April 23, 2025 • 49 mins
In this episode, we dive into some of the most bizarre and hilarious fast food crimes, from a meth lab in a Taco Bell to a chaotic art heist at an Arby’s, and a robbery foiled by a trail of hot dogs. Join Amber and Gina as they break down these outlandish criminal acts with humor and sarcasm, uncovering what went wrong, what went way too far, and how the police and fast food employees handled these situations in the weirdest ways possible. You won't believe the absurdity behind these true crime tales straight from your favorite fast food joints. 📢 Follow & Subscribe: Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/weirdtruecrime Website: www.weirdtruecrime.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdtruecrime TikTok: www.tiktok.com/weirdtruecrime YouTube: www.youtube.com/@weirdtruecrime Email: weirdtruecrime@gmail.com Edited by - djaudio22@gmail.com True Crime Podcast Festival 2025 • RSVPify.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Fire Eyes Media. Over spring break, my twelve year old
suddenly realized she needed Taco Bell more than anything in
the world. And what do I do? As a kind
and caring, providing mother. I took her to go get
Taco Bell and ended up second guessing my life choices.
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Probably not for the reasons you're thinking, but what can
I say? Taco Bell is my weakness. I literally can't
help it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You really do love taco Bell. I love it too,
but I don't get it that much, and I don't
necessarily know if I have a favorite fast food, but
I definitely have a favorite fast snack, drink, whatever you
want to call it. I will drop everything and go
for a drive. If the kids are in the mood
for bubble tea, which is more often than not, please
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give me a brown sugar milk tea with boba and
egg pudding. I'm pretty sure I was getting it at
least two or three times a week for a while
there recently and had to cut back tremendously, which was
very sad, and I crave it every day.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You know you're the reason why I enjoy bubble tea too.
You know that, right.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I've done that to several people.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Kind of a love hate relationship there. Oh so good,
It is so good every day. Well, now, as I
had mentioned, I was definitely questioning my decision to leave
the house that day after what happened. It wasn't anything
super bad, but just like one of those things, you know,
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to make a long story short, The Taco Bell by
my house has a really convoluted parking lot, like right
next to another restaurant, and I was trying to be
a kind, courteous person to pull out of the way
of like the flow of traffic and people going to
the other restaurant and everything else and get in line
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the way you're supposed to. When someone else who had
been waiting behind me because I couldn't do my little
nice maneuver until more space had opened up, that person
behind me pulled in front of me, literally like just
right in front of me. Even though they watched me
pull around, back up, pull up, and like I got
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in line behind the person, they just wedged themselves right
in front of me, disregarding what they had watched me do.
But as I'm sitting there internally cursing this woman for
the front me, you know my kids are in the
car too, so I'm like, set a good example, Set
a good example. You know, we don't need Natasha already
(02:43):
say and anyway, Yeah, but it got me thinking. You know,
fast food restaurants have probably seen some shit.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh absolutely. And we've mentioned some instances in past Dumb
Criminals episodes, like the floor man at Joe's Crabshack or
the other Florida man and woman dispute outa McDonald's over
a mcflurry. But that was just scratching the surface of
the fast food related stupidity. Before we get into all that,
(03:17):
let's hear our riddle for the day. First you throw
away my outside, cook my inside. Then you eat my
outside and throw away my inside. What am I? Stay
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tuned to the end to find out the answer, and
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Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, so this one isn't necessarily dumb, but it's Texas
and entertaining, and apparently Texas is getting too fancy for
horses these days. Gone are the days of galloping into
town for some fast food. We had a man and Alan,
Texas who just wanted to grab some tacos on horseback,
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and it ended up costing more than just a taco.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh yeah, nothing says I'm living my best ranch life
quite like a late night taco bell run on a pony.
But apparently the good folks of Alan, Texas aren't as
fond of cowboy antics as they used to be.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, I mean, this guy, we'll call him Ronald, a rancher,
has been making taco bell runs on his trust horse
for years. Years. He even said it's horse country and
the guy rides in from a neighboring ranching town because
why not? Why would you drive when you could just
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trot along on a horse?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Right? Nothing screams traditional Texes like trotting down to get
a crunch wrap supreme. But of course the police were like, nope,
not today, cowboy. Apparently they had pulled him over and
handed him and his buddies two hundred and sixty six
dollars worth of tickets for riding animals on the street.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Two hundred and sixty six bucks. I mean, was the
taco bell really that good or was the ticket the
real punchline?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Here?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The officers basically said, hey, buddy, we've asked you to
stop before, and they were getting complaints about, you know,
horsepoop on the street. Oh and let's not forget about
the whole dark animals with no tail lights thing. I'm
just picturing these shadowy horses sneaking around in the night
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like some kind of horror movie.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, that's pretty spooky. I mean, who can see a
horse in the dark. It's basically like driving without headlights.
But Ronald's not having it. He's like, I've been doing
this for over a decade and traffic's not even that
bad at ten thirty at night.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Of course, the police pulled out the city code to
back them up, which basically says no horses are allowed
on public sidewalks or heavily traveled streets. And they say
all streets are heavily traveled in Allen.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Sounds like someone's been watching too many movies where horses
are always galloping through main Street at four pm. In reality,
Ronald was just trying to get some taco bell at
a quiet hour, not exactly a high speed chase.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Honestly, I'd argue he has a point. I mean, I'd
rather be on a horse than stuck in traffic in
a car any day. You have to admit. At least
it's a way cooler ride than most of us could
ever hope for. Who needs a car when you've got
a taco bell run on horseback? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Oh? Man? I mean I understand the appeal, but dude,
you can't. You can't ride your horse down a main
street and hold up traffic and everything else and get
let your horse poop all over the road.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I mean, I see what he's saying, Like ten thirty
at night, there's not as many people out. But then again,
you know that poses the whole, like horses don't have
I mean, I think you can put reflectors and stuff
on horses, but it sounds like he was not, did he,
And still there's no headlights. It's just you. People don't
pay attention. People can be drinking, especially if they're also
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on their way to Taco Bell. So just yeah, it's
just a bad, bad combination, but.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You know it really is. And who's to say how
much this town has grown in the past decade too,
Like just because it was okay ten years ago does
not mean it's okay now.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
No, No things are things are a change in here,
no Texas.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Sorry, sorry, Ronald. Also, it gives the rest of us
a bad name, because I definitely met people growing up
that were like, oh, I heard that you guys rode
horses to school, And I was like, bitch, I've never
ride a horse in my life. I don't know what
you're talking about. So it's like, don't make us all
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sound like we ride horses to Taco Bell.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Hey, man, if I could ride a horse to Taco Bell,
I would. I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I mean, it would definitely change change up your day.
Oh okay, buckle up for this one, because it's one
of those stories that's truly spring Break in all its
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chaotic glory. Meet Betty will call her and Alabama woman
who got arrested after a violent meltdown over a wopper
junior and fries in a burger king down in Panama
City Beach, Florida. And yeah, you heard that right, a
wopper junior in fries. This isn't exactly the food fight
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you see on a fancy cooking show.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
So Betty, bikini clad and ready for a good time,
decides to take her hunger to the ocean front burger king.
