You would think this would be Florida…
McDonald’s manager sold $10,900 in cocaine by hiding it with burgers and fries, police say https://t.co/vSSiKI0blT pic.twitter.com/bAlHJ410K2
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) October 5, 2017
It’s hard to spend $10,900 at McDonald’s — but it’s easier if the restaurant is selling crack and cocaine in addition to McNuggets.
That’s exactly what McDonald’s night manager Frank Guerrero, 26, was caught selling when authorities arrested him this week at the franchise he’s worked at for eight years in the Bronx.
The arrest followed a three-month undercover investigation called “Operation Off the Menu.”
“Guerrero’s conduct was so blatant, it would be comical if he weren’t committing a serious narcotics crime,” Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan told the New York Daily News. “Ordering coke took on an entirely different meaning on the night shift at this McDonald’s.”
Open thread!
Jon
Not Florida Man but New York Man! Guy was selling in the Bronx.
debbie
The Bronx, Florida???
Adam L Silverman
@Jon: I’ll fix it. I saw Miami Herald and went to town.
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: Just fixed it. Saw Miami Herald and didn’t read much further. Long day.
dmsilev
I feel confident that whatever puns and jokes we come up with, the investigatory team has already thought of.
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
Florida has lost its exclusive. The Stupid has gone nationwide.
Mnemosyne
Ii was trying to figure out why I’ve been in a crappy mood all week, and then I was like, “Oh, right, because 58 people were murdered and the Republicans don’t give a shit, plus people are trapped in Puerto Rico while Trump throws off-brand paper towels to them.”
Not a good week, overall.
Mnemosyne
@debbie:
I dunno, even the cops seem pretty impressed by Guerrero’s business savvy, though they don’t like his method. Too bad McDonalds couldn’t be bothered to promote him after he’d worked there for 8 years.
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
The local Fox newscast is running a viewer poll on banning bump stocks. Depressingly, 47% say no.
MomSense
@Mnemosyne:
No good terrible very bad week.
You may need to peruse Carl Reiner’s Instagram feed.
Amaranthine RBG
I applaud the man’s initiative.
Gin & Tonic
There is a Florida, NY, although this wasn’t there.
I spent the afternoon and evening helping with prep and painting at my son’s new apartment. Now I’m sitting here and my back is saying “aren’t you too old for this shit, dude?”
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
They may want to rethink handing out those little merit hearts.
Mnemosyne
@debbie:
Somebody on Facebook was whining because if somebody plants a bomb, people blame the bomber, not the explosives. I pointed out that the government put severe restrictions on the amount of explosive fertilizer you can buy after Oklahoma City, but we’re not even allowed to count how many guns someone has until after they murder a bunch of people.
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: If David Clarke was a McDonald’s manager that’s what his t-shirt would look like.
khead
I once knew a nice gentleman in my hometown who sold weed in the KFC drive thru. Fun Friday nights for a high school kid. Kinda sucked when he moved to Long John Silvers.
Amaranthine RBG
I was glad to see this story today: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html
I remember hearing about Judd’s allegation years ago and wondered why more didn’t come of it.
But I guess if you are making money for you and your corporate partners, everybody is willing to look the other way.
glory b
A McDonald’s employee in my neighborhood did the same thing a few years ago. The cocaine was placed in Happy Meal boxes, She kept them in a separate stash away from the other boxes and used them for her customers.
Eric S.
Old news. People were doing this at a McDonalds in Chicago decades ago. I believe it was the Rock & Roll McDonalds.
Mnemosyne
@MomSense:
Okay, that did cheer me up. Especially this one:
Gravenstone
@debbie: The Stupid has always been nationwide. Florida Man just has a better press agent.
daize
I’m old enough to remember when McDonald’s changed coffee stirrers to ones without the little spoon at the end.
Mike J
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, coke, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
Ruckus
@debbie:
Florida has never had an exclusive on the stupid. They have been going for the record however.
Major Major Major Major
@Mike J: I don’t know why but this just made me think “I’ll have the coke coke coke coke eggs coke coke and coke, but instead of eggs, could I get coke?”
Mnemosyne
@MomSense:
Also good was Stephen Colbert’s fundraising update for Puerto Rico.
You-know-who makes an appearance at the end, but you’re going to have to wait for it. ?
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Mnemosyne:
A guy I know at work suggested banning certain kinds of ammunition/ buying shit loads of it up. I was skeptical and tried telling him if would be a hard sell and would be fought tooth and nail in the courts if it ever did pass. He didn’t seem to get it.
Mnemosyne
@daize:
That’s how you knew the 1980s were officially over. ?
rikyrah
THREAD
Seth AbramsonVerified account @SethAbramson
THIS IS HUGE. Please share this news.
A substantial percentage of the Steele Dossier has already been proven true.
https://twitter.com/sethabramson/status/916073706505560064
MomSense
@Mnemosyne:
The same person who is going to be on all the morning shows tomorrow. I’m setting my DVR
Mnemosyne
Also, too, if anyone was curious about Lake Arrowhead where I did my writing retreat, Alain featured some of my photos this morning, including the bridge where I saw the bobcat.
Mike J
Major Major Major Major
@Mike J: oh FFS
@Mnemosyne: i saw! Cool fire pit.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
I think I’m going to have that firepit photo made into a canvas print and hang it on my wall. It seriously is one of the best photos I’ve ever taken.
NotMax
Super *sniff* size it!
“It’s what I eat and what I do.”
“There’s something for everyone to love at McDonald’s.”
“Every time a good time.”
“Gotta get my taste.”
“More than you expect.”
“We love to see you smile.”
(All actual McD corporate slogans.)
HeartlandLiberal
This thread is probably done, but I just wanted to mention, based on my experience with the quality of McDonald’s “food”, and yes, I added quotes, buying drugs might be the only remaining reason to visit a McDonalds.
Their hamburgers have been so bad for so many years, I could not imagine eating them. Think firmed up dog food patties, all soft and mushy and tasteless. I still enjoyed an occasional breakfast sandwich, but the last couple times I gave it, even the quality of those had deteriorated. The steak and egg biscuit and bagel, once a favorite, had moved into the mush meat category of burgers. Even the venerable egg McMuffin does not cut it anymore. There are so many reasons NOT to eat fast food, like you know, extending your life span, but McDonalds makes it easy to not eat there anymore, since really, all their food tastes like utter crap;
I welcomed this opportunity to get this off my chest as it has been on my mind. We had to do two drives two hours each way on two different days recently, and starting at 7:30, I insisted we get McDonalds on the first trip to eat while on the road. They were so horribly bad, on the second trip we stopped at Hardees. And I did not regret it. I am done with McDonalds. Forever. Even for that breakfast sandwich on the early road trip.
And since I don’t do drugs, I guess I really have no reason to stop there ever again.