Sometimes I despair for the human race: A woman was sentenced up to seven years in jail for opening fire on a McDonalds after she was twice given cheeseburgers without bacon:
I mean, come on, you don’t open fire until at least the third time the staff fails to serve you the bacon on your cheeseburger, amiright?!
For the humorous challenged: JUST KIDDING!
Getting serious now, this story just goes to show the things that are so very wrong with our current state. The first and most significant thing is that within the United States guns are waaaay too plentiful and by the law of averages such lethal tools can’t help but eventually falling into the hands of people that really, really shouldn’t have them.
The second thing is the idea of entitlement. This woman orders food from a McDonalds, hardly a five star dining experience, and because she isn’t given bacon in her cheeseburger she complains (which is well within her rights) and is offered a free replacement cheeseburger.
Things turn from bad to worse (I could have said things turned ballistic but I wouldn’t hit you with such a terrible pun, or would I?) when the free replacement cheeseburger also didn’t have bacon in it. That’s when our unhappy camper goes from upset to deranged.
I’ve been to plenty of McDonalds in my lifetime and there have been many, many occasions where they’ve screwed up my order. At times I’ve complained and at other times I didn’t realize the order screw up until I was long gone and unable to get it corrected.
But if I were in this woman’s shoes, when I received that second bacon-less cheeseburger, I would have probably shrugged my shoulders, shaken my head in disgust, and simply walked away while making a mental note of never going to this particular McDonalds again.
I mean, there are only so many fights -and fights of far greater importance- worth fighting in one’s lifetime, right?
So this clearly frustrated woman goes way overboard and grabs her firearm and shoots a bullet into the McDonalds.
What exactly did she think that would accomplish? Seriously, will doing that somehow get the bacon on her (pardon my language) fucking cheeseburger?
What if someone in the store had been killed, all because of (again pardon my language) a missing slice of fucking bacon?!
So now she’s been convicted and faces up to seven years in jail.
Seems like a bargain.