But when things didn't go her way, the situation escalated
real fast. She starts arguing with employees, then jumps on
top of the counter like she's trying out for a
reality show. And what does she do. She starts swinging
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at people and throws a giant plastic jug at them. Yeah,
a jug, Because nothing says I'm not getting my food
fast enough like hurling a charitable donation jar across the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I mean, who even has the audacity to throw a
donation jug? That's a new level of petty. And let's
not forget. While all of this chaos was unfolding, some
random guy filmed the whole thing and yelled, this is
the best spring Break ever, which, like, sure, if you're
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into watching people destroy a burger king over some fries,
I guess Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
This whole thing went off the rails. Apparently she was
also pulling hair, throwing drinks, and just generally turning the
burger king into a war zone. At one point she
even said, we tore the burger king up, like that's
something to be proud of. Oh, she's a first time
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spring Breaker too.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Can you imagine? This is what she chose for her
introduction to spring Break, screaming at fast food employees and
making a scene at a burger King, not to mention
she was there with her kids, but hey, she did
go there to get something in my stomach before hitting
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the drinks.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Priorities, right, yeah, because what says I'm ready to party
like destroying fast food establishments. But her story is a
little confusing too. She was yelling at employees for being slow.
Damn these folks are slow, she says, and after waiting
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twenty minutes for her order, she just lost it, threw
the bag of food at them, launched a drink, and
then of course yanked the manager's hair. Oh and we
can't forget the jug. Cannot leave out the jug.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Right, And when she's arrested, she starts asking where her
kids are. She was super vague with the cops, so
they couldn't even figure out if the kids were in
danger or missing. Definitely not the ideal time to be
playing koi. And apparently no one was really injured, but
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the Burger King had a little bit of damage, So
there's that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
She got out on a five hundred dollars bond, which
honestly doesn't seem like enough for trashing a fast food
joint over a Whopper Junior. But hey, you know we're
not judges. And the best part. She later admitted, if
I knew what was going to happen, I would have
gone to Taco Bell. That's that's her takeaway, Not maybe
(12:35):
I shouldn't have thrown that jug, but Taco Bell next time.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, she does know how to greet customers though apparently
she's worked at McDonald's and Church's Chicken, so she's got
the fast food etiquette down, but you know, maybe not
the keeping your cool part.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
The sad thing is this was like a viral video
that went crazy when it happened because she was literally
up on the counter, screaming, throwing shit.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Just why do I feel like she had probably already
gotten the body party started for one those poor kids.
I have so many questions about how she is as
a parent, and I love that how it's it's the
Burger King's fault that she acted that way. It's not
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let's take responsibility for our own actions. This is something
I've been teaching my children, like, it's not their fault
that you lost your shit.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I'm afraid for all the Taco Bells out there now, though.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Seriously, they don't. Don't threaten Taco Bell like that. That's
not cool, not my bell. No, they don't deserve that either.
Oh man. She probably ordered a good amount of food
and mean's spring break. It was probably busy, like calm down,
and when she got the food, she threw it at them.
It's like, you're so high, why would you throw the
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food that you paid for?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You were so mad about it taking so long. You
finally get the food, and then you lose your shit.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That's why I'm like she something was going on.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
She might have just been angry, Like if she had
just sat down and eaten the food, all would have
been right with the world.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Oh boy, that's awful. Oh those poor kids.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I mean, I know that I get pretty unbearable when
I'm hungry. Me too, Just just throwing that out.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
There, me too, But I don't see you, you know,
pulling hair and throwing donation jars.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah. Next up, we've got George. We'll call him a
forty three year old guy from Chicago who thought it
was a great idea to rob a subway with a
knife and then casually stroll across the street to grab
a sandwich had potbelly.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Casually stroll is an understatement. This dude went from armed
robbery suspect to customer of the day. In record time,
he robs subway with a folding knife, snatches some cash,
and then literally walks over to Potbelly like he's just
finished a long day of shopping.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh and get this, he's still eating his Pot Belly
sandwich when the cops show up, Like, dude, you just
committed a robbery and you're sitting there munching away like
it's just another Tuesday, imagining him taking a bite and thinking,
you know, I really deserve this meal after all that
hard work.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
It's almost like he didn't even try to hide the
fact that he was the robber. Just twenty minutes before,
he had walked into that subway, whipped out his knife
and started demanding cash from the cashier. Then, while he's
helping himself to the register, a customer walks in and
sees him literally leaning over the counter grabbing the cash.
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Real slick, George, real slick.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Oh, it gets better. The cops track his every move
like it's some kind of bad heist movie. They check
out surveillance video and boom they see him walking down
the street, crossing the Potbelle and then, oh, look, no
sign of him leaving the sandwich shop. So the cops
do what anyone would do in this situation. They head inside,
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and sure enough they find him, sandwich in hand, sitting
at the back of the shop like he's got nothing
to worry about.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I mean, he really thought he was going to just
blend in and finish his meal like. I wonder if
he even noticed the cops walking in. Maybe he was
too busy with his delicious sandwich to care.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The cops weren't foled either way. They arrested him right there,
still mid bite, and found one hundred and eighty six
dollars in cash on him, along with the silver bladed knife.
Nice touch with the folding knife, George, you know nothing
says I'm innocent, quite like a weapon and stolen cash
in your pockets.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
At least he wasn't running from the cops while stuffing
his face, right, He did it in style, just eating
a sandwich and waiting for them to show up. I
gotta hand it to him. He's got guts.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Or he's just not the brightest crayon in the tool shed.
But George got himself a new sandwich on his plate,
armed robbery charges. Hope it tastes as good as that
Pot Belly sandwich.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Okay, what was he thinking? Okay, I'm hungry for a sandwich,
but like, I don't really like subway, but I need
some cash, so I'm just gonna stop by, rob them
and then use that money to go across the street
and get pot Belly.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I would not be surprised if that was literally his
train of thought. Man, I really want a pot Belly sandwich,
but I don't have any cash. Hmm, Subway sucks. I'll
go take their money and go get pot Belly.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
And then he just sits there, like gonna sit here.
We need a sandwich. There were witnesses bud, like.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Everybody forgets surveillance cameras these days too.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
They people also think that they just cannot be touched,
Like I can do this. There's gonna be no repercussions
for my actions at all. It's totally fine.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I hope. I hope that sandwich was worth it. I
don't no sandwich is worth that, but you do you boom? Okay,
get ready for this one, because it's about to get wild.
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A woman in Augusta, Georgia, was accused of ramming her
car into a Popeyes after her order didn't come with biscuits. Yeah,
you heard that right, biscuits. That's what set her off.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You know, I've had some disappointing meals in my day,
but I've never once thought, you know what, I'm gonna
ram my car into a fast food restaurant. But Melby,
age fifty, clearly didn't see things the same way. She
was charged with aggravated assault and criminal damage to property.
And get this, this wasn't even her first time ramming
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a building with her car. No, no, no, no, She's
got history and.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
It gets better. So Melby rolls up to Popeye's orders
her food and wait for it, her biscuits are missing.
That's when things go downhill. According to the sheriff's report,
she wasn't happy with the situation and decided to take
matters into her own hands. She drove her Toyota raw
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Force straight into the restaurant's east entrance, nearly hitting an
eighteen year old employee. Because that's how you handle a
biscuit situation, right.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh, for sure, just run your car into the building.
