{"id":264,"date":"2003-12-04T15:13:29","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T20:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/mcdonalds_mowdown\/"},"modified":"2003-12-04T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2003-12-04T20:13:29","slug":"mcdonalds_mowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/mcdonalds_mowdown\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonalds Mowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone should have ordered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/front\/2268726\">a happy meal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A McDonald&#8217;s customer who flew into a violent rage when she was denied mayonnaise on her cheeseburger was convicted Wednesday of felony assault for running over the restaurant&#8217;s manager.<br \/>\nWaynetta Nolan, 37, faces up to 20 years in prison for hitting Sherry Allen Jenkins with her car, dragging the employee across the parking lot and breaking her pelvis.<br \/>\nIn the middle of the lunchtime rush, the longtime McDonald&#8217;s employee had briefly stepped into the drive-through lane to take down the disruptive customer&#8217;s license plate number when Nolan&#8217;s sedan lunged forward, witnesses said.<br \/>\nWitnesses said 43-year-old Jenkins screamed, &#8220;Stop! Please stop!&#8221; as she was thrown from the car hood, caught between the wheels and scraped along the pavement.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nThe incident began when an 18-year-old employee working at the drive-through window told Nolan mayonnaise was not an option on McDonald&#8217;s cheeseburgers. When Nolan became angry, she was encouraged to pull her car around to the window counter and speak to the manager.<br \/>\nWitnesses said Nolan cursed and threw a cheeseburger back though the drive-through window.<br \/>\nWhen Jenkins offered a special-order cheeseburger with mayonnaise, witnesses said, Nolan complained her french fries had grown cold. After receiving new fries, she then demanded a new drink.<br \/>\nUnable to pacify the belligerent customer, Jenkins finally called police, who asked her to get the customer&#8217;s license plate number.<br \/>\nAfter running over Jenkins, witnesses said, Nolan sped from the parking lot and drove into oncoming traffic on a one-way feeder road. She was arrested at her home after a man who saw the assault followed her and reported her plate to police. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope they have mayonnaise in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/mcdonalds_mowdown\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to McDonalds Mowdown\"><p>Someone should have ordered a happy meal: A McDonald&#8217;s customer who flew into a violent rage when she was denied mayonnaise on her cheeseburger was convicted Wednesday of felony assault for running over the restaurant&#8217;s manager. Waynetta Nolan, 37, faces up to 20 years in prison for hitting Sherry Allen Jenkins with her car, dragging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}