Woman calls 911 because McDonald's is out of chicken nuggets

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Well, the thing is, monty, that when a McDonald's jilts you out of the product you paid for:
A) You know where they live. They're not going to fold up their store into a truck, and "fly by night".
B) If you complain to a McDonald's manager or to McDonald's corporate, you'll get your money back or a replacement product for the one you didn't get -- and, if they're business-smart, which they usually are, you'll get something extra to keep you sweet on them.

But if a customer leaves without paying -- that's it, case closed, the restaurant will almost always never get their money. (But, no, they shouldn't call 911 for petty theft.)

So, I see this particular example as a practical matter, not a favoring-the-corporations matter, although I do agree that that goes on quite a lot and that it is quite wrong. Sometimes, it seems like you have to be a goodfella just to get your rights properly "respected"!

I've literally wanted to go "Falling Down" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/) on certain employees, and hold a gun to their heads until I get merely my promised level of customer service. Then, I'd thank them in a calm, friendly voice, and leave peacefully.
(I'd make sure the gun wasn't loaded first -- I still hold human life sacred, no matter how FRICKIN MUCH THEY PISS ME OFF!)

Last edited by Ragtime on 06 Mar 2009, 4:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Whew.. thanks guys. I was starting to lose all faith in humanity there for a while

I know the number to my local dispatch center. You should too. It keeps the overworked/underpaid 911 operators available to deal with real emergencies.

This story reminds me of the incident in which some man calls 911 after discovering that the sandwich her ordered at SUBWAY had no mayonnaise or ketchup. He was freaking out.

About the woman that was denied a refund after being informed that there was NO MORE Chicken McNuggets at McDonalds...couldn't she have spoken to a manager instead of calling 911 over this non-emergency?

lol! That movie is awesome! And the fast food restaurant scene is such an accurate depiction of most fast food joints...

Anyways, yeah... the lady the thread is about is a complete idiot! If I witnessed that I might just have to slap her.

i once rang the police when i was assaulted by a blowfly.
it was a joke that my friend encouraged me to do. i have a very good "old lady" voice i can do, and i rang chatswood police and reported (in that old lady voice and character) an assault by a blowfly that had landed on me several times despite the fact i expressed to it that it was not welcome by shooing it away.

i also stated that it was the same blowfly that was harassing me 6 months ago in a country town out west. i knew that because i recognized it's face.
when the police said that they could do nothing about the matter, i restated that it had physically assaulted me 4 times by landing on me, and i could give them a very good description of the fly.
but they refused to even make a photofit drawing of the fly, let alone circulate it in the newspapers!!
how dare they!!. if they are prepared to let a simple blowfly fly free after an assault, then how hard would they try to catch intelligent human criminals?!?!

i argued in my old snobby lady voice, and i wanted to make them confused, but all i heard was other police in the background laughing. they kept me on the phone for quite a while because they were amused i think. so was i amused, but i wanted the police to be angry at the pettiness of my complaint, so it was not that funny for me.

I think it's good advice. If this ever happens to me I'll threaten to call 9-1-1 and maybe I'll get the refund without a hassle if the manager thinks the story will air on the evening news.

OMG, what a nut job. They better throw her ass in jail.

People seem to think 9-1-1 is a hotline to God. These are minimum-wage human beings who have their own problems and probably don't care about yours. They're not your mommy, or a devine intervention service! Some things they just can't fix -- get a clue!

I saw a program about that once, about how, in the event of, say, a natural disaster, people in a survey actually thought the police, who have familes of their own, would venture into dangerous areas where they were nearly certain to lose their lives just to help you. The people taking the survey seemed to think "That's what the government pays them for!", as if the government can pay them enough money to deliberately kill themselves in a near-futile effort to save a complete stranger.

That would be a very noble thing, of course. My point is how naïve citizens are about thinking the police department deeply cares about their welfare, like a parent would. Wake up!

Now THAT's priceless!

This made Fox News here in Tulsa.

Now I am normally am not in favor of violence.....but this is what I would probably have done if I had be standing in the line and heard something like that...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29533731/

boy some people are nuts.

it sucks the way stupid calls block the real emergency calls.

She did speak to the manager and she also refused to refund her money.

Here is her point of view why she thought it was an emergency:



Don't people call 911 when they have been robbed? You call 911 when you have been in a car accident or when you see one, especially if the person isn't hurt but their car is.

So she had been robbed out of her money so she thought it was okay to call 911. She probably doesn't know the difference and now she is embarrassed. She probably saw the comments and lot of people are saying what an idiot she is.

silly NT's, allways getting into arguments over the most frivelous things...

It is amazing how people misuse both 911 and the ER at hospitals. I used to live in an apartment building where people were always calling 911, for the most frivolous and stupid reasons. As for the ambulance calls, only their doctors would know if it had been really necessary, but there were instances where people were calling 911 because they had been quarreling with another neighbor, and that neighbor called them an ugly name! The police were heard to say that they were so sick and tired of answering calls to that address. I felt embarrassed to live there, and was glad when I could finally move away.