Classic solution. But here's where he gets really juicy. Before
the car crash, she actually told another customer in line,
you better hurry up and get your order because I'm
coming back in there. Like, lady, were you planning a
drive through or a demolition?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
The manager said she fixed the issue and gave Melby
her biscuits. But nope, still not good enough. Melby wasn't
having it. She drives her car into the building and
then flees the scene, just speeds off, but the police
weren't far behind. They found her car later at her
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home and guess what, the front end was all banged up.
No surprise there.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, I'm sure she didn't think the car was gonna
come out of that one looking pristine. But as I said,
this isn't even Melby's first ramming incident. Back in May
twenty twenty, she allegedly drove her Toyota into an apartment
building not once, but twice, and she was apparently drunk
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and upset during that little adventure. She hit the building,
backed up, and hit it again. Hey, who needs a
wrecking ball when you got Meloby?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Seriously, and don't forget the twenty eighteen incident where she
got all handsy with the wheel while some guy was driving,
which caused them to run off the road and into
a wooded area. Oh, and she also punched him while
he was trying to drive. Real charming.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
So basically she's just out here with a one woman
wrecking crew. But it's not like she hasn't faced consequences.
She had probation for both the twenty eighteen and twenty
twenty incidents. Seems like she's got a pattern of extreme
reactions when things don't go her way.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah. Uh, this woman's got a lot of rage for
someone who just wanted to sign a biscuits. Maybe next
time she should, I don't know, make some at home
and stop getting into vehicles.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Maybe just not drive or don't right in them either? Yeah, no,
just no more, no more.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Vehicular transportation for you. Maybe buses trains? Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yes, she could like go all she hulk in one
of those and really cause some damage. So maybe not
a bus?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Wow? Bike? She could bike and walk, that's true. How
is this woman not faced more jail time or like
penalties when she has such a record of doing this
kind of thing? That's bonkers.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Your guess is as good as mine.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Oh what are crazy pants? Wow?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
No? Okay, so I've heard fast food with a sight
of spicy, but this takes it to a whole new level.
Two men in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were arrested for allegedly
running a meth lab inside a taco bell. Why is
it always taco bell? But yes, you heard me right,
a meth lab inside a taco bell. I guess it's
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not just the burritos that are getting heated up.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh man, catch you this. It's early on a Tuesday
morning and two guys are hanging around outside the taco bell.
One of them even claims he works there. He's like,
oh yeah, I'm an employee. But guess what he wasn't
there just to get some tacos. He and his buddy
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were apparently setting up a meth operation inside. Real nice huh.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh absolutely, So the police get involved. They call up
the manager and boom, they walk into the taco bell
and find all the evidence they need to bust this
operation wide open. It's like something out of a crime drama,
except the crime was happening behind the counter, not on
a typical street corner.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah. Imagine walking into your taco bell and realizing it's
not just the beef that's cooked Tofer and Trent will
call them were arrested and charged with conspiracy to manufacture methanphetamine.
Not exactly what you want to find when you walk
in for a three am burrito run.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Honestly, it makes you wonder what's in that secret sauce.
I mean, customers were shocked. A regular customer said he
always brings his daughter there for hash browns, then to
find out it might have been cooked up with a
side of meth. Gross, he said. Coming to find out
they may cook meth and serve my daughter a hash
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brown in the morning is disgusting. Yeah, I kind of
think i'd agree with that.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, like that's the stuff of nightmares. Imagine the confusion
and disgust. It's awful. But the good news is Bell
took it seriously. They fired the employee, who was an
assistant manager, and they made sure the restaurant was properly
cleaned and inspected before reopening.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yeah, they issued a statement saying they found these suspicious
items in the restaurant, but thankfully they weren't used in
the kitchen, so it wasn't like your regular taco Bell
breakfast came with a side of meth, Which is a relief,
I guess, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah, yeah, a little bit. I guess it is good
to know that the math was not served with your
crunch wrap supreme. But Taco Bells franchise e cooperated with
police and the restaurant was sanitized so customers could go
back and just enjoy their burritos without wondering what's lurking
behind the counter.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Let's just hope this is a one time thing. I'm
all for a little spice in my food, but this
is taking it a little too far.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, Like where were they doing this? Was it in
the kitchen or some other area in the back of
the restaurant?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
So they said it wasn't in the kitchen, but like,
if you think about the layout of where else was
I talking about? You literally have the dining room and
the kitchen, unless they were in like a back supply
room or something like that. But that's still a little
close to you know, the supplies and the food and
the kitchen and the cooking.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Absolutely, And I mean I'm not I don't know anything
about this, But doesn't it give off like a certain smell?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Oh yeah, I've watched breaking bad Like you gotta have
masks on. It travels through the air and you don't want.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
To have How did customers or other people working there
and go like, what is that smell?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I can only hope that they like this was their
first attempt to try cooking it in the restaurant, and
they hadn't actually got it set up and been doing it,
and so they got busted the first time they even tried.
That's the only thing that I can hope and pray.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I hope so because imagine how many people could have
been inadvertently exposed to it. Okay, so this one is
a real mess. Picture this. It's six point thirty in
the morning and a woman will call Mitzi, rolls up
to a McDonald's drive through in Toledo, Ohio, ready to
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grab her breakfast. She's probably just looking for some egg
mcmuffins and maybe a hash brown, right, but what does
she really want? Chicken McNuggets. And that's when she's told
the nuggets aren't on the breakfast menual. Well, let's just
say she loses it.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Oh yeah, losing it doesn't even cover it. She goes
from casually ordering to full on rage mode at about
five seconds. I mean, who would have thought that the
absence of chicken McNuggets could trigger a full blown meltdown?
But Mitsy was like, no, nuggets, no peace.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Exactly. So if the employee calmly tells her, sorry, no
nuggets on the breakfast menu, Mitsy doesn't take it well.
She's like, what, how dare you? She gets out of
her car, walks up to the window, and starts hitting
the poor employee right in the mouth, like, whoa lady,
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It's just breakfast, not a national emergency.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Seriously, just drive to the nearest lunch menu. If you're
that desperate for nuggets, nake them at home.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Christ seriously.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But no, she's swinging at the employee, and here comes
the manager trying to step in, and then Mitzy starts
swinging at the manager too. At this point, it's basically
a full on brawl happening at the drive through window.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I mean, this is the kind of chaos you don't
expect before your first cup of coffee. The manager even
tries to pull Mitsy through the window by her hair.
Not a good look, especially when you're dealing with a
hungry customer who's just found out her nugget dreams have
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been dashed. But luckily, other employees had enough sense to
tell the manager to let go before it got even worse.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, at least someone had the sense to intervene before
it turned into a full on wrestling match. But it
doesn't end there because when the window gets closed, Mitzi
isn't done. Nope, she takes an object from her car
and smashes the window. What is happening here, It's just
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nugget's not the end of the world.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Honestly, like what was going through her mind, You'd think
she was trying to break into Fort Knox, not a
fast food window. And of course police later charged her
with vandalism. She was sentenced to sixty days in jail,
which honestly seems like a pretty fair consequence when you
break a window over breakfast, And on top of that,
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she has to pay for the damages to the McDonald's.
