Have you ever been so “hangry” that, even with food in hand, you’d threaten lethal force over some missing french fries? Most of us haven’t, but in a land of fruits and nuts, anything is possible. That’s exactly what happened in a Northern California McDonald’s earlier this month as a mother put on a poor parenting clinic while simultaneously proving that just because you have the right to bear arms doesn’t mean you demonstrate the disposition to do so responsibly.
On Friday afternoon, December 6, officers from the San Pablo Police Department responded to a local McDonald’s where a woman was apparently so upset over missing french fries from her order that she was threatening fast food workers with a firearm. As if her behavior wasn’t bad enough, the incident played out right in front of her children, according to police.
Police say the unidentified woman exited the store after making her initial purchase but sent her young children back into McDonald’s to complain about the missing fries. Employees reportedly asked the children to have their mother come back into the store with her receipt so they could resolve any discrepancy with the order. That’s where this story goes completely sideways.
The “hangry” mother confronted the McDonald’s employees, threatening to attack them and announcing she had a gun in her purse. Officers arrived shortly after, and the woman admitted she was carrying a loaded pistol in her purse, which she was having her 9-year-old daughter hold for her. No, I’m not joking at all. Police retrieved the purse from the young girl and secured the firearm.
The mother, aside from terrorizing not only the McDonald’s employees but undoubtedly her children also, was arrested and booked on multiple felony charges, including criminal threats with a firearm and child endangerment.
“She had to wait even longer for her food, which unfortunately was a sandwich and milk rather than a hamburger and fries,” the San Pablo Police Department wrote in good humor on its Facebook page.
I can’t even begin to imagine the thought process behind this woman’s actions and the abject negligence to do this in front of her children, while leaving her 9-year-old daughter in possession of a loaded firearm. At some point, most people who frequent fast-food restaurants will see an order come out wrong, and most of the time, the restaurant will get it right if you just bring the issue to their attention. Even if they still struggle to correct the issue, carrying a gun is never a means to get people to behave the way you want them to.
Most gun owners carry and use their firearms legally and responsibly, but beware of a false sense of empowerment that seems to intoxicate and bring out the worst in some people. Make sure you don’t let that happen to you.
“The unnamed mother was charged with making criminal threats with a firearm and child endangerment.”
No name? Perhaps Kareneesha?
bingo!
like we don’t have white trash committing the dumbest crimes ever in this country 😂 good one
Oh wait, the overwhelming majority of “Florida Man” stories are white dudes 🤔
“Ma’m, this sort of behavior may pass at Waffle House but this is mcdonalds.”
Ooooh, that was good!
At my last visit inside McD’s a woman came in from the drive-thru complaining about a 20 minute wait for her TWO cookies. O.K., that’s a little slow. But, the “supervisor” approached, just kinda of stared at the customer, disappeared and never returned while I was there, but the counter attendant, just like a yappy lil sister, was more than happy to keep the angst at a spirited level. I departed as soon as the coffee arrived before I became a witness.
She was having a Mac Attack.
The tags attached to the story would indicate that the woman was legally carrying, but nowhere in the news story is that mentioned.
Maybe a ” Stupid things that stupid mouthbreathers do ” tag would have been more appropriate
The flavorless seed oil sticks that are McD fries aren’t worth it, ma’am.
Beef-tallow fried Ore-Ida crinkle cuts, on the other hand…
we had latkes fried in lamb fat for the holidays.
Who TF eats at MacDonald’s these days? Oh, the kind of person that would threaten others over fries.
I avoid garbage food purveyors, and have for over two decades. Don’t eat this crap.
I did on Christmas Eve. First time in at least six months. I didn’t feel like cooking that night as I was seeing family the next day.
My son an I do eat Hungry Jacks (our local franchisee for Burger King) more often. A double-whopper meal is very filling.
The Active Self Protection YT channel has many such video’s involving upset customers at Macdonalds. restaurants.
“You’re not you when you’re hungry. Eat a Snickers.”
