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Yeah, but Can You Supersize Your Order?
A news report about a Fort Smith, Arkansas, Pizza Hut manager arrested for selling pot from his drive-through window reminded me of a recent Grinder post about pot-dealing doughnut-store employees and made me wonder: How common is it to serve a little something extra?
More than you’d think, apparently. There was a kid arrested in Canada in 2007 for selling Mary Jane at a McDonald’s. Yet another McDonald’s accidentally served a Happy Meal containing pot, a lighter, and a pipe to an eight-year-old girl. Meanwhile, an employee at a Mill Valley, California, KFC was arrested in 2002 for providing bags of pot to drive-through customers who asked for “extra biscuits,” while employees at a Mundelein, Illinois, Burger King were operating a drive-through cocaine-dispensing service until they were arrested in 2002. Apparently they kept the coke in the fridge near the milk and coffee creamers. They were finally busted for selling a kilo to undercover cops.
I worked a couple of drive-throughs in my life, and I admit to delivering cold fries and overdone burgers to jerky customers, but that is just, wow.
Posted by | Monday, April 28, 2008 at 11:19am | 2 comments
Perhaps we should all eschew drive-up windows. They are truly not necessary...and this usage? Yack.
I don't paint all fast-food drive-ups with the same brush, of course, but this is another instance of people not caring about the source of their food. "Would you like some cocaine with that, Ma'am?"
Let's eat at home more.
Cay
American ingenuity. I love it.