The McDonald’s fan didn’t want to spend $1.50 on sauce. She spent the night in jail
Maybe McDonald’s customer Maguire McLaughlin really didn’t want to be nickel-and-dimed when she allegedly responded to being charged for dipping sauces by saying she would “rob” the McDonald’s if she didn’t get them.
Or, as described in an arrest report, the Vero Beach woman’s belligerence in the wee hours of New Year’s Day might have been alcohol-assisted.
“As McLaughlin spoke, I could smell the odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from her mouth,” Indian River County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Christian Castano wrote. “Her eyes were glossy and speech was slurred. McLaughlin would momentarily become cooperative and suddenly begin yelling profanities.”
Which, Castano’s arrest report says, is what got McDonald’s manager Beverly Keever on the phone to authorities in the first place.
McLaughlin said after getting a large drive-thru order she asked for dipping sauces. When told each sauce costs 25 cents, an argument began.
“McLaughlin further stated that she will be getting the cause by whatever means necessary, however, could not specify what she meant by that,” Castano wrote.
Keever, the manager, offered Castano a hint of what that might specify. Keever said amid McLaughlin’s high-volume (in sound and number) profanity production, the angry customer said “she would “rob” the establishment if she doesn’t get her dipping sauce.”
The drive-thru employee said McLaughlin had asked for one of every flavor of dipping sauce. According to the McDonald’s website, that’s Barbecue, Buffalo, Ranch, Honey Mustard, Honey and Sweet ‘N’ Sour: six sauces, 25 cents per sauce, a total of $1.50.
McLaughlin was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence. Castano said she began locking her legs, refusing to walk and using her legs to prevent being placed in the cruiser. She was released on $1,000 bond.
