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Iron Woode said:
I told you this is from personal experience. Throwing anything at a food service person is assault. Putting hands on the service person is battery. Do you comprehend this?

I actually posted an incident on here where I was assaulted at work. I am legally allowed to remove that person from the store by any means I see fit. I also called the police. I filed a report. I didn't have any legal issues.
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No, you cannot remove them by any means you see fit. You can only use reasonable force to do so. Don't confuse your anecdotal evidence with the law.

What reasonable force actually equates to is up to a judge and a jury based on the situation. So that manager's lawyer will have to prove that the threat posed by the customer made a blender to the face an appropriate response to protect her employees and herself.
 
Iron Woode said:
I think the McDonald's brawl incident shows what happens when you bite off more than you can chew.

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lol that was some of the best shit. I don't care for a lot of dumb fast food workers - but when the customer is in the wrong and makes an ass out of themselves, it is nice to see the workers putting them in their place.
 
“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes,” said a commenter who thought the woman who appeared to instigate the violence got her just desserts. (I'm guessing they meant "got what she deserved"). Totally agree.

"I don't have to put up with this." Well, you entitled bitch, ya do. You're not special. Your actions, especially the idiotic ones, have consequences. Totally makes sense she's suing, just what these type of entitled morons do.
 
Lots of replies about the food throwing after the fact, but the lady waiting patiently for 20+ minutes to get the order corrected gives her a lot of leniency in the "entitled" department. It's BS she couldn't get it corrected in less than 5 minutes and worse, to be purposely ignored. I would blow up in some way too.

She could've gone back on the drive-thru line and in turn make other cars wait (don't move up) while she got it corrected there. At least that way, the store would attend to her. The store has to report metrics for drive-thru wait times.
 
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rh71 said:
Lots of replies about the food throwing after the fact, but the lady waiting patiently for 20+ minutes to get the order corrected gives her a lot of leniency in the "entitled" department. It's BS she couldn't get it corrected in less than 5 minutes and worse, to be purposely ignored. I would blow up in some way too.

She could've gone back on the drive-thru line and in turn make other cars wait (don't move up) while she got it corrected there. At least that way, the store would attend to her. The store has to report metrics for drive-thru wait times.
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I agree. Waiting around for 20 minutes to get an order corrected while others are coming and going is plain unacceptable, but so is throwing things at or attacking anyone else. If it were me, I would have demanded my money back and caused a (shouting) scene.

When I was a kid and my mom took me to McDonald's, if I got a cheeseburger I would always get it without mustard (it tasted awful to me). Every once in a while they would put mustard on it, but we never had problems getting them to make a new one without mustard within a couple of minutes. One time they gave it back without any meat, but they got it right the third time and we found it funny.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I really feel there needs to be a law that if you do harm to someone, and that someone does harm back to you, you should not be allowed to sue or press charges or anything. The case should be considered settled and nobody gets into any legal trouble. That would free up lot of court time too.
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Better define "harm" here otherwise I've got a list I need to start working on.
 
rh71 said:
Lots of replies about the food throwing after the fact, but the lady waiting patiently for 20+ minutes to get the order corrected gives her a lot of leniency in the "entitled" department. It's BS she couldn't get it corrected in less than 5 minutes and worse, to be purposely ignored. I would blow up in some way too.

She could've gone back on the drive-thru line and in turn make other cars wait (don't move up) while she got it corrected there. At least that way, the store would attend to her. The store has to report metrics for drive-thru wait times.
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Meh, you are at McDonalds. You get what you deserve for eating there.
 
BudAshes said:
Meh, you are at McDonalds. You get what you deserve for eating there.
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Well, you certainly deserve diabetes, obesity, food poisoning and public ridicule. But you also deserve to get the "food" that you ordered. Or do you? Could a case be made that McDonalds refusing to give a customer their order is a humanitarian act that should be applauded?
 
My son gets those chocolate milks from McDonalds with his happy meals. Getting nailed in the head with one of those could do some serious damage.
 
