"UNION CITY, Ga. - A McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police

Question

Ok people, can anyboby sees what's wrong with this new?
and question is, why didn't he take the burger back? Kendra Bull a Mc donald 5 months employee accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat, and that meat was served in a burger for all customers, which one of them was a Police Officer Wendell Adams. That was in drive through and the police Wendall came back after finishing that salted burger then said that it made he SICK. cald Kendra out for questioning then after that she went to jail.
OK poeple tell me, how many time you, your sister, your wife, your mother( that is if they do cook :) ), made food and accidentally salted it?
Does the police officer have a right to questioned the employee?
something is wrong with poeple and poeple have to much power in their hands itsn.t?

Answer 1

This is just a typical "public servant" response. To those of you who say that she will get her day in court, that day won't go so well unless she can afford a good attorney. Legal aid attorneys aren't effective. The system should be structured that if she wins, the city pays her legal expenses.

Here's a letter I sent to the police chief and copied to the mayer of Union City, GA.

10 September, 2007
Mr. M. H. Isome Sr.
Chief of Police
Union City Police Department
5060 Union St
Union City, Georgia 30291

Dear Chief Isome:
I read a news story today that deeply disturbed me. Apparently, one of your officers, Mr. Wendell Adams, was served food at McDonalds that was too salty. Your officer felt that this justified arresting the person who served him the food and putting this person in jail for the night.

According to the news story, your officer claimed that the salty food made him sick. From what I read, salt was spilled on a batch of hamburger meat. The employee consulted the store manager and was instructed to remove the salt and proceed normally. The news story also says that this employee ate a burger made with the same meat herself without suffering any ill effects. In order to get “sick” from eating food with too much salt, one would have to eat a considerable amount of it, and one would certainly not be able to do it without noticing. Unless we’re talking about something a lot less innocuous than salt, I find it highly unlikely that Mr. Adams suffered any ill effects.

According to your “public information officer”, Mr. George Louth, the employee was arrested because she served the burger “without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it.” Indeed, that makes anyone who serves just about anything that McDonalds offers guilty. However, the facts seem to lack any evidence of criminal intent.

Most police officers approach their careers with a life of public service in mind. However, there are some who take the job simply because it gives them power over others. These are bullies who forget that they are paid to serve and protect the public and instead treat all civilians as their subordinates. As I said before, I find it highly unlikely that Mr. Adams became sick from his food. I think it is more likely that he noticed that the food was too salty and decided to assert his power over civilians by putting someone in jail for daring to serve him food that failed to meet his expectations.

I realize that you have little motivation to care what someone who doesn’t even live in your state thinks. However, let me tell you what motivates me to write to you. About 20 years ago, some friends and I were driving around showing a foreign exchange student our town. A police officer with nothing constructive to do decided to pull us over, searched all of us, and told us that if he saw us driving around again that he would arrest us for loitering. The exchange student was terrified and amazed. He had heard all of the bragging about America being such a free society. He couldn’t believe that a policeman could stop you and threaten and harass you even if you weren’t breaking the law. Having grown up desperately poor, I knew different.

Unless your crime lab turns up something more sinister than too much salt, I hope that you will do the right thing and appropriately discipline Mr. Adams, issue an apology to the McDonalds employee, and compensate her for any legal expenses she may have suffered.

Sincerely,

Answer 2

There's a whole lot of wrong in this picture! On both sides. It would've taken a whole 2 minutes longer for her to cook a new one. Why is the salt that close to the burgers? It has never been a good idea for any restaurant to salt their food due to the problems that it can cause for it's patrons. However, there is no way that a cop or anyone else can decide that something made them sick within a few minutes of eating it. Even food poisoning takes time. This cop is way out of line thinking it is even an ethical, much less a legal, excuse for an arrest. I can't remember any diabetic I've ever known who patronizes McDonald's. And yes I am a major contributor to the ronald fund. I've tasted some that were somewhat salty not never enough to arrest someone. If I find I do not like a chains food I won't go back. He did have the option to take it back and I am sure they would've replaced it for free. Any judge, DA or lawyer that let's this slide should be EXECUTED!! This is a grandious waste of tax dollars!!! I would picket every one of them till they admit their IGNORANCE!!!

