Woman has 911 meltdown over McNuggets (funny)

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    Woman has 911 meltdown over McNuggets
    Fla. police say she called emergency number 3 times after store runs out



    FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets.

    A police report says 27-year-old Fort Pierce resident Latreasa L. Goodman told authorities she paid for a 10-piece last week but was later informed the restaurant had run out.

    She says she was refused a refund and told all sales were final. A cashier told police she offered Goodman a larger portion of different food for the same price, but Goodman became irate.

    "This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don’t want one," Goodman told police, according to The Stuart News. "This is an emergency."

    Police say Goodman was cited on a misuse of 911 charge. A current phone listing for Goodman couldn't be found.

    A McDonald's spokesman says Goodman should have been given a refund, and she's being sent a gift card for a free meal.

    ‘I’m embarrassed’ by McNugget meltdown
    Florida woman calls 911 three times after McDonald’s runs out of nuggets


    FORT PIERCE, Fla. - She's been called "McNut" by TMZ.com and "loco 4 pollo" by PerezHilton.com.

    Now, after becoming an Internet sensation for calling 911 three times to report an emergency after McDonald's had run out of McNuggets, a Fort Pierce woman said Wednesday she is embarrassed by all the media attention.

    "I'm embarrassed to show my face in public," Latreasa Goodman told WPBF News 25's Alexis Rivera one day after her McNugget meltdown was first reported.

    Goodman, 27, was issued a written notice to appear in court for misusing the 911 emergency communications system.

    According to the police report, Goodman called 911 three times Saturday to report that a McDonald's employee wasn't giving her a refund for the chicken nuggets she wanted.

    "The manager just took my money and won't give me my money back, trying to make me get something off the menu that I don't want," Goodman said in one of the 911 calls. "I ordered chicken nuggets. They don't have chicken nuggets, and so I told her, 'Just give me my money back,' and she tells me I have to pick something else off the menu. She is not going to give me my money back, and she don't have the right to take my money."

    Goodman told WPBF News 25 that she didn't "have a right to jump across the counter and snatch" the money, so she chose to handle it another way.

    "Inside Edition" was there when WPBF News 25 spoke to Goodman on Wednesday. She said all the media exposure has resulted in several profanity-laced, hateful messages on her personal cell phone.

    "I think it's wrong, because like I said, it's not about no chicken nugget meal," Goodman said. "If everybody listen(s) to the news, they'll understand my statement that McDonald's took my money. They didn't have any chicken nuggets, and so I asked for my (money) back."

    The 10-piece chicken McNuggets meal is valued at $3.49.

    "When you feel that you've been mistreated or misused or robbed out of your money, you have the right to call 911," Goodman said. "That's the purpose of 911, so I thought."

    But Tiffany Bennett, an emergency coordinator for St. Lucie County, said the incident does not constitute an emergency.

    "It's not an emergency unless there was some kind of disturbance or somebody threatening someone, and I don't believe that was the case in this matter," Bennett said.

    Carlos Solorzano, operations manager for all McDonald's restaurants in Florida, issued a statement Tuesday apologizing for the incident.

    "Satisfying each and every customer that visits our restaurants is very important to us," Solorzano said. "Regarding this isolated incident, we apologize for the inconvenience caused. In the event that we are unable to fill an order, a customer should be offered the choice of a full refund or alternative menu items. We regret that in this instance, that wasn't the case."

    "We want to correct our mistake. We will be sending the customer her refund, along with an invitation to return for her original order, on us. We never want to disappoint a McNuggets fan or any McDonald's customer. Customer satisfaction is our top priority."

    Goodman said she'll continue to go to McDonald's, but she also said she'd order with a little more caution next time.

    "I'm not going and just giving up my money like that, no, but I'm going to ask them would they please check and see if they have what I want on the menu, and if they tell me yes, then I will order," she said.
     
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    itchyjr10 Peon

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    why no one reading this
     
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    i read it but its just not worth commenting on lol

    Regrds,
    B.
     
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    wow..you're really brave to have read up the whole thing...<applause> :D
     
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    itchyjr10 Peon

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    very funny
     
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    What's going to be an emergency is when she has a heart attack from eating all that fatty food and getting worked up about it.
     
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    lol i watch a video on it on a news website shes a skinny black lady
     
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    people are so fing stupid its ridiculous what society is turning in too..... she should be arrested for misusing 911 if you ask me
     
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    No way are Mcnuggets worth all that. Now if it was BK Chicken Tenders then I could see.... :O)
     
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    inspirdSolutions Banned

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    Heard that!! Please thats what customer service is for! She wasnt dying
     
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    I can't believe you waited a whole 6 minutes before asking why nobody was reading it .... come back next week.
     
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    lol yeah i know
     
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    Saw this a little ago.. epic :D
     
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