I laughed so hard I had to comment.
It could have been worse. They could have given her cold fries.
She just lost her 2A rights, forever.
She should only lose her 2A rights if a court of law decides to put her in prison or a mental institution.
If she’s too dangerous to have a firearm, then she’s too dangerous to be out mixing with the rest of us.
Maybe there could be another way, but if we’re going to respect her constitutional rights, we can’t take away her rights forever.
I know, I know…she’s a horror show. I get it. But THIS is how we all end up losing our rights over things like red flag laws.
Imagine this woman having road rage!
Florida homeowner shoots 2, kills 1 in suspected home invasion | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/you-should-expect-shot-florida-homeowner-fatally-guns-down-masked-intruder-scares-off-another
One wonders what happened to the 9yr old?
As to motive for threatening workers with a gun? Maybe the hope of the threat was just to get a free order of fries? Who is going to ask for proof of purchace, under the circumstance?
I’ve found if you pre-order on the screens at Maccers, half the time the receipt printer doesn’t work. So getting a proof of purchase can be difficult. The store should have the purchase on record if you can provide the order number.
Best idea, check your order before you leave the counter.
We always check our order before leaving the parking lot after using the drive thru regardless of the restaurant. People make mistakes. One true fact though you should never yell and scream at the people making/remaking your food because you never know what little extra they may add. Loogie burgers and floor fries are the special for such occasions.
“People make mistakes. One true fact though you should never yell and scream at the people making/remaking your food…”
You know, you have a nasty habit of taking the fun out of things.
In this case it appears it was the false sense of entitlement. Just sayin’.
No argument, here.
LazrBeam,
I was going to post a nearly identical comment: I am appalled at how pervasive entitlement mentality is.
My recent Christmas celebration visits to my extended family have expanded my perception of how widespread entitlement mentality is.
I don’t agree with what she did, never tell or showsome your gun, nor give it to your kid to hold even in a purse/backpack ect.
But if she paid for the fries McDonald’s did rob her.
Why is there no consequences for fast food restaurants basically stealing money. Which they do all the time. I (not carrying a gun nor threatening anyone) had a manager at what-a-burger scream at me and have security throw me out and threaten to call the cops to trespass me for going inside with my order and receipt to show them they didn’t give me what I ordered at the drive thru to get what I ordered.
Check my comment above. Why I check my order before I leave. McDonald’s is almost infamous for shorting orders. Especially on take away and drive through.
“take away”? – that a McDs in Oncegreatbritian?
BREAKING 2A NEWS: SCOTUS DECISION LEADS TO MORE GREAT 2A PRECEDENT.
Appeals Court relies on SCOTUS’s Rahimi decision to rule for 2nd Amendment. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner discusses.
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcZiQvgbAmY
BREAKING: Rash Of PRE-TEEN ARMED CRIME Breaking Out… 9 & 12 Year Olds Home Invasions & Carjacking.
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZW9HEZhbQ
12 Year Old Robbers Shot By Armed Citizen In Texas.
Three boys – ages 12, 13, and 14 – attempted an armed robbery on Christmas night, targeting a 25-year-old man and his girlfriend outside their apartment complex. At first, the couple thought it was a prank because of how young the kids looked, but things turned deadly serious when the boys pulled guns.
The intended victim, however, wasn’t defenseless. He drew his own firearm and opened fire, hitting ALL three of the boys.
🔸 A 12-year-old is hospitalized in critical condition.
🔸 Two others, ages 12 and 13, returned to the scene with non-fatal injuries seeking help.
🔸 A 14-year-old accomplice was taken into custody unharmed.
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Texas Teens Discover FAFO Is Real.
“Also, FAFO–otherwise known as F*** Around and Find Out–is very real, as a group of Texas teens found out when they thought it would be a blast to try and commit an armed robbery.
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Three armed boys were shot by a man they tried to rob outside his home in Texas, authorities said.