I mean, we all love some chicken nuggies, but this
was a tad excessive, Just just a tad Yeah, and
not to mention like they have breakfast hours and lunch
hours like it even says we don't serve lunch menu
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items before this time, like they have to clean the
kitchen and reset every it gets a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
She was probably angry too.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Oh why do people act like this when they don't
get their way?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I don't know. It hurts my brain.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
It's like, Okay, maybe I should go a little easier
on my nine year old for throwing tantrums all the time,
because at least he's not doing shit like this.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, but you don't want him to end up doing.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Shit like No, absolutely not. People have some tat I
I don't know, man.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Okay, So talk about a plot twist in the world
of fast food robberies. Two guys walk into a burger king,
pull out guns, and demand money from the cashier. Standard robbery, right, Yeah,
but here's where it gets wild. One of the employees
outsmarts them, and I mean really outsmarts them.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Did the employees start throwing spicy nuggets at them? Because
that would have been epic?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Almost is good. So, while these two guys are busy
robbing the cashier, one of the employees just sneaks out
the back door like it's no big deal. He sees
a car running, probably thinking oh, this is my chance,
and he jumps in, drives it around the corner, and
hides it. I mean, who even thinks about doing that
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in the middle of a robbery. He was way ahead
of the game.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
What a move. I mean, that's genius level thinking. The
guys think they've got the perfect getaway car, all sat up,
and then poof, it's gone panic mode activated. I'm just
picturing them running around like, where's our car? That's probably
the last thing they expected exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So these two suspects we'll call them Monty and Carlo,
are probably freaking out trying to find their car and
then bam they're left scrambling. So they end up running
off into a nearby field and guess what, officers catch
them right there. They're rested on the spot, all thanks
to one sneaky, quick thinking burger king employee.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, that employee deserves some sort of metal. I've got
to admit, I've heard of people trying to fight that
or hide from robbers but hiding their car. Never heard
of that move before. It's like an action movie, but
it's real life.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah, basically. But just to be clear, even though this
ended well, you should always comply during a robbery for
your own safety. So don't try this at home unless
you've got some serious stealth skills and to get away
car waiting for you, or I don't know, your spider man.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeah, I wonder it sounds like the other employees were
keeping them occupied, and so he's like, well, they don't
see me, so but the fact that he even got
to go look for that is crazy.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Maybe the only thing that I can think of is
maybe he like saw them pull up in the front,
get out, leave it running, come in, and he was
able to kind of like get out of you before
they got in, and was just like, hey, regardless, smart
move condos.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
That's awesome. That had a very happy ending, and that
employee should definitely be getting a race. Okay, imagine this.
You're a suspect in a theft case and you're running
from the cops. Right, well, what do you do? Well, Jj,
we'll call him, decided to hide in the ceiling of
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a subway. Yeah, you heard me right. He thought the
ceiling tiles would be his ticket to freedom, but spoiler alert,
he didn't quite make it.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Classic move. Just a guy in a t Rex T
shirt trying to escape the long arm of the law
by crawling into a restaurant ceiling. I mean, it sounds
like the beginning of a bizarre heist movie. So JJ's
day started with stealing a BMX bike, probably the worst
decision ever to try and steal a kid's bike, especially
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when the kids right there. But this was just the
warm up act. After that, he moved on to stealing
a Hardley Davidson motorcycle from a guy at the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, it's like he was taking off the worst crimes list.
First a BMX bike, then a motorcycle, and then well
then he thought the subway ceiling was his safe zone.
The bike had been swapped for the Harley, and when
the cops started piecing this all together, they realized JJ
was their guy. And where does he go? Right into
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a subway? This guy has no fear.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
It's almost like he thought he was invisible once he
walked into that subway. He locks himself in the women's restroom,
probably thinking this is the perfect hideout. But he didn't
account for the rustling noise because, surprise, surprise, he was
trying to crawl into the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, because h in a ceiling when you're already wanted
for two thefts is definitely the best option. Not but
here's the best part. The subway owner kicks open the
restroom door and what does he find? Pieces of the
ceiling everywhere and JJ, who somehow fell through the ceiling
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and landed on the floor, so clearly the whole escape
through the ceiling plan was not going well for him.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I'm imagining him in slow motion, just falling out of
the ceiling, like an awkward scene in a cartoon. But
it doesn't stop there. Oh No, the cops pull him
out of a restroom stall by his feet because naturally
he refuses to come out. And what did they find
in the ceiling His shoes and a knife. So it
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wasn't just an awkward ceiling escape. He came prepared, honestly.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
The real twist is when the cops found a huge
wad of Deli ham wrapped in butcher paper on him,
like what Apparently JJ had been in the subway earlier,
tried to apply for a job and then helped himself
to a little Delli meat snack. Maybe he thought that's
what they meant by employee perks.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
That's honestly the most bizarre part of the whole thing.
But hey, JJ didn't stop there. He got charged with
grand theft for the motorcycle, petty theft for the bike,
and even malicious injury for all the damage he caused
in the restaurant. Oh and the ham. Yeah, he got
another petty theft charge for that, so he was in
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deep trouble.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Yeah, this guy went full on crime spree with a
side of deli meat. But hey, everyone's innocent until proven guilty, right.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I could just imagine the cops when they're like patting
him down and like trying to get the situation under control,
and they just pull out a lot of meat. How
do you maintain your cool in that scenario? Also?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Like, what was this guy's plan? He came into the
subway earlier that day, applied for a job, stole some
deli meat, and then went and liked.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Kept ramping it up from there. Like, why no, he
just woke up that morning and he didn't he just
chose stupidity.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I just I wanted to be like, why, what was
your plan?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
So many questions?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Oh, don't overthink it.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
It'll hurt, it'll hurt too much, all right? Picture this.
It's early Friday morning and Shawnee, Oklahoma, and a guy
breaks into a sonic drive in. But this isn't your
typical robbery. Oh no, police didn't need a canine to
track down the suspect. All they had to do was
follow a trail of food and by trail, I mean,
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a path of hot dogs, buns, chicken breasts, and corn dogs.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
It's like a weird food scavenger hunt, but instead of treats,
they're just following stolen snacks. So outter the break in
police show up at the sonic, see broken glass, and
spot a man running away, and instead of trying to
make a clean getaway, this guy literally leaves a trail
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of food behind him.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah, talk about leaving a trail of bread crumbs, I mean,
except this time it's foot long hot dogs and corn dogs.
So the officers follow this trail of tasty treats for
two blocks, all the way to a house. And where
do they find Stewie as we'll call him, In a
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bedroom with fresh blood on his hand and shards of
broken glass stuck to his shoes. Really is like the
world's weirdest treasure hunt.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Oh gross. I mean, I get that he might have
been in a panic, but blood on his hands and
glass on his shoes, that's that's not a good look.
