Murder, Mayhem and McNuggets
Two weeks ago I did a piece on Chicken McNugget Art, and a McDonnald's publicist was kind enough to send over links today, to show how slavishly devoted McNugget lovers shower praise on their favorite meal in obsequious song, dance and poem.
That's all fine, but I've got a couple of strange stories that you won't find on that site, probably because they border on pathological.
Last month, Christie Murphy of Tallahassee shot herself in the thigh at her local McDonald's while checking the .45-caliber semi-automatic in her purse as she waited for her food.
A bleeding Murphy told doctors she was upset -- not because she almost killed herself -- but because she was never served her large order of McNuggets.
The single most outrageous tale of McNugget madness, however, occurred on July 18, 1984, when James Oliver Huberty went on a killing spree with a pummp-action twelve-gauge shotgun, killing 19 people and wounding 19 others at a San Ysidro, McDonalds.
The odd part of the story comes three years later when Huberty's widow sued the fast-food giant, claiming that MSG in the massive amount of McNuggets he consumed drove him to a murderous rage.
The case was laughed out of court faster than President Clinton woofs down a Big Mac. Now, after a quarter century, the only ones with an honest beef against the McNugget are chickens.
One more thing: Don't miss Banksy's Chicken McNugget art. It's a riot.
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Had she paid for the McNuggets? If so, her distress was entirely justified.
I hope McDonalds gives her a refund. If not, it sets a precedent where one could go to a restaurant, order one’s food, pay, and then get maimed by a “random maniac” under the employ of said restaurant, and rushed off to the hospital without getting one’s food. Profits would soar for the restaurant, though.
The headline on that story nearly read: “McNuggets Woman Died Hungry”