Man Threatens to Kill McDonald’s Employee Over Chicken McNugget Special

An irate customer who police said threatened to kill a McDonald’s worker because the worker didn’t know about a chicken nuggets promotion faces a criminal charge.
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The employee wasn’t familiar with a restaurant promotion and went outside to check a sign giving information about it, Custer said. Martin got out of his car and threatened to kill the employee, he said.
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The employee, Antonio Esprella, said no one told him about the promotion, which offered a lower price for chicken nuggets, french fries and drinks.

“Of course, after I saw the sign, I was going to give it to him,” Esprella said Monday of the promotion.

Meat Crime Follow Up

New video surfaces of our darling McNuggets Lady expressing her displeasure at being denied early morning chicken chunks.

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We’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and presume this McDonald’s regularly places food orders into cloth sacks with giant dollar signs printed on them.

(Photo by deovolenti via Flickr)

Banishment from one specific McDonald’s in Toledo is probably already punishment enough.

11/26/09 Thousands of dollars in coins and electronics, as well as cheesecake, beer and a child’s birthday money, were stolen during a holiday burglary at a Lower Saucon Township home, police said.

Burglars sometime on Thanksgiving eve or the holiday broke through a window at a home on the 2000 block of Alice Drive, police said. Police said the robbers took $2,000 to $5,000 in Morgan Silver Dollars, two video game consoles and 25 video games.

Also missing were $90 from a 10-year-old’s birthday card, a jar full of loose change, a cheesecake and non-alcoholic beer, police said. Police said the burglars placed a pound of bacon on a kitchen floor in an apparent attempt to quiet a dog.

Police did not name the homeowners but said the family was away when the burglary happened. The family found the home ransacked on Thanksgiving. (Lower Saucon Township, NJ)

11/26/09 A woman reported Nov. 17 that she received a chicken McNugget from McDonald’s that had been spit on. Officers observed a substance on the chicken, but they couldn’t determine what it was. McDonald’s management stated they would review security cameras to see if any illegal activity took place. (Strongsville, OH)

11/24/09 Two hundred pounds of deer meat valued at $400, 15 rods and reels valued at $1,500, one tackle box with lures valued at $2,000, a box containing reloading brass valued at $200, an angle grinder valued at $100 and a portable battery charger valued at $50 were stolen from a home on Rue Road in Coker between 11 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday. (Tuscaloosa, AL)

11/24/09 A 57-year-old woman was charged with shoplifting after a security guard saw leave Shop Rite without paying on Saturday, police said.

The woman, Catherine Spano of Adams Street, was arrested at 12:23 p.m. She took three lip balms, a box of antacids and an (apparently very large) bag of shrimp, because the total was $60.93, police said. (Hoboken, NJ)

10/29/09 An Evansville woman reported to police that her soon-to-be-ex-husband stole ground beef from her freezer in retaliation for her cutting off his cable.

Officers with the Evansville Police Department were called to the scene of Jamie Brooks’ Harriet Street apartment Wednesday night.

According to an incident report, Brooks alleged the man, who was not identified by police, stole ground beef from her freezer.

Brooks alleges that the ground beef was probably stolen as revenge to her cutting the cable lines that he had been pirating. (Evansville, IL)

10/27/09 UTTERING A FORGED DOCUMENT, 10:44 p.m. Oct. 27. Aldo Chavez, 25, of Piscataway was charged with paying for Chicken McNuggets with a counterfeit $100 bill at the drive-up window of McDonald’s on Route 22.

According to an affidavit filed in Superior Court, Officer Gregory Victor was called to the fast-food restaurant on a hold-up alarm. When the officer arrived, he saw a blue Honda Accord attempting to drive away from the drive-up window. Because he suspected the car may have been involved in the alarm, the officer blocked the car, the affidavit said.

When Victor asked the driver, later identified as Chavez, why he was leaving without his food, Chavez said that he “did not want to wait for his Chicken McNuggets.”

An employee then came out of the restaurant with an $100 bill that the officer determined was counterfeit, the affidavit said.

The employee said Chavez had ordered six Chicken McNuggets and tried to pay for the food with the $100 bill, according to the affidavit.

Chavez was then arrested. (Green Brook, NJ)

10/14/09 The Madison County Grand Jury has a beef with a West Jefferson man accused of stealing meat during the recent Ox Roast.

On Oct. 14, the grand jury indicted Joshua Bateman, 23, of 9497 High Free Pike on a felony count of receiving stolen property in connection with an incident at the Ox Roast on Sept. 7.

According to a village police report, members of the West Jefferson Community Association were cooking beef when they noticed someone taking boxes of roasts from a storage trailer. Police later recovered three boxes containing 12 roasts from Bateman’s Toyota truck. The meat was valued at $900.

If convicted of the fifth-degree felony, Bateman could face up to 12 months in prison and $2,500 in fines. He is free on a $2,500 signature bond.

A second man was indicted in the case, but has not been served with a court summons. (West Jefferson, OH)