And then, of course when the cops ask him about it,
he's like, I could have blocked out from drinking and
done something stupid. Oh oh, Stewie, you think.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, that's a great excuse. I was so drunk, I
didn't know I was stealing hot dogs. Like, how drunk
do you have to be to break into a sonic
and leave a trail of food. It's honestly impressive in
the most bizarre way. But anyway, Stevie got arrested and
charged with second degree burglary and obstruction. I'm curious to
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know if it was just the hot dogs he was after,
or like, did he go full meal deal condiments included.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Honestly, if he took the hot dogs and didn't grab
any ketchup or rusted, that's really just poor planning. I mean,
you've got the dogs but no condiments. What's even the point?
It's gross, dry and boring. Anyway, poor Stewey was left
to sit in jail, probably thinking about that weird food
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trail he left to.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Mind or nursing a really bad hangover.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Yeah, and lots of cuts.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Definitely not his finest moment, but hey, at least he
didn't leave a trail of spicy mayo. Now that would
have been a crime against taste.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
No spicy mao.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
No, I don't do mayo. I'm a mustard girl.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Oh see, I like Mayo and mustard. I just not
catch up anyway. We could have a whole conversation about this.
But my question is this whole time, like, how much
did he take if he literally left a trail for
two blocks?
Speaker 1 (42:02):
So was he like trying to just hold everything and
carry it and that's why it's falling around? Was he
like shoving it down his pants and so like football hot.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Dogs coming out at the bottom of his pants.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Like falling out of his pant like so many questions.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
That's why it's just really hungry for a hot dog.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
He got drunk and did something stupid. This, ladies and gentlemen,
is why I don't drink.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
You got to drink a lot to do with something
it that stupid? Oh man, huh. So, I guess you
can find art in the strangest places, because we've got
a couple of thieves stealing twelve hundred dollars worth of
artwork from an Arby's. Yeah you heard that right, Arby's.
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Who who knew they had art on the walls? Right?
Speaker 1 (42:56):
I honestly, I didn't even know Arbi's had an art collection.
I can't remember the last time I was in an army,
But apparently they do so. Back in twenty eleven, these
two women will call them Thelma and Louise walk into
an Arby's in Johnson City, Tennessee. One of them buys
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some food, totally blending in like regular customer, while the
other goes full on heist mode and grabs two pieces
of artwork steals them. One's a still life of pears
and the other is this fancy metal wall art the
restaurant had just bought for their remodel.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Yeah, because who wouldn't want to steal a still life
of pears from an Arby's lobby? I mean, that's a
priceless piece of art right there. It's not like they're
snatching expensive paintings from a high end gallery. No, they're
just taking decor from a fast food joint. I can't
even wrap my head around it.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I know, it's like it's almost like they thought, who's
going to notice a missing pair painting in the Arby's lobby.
Well turns out the manager was watching, and he's got
the skills of a detective. He spots the whole thing
on surveillance footage, and oh bonus, he finds the thieves
food receipt. Who's the real winner here the manager. He
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immediately calls the cops and the duo's art heist is foiled.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
They didn't even get away with it. I mean, if
you're going to steal art, maybe don't leave a receipt
behind like a bad criminal in a movie. So these
ladies were charged with theft over five hundred dollars and
taken to a local detention center, all for stealing pairs
and a metal art from Arby's.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
I mean, if I'm being honest, I'm kind of impressed,
Like who knew Arby's would be the scene of a
high stakes art theft. But it's a shame that the
only thing these ladies will be remembered for is their
art crime spree at a fast food joint.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Right, I mean, if they were going to steal art,
they really could have picked something with a little more class.
But at least they didn't steal the curly fries. Those
things are priceless and the only good thing about Arby's
in my.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
You know, I used to go eat Arby's a lot
with my dad when I was living at home, and
I can't remember like the just like the roast beef
and like cheesy stomach does not feel great afterwards, and
you really don't feel good about yourself for the choices
that you've made after you consume one. But you know,
every now and then it's just too bad.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah, I don't know. I've just never been I've never
been an Arby's girl. But also it's quite surprising to
me that two pictures from the wall at Arby's would
be worth that much money.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Hey, they just remind they had, you know, it was
in their budget. They were just trying to class up
the place a little bit.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
I guess. I guess those women maybe they came in
before and saw the new remodel and these pictures were like,
you know what, we really need those for our house.
It would be great addition to our art. People are weird.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
That's putting it very lightly.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
I just like, I don't I don't know. Sometimes it
would be nice to have a little more insight into
people's brains, to like understand why they make the decisions
they do. But then I don't know. It also hurts,
That's what I should say. It also hurts. Yeah, I
don't know. I'm We're better just not knowing.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
It's ignorance, is bliss. Yeah, yeah, Seriously, after all of this,
I'm I'm really just going to start cooking at home more.
Fast food is way too expensive these days anyway, and
I don't want to experience any of these sorts of
Shenanigan's firsthand. No, accept Taco Bell. I will always go
to Taco Bell. That's that's all there is to it.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Hopefully I won't have any more crazy people in the
drive through.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
But yeah, I'm just gonna make my husband go for
me so I don't have to.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Deal with it, deal with the people. Yeah, this is
why I don't go. I just door dash, which is
worse because it's twice as expensive. Yeah, that's why I
don't think that. Yeah, unless it's bubble Tea, I will
drive a distance for some bubble Tea. Yeah. I'd be
curious to know what our listener's guilty pleasure is when
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it comes to fast food. And I don't know what
kind of craziness would you endure to get your favorite treat?
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Have you endured any kind of craziness at a restaurant?
Speaker 2 (47:39):
That would be great to know. I haven't, personally, thank god,
but uh yeah, if you have, definitely let us know
and we can share it in a future episode. Be
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us an email at Weird true Crime at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Before we say goodbye, let's hear our riddle one more time.
First you throw away my outside, cook my inside, then
you eat my outside and throw away my inside. What
am I the answer? Any ear of corn? Corn? I
like corn? Anyway? Let us know. Did you figure it out? No?
Speaker 2 (48:32):
But that makes total sense.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
You take off the ear, yeah, then you cook it,
and then you eat the kernels and.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
You throw the corn. Yeah. I should know this. My
kids love corn and it's one of the only vulgebools
that they will eat. Should have thought about them. That's cute. Well,
until next time, stay safe and make good choices.
Fire Eyes Media. Over spring break, my twelve year old
suddenly realized she needed Taco Bell more than anything in
the world. And what do I do? As a kind
and caring, providing mother. I took her to go get
Taco Bell and ended up second guessing my life choices.
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Probably not for the reasons you're thinking, but what can
I say? Taco Bell is my weakness. I literally can't
help it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You really do love taco Bell. I love it too,
but I don't get it that much, and I don't
necessarily know if I have a favorite fast food, but
I definitely have a favorite fast snack, drink, whatever you
want to call it. I will drop everything and go
for a drive. If the kids are in the mood
for bubble tea, which is more often than not, please
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give me a brown sugar milk tea with boba and
egg pudding. I'm pretty sure I was getting it at
least two or three times a week for a while
there recently and had to cut back tremendously, which was
very sad, and I crave it every day.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You know you're the reason why I enjoy bubble tea too.
