He complained about cold, ketchup-‘messy’ burgers at McDonald’s, then he called the cops

A police report about an encounter between an employee at a McDonald’s restaurant and a Macon man begins ordinarily enough. In the often no-frills language of law enforcement-ese, the report says that shortly after 11 a.m. on Nov. 6, the man “came to this location and ordered food.” It goes on to mention that when the man was handed his order at the eatery on Zebulon Road, not far from Interstate 475, the food was cold. “So he asked for a new order,” a Bibb County sheriff’s deputy noted in the report. “He stated that the second order was messy, with ketchup outside of the burger, and that there was a hole in the center as if someone had placed their finger in the bun.” The man, 55, told the deputy that he then asked for his money back. The man called the cops soon afterward, after he said the manager who gave him his refund and a receipt had “punched” the receipt into his hand. He wanted to press charges for battery. The deputy spoke to the manager who said she gave the man a receipt but that she didn’t assault him. “She stated that she placed the receipt in his hand,” the deputy wrote in the report. The deputy asked to review surveillance footage of the episode, but the manager said the restaurant’s general manager, who wasn’t there, would have to help with that. The deputy said he would return in a couple of days to, as the report put it, “review the video in order to determine the extent of the altercation.”

This story was originally published November 16, 2016 at 1:00 AM with the headline "He complained about cold, ketchup-‘messy’ burgers at McDonald’s, then he called the cops."