they wouldn't give you back your money is over doing it. Her citation was completely justified but I would be surely disappointed if she got jail time for that. At least her little McNugget stint got her her refund as well as a free meal for her next visit.
Pass those free chicken nuggets for octo-mom's litter next time.
And on the subject of 911 calls, two 911 calls were released to the public today from Nadya Suleman. One of them was made by octo-mom last year in October. She frantically called 911 because she couldn't find her 5 year old son. He was missing for an hour and she went crazy trying to look for him. At some point during the phone call she threatened to kill herself. Five police cars rushed over to her house. Turns out the little boy followed his grandma around the block. J.
The second phone call was earlier this year on January 23rd. One of her children called and hung up. The operator called back and the 6 year old answered that he was with his babysitter and his parents "went to, like a party." This was around the time octo-mom was in the hospital about to give birth.
Click here to listen to both of her 911 calls.
Octo-mom's released 911 phone calls aren't as ridiculous as the chicken McNugget lady but they were both false alarms. In both cases police arrived for nothing. When it comes to screening 911 calls from emergencies and false alarms, to what extent does the emergency have to be for 911 to send out police units? Should there be punishments for false alarms and prank calls?
Also, what is the point of releasing 911 calls to the public, especially the hilarious and weird ones? The released 911 calls from octo-mom is only going to garner more critism on her part. I suspect that if her children are taken away from her, this 911 call would be used in court to build a case depicting how unstable of a mother she is. I thought that 911 calls were released to the public only if the police needs the public's help in identifying a voice or a situation.
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