You know that, right.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I've done that to several people.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Kind of a love hate relationship there. Oh so good,
It is so good every day. Well, now, as I
had mentioned, I was definitely questioning my decision to leave
the house that day after what happened. It wasn't anything
super bad, but just like one of those things, you know,
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to make a long story short, The Taco Bell by
my house has a really convoluted parking lot, like right
next to another restaurant, and I was trying to be
a kind, courteous person to pull out of the way
of like the flow of traffic and people going to
the other restaurant and everything else and get in line
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the way you're supposed to. When someone else who had
been waiting behind me because I couldn't do my little
nice maneuver until more space had opened up, that person
behind me pulled in front of me, literally like just
right in front of me. Even though they watched me
pull around, back up, pull up, and like I got
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in line behind the person, they just wedged themselves right
in front of me, disregarding what they had watched me do.
But as I'm sitting there internally cursing this woman for
the front me, you know my kids are in the
car too, so I'm like, set a good example, Set
a good example. You know, we don't need Natasha already
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say and anyway, Yeah, but it got me thinking. You know,
fast food restaurants have probably seen some shit.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh absolutely. And we've mentioned some instances in past Dumb
Criminals episodes, like the floor man at Joe's Crabshack or
the other Florida man and woman dispute outa McDonald's over
a mcflurry. But that was just scratching the surface of
the fast food related stupidity. Before we get into all that,
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let's hear our riddle for the day. First you throw
away my outside, cook my inside. Then you eat my
outside and throw away my inside. What am I? Stay
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tuned to the end to find out the answer, and
don't forget. If you like what you hear today, be
sure to leave us a five star rating in review.
It truly does help keep us going.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, so this one isn't necessarily dumb, but it's Texas
and entertaining, and apparently Texas is getting too fancy for
horses these days. Gone are the days of galloping into
town for some fast food. We had a man and Alan,
Texas who just wanted to grab some tacos on horseback,
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and it ended up costing more than just a taco.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh yeah, nothing says I'm living my best ranch life
quite like a late night taco bell run on a pony.
But apparently the good folks of Alan, Texas aren't as
fond of cowboy antics as they used to be.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, I mean, this guy, we'll call him Ronald, a rancher,
has been making taco bell runs on his trust horse
for years. Years. He even said it's horse country and
the guy rides in from a neighboring ranching town because
why not? Why would you drive when you could just
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trot along on a horse?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Right? Nothing screams traditional Texes like trotting down to get
a crunch wrap supreme. But of course the police were like, nope,
not today, cowboy. Apparently they had pulled him over and
handed him and his buddies two hundred and sixty six
dollars worth of tickets for riding animals on the street.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Two hundred and sixty six bucks. I mean, was the
taco bell really that good or was the ticket the
real punchline?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Here?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The officers basically said, hey, buddy, we've asked you to
stop before, and they were getting complaints about, you know,
horsepoop on the street. Oh and let's not forget about
the whole dark animals with no tail lights thing. I'm
just picturing these shadowy horses sneaking around in the night
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like some kind of horror movie.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, that's pretty spooky. I mean, who can see a
horse in the dark. It's basically like driving without headlights.
But Ronald's not having it. He's like, I've been doing
this for over a decade and traffic's not even that
bad at ten thirty at night.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Of course, the police pulled out the city code to
back them up, which basically says no horses are allowed
on public sidewalks or heavily traveled streets. And they say
all streets are heavily traveled in Allen.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Sounds like someone's been watching too many movies where horses
are always galloping through main Street at four pm. In reality,
Ronald was just trying to get some taco bell at
a quiet hour, not exactly a high speed chase.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Honestly, I'd argue he has a point. I mean, I'd
rather be on a horse than stuck in traffic in
a car any day. You have to admit. At least
it's a way cooler ride than most of us could
ever hope for. Who needs a car when you've got
a taco bell run on horseback? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Oh? Man? I mean I understand the appeal, but dude,
you can't. You can't ride your horse down a main
street and hold up traffic and everything else and get
let your horse poop all over the road.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I mean, I see what he's saying, Like ten thirty
at night, there's not as many people out. But then again,
you know that poses the whole, like horses don't have
I mean, I think you can put reflectors and stuff
on horses, but it sounds like he was not, did he,
And still there's no headlights. It's just you. People don't
pay attention. People can be drinking, especially if they're also
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on their way to Taco Bell. So just yeah, it's
just a bad, bad combination, but.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You know it really is. And who's to say how
much this town has grown in the past decade too,
Like just because it was okay ten years ago does
not mean it's okay now.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
No, No things are things are a change in here,
no Texas.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Sorry, sorry, Ronald. Also, it gives the rest of us
a bad name, because I definitely met people growing up
that were like, oh, I heard that you guys rode
horses to school, And I was like, bitch, I've never
ride a horse in my life. I don't know what
you're talking about. So it's like, don't make us all
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sound like we ride horses to Taco Bell.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Hey, man, if I could ride a horse to Taco Bell,
I would. I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I mean, it would definitely change change up your day.
Oh okay, buckle up for this one, because it's one
of those stories that's truly spring Break in all its
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chaotic glory. Meet Betty will call her and Alabama woman
who got arrested after a violent meltdown over a wopper
junior and fries in a burger king down in Panama
City Beach, Florida. And yeah, you heard that right, a
wopper junior in fries. This isn't exactly the food fight
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you see on a fancy cooking show.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
So Betty, bikini clad and ready for a good time,
decides to take her hunger to the ocean front burger king.
But when things didn't go her way, the situation escalated
real fast. She starts arguing with employees, then jumps on
top of the counter like she's trying out for a
reality show. And what does she do. She starts swinging
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at people and throws a giant plastic jug at them. Yeah,
a jug, Because nothing says I'm not getting my food
fast enough like hurling a charitable donation jar across the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I mean, who even has the audacity to throw a
donation jug? That's a new level of petty. And let's
not forget. While all of this chaos was unfolding, some
random guy filmed the whole thing and yelled, this is
the best spring Break ever, which, like, sure, if you're
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into watching people destroy a burger king over some fries,
I guess Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
This whole thing went off the rails. Apparently she was
also pulling hair, throwing drinks, and just generally turning the
burger king into a war zone. At one point she
even said, we tore the burger king up, like that's
something to be proud of. Oh, she's a first time
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spring Breaker too.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Can you imagine? This is what she chose for her
introduction to spring Break, screaming at fast food employees and
making a scene at a burger King, not to mention
she was there with her kids, but hey, she did
go there to get something in my stomach before hitting
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the drinks.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Priorities, right, yeah, because what says I'm ready to party
like destroying fast food establishments. But her story is a
little confusing too. She was yelling at employees for being slow.
Damn these folks are slow, she says, and after waiting
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twenty minutes for her order, she just lost it, threw
the bag of food at them, launched a drink, and
then of course yanked the manager's hair. Oh and we
can't forget the jug. Cannot leave out the jug.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Right, And when she's arrested, she starts asking where her
kids are. She was super vague with the cops, so
they couldn't even figure out if the kids were in
danger or missing. Definitely not the ideal time to be
playing koi. And apparently no one was really injured, but
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the Burger King had a little bit of damage, So
there's that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
She got out on a five hundred dollars bond, which
honestly doesn't seem like enough for trashing a fast food
joint over a Whopper Junior. But hey, you know we're
not judges. And the best part. She later admitted, if
I knew what was going to happen, I would have
gone to Taco Bell. That's that's her takeaway, Not maybe
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I shouldn't have thrown that jug, but Taco Bell next time.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, she does know how to greet customers though apparently
she's worked at McDonald's and Church's Chicken, so she's got
the fast food etiquette down, but you know, maybe not
the keeping your cool part.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
The sad thing is this was like a viral video
that went crazy when it happened because she was literally
up on the counter, screaming, throwing shit.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Just why do I feel like she had probably already
gotten the body party started for one those poor kids.
