Do You Know the McMuffin Man?
Guest blog by Doug Sacrison, Crime Rant intern
The usual complaint against lawyers is that they love money and lying and stuff. Well it turns out they also love stealing from McDonald’s.
Deputy City Attorney Michael Richards (most likely not of “Seinfeld” fame) was
arrested for stealing Sausage McMuffins from McDonald’s, and the arrest ultimately led to his resignation. Over a bunch of Sausage McMuffins. For shame. I mean, they weren’t Egg McMuffins.
Apparently Richards went to the drive-thru of a Bakersfield, California, McDonald’s to get himself some breakfast (so, for those of you taking notes, that means he was there before 10:30 a.m., since McDonald’s stops serving breakfast then, much to my chagrin). At the window, there was miscommunication of some sort, and Richards, who wanted Egg McMuffins, got four Sausage McMuffins. Flying into a passionate rage over McMuffins, he parked his car and went inside, thankfully unarmed.
Inside the McDonald’s, it was explained to Richards that although Sausage McMuffins were on sale, Egg McMuffins were not. Now fuming as he argued his case (remember, he was an attorney), employees eventually gave in and gave him the Egg McMuffins and had him pay the difference.
But once the transaction was through, Richards fled the restaurant with the Egg McMuffins… AND the Sausage McMuffins!
The McDonald’s employees notified the sheriff’s department and the man who earlier said he hadn’t wanted any Sausage McMuffins was arrested for robbery.
Appalling. Simply appalling. The crime, I mean. Not the McMuffins. In fact, as I am writing this, I am only partly mad at Michael Richards and his thievery of one of my favorite restaurants. The rest of my mad is being used on the fact that it is past 10:30 now, and I can’t go get a McMuffin. So the real crime is that McDonald’s doesn’t serve breakfast past 10:30. At least not where I come from.
Now that I’ve written about them, I really would like to go get an Egg McMuffin. Or maybe even a Sausage McMuffin. And I would definitely pay for it.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Funny post Doug. What a Jackass! Not you Doug, the sauage stealing attorney. Doesn’t he know that food will clog his arteries.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Man, everyone needs to back off from the McMuffins and chill. (Not you, Doug, but I don’t get the fuss over a McMuffin. I don’t like them.)
That McDonald’s employee have been really pissed off the be yelled at and got their revenge. “Stick it to us and we’ll stick to you” must be their new motto.
Sophie, it sounds like our McMuffins stealing attorney already has a clogged up brain.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I really liked that, Doug, and could you please tell me (it’s been bugging me for months!) why you have some sort of shark or other fish’s tail behind your head in your picture????
June 5th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Well, what did McDonald’s want with the sausage McMuffins anyway? Don’t they throw the food away once it has been given to a customer if it is given back?
June 5th, 2008 at 8:57 am
The employees were going to eat them Terri!
June 5th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Well, when I was a teenager I worked at Wendys and worked the drive thru window. If I had passed food to a customer and they brought it back in, I wouldn’t have eaten it.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Funny story Doug, but REALLY, don’t eat that stuff. You’ll clog your arteries, dontchaknow??
LOL. My husband loves that stuff. I make him put the bag in the trunk of the car, because the smell makes me sick.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I know you wouldn’t eat it Terri but some employees would. Like the ones that work in McD’s around here.
Seriously, I love McD’s fish fillets. That is all I will eat from there and I do it very rarely. They are so good.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:06 am
I like the fish fillets too. For a while they had double fish fillets. I shouldn’t eat this stuff though. I wish the smell made me sick Scarlett. I’d be better off!
June 5th, 2008 at 11:36 am
He should have ordered the biscuit
June 5th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
That is funny! All for a McMuffin..Goodness gracious. Let’s hope he is a better lawyer then a theif. Oh wait, Is there a difference?
