McDonalds Employee in Jail for a Salty Burger

[CyberLaw]

So there was only one salty burger and that one burger "just happen" to be served to a cop.

Please........I don't believe in Santa Claus either.

With all of the "issues" in buying food already prepared, the burgers should have been thrown out. Not served to any member of the unsuspecting public, especially in a huge corporation like McDonalds.

There are allowances for waste, I presume.

 

[Nova]

So there was only one salty burger and that one burger "just happen" to be served to a cop.

Please........I don't believe in Santa Claus either.

With all of the "issues" in buying food already prepared, the burgers should have been thrown out. Not served to any member of the unsuspecting public, especially in a huge corporation like McDonalds.

There are allowances for waste, I presume.

I don't read the article that way, Cyber. I think the salty burgers were served to others, but only the cop came back and claimed to be sick.

I think everyone agrees McD burgers don't need any additional salt. What we're responding to is whether a salty hamburger warrants an arrest.

 

[angelmom]

So there was only one salty burger and that one burger "just happen" to be served to a cop.

Please........I don't believe in Santa Claus either.

With all of the "issues" in buying food already prepared, the burgers should have been thrown out. Not served to any member of the unsuspecting public, especially in a huge corporation like McDonalds.

There are allowances for waste, I presume.

No, there were multiple salty burgers. The girl who prepared them actually ate one on her break and said it did not make her sick.

I agree that the burgers should have been thrown out, but the manager who was informed and left them on the line is responsible.

Also, the police officer didn't take one or two bites and return or throw it out. He ate 8 bites, according to the girl's statement. How bad could it have been?

 

[Angie4b1g]

Really gives new meaning to the word Assault.

*kneeslap*

 

[crypto6]

I don't read the article that way, Cyber. I think the salty burgers were served to others, but only the cop came back and claimed to be sick.

I think everyone agrees McD burgers don't need any additional salt. What we're responding to is whether a salty hamburger warrants an arrest.

If he's so stupid that he eats all of something which instantly doesn't agree with him, he doesn't need to be in any PD anywhere. If he thinks a salty burger rises to the level of a crime just because he's a cop (would he arrest someone in McD if you or I complained?), he also doesn't need to be employed as one.
He's an immature, muddled-thinking badge-happy menace to the population of any city which gives him a badge.

Kick him to the curb where he belongs. I know too many LE who get up every day to try to make our city a better place, and he's nothing but an embarrasment to them.

Crypto6

 

[Amraann]

I am really ashamed that I am the only one defending this police officer...

ME totally anti establishment!!

I am the very last person to follow someone's authority!!
Yet, I read this story and think some little trying to get even with LE..

Salt does NOT accidentally spill in a cooking area that does not have salt in it.
It does matter if she did this on purpose.

 

[meowy]

haha good one

Really gives new meaning to the word Assault.

*kneeslap*

 

[Paladin]

I am really ashamed that I am the only one defending this police officer...

ME totally anti establishment!!

I am the very last person to follow someone's authority!!
Yet, I read this story and think some little trying to get even with LE..

Salt does NOT accidentally spill in a cooking area that does not have salt in it.
It does matter if she did this on purpose.

There is salt in McDonald's cooking areas. See my previous posts. If you also worked at McDonald's in the cooking area, consider that these restaurants are franchised and different ones have different rules and guidelines.

 

[Paladin]

If he's so stupid that he eats all of something which instantly doesn't agree with him, he doesn't need to be in any PD anywhere. If he thinks a salty burger rises to the level of a crime just because he's a cop (would he arrest someone in McD if you or I complained?), he also doesn't need to be employed as one.
He's an immature, muddled-thinking badge-happy menace to the population of any city which gives him a badge.

Kick him to the curb where he belongs. I know too many LE who get up every day to try to make our city a better place, and he's nothing but an embarrasment to them.

Crypto6

I don't know why, but your post gave me the idea that the police officer in question imagined (or willed) his sickness to happen.

It's a medical proven fact that the mind is powerful enough to trick a hypochondriac into experiencing symptoms for an illness they don't really have. The officer in question probably noticed the burger was much saltier than they normally are and as a result made himself sick with worry.

