Whether or not you truly are owed a free cookie, I understand putting up a bit of a fight for it if you think you are. Hell, it’s McDonald’s. They can afford to give you one even if you’re wrong. But this seems juuuuuust a tad overboard, no?
Hendricks, a fast food manager herself it turns out, went before a judge Friday afternoon.
Police say an upset Hendricks thought she was “entitled to a free cookie.”
Hendricks was given the free cookie, but continued to argue, workers said.
The next thing McDonald’s workers see is that Hendricks allegedly:
“Has a handgun while she’s in the drive-thru so they call 911,” officer Michelle Montalvo said.
The report says a worker “sees Hendricks insert a magazine into the handgun and rack the slide” then hears “clicking sounds associated with someone chambering a round.”
The report said Hendricks did “point the firearm towards the drive-thru window.”
One worker said he could “see down the barrel of the firearm.”
It didn’t end there.
According to the report, Hendricks left the drive-thru, parked her car, forced her way inside as someone tried to lock her out and got into a bit of a scrap with an employee who wound up with scratches on his neck and face.
I would have suggested giving her another cookie, but that worked surprisingly poorly the first time.
I have no idea what finally convinced her to leave, but police arrested her a block away from the restaurant. she was charged with battery, resisting arrest, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
A couple of things before I finish this up and hit post.
Since when does McDonald’s give out free cookies? Is that an American thing? Up here I think they only have the charity ones, and those you obviously have to pay for.
I wish they had said which restaurant this woman managed. I’ll bet it’s Burger King. Burger King can always be counted on to make a day violently worse.
Apparently, this is the newest Tansy favourite, so I had to put it up here. It sort of fits with some of her other ones.
Sadly, that soundtrack is the last Tansy favourite song that we’re going to get, because she crossed over the rainbow bridge last month. It happened on March 14, but it has taken me almost a month to sit down and write a post about her. I wanted to be able to do her justice.
the last post I wrote about her had some warnings that the end was near. As the winter progressed, I was trying to check in often without being super annoying. I was always thinking about her, but I would only ask every so often.
I was at the CSUN conference in March, and I sent our family friend a random message joking about how last year at this time, I was staying with Tansy’s puppy raisers and we all had a crazy phone call where her dogs went nuts at the end. I hoped Tansy and everyone were doing well. It was then that he asked when I was getting back from the conference. When I saw that question, a chill went through me. Something was wrong. I said I would be back Saturday morning. He asked when we could talk, and we arranged a time.
It was then that I found out that Tansy’s mouth pain and arthritis had gotten worse, and the shot wasn’t doing what it used to. Apparently she was starting to fall while trying to climb the stairs, and eating was getting hard. That poor dog loved to bounce and eat. So they had made the decision to have the vet come to the house and bring her suffering to an end on Friday, March 14.
Even though this made logical sense, it broke my heart. It broke my heart that this seemingly immortal dog had reached her end, and it broke my heart that I was away, so couldn’t possibly dream of being there for her now. I had told myself that the chances were slim that I would be able to be with her at the end because of how far away she was from me, but there was always a small part of me that thought maybe, if we knew it was coming and I could plan, maybe I could be there. The reality was that was not happening.
It sounds like her last day was a very peaceful one, involving a short stroll, lots of treats including a pup cup from Starbucks, and many snuggles. She made it to almost 14 years old, which is pretty darn impressive.
Tansy has been a huge part of my life. She bounded into it in 2013 when I hardly knew where anything was in this town, and guided me all the way into 2022 when she retired. I think she was starting to think about retiring in 2020, but pandemics can do a good job of taking one’s plans and smashing them to bits. Out of all my guide dogs, I think she has been the best so far. She had so much raw energy, and had this uncanny ability to take all that energy and use it for good while working. She knew her way around places better than I did sometimes, and didn’t mind telling me so. She was not upset by getting things wrong, and doing it again until we got it right. She also would nudge people out of our way without a second thought!