I have so many questions about how she is as
a parent, and I love that how it's it's the
Burger King's fault that she acted that way. It's not
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let's take responsibility for our own actions. This is something
I've been teaching my children, like, it's not their fault
that you lost your shit.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I'm afraid for all the Taco Bells out there now, though.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Seriously, they don't. Don't threaten Taco Bell like that. That's
not cool, not my bell. No, they don't deserve that either.
Oh man. She probably ordered a good amount of food
and mean's spring break. It was probably busy, like calm down,
and when she got the food, she threw it at them.
It's like, you're so high, why would you throw the
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food that you paid for?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You were so mad about it taking so long. You
finally get the food, and then you lose your shit.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That's why I'm like she something was going on.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
She might have just been angry, Like if she had
just sat down and eaten the food, all would have
been right with the world.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Oh boy, that's awful. Oh those poor kids.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I mean, I know that I get pretty unbearable when
I'm hungry. Me too, Just just throwing that out.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
There, me too, But I don't see you, you know,
pulling hair and throwing donation jars.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah. Next up, we've got George. We'll call him a
forty three year old guy from Chicago who thought it
was a great idea to rob a subway with a
knife and then casually stroll across the street to grab
a sandwich had potbelly.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Casually stroll is an understatement. This dude went from armed
robbery suspect to customer of the day. In record time,
he robs subway with a folding knife, snatches some cash,
and then literally walks over to Potbelly like he's just
finished a long day of shopping.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh and get this, he's still eating his Pot Belly
sandwich when the cops show up, Like, dude, you just
committed a robbery and you're sitting there munching away like
it's just another Tuesday, imagining him taking a bite and thinking,
you know, I really deserve this meal after all that
hard work.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
It's almost like he didn't even try to hide the
fact that he was the robber. Just twenty minutes before,
he had walked into that subway, whipped out his knife
and started demanding cash from the cashier. Then, while he's
helping himself to the register, a customer walks in and
sees him literally leaning over the counter grabbing the cash.
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Real slick, George, real slick.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Oh, it gets better. The cops track his every move
like it's some kind of bad heist movie. They check
out surveillance video and boom they see him walking down
the street, crossing the Potbelle and then, oh, look, no
sign of him leaving the sandwich shop. So the cops
do what anyone would do in this situation. They head inside,
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and sure enough they find him, sandwich in hand, sitting
at the back of the shop like he's got nothing
to worry about.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I mean, he really thought he was going to just
blend in and finish his meal like. I wonder if
he even noticed the cops walking in. Maybe he was
too busy with his delicious sandwich to care.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The cops weren't foled either way. They arrested him right there,
still mid bite, and found one hundred and eighty six
dollars in cash on him, along with the silver bladed knife.
Nice touch with the folding knife, George, you know nothing
says I'm innocent, quite like a weapon and stolen cash
in your pockets.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
At least he wasn't running from the cops while stuffing
his face, right, He did it in style, just eating
a sandwich and waiting for them to show up. I
gotta hand it to him. He's got guts.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Or he's just not the brightest crayon in the tool shed.
But George got himself a new sandwich on his plate,
armed robbery charges. Hope it tastes as good as that
Pot Belly sandwich.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Okay, what was he thinking? Okay, I'm hungry for a sandwich,
but like, I don't really like subway, but I need
some cash, so I'm just gonna stop by, rob them
and then use that money to go across the street
and get pot Belly.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I would not be surprised if that was literally his
train of thought. Man, I really want a pot Belly sandwich,
but I don't have any cash. Hmm, Subway sucks. I'll
go take their money and go get pot Belly.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
And then he just sits there, like gonna sit here.
We need a sandwich. There were witnesses bud, like.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Everybody forgets surveillance cameras these days too.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
They people also think that they just cannot be touched,
Like I can do this. There's gonna be no repercussions
for my actions at all. It's totally fine.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I hope. I hope that sandwich was worth it. I
don't no sandwich is worth that, but you do you boom? Okay,
get ready for this one, because it's about to get wild.
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A woman in Augusta, Georgia, was accused of ramming her
car into a Popeyes after her order didn't come with biscuits. Yeah,
you heard that right, biscuits. That's what set her off.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You know, I've had some disappointing meals in my day,
but I've never once thought, you know what, I'm gonna
ram my car into a fast food restaurant. But Melby,
age fifty, clearly didn't see things the same way. She
was charged with aggravated assault and criminal damage to property.
And get this, this wasn't even her first time ramming
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a building with her car. No, no, no, no, She's
got history and.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
It gets better. So Melby rolls up to Popeye's orders
her food and wait for it, her biscuits are missing.
That's when things go downhill. According to the sheriff's report,
she wasn't happy with the situation and decided to take
matters into her own hands. She drove her Toyota raw
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Force straight into the restaurant's east entrance, nearly hitting an
eighteen year old employee. Because that's how you handle a
biscuit situation, right.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh, for sure, just run your car into the building.
Classic solution. But here's where he gets really juicy. Before
the car crash, she actually told another customer in line,
you better hurry up and get your order because I'm
coming back in there. Like, lady, were you planning a
drive through or a demolition?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
The manager said she fixed the issue and gave Melby
her biscuits. But nope, still not good enough. Melby wasn't
having it. She drives her car into the building and
then flees the scene, just speeds off, but the police
weren't far behind. They found her car later at her
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home and guess what, the front end was all banged up.
No surprise there.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, I'm sure she didn't think the car was gonna
come out of that one looking pristine. But as I said,
this isn't even Melby's first ramming incident. Back in May
twenty twenty, she allegedly drove her Toyota into an apartment
building not once, but twice, and she was apparently drunk
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and upset during that little adventure. She hit the building,
backed up, and hit it again. Hey, who needs a
wrecking ball when you got Meloby?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Seriously, and don't forget the twenty eighteen incident where she
got all handsy with the wheel while some guy was driving,
which caused them to run off the road and into
a wooded area. Oh, and she also punched him while
he was trying to drive. Real charming.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
So basically she's just out here with a one woman
wrecking crew. But it's not like she hasn't faced consequences.
She had probation for both the twenty eighteen and twenty
twenty incidents. Seems like she's got a pattern of extreme
reactions when things don't go her way.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah. Uh, this woman's got a lot of rage for
someone who just wanted to sign a biscuits. Maybe next
time she should, I don't know, make some at home
and stop getting into vehicles.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Maybe just not drive or don't right in them either? Yeah, no,
just no more, no more.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Vehicular transportation for you. Maybe buses trains? Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yes, she could like go all she hulk in one
of those and really cause some damage. So maybe not
a bus?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Wow? Bike? She could bike and walk, that's true. How
is this woman not faced more jail time or like
penalties when she has such a record of doing this
kind of thing? That's bonkers.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Your guess is as good as mine.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Oh what are crazy pants? Wow?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
No? Okay, so I've heard fast food with a sight
of spicy, but this takes it to a whole new level.