 

[Nova]

I am really ashamed that I am the only one defending this police officer...

ME totally anti establishment!!

I am the very last person to follow someone's authority!!
Yet, I read this story and think some little trying to get even with LE..

Salt does NOT accidentally spill in a cooking area that does not have salt in it.
It does matter if she did this on purpose.

Amraann, I don't think anyone is defending tampering with food. But speaking for myself alone, even assuming the salting was deliberate, a salty burger could be handled with a complaint to the owner, or McD's management.

LE should use better discretion.

 

[Amraann]

There is salt in McDonald's cooking areas. See my previous posts. If you also worked at McDonald's in the cooking area, consider that these restaurants are franchised and different ones have different rules and guidelines.

NO they do not... thus the word franchise

They all have to follow the same rules ...

 

[Taximom]

This might clear things up if they were recording:
Bull, who spent Thursday night in jail until she was released on a $1,000 signature bond Friday morning, admitted the burgers were too salty, but said she ate one from the batch and did not get sick. She also said that security cameras trained on the work area and grill will prove that the salt was spilled accidentally. From http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296155,00.html

Link with picture and complete police report:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0910071salt2.html

 

[dellemma]

I ate at a restaurant once and had to send my food back (a burger as well) after one bite. It was covered in salt! Turns out that what had happened was that one of the cooks had spilled the salt they had kept near the stove to smother out a grease fire. What happened in my case, granted I was at a real sit down restaurant, was that when the server took my food back - the manager actually tasted my burger and then made the cook taste it. The manager came out and apologized over and over and was furious at the cook who spilled the salt and then 'brushed' it off my food. I said it was no big deal and just wanted a burger without the salt LOL. The manager said it was a big deal because those kinds of mistakes could have really caused someone to get sick - she went on about low sodium diet people etc.

Anyway, that's my brush with a salt incident. Maybe the salt she spilled at McD's was the salt they kept near the stove for the grease fires.

 

[Paladin]

NO they do not... thus the word franchise

They all have to follow the same rules ...

Okay, then they must all have salt in the burger area because my friend who was a manager there said they do.

 

[Nova]

Am I the only one who has ever eaten at McDonald's? I'm sure they have barrels of salt stacked in every part of the kitchen. Sugar and fat, too.

 

[Vegas Bride]

After reading the police report it does not sound like the burger just had extra salt mixed in with the patty, it says the entire thing including lettuce etc was just coated with it. If that's the fact then someone would have had to purposly do it IMO.

VB

 

[Autumn2004]

After reading the police report it does not sound like the burger just had extra salt mixed in with the patty, it says the entire thing including lettuce etc was just coated with it. If that's the fact then someone would have had to purposly do it IMO.

VB

It also says in the article that she stated "Bull told cops she accidentally put too much salt and pepper on the hamburger, but since managers had been concerned about waste, she "had gone ahead and used the hamburger."


Which might be true but it could be a lie trying to protect her butt since it sounds like she assumed instead of asking the managers.

Either way a night in jail is too much in my opinion but I fully believe she did it on purpose and should be fired for it.

 

[AfterMidnight]

So, if the cops don't like the food you serve you could go to jail? BARF!

Who said this isn't a police state?

 

[Vegas Bride]

Anyone who eats at a restaurant puts their trust in whoever cooks the food. If someone does indeed deliberatly tamper with the food IMO they should spend a night in jail. If any of us got sick because someone knew they were giving us food they knew wasn't right, wouldn't we be wanting something done? What if it was a child who was given the burger and the parent told them they better eat the whole thing not knowing it really did taste bad?
At my old job there was a woman who I had problems with, after she was fired she got a job at a pizza place. I would never go there because I knew 100% that if she had a chance she would do something to my food!
There are so many things that can be done. At this time we really don't know any thing about the officer but I'm more inclined to think he may have been targeted because of what he does for a living. For a person who puts their life on the line IMO that's just wrong.

VB

 

[SeriouslySearching]

I guess salt was better than having his food spit on! At least, he knew it was there.

They need to do some good old fashioned police work and find others who ate there at the time to see if it was the entire batch or if they are playing CYA. This would be proof of an "accidental" spill or if the officer was actually targeted.