But as soon as that harness came off, she unleashed an absolute maniac! That dog could jump and fly like nothing I’ve ever seen! Poor Steve was always worried about carrying hot things out of the kitchen for fear Tansy would take one of her flying leaps at the exact wrong time. It took us a while to run across another dog who could match Tansy’s level of bananas, and then as Tansy got older, she was the one telling other dogs to tone it down.
As wild and crazy as she was, she was also very sensitive. She did not like it if I ever got mad. She would start sniffing at me and running around me, and if I got too upset, she would just run away. That would break my heart.
She was very in tune with other people too. There was the time I was visiting my stepgrandpa at the hospice, and someone else asked me if I’d let his mother, another patient, pet Tansy. I was so nervous that she would go nuts and somehow break this poor old woman, but Tansy was super gentle and was the best snuggler. I don’t know how many times I was worried she would jump on my grandma, or others who were fragile for all kinds of reasons, but she never did.
Then there were the other people where she would hold nothing back. As soon as I gave her the ok, she would kick it up a notch. They loved it, so it was all good. But it showed that she figured people out.
She loved music like no other dog. This is why we have found four hours of her favourite songs. She would reliably dance to certain songs and it was so adorable.
She brought people together and was unforgettable. Everybody who ever met her loved her, and there are people who still ask about her.
I could go on forever, but I think you get the point. You could always stroll down Tansy memory lane. There is much to remember about Shmans.
And while we’re at it, we need to say so long to a contemporary of hers. Steve’s great aunt’s dog also passed away about a week after Shmans. She was around for many many years. Since she was a few months older than Tansy, she was around even when Trix was here. She used to tear around with Tansy, and tried to keep up with Domino. Trix probably never romped with her because of her fear of other doggies. She was the dog that Tansy was playing with when I did an ungraceful flip, flop and fly in the little fenced in area. They definitely enjoyed each other’s company.
Shmans, Shmandaloop, the bear, the mule, you were a very special one. There’s a big hole in the universe without you in it. I’m so glad you got a couple of fun years to just do all the things, make all the friends, sniff to your heart’s content. Even though I couldn’t be there at the end, I’m just glad you had loving people to make that hard decision and be there to help you through it.
I’m not going to slag this woman too much for being taken in by the there is a problem with your computer, please contact support scam. I’ve had to bail a couple of nervous people out of that thing in my day. Thankfully they were smart enough to call me instead of the number on the screen and I was able to teach them how task manager works so that the browser would close and take the stupid message with it. But I can certainly understand why a person who knows nothing about technology might fall for something threatening like that and make the call. But once you hear what they want you to do and how much of it? Bro, get a clue!
Investigators say the woman received a message on her computer that claimed to be from Microsoft technical support.
They say she then proceeded to contact the number on the email and was instructed by a male on the telephone to purchase $15,000 in Apple gift cards in order to fix the problem.
Investigators say the woman went to three different businesses and purchased $5,000 worth of the gift cards from each business.
They say she then provided the PIN number to the male on the phone.
$15,000! Who owns a home computer that costs $15,000!? And that’s just out of the box! Forget that as soon as you hook it up and turn it on, it immediately begins being worth less than that! Even my computer, with the specialized screen reader and OCR programs, doesn’t come close to $15,000! Carin and I bought two computers a few years back that didn’t cost nearly that much combined!
Here’s a little friendly advice from your pal Steve. Unless that computer has state secrets on it, if someone ever quotes you 15 grand for repairs, hang up on that person, walk out of his shop or even throw him out of your house with force if need be. Then go somewhere else and buy a new one. You’ll easily hack at least one 0 off your price tag, with no shifty running around town to clandestinely buy gift certificates like you’re in a shitty spy movie required.
Update: There’s a second major problem here, of course. Carin pointed it out once she was done being floored by the cost, a stage I apparently never reached. If the message is from *Microsoft*, why do you have to buy *Apple* gift cards to fix it?
