Customer nightmare No. 2: ‘Really? Over a soda?’
Three boys were caught while trying to pull off the age-old trick of using a water cup to steal some soda from a self-serve fountain. Two of the culprits ‘fessed up, but the third pitched such a self-righteous defense, even hitting a manager of the restaurant with the boys’ car, that he was eventually arrested.
The trio of teens had asked for three waters while ordering at the drive-thru of a McDonald’s in Springdale, Ark. They then dumped out the water and went inside to fill the cups with soda.
The manager saw what was happening and confronted the boys. Two turned over the soda. The third refused. He ran out of the restaurant as the manager called the police and reported a theft. Then the manager ran outside, too, to block the offenders from leaving—where he was struck by the boys’ car as it reversed out of a parking space.
The authorities tracked down the car and charged the irreconcilable 18-year-old with a felony-level robbery.