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  • Tennessee woman arrested for calling 911 to complain about ‘nasty’ hamburger from Hardee's

    Posted: April 4th, 2012 - 7:10am by Doug Powell

    The latest entry to our food-related 911 Hall of Shame is Donna Marie Nichols of Rockwood, Tennessee (right, exactly as shown) who called 911 twice to complain about a substandard fast food hamburger.
    In one call, obtained by the website The Smoking Gun, Ms Nichols, 50, tells the 911 dispatcher that the burger is "no good" and "nasty."

    When deputies arrived at her home, she said that she had called the restaurant before she called 911 and the manager had offered her a refund for her food, according to WCRB.

    She was arrested on abuse of 911 charges and booked into the Roane County Jail. She was released Monday night.

    Previously, customers have been popped for calling 911 to register dismay about Burger King lemonade, McDonald's McNuggets, and pizza.

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  • US woman calls 911 because she got the wrong Chinese food

    Posted: June 16th, 2011 - 9:41am by Doug Powell

    Police in Savannah, Georgia took to reminding residents today that they should only use 911 for emergencies.

    Because apparently, calling and asking for officers to come to the Hong Kong restaurant on Largo Drive to tell those "idiots" that they shouldn't have gotten your order wrong does not an emergency make.
     

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  • Texas woman calls 911 when husband refuses to eat dinner

    Posted: December 24th, 2009 - 10:31am by Doug Powell

    Continuing the decline into idiocracy, a Texas woman faces charges after calling 911 30 times over six months, most recently to complain that her husband wouldn’t eat his dinner.

    Last Friday, the woman allegedly made a pair of calls to 911, including a hang-up and another where a woman was heard screaming.

    Police were dispatched to the residence and officer Paul Gonzales said police were told by her that "her husband did not want to eat his supper." A police report said the 53-year-old woman was also yelling "about things that happened two weeks ago."
     

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  • Oregon. man upset by McDonald's order repeatedly calls 911

    Posted: June 29th, 2009 - 2:31pm by Doug Powell

    Oregon appears to be an emerging state for 911 wackos – rivaling Florida and Texas – after a 23-year-old called 911 Friday to complain about his order at a McDonald’s in Clackamas, Ore.

    Last month, a fellow Oregonian was arrested after calling 911 to complain about a juice box missing from his McDonald’s order. From insufficient shrimp in Texas, a McNuggets emergency and missing lemonade at a Burger King, 2009 is turning into a watershed year as American fast-food diners to a 911-mediated slide into idiocracy.

    In the latest incident,  KOMO News reports that  a man said he had paid $10 in the drive-thru but only received a single burger and a fry before he was told to pull around.

    "Sir, this is not a police matter," the dispatcher told him. "You need to take it up with the manager of the McDonald's."

    The man thought it would be wise to call 911 again.

    "This is a 911 emergency. I got robbed for eight dollars."

    "Sir, 911 is life-and-death only. If you do continue calling 911 you will be arrested for misuse."

    "Well, arrest me at (expletive) 82nd and Sunnyside Road. Please send a cop right now. I swear to God all my life..."

    The man was arrested and spent the night in jail.

    On Saturday, the man told KATU he stood by his actions.

    "I was very upset that they tried to charge me for food I had already paid for. … For me to end up going to jail over a $10 order, that's just ridiculous.”

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  • Fast food vigilante

    Posted: March 8th, 2009 - 9:54pm by Ben Chapman

    In an attempt to upstage upset fast food patrons who call 911 when they don't get their McNuggets, lemonade, cheeseburger or proper garnish, a man in Peoria IL took the law into his own hands.

    PJ Star.com reports that a McDonalds staff member was assaulted with an eggless McGriddle, after a customer, who purchased the breakfast sandwich, was angered by its lack of egg. 

    Police were called to a West Bluff McDonald's restaurant early Saturday after an employee was allegedly assaulted with a breakfast sandwich.

    About 5:20 a.m., a man at the drive-through window at 627 N. Western Ave. was upset his McGriddle sandwich didn't have an egg in it, the victim told police. She told the man she would correct the sandwich, but he became irate when the driver of the vehicle behind him honked at him to move.

    The man then threw the hot, greasy sandwich at the 38-year-old employee's face, according to police reports. The man drove off before police arrived.

    The woman refused medical attention.

    I'm not a huge McGriddle fan, but I do really like those sausage and egg McMuffins.

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  • McNuggets are not a 911 emergency

    Posted: March 3rd, 2009 - 2:59pm by Doug Powell

    In yet another example of America’s slide toward Idiocracy, a Florida woman called 911 after paying for 10 Chicken McNuggets and told that no deep-fried chicken bits were available and would she like something else because all sales are final.

    She called 911 three times.

    "This is an emergency, If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one. This is an emergency."

    Once police arrived, the woman told police,

    "I called 911 because I couldn't get a refund, and I wanted my McNuggets.”

    The police report states the woman,

    "maintained the attitude 'this is an emergency, my McNuggets are an emergency.'"

    And why do these food-related 911 calls keep recurring in Florida?

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  • Man dialed 911 when lemonade ran out

    Posted: February 8th, 2009 - 12:33pm by Doug Powell

    Have Americans become so self-absorbed they have to call 911 when food is not to their liking?

    First it was a dude in Jacksonville, FL, who called 911 because he didn’t like the way his Subway sandwich was prepared. He could have just called Jared.

    Last year, someone called 911 because she couldn’t get a cheeseburger.

    On Friday, a man in Boynton Beach, FL, was arrested and charged with abuse of 911 communication after calling to complain that a local Burger King in did not have any lemonade.

    If I was going to call 911 on Burger King it’d be related to that mascot that looks like a creepy Thunderbirds-clone
     

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  • 'I'm not sending officers down to enforce the making of your cheeseburger'

    Posted: August 19th, 2008 - 7:27am by Doug Powell

    After a man in Jacksonville, Florida, called 911 because the Subway sandwich he ordered was not made to his liking, other similarly ridiculous calls to authorities have surfaced.

    In this 2007 youtube audio posting, a woman calls local police because Burger King employees apparently didn’t make the proper hamburger for this woman and her kids. So the woman decides to stay put in the drive-thru until officers arrive.

    The dispatcher at one point asks, “Is this a harmful cheeseburger?”
     

     

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  • Sandwich rage: Man calls 911 over garnish error

    Posted: August 4th, 2008 - 10:29am by Doug Powell

    Firstcoastnews.com is reporting that a man in Jacksonville, Florida, called 911 after the Subway sandwich he ordered was not made to his liking.

    Witnesses inside the store say Peterson eventually started screaming at everyone inside. When Peterson went outside to call police. Employees closed the store and locked the door to keep him from returning.

    The man then called police again to complain that the police hadn’t shown up yet.

    The man was arrested and at his request the sandwiches were thrown away.
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