Sometimes, little kids are a little too honest. Get Carin to tell you her surprise blueberries story sometime if she hasn’t already. Or there’s the time I walked proudly into the house on my dad’s birthday, handed him the present in my hand and said “Happy birthday, dad! Here’s your hammer! Mom’s coming in with your shoes in a minute!”
Both of those examples, I’m sure you would agree, were not youngsters at their most helpful and it would have been a whole lot better for everyone if Carin and I had shut the hell up. But I do hope that if either of us had been presented with the chance to be totally honest that this little dude was given that we would not have shut the hell up. Great work, kid. Don’t ever change, even if at least one person might wish you would.
Whitley County sheriff’s deputies, Williamsburg police and Kentucky State Police were trying to serve Hicks with “multiple outstanding warrants for her arrest,” the sheriff’s office said.
No adult family members were willing to say whether or not Hicks was in the house, the sheriff’s office said.
That’s when the toddler “stood up, put his hands on his hips, and stated ‘It is good to be honest … we shouldn’t lie, she is inside the room next to the bathroom!’” the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies found Hicks there, and she was served with two outstanding Whitley County circuit indictment warrants charging her with possession of meth and drug paraphernalia, as well as four other outstanding district court warrants.
Police said that in spite of his being a total stoolie, the child was in no danger of being abused at the home where he was visiting family at the time of the incident, so no action was taken to remove him.
Cambridge man arrested for hate-motivated attack on bus: WRPS
It’s not just the headline. the entire story is written in such a way as to suggest that this person was attacking a bus. The photo at the top is of a bus. The only other person we’re ever told about is the busdriver. And in the end, homeboy kicks the bus. So either this was an attack on a bus or CTV needs to tighten things up. Who can say?
Waterloo regional police have arrested a Cambridge man after what they say was a hate-motivated attack on a Grand River Transit Bus.
Officers were called to the area of Wilson Avenue and Kingsway Drive in Kitchener around 11 a.m. on Tuesday.
Police say the man was verbally abusing the victim, making racial comments, and making “assaultive gestures” before the bus driver intervened.
The man allegedly tried to hit the driver too before getting kicked off the bus. Once he was off, he kicked the bus and caused damage to it.
The 31-year-old man is facing two counts of assault and mischief under $5,000.
Viral video sparks debate about shopping cart etiquette
Not sure what the debate is here. Put your fuckin’ cart back when you’re done with it, ya lazy cunt is literally the only correct answer to this so-called conundrum. If you’re healthy enough to take it out, traipse around the store with it and then get it out to the parking lot and load your purchases into the car, you’re healthy enough to take the 20 seconds required to walk it to the corral.
And don’t give me any of this “think of the children!” crap, either.
“I’m not getting my groceries into my car, getting my children into the car, and then leaving them in the car to go return the cart,” Leslie Dobson said in a TikTok video. “You can judge me all you want.”
Believe me, I shall.
You know whose mother used to do all of those things every time? Everyone’s because it’s the decent thing to do, but I’m specifically thinking of mine. And somehow, the half minute wait in the car didn’t scare us or scar us one bit, nor were we ever kidnapped. If anything, it was one of those quiet, lead by example lessons that sinks in over time. Clean up after yourself. Leave something the way you found it, at least as best you can. Be nice.
This should not be a difficult concept.
Signed: guy who is tired of spearing himself on or getting his cane caught in Walmart carts that are nowhere near Walmart.
Growing up, I had two favourite song parody guys. The first, obviously, was Weird Al (one of the first records ever given to me as a child was the “Eat It” 45), and the other was Bob Rivers.
I first came to know of him through the stations that would play his Christmas songs, in particular “Walkin’ ‘Round in Women’s Underwear”
and “The Restroom Door Said, “Gentlemen””, which right up until this day is still one of my very favourite songs in the whole wide world, no lie. I can’t listen to it without smiling. I also can’t not sing it when I’m supposed to be singing the real one, so a big you’re welcome to everyone who found themselves next to me in choirs or assemblies. I know some of you heard me, and I’m shocked that we never got in trouble for laughing.
Through trading tapes with friends, I came to find out that there was more to Bob than just Christmas. In our group, this one was a definite favourite.
