https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvxOSKldISE
Let this be a cautionary tale: Despite what your parents ever told you about asking for water and then filling the cup with soda at a chain restaurant (my parents always made me do this and I was always afraid I’d get sentenced to life), there really are some people out there who will fight so hard for the soda they lost that they’ll allow customers to be slapped with a felony. That’s a difficult lesson one man in Springdale, Arkansas, learned when he tried to pull a fast one at a local McDonald’s, switching out his water for a delicious soda that eventually landed him in handcuffs. Is there a prison tattoo for that?
Eater reports that Cody Morris, the 18-year-old suspect who’s likely made several questionable decisions in his life, was at McDonald’s with his two friends when they had the brilliant idea to order water in the drive-thru. Then they rolled into the restaurant (water cups held high), dumped the water out and proceed to fill their cups with purloined soda water. The manager, who was either done with shenanigans or just really wanted to save these guys’ health, immediately called the cops and reported a robbery. While Morris’ friends recognized that fighting the law in this situation wasn’t worth it, Morris decided that this is America, and that this is the hill he was going to die on. That’s when he started hitting people with his car.
No, you read that right: this dude was so angry that he’d been caught stealing soda that he chose the least appropriate way of dealing with the situation.
Morris’s two friends returned their drinks, but he wasn’t going down without a fight: He fled with his beverage and, according to police, “hit the manager twice with his car when the man tried to block his escape.” His vehicle was later found parked outside a nearby bowling alley, where he was apprehended and charged with felony robbery; he was soon released on $2,500 bond, which is coincidentally the cost of about 1,700 large sodas at McDonald’s.
Thanks for doing the math, Eater! It’s unlikely Morris will consider them next time he does something stupid, but it’s nice to know exactly how many diet cokes $2,500 will net me in Arkansas without having to worry about getting arrested and thrown in the slammer.
While some might consider Morris a modern-day hero for his taking down of a global enterprise one soda at a time (Hey, I watch Mr. Robot, I know what’s up), I feel most sorry for the poor McDonald’s manager who thought he was taking a stand and then got hit by a car trying to apprehend the man who stole a large soda. Let’s hope his employers give him a bonus check (remember how we celebrated the guy who stopped a Robbery at Popeye’s?) instead of disciplining him. After all, he was just trying to protect their assets.
Let’s also hope that Morris, who is once again a free man (until his court date), won’t come back for revenge.
(Via Eater)