A Miami Burger King employee ripped off his headset and climbed through the drive-through window to attack a customer
after an argument erupted over correct change. According to the Miami
Herald, Burger King employee Michael Perez claims that the Kevin Gillis, who was buying two orders of fries for his
three young daughters, also in the car, addressed him with a racial slur after the two argued over Gillis's change.
Enraged, Perez came through the window, reached into Gillis's truck and punched him in the face. Gillis then got out of
his truck and tackled Perez, fearing for the safety of his wife and daughters, who had also exited the truck. Perez was
subsequently arrested.[Via Restaurant News Resource]
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3-22-2006 @ 10:22PM
static said...
The original story doesn't mention "correct change" at all, though I like your version of the story a lot better.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14150549.htm
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3-22-2006 @ 11:33PM
Nick said...
The RNR post pointed me to the Miami Herald article from the 21st. I then searched and found a more complete Herald article from the 22nd, which I linked to in the body of my post. That one does, in fact, mention a dispute over change.
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3-23-2006 @ 10:02AM
Charles said...
Try that with me and I'll roll up my power window on your a**.
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3-23-2006 @ 9:32PM
Amy said...
No surprise to me. When I was 16 and working at McDonald's (God, was it really 13 years ago??) a customer freaked out and threw his chili at me because it was too hot. He was already pissed that we were out of chili, and that warming some up from frozen solid took about 15 minutes, and it was in a cup instead of a bowl (they didn't HAVE bowls at McD's back then!), and that we had warned him not to eat it for, oh, 13 years or so because it was thermonuclear hot. But, did he listen? Oh no. Mr. I-Am-An-Ass-To-Poor-Teenage-McWorkers had to come back up to the counter, scream at me that the chili was too hot, and when I said, "But I *told* you that it was going to be too hot before you ever bought it!" he let it fly.
Luckily for me, he was a bad shot. If I knew then what I know now, I would've called the cops, had him arrested for assault, and I could've gone to college on his McNickel.
My point? McRage is nothing new.
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