Drive-Thru Horror

St. Paul Pioneer Press | 08/19/2004 | Fast-food rage spurs arrests of 3 teens



This blog post isn't going to be about the McDonald's McRib sandwich (although that pre-formed patty of pork parts is pretty horrible.) No, this is about two guys who got mad over a botched drive-thru order at McDonald's in West St. Paul and beat someone with a baseball bat. I've been there before. I've felt the rage at a bad meal mistake. There was that time I decided to "Think Outside the Bun" and I ended up with bacon tacos instead of a bean burrito at the Taco Bell drive-thru. But instead of pulling out my baseball bat, I calmed myself down using a meditation technique, and I went inside and asked the manager for a fresh bean burrito. I got one, plus a few free coupons. The moral of the story? Now I order inside the restaurant. You can check your food right there, to make sure it's what you ordered, and it will save the interior of your car from dripped ketchup and bun crumbs. (My Festiva had a french fry permanently lodged deep in the plastic emergency brake cover, due to the carelessness of a former owner.)