Whether or not you truly are owed a free cookie, I understand putting up a bit of a fight for it if you think you are. Hell, it’s McDonald’s. They can afford to give you one even if you’re wrong. But this seems juuuuuust a tad overboard, no?
Hendricks, a fast food manager herself it turns out, went before a judge Friday afternoon.
Police say an upset Hendricks thought she was “entitled to a free cookie.”
Hendricks was given the free cookie, but continued to argue, workers said.
The next thing McDonald’s workers see is that Hendricks allegedly:
“Has a handgun while she’s in the drive-thru so they call 911,” officer Michelle Montalvo said.
The report says a worker “sees Hendricks insert a magazine into the handgun and rack the slide” then hears “clicking sounds associated with someone chambering a round.”The report said Hendricks did “point the firearm towards the drive-thru window.”
One worker said he could “see down the barrel of the firearm.”
It didn’t end there.
According to the report, Hendricks left the drive-thru, parked her car, forced her way inside as someone tried to lock her out and got into a bit of a scrap with an employee who wound up with scratches on his neck and face.
I would have suggested giving her another cookie, but that worked surprisingly poorly the first time.
I have no idea what finally convinced her to leave, but police arrested her a block away from the restaurant. she was charged with battery, resisting arrest, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
A couple of things before I finish this up and hit post.
- Since when does McDonald’s give out free cookies? Is that an American thing? Up here I think they only have the charity ones, and those you obviously have to pay for.
- I wish they had said which restaurant this woman managed. I’ll bet it’s Burger King. Burger King can always be counted on to make a day violently worse.