Answer 3

Thank you Jamie H for that letter - I was looking on line to find information to also write a letter in response to how I feel that officer was way out of line arresting that girl for allegedly serving him a burger that made him sick. Your letter sums it up perfectly.

While I know too much salt can be dangerous to some, it was a mistake, and if the officer was so worried about his health he shouldn't have been eating a McDonald's burger to begin with. I've eaten at places and felt sick afterwards but I didn't call the cops and have the cooks arrested, that would be ridiculous; mistakes happen and now this girl is going to have an arrest record for serving meat that made a police officer sick. Just crazy.

If that's how the officer reacts to being served meat that allegedly makes him sick he obviously has judgement issues and I would not want to be on the opposite side of a gun that he has pointed at me, seems like he'd be the shoot and ask questions later type of guy.

Maybe his body was starting to get a stomach virus and would have been sick anyways, no one will know for sure.

Answer 4

Salt in addition to some people not liking its taste can be dangerous. It is not good for diabetics and people with high blood pressure and heart problems. Salt raises blood pressure.

It is the responsibility of a restaurant and its employees not to serve food that is not healthy, contaminated or tainted. The McDonald's Corporation also has its own strict food service guidelines.

It is different when you eat over salted food at home and when you have it at a restaurant. You could always throw out over spiced food at a restaurant too.

There is also the matter of how much extra salt was used. Was it a little or a great amount of salt.

Finally if the counter person was arrested she is still entitled to a court appearance.

Answer 5

Here's the problem as I see it:

There's no sandwich sold in McD's whose preparation involves adding salt. (I worked at a McDonald's, albeit decades ago.) The ONLY salt in the food preparation area was for the fries, and it's kept in the fry station. There is no salt in the grill area, and further no conceivable reason to hold a salt container over a burger. It is entirely implausible to suggest that there was an "accidental" spill of salt on a burger patty. Anyone suggesting that is flat-out lying.

(Note to troll below: I don't have to "know" anyone's "state of mind." It is sufficient that I do "know" how food is prepared at McD's. The "ignorance" here is your own.)

Admittedly, the officers went overboard, but the kids in the back who were sabotaging burgers with salt should at the very least be fired. Maybe they just got unlucky and hit an officer's order -- or maybe the saw the police car (on one of the TV monitors for the drive-through) and decided to have some fun with the cops. That does happen: one of my brothers-in-law is a policeman, and he never visits a restaurant in uniform, because of the things -- including spit -- that end up in his meals if he does.

Whether the salt was intentionally aimed at the police or not, the claim that it was an "accident" definitely does not pass the smell test. And that fact puts an entirely different face on the story than the news reports would suggest.

Answer 6

are you off your rocker? what in the hell would you want to spend anytime in jail for? they will not put you in a cell with real criminals, there are programs for troubled youth where they go to the pen and the criminals scare the crap out of them, I am sure the cops would see you as a prime candidate for one of these 'experiments'. But let me tell you I know a few people who have spent time in various stages of the penal system. you don't want to go there. find a new hobby/obsession.

Answer 7

I read that story, too, and although too much salt can cause health problems, it's not an arrestable offense, and it was clearly a case of a cop with too much time on his hands, a lack of actual crime to pursue, and a total ***** for arresting people just because he can. I'm sure the charges will be dropped, and I hope that employee sues and charges him for misconduct. She might have been wrong, but he was worse -- she might have sold the burger "without regards," but he overstepped his bounds.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Instead of throwing the meat away - they served it. They knew it was over-seasoned and not good. They knew, they tasted it.

That's rank. The question is - NOT why he didn't return the burger - but why she thought it was perfectly acceptable to serve it in the first place. My mother wouldn't do that.

McDonald's, anyone?

Answer 10

The question in my mind is ...who is the judge that sentenced this girl in defence of this wimpy cop! If he got sick from too much salt, and does have diabetes, or high blood pressure, he's probably not well enough to be on the police force.
Sure he can question her all day long, but JAIL??? And I can't believe they are sending it to the crime lab for testing.
And Paris spent a few days in jail for all her infractions? Doesn't add up to me.