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A total of four boys, aged 12 to 14, approached the would-be victim, 25, near his apartment on the 12700 Block of North Houston Rosslyn Road in Houston on Thursday shortly after midnight.
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The man told police that the boys had pistols, but the man was also armed – and fired at them outside of his Willow Plaza Apartments home.
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The adult is said to be cooperating with the ongoing investigation. Even though he was not immediately detained, he stayed at the scene when authorities arrived.
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Investigators are determining whether the guns the boys used were BB guns or actual pistols.
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.40 cal Booger,
I wonder how much of the recent apparent increase in adolescent boys committing crimes is truly due to young stupidity rather than disregard for the victims.
Case in point several years ago on Halloween:
Our neighborhood is very integrated and we orchestrate a fantastic Halloween celebration every year on the Saturday of or immediately before Halloween proper, complete with a neighborhood party in the early afternoon and then officially sanctioned trick-or-treating between the hours of 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. On one particular Halloween event, we ran out of candy and turned off our porch light. Around 8:30 p.m. (well after official trick-or-treating hours), I heard a group of about seven adolescent boys amble up to our front porch and yell “trick-or-treat” at our front door. I opened the front door and graciously announced to the rambunctious adolescent boys that we had no more candy. (I did not even chastise them for soliciting candy after the official hours and with our porch light off.) One of them, whose costume suggested a Secret Service agent, then asked a series of questions about alternate possible “treats” since we had no candy. For his last question, he raised what was almost certainly a toy handgun (although very real looking) and asked if I had any money. Fortunately for him, I recognized that he was my neighbor from three doors down the street and an otherwise very-well behaved adolescent. I responded with a firm “no” and a quick blast of my handheld spotlight in his face for his incredibly poor judgment. That ended the encounter–complete with his friends making fun of him for being stupid.
In that previous case on a Halloween, an adolescent boy who was otherwise (and truly) a “very good kid” exercised incredibly poor judgment, not realizing that he was unintentionally committing felony armed robbery and justifying me to respond with deadly force. How many of this apparent rash of adolescent crime is the same?
Halloween is NOT a holiday. Just an excuse for misbehavior (see also St Paddys day or Quanza).
Significant Developments in the Assault Weapon Ban Case.
Trying to connect some dots and read some tea leaves, but there is a development in one of the three huge cases we have been tracking before the Supreme Court and this could be really good news. Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses the matter of Gray v. Jennings, and the fact that this matter has now been sent out to conference on January 10th. This, of course, leads to a bigger discussions about Snope v. Brown and Ocean State Tactical v. Rhode Island, the holy trinity of potential 2A cases before the Supreme Court. There is some significant movement on one of these cases, which could mean more movement on the other cases.
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=194yxJ3OJaU
Joe Biden’s Greatest Worst Hits of the Last Four Years.
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Under subtitle – “The moronic POS” – Report: Biden Wanted Trump Prosecuted Earlier, Regrets Garland Pick
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/29/report-biden-wanted-trump-prosecuted-earlier-regrets-garland-pick/
“Most gun owners carry and use their firearms legally and responsibly, but beware of a false sense of empowerment that seems to intoxicate and bring out the worst in some people. Make sure you don’t let that happen to you.”
Considering the multiple millions of ordinary law abiding people that carry daily, and the over 150 million that lawfully own/possess/have-access-to firearms, this is an extremely rare occurrence so rare its on the order of almost astronomical odds of it happening. In terms of odds its ~1,432,000 times more likely a person would be run over by a car than to be threatened in such a manner by a law abiding gun possessing/owning/accessing person. Its over ~1,000,000 times more likely a person would accidentally fall off a steep roof and die as a result than to be threatened in such a manner by a law abiding gun possessing/owning/accessing person. Its over ~2,000 times more likely a person would choke to death on food lodged in their throat (yes, even food from McDonalds) than to be threatened in such a manner by a law abiding gun possessing/owning/accessing person.
correction for “Its over ~2,000 times more likely a person would choke to death on food”
The “~2,000” should have been ~2,000,000
At least one thing good came from McDonalds fries…
The media would have you believe that the 2024 presidential election took place on Nov. 5, 2024. That is a lie.
