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From: "Blackout" <blackout@404infomagic.net>
Date: Sat, Apr 13, 2002
Newsgroups: alt.slack

Georgia woman stabbed over McDonald's meal dispute

The Associated Press
4/12/02 2:12 AM

PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) -- A McDonald's employee was arrested on
second-degree assault charges Wednesday after an upset customer was
stabbed in the forehead with a ballpoint pen.

Stephanie Renee Coleman, 21, of Phenix City is accused of leaning over
the counter and repeatedly stabbing Nelani Walton of Columbus, Ga. in
the forehead with a pen, police said.

"There was an order that was placed, and, evidently, the customer wasn't
pleased with it," Phenix City Police Capt. Jim Hart said.

Walton, 29, was treated for stitches to her forehead and cuts to her
mouth and later released.

"There was a great deal of profanity coming out of the employee prior to
the stabbing," Walton's attorney Kenneth Funderburk said late Thursday.

Coleman was fired before the incident after Walton told the manager
about the argument, store owner Jack Pezold said. Coleman is being held
on $10,000 bond.
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From: El Queso <the_cheese_23@yahoo.com>

I was the guy in front of the customer who was stabbed. I guess I
shouldn't have given the employee the "take shit from no one - quit your
job and slack off" speech while he prepped my order. Oh well, my McCrap
was not any more tainted than usual.
Queso
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From: "glassgnost" <dlindnerSPAMBLOCKED@socal.rr.com>

"HellPopeHuey" <hellpopehuey@subspamgeenyus.com> wrote...
> What a dumbass. Four deep fat fryers and she couldn't find a suitable
> container for slingin'? Or even a knife? Fast food workers ARE idiots.

IIRC, McDonald's traditionally keeps sharp instuments away from the counter
people. Not that they're unstable by nature, the work just tends to resemble
a hazing more than "job experience". They usually go one of three ways:

1. They burn out.

2. They get caught dipping in the till.

3. They crack.

Not all of the fast food places are as bad either. McDonald's motto in the
80's should have been "There's Plenty More Where They Came From". Wendy's,
OTO, was OK. I took that job right after moving to the San Fernando Valley,
and got to know a lot of people there, some of whom I still see.

I can only conclude from all of this that the managers of McDonald's are all
actually cat-like alien invaders in disguise - mesmerized by motion, feeding
from it, compelled to Not Allow It to Stop. Or "if you got time to lean, you
got time to clean" is a mind-control chant used by a Fetish cult. Or kill
me.

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From: "Fredric L. Rice" <FRice@LinkLine.COM>

Hell, a better weapon would be to force the customer to
actually _eat_ some of that McCrap.

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From: Her Ladyship Lilith von Fraumench <lilith@ZubJenius.com>

dyskolos <dyskolos@menander.org> wrote:

> Here's something odd... the day after I read this I was proofreading
> the next issue of my wife's magazine BOOKHAPPY (plug) and one of the
> articles reviews a number of books about "The Wickedest City." One of
> which is "Phenix City Alabama, the Wickedest City in America," at
> least up until the mid 1950s when a gubernatorial candidate was gunned
> down on the main drag, martial law was declared, the entire police
> force was arrested and all the whorehouses and gambling joints were
> shut down. COINCIDENCE???

It's the water, I tell you. That, and the unbearable psychic pressure
that comes from actually living in Alabama. Huey can bitch about
Arkansas all he wants, but at least he's not having to deal with people
who think Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote the National Anthem. A place where the
police drove the Mafia out because they were COMPETITION--now THAT is a
sniffy place.

Her Ladyship Lilith

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From: sanfordandson40@hotmail.com (Kat Suit Model)

>snipped story of McDonald's stabbing....

Nothing like a good old McFlurry of blows to the skull...

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