You ever hear a song and it sounds like the artist is singing directly to you? 😢
One of the cool things that Bob did was put his entire library online for free in the early 2000s. I have very fond memories of sitting around the old apartment with Carin and our roommate, digging around in it for gold. And man alive, did we ever find it.
I can still hear the three of us laughing. Amazingly, nothing ended up wearing a drink.
And I can’t end things without this one, a favourite of Carin’s. It’s a winner just for the impersonation.
Like I said, hearing that he had died made me sad. And if you’re one of those who knows what the last few years have been like around here, you know that’s the last thing we need. But listening to some of these songs again? That I needed.
Rivers’ radio career began in high school with his first paid airshift at 16. Following on-air work at eight different stations in the Nutmeg State, Rivers headed to Worcester, MA rocker WAAF to co-host the “Bob and Zip” morning show. During his six years at WAAF, he began writing and producing parody and novelty songs such as “Just a Big Ego,” spoofing David Lee Roth’s hit “Just a Gigolo.” Rivers’ “Twisted Christmas” album, released in 1987, which included “Twelve Pains of Christmas” — his take on “The Twelve Days of Christmas” — went on to sell half a million and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Rivers’ recording career continued with “Twisted Tunes” while at Baltimore’s “98 Rock” WIYY, where he gained national attention for an 11-day on-air marathon during the Orioles’ 21-game losing streak to open the 1988 baseball season, remaining on WIYY until they finally won a game. The next stop was Seattle, where Rivers spent the next 25 years hosting mornings at rock stations KISW and KZOK, and classic hits KJR-FM (now KJEB).
Rivers’ career accolades include two awards as Radio & Records’ major market Rock Personality of the Year and his 2023 induction into the Radio Hall of Fame.
McDonalds says it will remove a sign advertising its “McCrispy” sandwich that’s located next to a crematorium in the United Kingdom, according to a report.
The sign, advertising McDonald’s “McCrispy” sandwich was placed next to publicly-owned Penmount Crematorium in Cornwall, England, according to Cornwall Live.
“New McCrispy,” the sign reads. “A new favourite, here to stay.”
You’ll have to click through to this article to see pictures of it since the only ones I can find are copyrighted. Near the ad, there’s another sign with an arrow pointing the way to the nearby crematorium, which should have taken the opportunity to put up its own sign saying something like “Waaaaaaay crispier in here”.
People were upset, naturally. but others chose to see the humour in it. Speaking for myself, I’m pretty sure something like that would cheer me up quite nicely if someone I love was ever to be a customer.
For its part, McDonald’s said that it wasn’t aware of where the ad was placed, which for all I know is probably true. Whoever was responsible for actually putting it up likely can’t claim the same ignorance, though. But he does get to be my hero for today, so he’s got that going for him, at least.
Photo from Aannguaq Reimer-Johansen’s Facebook page.
I don’t wear hats that often, but I think I could make an exception for this one.
An anti-MAGA Hat made by a Greenlandic creator that reads: “Make America Go Away” has gone viral as Usha Vance’s visit to the island approaches.
Aannguaq Reimer-Johansen, the creator of the anti-MAGA hats, has said he believes her visit is a “charm offensive,” and that he wants people in Greenland to show that they do not want the U.S. to take over their nation.
“Recommendation to fellow citizens in Sisimiut: Vance’s wife’s visit is a charm offensive. If you smile at them or take a selfie with them, you are sending a message to the world that you love the USA and want to be part of it,” he wrote on Facebook. “It is recommended not to show interest. We have already expressed our stance through a large demonstration—let’s remain firm and stay united.”
He’s right. Any little action, no matter how innocent, can be twisted by these maniacs into whatever they want their believers to think it is. It can be hard to be rude to people, but sometimes people deserve it. This is one of those times.
A quick Google search suggests that similar hats are available all over the place, but assuming that they really are this guy’s idea, I would hesitate to buy one from anyone but him. There’s no telling where the money might be going otherwise.