The election was over on October 20, 2024. That’s the day Donald Trump donned an apron, slid open the McDonald’s drive-thru window, and served McDonald’s fries to hungry Pennsylvanians.
Kamala Harris’s campaign was already, at best, on the edge of a cliff ready to fall over into the abyss of no return on its own. But Trump and McDonald’s fries on that day gave it the nudge it needed to hasten its fall into the abyss of the sound and sure ass-kicking Kamala Harris, ‘woke’, liberals, and the democrat party were to receive.
Harris’s made claims of having worked at McDonald’s while in college in the early 1980s, “I did fries” she said. But there was something ‘off’ about her story, and she is a well-documented liar.
People started digging into, reporters started investigating, the Harris’s claims of having worked at McDonald’s. They found no evidence at all – nothing in Harris’s books, not in third-party biographies, not in the 1987 government job application she swore included her last 10 years of work experience, even McDonald’s corporation was not able to substantiate her claim (but to be fair, McDonald’s did say they were not able to to find employment records back that far). No one that would have been a room mate or class mate or co-worker or family member during the time she claimed she worked at McDonald’s came forth and substantiated her claim that she ever actually worked at McDonald’s. Her own campaign was not able to substantiate she worked at McDonald’s. Naturally, Trump took notice.
On Instagram Trump mocked Harris’s McDonald’s claim. He mocked it at his rallies. He mocked it everywhere. Then, and ya know how much Trump loves to troll sometimes, to twist the knife even further he actually did fries at McDonald’s.
That was it, the Harris campaign was done at that point and the Harris campaign slid deeper into the abyss towards the sure devastation awaiting it. They were pushed off the cliff by Trump actually serving McDonald’s fries, and just like that the election was over and all that was left was totaling up the damage Kamala Harris, ‘woke’, liberals, and the democrat party suffered.
The fact that the race of the woman was not mentioned tells all. This is a cultural issue, no male father figure in the car.
I hate when I drive away and stick my hand in the bag to find the fries flimsy and luke warm. If the fries are not hot it ruins the whole meal at a McDonalds, price aside. I can understand the anger or frustration, but pulling a gun on a teenager? She sure has now screwed up her life.
Rember way back with McD fries were awesome? Then PC/”health” fascists got them to stop frying in coconut oil. Same for movie theater popcorn.
fries are for kids. that does not exclude me. originally doodles fries were done in some kind of beef fat. they’ll never get that flavor back. this was when the shake was a dime more than the burger.
we had an exotic hot dog place locally (foie gras sausage) that used duck fat. worth it.
these days i’m happy to be given a baked beans option.
otherwise, just get the slaw… cabbage is so good for you.
oh, and my comments seem to be popping right up now.
Try Freddies fries – h ttps://www.freddys.com/
And a 15% discount for Vets
ohiowa? i no longer trek to ames but east sandusky is still on.
New local burger place opened near me. Checked the menu online. Eight bucks for a strawberry shake. Yeah, no.
One of those “artsy” joints with brick walls and a blackboard menu that always gives you 12 pounds of soggy, brown, unsalted fries?
From an Oct 20 local newspaper:
“The defendant continued by saying she had a weapon and she was going to shoot up the restaurant,” the complaint said.
The complaint made no mention of a weapon being found.
A person tells you they’re going to kill you with their gun. They then stick their hand under their jacket.
Whether they have a gun or not does not matter at that moment. What matters is if you have a gun.
I stopped at a southern chain chicken joint yesterday as I needed a protein fix. $10.50 for 2 pieces of chicken and some fries. I felt like I had been robbed.
our chicken shack is up to 23something for an 8pc mixed. pass.
the local watering hole has a half greek chicken with quartered taters and sauteed veggies, garlic bread for twelve.
Not saying it’s okay, just saying I get it. That’s why you gotta check the bag, man.
An urbanite, no doubt…