OccamsToothbrush said:
Breaking someones face is incidental. Customer started the shit by throwing food, manager retaliated by throwing something back. The legal principle that *SHOULD* cover the situation is "don't start none won't be none". Customer got what's coming to her.
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Disagree. A blender to the face is much more involved than a cheeseburger wrapped in paper. If you're in the service industry you are going to meet a TON of ignorant people. If you can't deal with the public you should be in another job. It's up to you to act professionally. She should sue.
 
Mai72 said:
Disagree. A blender to the face is much more involved than a cheeseburger wrapped in paper. If you're in the service industry you are going to meet a TON of ignorant people. If you can't deal with the public you should be in another job. It's up to you to act professionally. She should sue.
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Yet more excusing of unacceptable public behavior under the guise of "It's normal behavior here".

C'mon I thought you traveled a lot? Do you see that shit in Japan, Taiwan, etc? I sure as hell didn't see any of that shit in Japan when I was there. Why is it such a hard concept to expect acceptable behavior of people in public?

If you act like (and instigate) like an ignorant buffoon, you deserve any and all response to your own stupidity. Stop acting like we need to treat the reaction and treat the original action.
 
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Yeah I hate how this world and especially the legal system basically normalizes this type of behaviour and even defends it. On similar thought I hate how thieves are also protected by the law in lot of places. If someone tries to steal from you and you harm them you are the one that gets in trouble. It's pure BS.
 
Mai72 said:
Disagree. A blender to the face is much more involved than a cheeseburger wrapped in paper. If you're in the service industry you are going to meet a TON of ignorant people. If you can't deal with the public you should be in another job. It's up to you to act professionally. She should sue.
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Disagree all you want, all that proves is your complete lack of understanding of the law and of human nature.

First, a person in the service industry is not legally or morally obligated to be a punching bag for any psycho that wants to start shit. Act professionally in the face of an assault? Pray tell, please share with us what you think that entails. "Why maam, please stop or I shall be forced to ask you to stop in a louder and more forceful voice."

Second, every human is hard-wired with a fight or flight response to potentially violent (or, in this case, already violent) situations. Nobody can or will sit there and weigh the proportional response or what your pathetic definition of acting professionally involves. The victim of an assault will either run away or fight back, that's the way it is now and that's the way it's been every single day of human history. The victim of this assault had "fight" in their DNA and acted accordingly.

A really good rule of thumb for going through life: If you don't want to get a blender in the face don't assault people standing near blenders because sure as shit some of them are going to chuck it at you.
 
that's cool that the manager didn't get charged. i still think she was dumb for chucking a blender, but it happens i guess?

countering a happy meal with a blender seems akin to throwing an axe at someone who egged you. but those drinks can be hefty. and if this stops more stupid fast food fights then so be it.

mcd's still probably gonna have to pay up a decent amount to the dummy who started the whole thing, but who knows, maybe they'll get out of it relatively cheap.

edit: it is funny to see how many people get riled up about this. why do you guys care so much which way the case goes? i ain't gonna lose sleep no matter what a prosecutor decides.
 
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brianmanahan said:
that's cool that the manager didn't get charged. i still think she was dumb for chucking a blender, but it happens i guess?

countering a happy meal with a blender seems akin to throwing an axe at someone who egged you. but drinks can be hefty. and if this stops more stupid fast food fights then so be it.

mcd's still probably gonna have to pay up a decent amount to the dummy who started the whole thing, but who knows, maybe they'll get out of it relatively cheap.

edit: it is funny to see how many people get riled up about this. why do you guys care so much which way the case goes? i ain't gonna lose sleep no matter what a prosecutor decides.
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Look I'm in the same boat as you as far as this - if this happened to me I would likely choose the "flight" route instead of the fight.

But because someone chose what you or I wouldn't choose based on biological human reaction, why fault them? As I have said previously, the issue at hand is the action - not the reaction.

It's not a matter of making a big deal of it - at the end of the day it's just another silly discussion were having on a messageboard. I mean, who even uses this anymore ?
 
s0me0nesmind1 said:
It's not a matter of making a big deal of it - at the end of the day it's just another silly discussion were having on a messageboard. I mean, who even uses this anymore ?
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that's true, gotta have something to talk about i suppose. i was done with my ATI vs nvidia debate days even before AMD bought ATI haha
 
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