{"id":709431,"date":"2010-04-05T15:55:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:55:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:03:20","slug":"do-not-throw-coffee-and-food-at-mcdonalds-workers-if-you-think-they-shortchanged-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/709431","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Throw Coffee And Food At McDonald&#8217;s Workers If You Think They Shortchanged You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/4-5-2010%203-43-21%20PM-thumb-250x304-38951.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Just a little friendly advice, if you&#8217;re shortchanged at the register &#8212; don&#8217;t flip out and throw coffee and food at the McDonald&#8217;s workers. <\/p>\n<p>Police in Des Plaines, IL say that a man is accused of kicking a register (good flexibility, we guess) and card swiping machine, then throwing coffee and food that struck employees.<br \/>\nFrom the Sun-Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe man became enraged after accusing an employee of shortchanging him $10, said Cmdr. Nick Treantafeles, of the Des Plaines Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what set this guy off,&#8221; he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The man was identified by his license plate, but is refusing to turn himself in, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>\nThere&#8217;s now a warrant for his arrest on battery and criminal damage to property charges. Perhaps next time try a strongly-worded letter to corporate?<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/24-7\/2140600,des-plaines-mcdonalds-attack-040510.article\" >Man threw food, coffee at McDonald&#8217;s employees: cops <\/a> [Sun-Times]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little friendly advice, if you&#8217;re shortchanged at the register &#8212; don&#8217;t flip out and throw coffee and food at the McDonald&#8217;s workers. Police in Des Plaines, IL say that a man is accused of kicking a register (good flexibility, we guess) and card swiping machine, then throwing coffee and food that struck employees. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Yyr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810828,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709431\/revisions\/810828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}