Fact stranger than fiction!
Customer banished after hurling Egg McMuffin
Saturday, February 05, 2005
By John Tunison
The Grand Rapids Press
HOLLAND -- Assault with an Egg McMuffin?
A Zeeland man definitely wasn't "lovin' it" when he became so angry about getting the wrong order at McDonald's that he chucked a breakfast sandwich back at a worker.
His drive-through tirade last October ended up costing him $600, three days in a work program and six months probation. Scott Rodgers, 46, was convicted of misdemeanor assault and battery Thursday after a bench trial in Holland District Court.
Authorities said Rodgers and his 6-year-old child stopped at the McDonald's at Riley Street and U.S. 31 on Oct. 9 and ordered four Egg McMuffins.
After he pulled away and discovered at least one of the sandwiches had ham instead of sausage, he did a U-turn and pulled back up to the service window to complain, facing the wrong direction.
When the startled shift manager asked him to hand the order back, Rodgers threw at least one sandwich through the passenger window.
"The manager was picking egg out of her hair," Ottawa County Assistant Prosecutor Craig Bunce said.
Bunce described the case as unusual.
"This is the first one in my career of an Egg McMuffin assault," he said.
Defense attorney Jim Piper argued his client had handed back the sandwiches quickly, not thrown them. Neither man could be reached for comment.
Ottawa County sheriff's Deputy Brent Converse, who handled the call, said the man let frustration get the better of him. "He returned the sandwich, but not the way he should have," he said.
As part of his sentence, Rodgers is banned from entering the Riley Street McDonald's.