This reminds me of a few years back when some fool held up a MickeyD’s down here in San Marcos. They demanded the money be put in a Happy Meal bag. LMAO
They wound up in a 100mph chase up I-35 right into the waiting officers of Austin. Who then chased them into the east side (not a nice neighborhood) They abandoned their car and took off on foot leaving the Happy Meal and their weapon in the car. Then attempted to hijack a car from some unsuspecting lady..
Needless to say McDonalds wasn’t good for them either.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
The Happy Meal robbers — I didn’t know about that one. I am surprised anyone can get out of the pack of traffic on I-35 to have a high speed chase.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Fiz UK, I met Doug at our Kitsap Historical Museum. He came in to do some scanning of photos. I asked him about that and smiled. He was at an aquarium. I don’t remember where but that’s where it was taken. VERY NICE GUY!!!
June 5th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Personally, I much prefer a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit…but not enough to steal one. Hehe, too funny.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
What is really funny to me is that McDonalds called the police. I don’t know why but that surprises me.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Thank you, Joanne!
June 5th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
The return of the Hamburglars.
June 5th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
LOL Melissa!! I was gonna say that! Makes me think of that movie with Michael Douglas, crazy guy loses it and starts his shooting spree at a McDonald’s type place cuz he can’t get breakfast anymore. As dark as it was, it always makes me giggle cuz it makes me feel like that when they won’t serve me anymore either, and doesn’t it always seem to happen when you have a hangover and REALLY NEED an Egg McMuffin? Come on, I don’t need a Big Mac during a time like this!!!
Thanks Doug, I’ll now be singing Do you know the McMuffin Man all night. Great.
June 5th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
That’s funny Melissa!
This highspeed chase happened in the evening. I worked graveyard shift in a restaurant and got to sit around listening to the whole thing on the police talkies (they were there for lunch/breakfast, and no we didn’t sell mcmuffins!)
June 5th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
This is just my opinion, but I think that you would have to be some kind of a human pig or garbage disposal in order to be able to eat four Egg McMuffins in one sitting. And then what was he going to do with the mistakenly made Sausage McMuffins? Was he going to eat them too? I wonder what kind of practice he specializes in.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I totally feel for the person missing the deadline for McDonalds breakfast. I am like Adam Sandler. Who the hell wants a crappy burger at 10:31 am? (with a hangover no less) lol.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Mike, he probably wanted to bring in breakfast for his employees.
That said, I have had big eyes and ordered 2 biscuits and a hashbrown, 2 milks…
About halfway through I want to puke and I throw most of it away though. If you are hankering for a McDonalds breakfast you are usually feeling STARVING!
June 5th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
“If you are hankering for a McDonalds breakfast you are usually feeling STARVING!”
No doubt. I do admit though, that the Sausage & Egg Biscuit and coffee hits the spot when going to work with a head splitting hangover and an empty stomach. From experience I have learned to always look in the sack before you drive away from the window, so you can get the mistakes resolved right then.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:52 am
This all could have been avoided if he’d just gone to Burger King, and requested their croissants. Still…BEFORE 10:30 am.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Although I don’t care for McD’s, I have eaten my share of other fast food. Anyway, just a funny comment on fast food and food that’s not so good for us…. I laughed so hard one night when Bill Maher (who’s a vegetarian) said: I wouldn’t eat a hot dog if you put a condom on it.
LOL.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:40 am
ps, depending on who’s computer I’m on, I’m either Frankly Scarlett or Scarlett, I’ll fix that to be just Scarlett, sorry.
June 7th, 2008 at 10:42 am
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November 5th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Doug, two things:
1. 10:30 is the best time of day, because that means breakfast is no longer served and we can move on to the big macs.
2. The Employee was in the wrong, yes the lawyer stole, but as a avid McDonald’s customer and watchdog of their customer service (I complain or commend the service, at least 4 times a year), I have found them to be very responsive to customers.
3. If they gave out the McMuffins and there was a 4 sausage McMuffin Surplus, and lawyer returned them, as a healthcode rule they would be thrown away. As a food and Mcdonalds and doug lover I have to respectfully disagree