Assault by Chalupa

[SmoochyTX]

WTH???

Call it assault by chalupa.

The Des Moines Police Department has filed a simple assault charge against a Des Moines man for an alleged Thursday incident at Taco Bell, 1501 E. Euclid Ave.

The weapon? A crispy, chewy concoction called a chalupa.

"I've never had anything quite like that before," said Darren Cornwell, the detective who investigated the case.

Police received a report early Friday alleging that a disgruntled customer threw the snack at a Taco Bell employee just hours before.

Nancy Harrison, a Taco Bell employee, told police she was working the drive-through at 10:45 p.m. Thursday when Christopher Lame, 24, ordered some food. Shortly afterward, Lame parked in front of the store, went inside and stated that he did not get the taco he ordered, records show.

Harrison said she asked if he had a receipt.

"What the (expletive)," he said. "Do I have to bring my receipt, too?" he answered.

Lame allegedly went back to his car, grabbed the bag the tacos were in, and told her, "There's the (expletive) tacos."

Police records show Harrison informed Lame they were closing, and as she turned away, a chalupa hit her in the face near her right eye. Lame ran out, but Harrison followed and took down his license plate number, she said.

A follow-up investigation identified the assailant as Lame, who was issued a criminal citation. He is scheduled to appear in court June 15.

Detective Larry Reynolds, who has been on the job for 31 years, said the case he remembers that most closely resembles the chalupa incident involved thrown milk at a McDonald's. No charges were filed in that case, he said.

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I wonder what happened to Lame.

 

[Banana]

A chalupa in the wrong place can be painful.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

A follow-up investigation identified the assailant as Lame, who was issued a criminal citation. He is scheduled to appear in court June 15.

Beautiful quote.

 

[Nitemare]

Well if she had only gotten my order right....

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve

A follow-up investigation identified the assailant as Lame, who was issued a criminal citation. He is scheduled to appear in court June 15.

Beautiful quote.

lol. If CS players were lawyers...

 

[Evadman]

I have been to that Taco Bell before, and they f'ed up my order too. I didn't get that pissed off tho. I am going to havce to go there tommorow and laugh at them. too bad it was almost a month ago.

 

[Gurck]

All that stuff tastes the same anyway, I'd have probably just snarfed it without even noticing. Some people are super finicky though, I guess

 

[alkemyst]

I can't say the guy was right in doing this but the whole service oriented industry has gone to hell.

These minimum wage working kids / adults think that they are somebody and don't have to answer to anyone. If you are a bagboy, valet, cashier, etc your job is to serve...end of story. Seriously, you are working in a service industry, your purpose is to serve. A job is not about sitting somewhere getting hourly money coming in, it's about doing a certain job properly and in return being paid. You will freaking do as the customer bids up to the limits of your job.

I have heard things like "I am not your servant, don't bother me" from a waitress, "You get it my way" from a detailer working at one of those simonize places to a guy asking about something done on his truck in front of a lobby full of customers....the manager took them all outside as the attention it got was pretty bad...we were leaving but chances are that guy was fired, and also a "You never told me I couldn't play a CD (paraphase I can't remember this was a long time ago)" from a valet in front of his boss...the guy was fired. He had claimed he had to repark the car and didn't think anything was wrong messing with a system 'designed' to play. Fortunately many at least get the sh1t half right and you can at least get your meal and out of the place comfortably and without property damage.

Working for minimum wage or close to it doesn't make anyone less of a person. However, if you want to pull the 'Do you know who I am/who my family is?" crap (for one if anyone has to wonder who another is chances are you are not much if claiming celebrity, if claiming riches see the next line.)

The answer is more than likely no one or you would not be flipping f'ing burgers for a whopping hundred or so bucks a week. The rich would get their kid a better more meaningful job.

 

[Nitemare]

Need more Mexicans and less brain-dead pimple farmers in restaurants