Two men in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were arrested for allegedly
running a meth lab inside a taco bell. Why is
it always taco bell? But yes, you heard me right,
a meth lab inside a taco bell. I guess it's
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not just the burritos that are getting heated up.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh man, catch you this. It's early on a Tuesday
morning and two guys are hanging around outside the taco bell.
One of them even claims he works there. He's like,
oh yeah, I'm an employee. But guess what he wasn't
there just to get some tacos. He and his buddy
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were apparently setting up a meth operation inside. Real nice huh.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh absolutely, So the police get involved. They call up
the manager and boom, they walk into the taco bell
and find all the evidence they need to bust this
operation wide open. It's like something out of a crime drama,
except the crime was happening behind the counter, not on
a typical street corner.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah. Imagine walking into your taco bell and realizing it's
not just the beef that's cooked Tofer and Trent will
call them were arrested and charged with conspiracy to manufacture methanphetamine.
Not exactly what you want to find when you walk
in for a three am burrito run.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Honestly, it makes you wonder what's in that secret sauce.
I mean, customers were shocked. A regular customer said he
always brings his daughter there for hash browns, then to
find out it might have been cooked up with a
side of meth. Gross, he said. Coming to find out
they may cook meth and serve my daughter a hash
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brown in the morning is disgusting. Yeah, I kind of
think i'd agree with that.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, like that's the stuff of nightmares. Imagine the confusion
and disgust. It's awful. But the good news is Bell
took it seriously. They fired the employee, who was an
assistant manager, and they made sure the restaurant was properly
cleaned and inspected before reopening.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yeah, they issued a statement saying they found these suspicious
items in the restaurant, but thankfully they weren't used in
the kitchen, so it wasn't like your regular taco Bell
breakfast came with a side of meth, Which is a relief,
I guess, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah, yeah, a little bit. I guess it is good
to know that the math was not served with your
crunch wrap supreme. But Taco Bells franchise e cooperated with
police and the restaurant was sanitized so customers could go
back and just enjoy their burritos without wondering what's lurking
behind the counter.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Let's just hope this is a one time thing. I'm
all for a little spice in my food, but this
is taking it a little too far.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, Like where were they doing this? Was it in
the kitchen or some other area in the back of
the restaurant?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
So they said it wasn't in the kitchen, but like,
if you think about the layout of where else was
I talking about? You literally have the dining room and
the kitchen, unless they were in like a back supply
room or something like that. But that's still a little
close to you know, the supplies and the food and
the kitchen and the cooking.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Absolutely, And I mean I'm not I don't know anything
about this, But doesn't it give off like a certain smell?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Oh yeah, I've watched breaking bad Like you gotta have
masks on. It travels through the air and you don't want.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
To have How did customers or other people working there
and go like, what is that smell?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I can only hope that they like this was their
first attempt to try cooking it in the restaurant, and
they hadn't actually got it set up and been doing it,
and so they got busted the first time they even tried.
That's the only thing that I can hope and pray.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I hope so because imagine how many people could have
been inadvertently exposed to it. Okay, so this one is
a real mess. Picture this. It's six point thirty in
the morning and a woman will call Mitzi, rolls up
to a McDonald's drive through in Toledo, Ohio, ready to
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grab her breakfast. She's probably just looking for some egg
mcmuffins and maybe a hash brown, right, but what does
she really want? Chicken McNuggets. And that's when she's told
the nuggets aren't on the breakfast menual. Well, let's just
say she loses it.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Oh yeah, losing it doesn't even cover it. She goes
from casually ordering to full on rage mode at about
five seconds. I mean, who would have thought that the
absence of chicken McNuggets could trigger a full blown meltdown?
But Mitsy was like, no, nuggets, no peace.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Exactly. So if the employee calmly tells her, sorry, no
nuggets on the breakfast menu, Mitsy doesn't take it well.
She's like, what, how dare you? She gets out of
her car, walks up to the window, and starts hitting
the poor employee right in the mouth, like, whoa lady,
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It's just breakfast, not a national emergency.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Seriously, just drive to the nearest lunch menu. If you're
that desperate for nuggets, nake them at home.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Christ seriously.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But no, she's swinging at the employee, and here comes
the manager trying to step in, and then Mitzy starts
swinging at the manager too. At this point, it's basically
a full on brawl happening at the drive through window.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I mean, this is the kind of chaos you don't
expect before your first cup of coffee. The manager even
tries to pull Mitsy through the window by her hair.
Not a good look, especially when you're dealing with a
hungry customer who's just found out her nugget dreams have
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been dashed. But luckily, other employees had enough sense to
tell the manager to let go before it got even worse.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, at least someone had the sense to intervene before
it turned into a full on wrestling match. But it
doesn't end there because when the window gets closed, Mitzi
isn't done. Nope, she takes an object from her car
and smashes the window. What is happening here, It's just
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nugget's not the end of the world.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Honestly, like what was going through her mind, You'd think
she was trying to break into Fort Knox, not a
fast food window. And of course police later charged her
with vandalism. She was sentenced to sixty days in jail,
which honestly seems like a pretty fair consequence when you
break a window over breakfast, And on top of that,
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she has to pay for the damages to the McDonald's.
I mean, we all love some chicken nuggies, but this
was a tad excessive, Just just a tad Yeah, and
not to mention like they have breakfast hours and lunch
hours like it even says we don't serve lunch menu
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items before this time, like they have to clean the
kitchen and reset every it gets a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
She was probably angry too.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Oh why do people act like this when they don't
get their way?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I don't know. It hurts my brain.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
It's like, Okay, maybe I should go a little easier
on my nine year old for throwing tantrums all the time,
because at least he's not doing shit like this.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, but you don't want him to end up doing.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Shit like No, absolutely not. People have some tat I
I don't know, man.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Okay, So talk about a plot twist in the world
of fast food robberies. Two guys walk into a burger king,
pull out guns, and demand money from the cashier. Standard robbery, right, Yeah,
but here's where it gets wild. One of the employees
outsmarts them, and I mean really outsmarts them.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Did the employees start throwing spicy nuggets at them? Because
that would have been epic?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Almost is good. So, while these two guys are busy
robbing the cashier, one of the employees just sneaks out
the back door like it's no big deal. He sees
a car running, probably thinking oh, this is my chance,
and he jumps in, drives it around the corner, and
hides it. I mean, who even thinks about doing that
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in the middle of a robbery. He was way ahead
of the game.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
What a move. I mean, that's genius level thinking. The
guys think they've got the perfect getaway car, all sat up,
and then poof, it's gone panic mode activated. I'm just
picturing them running around like, where's our car? That's probably
the last thing they expected exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So these two suspects we'll call them Monty and Carlo,
are probably freaking out trying to find their car and
then bam they're left scrambling. So they end up running
off into a nearby field and guess what, officers catch
them right there. They're rested on the spot, all thanks
to one sneaky, quick thinking burger king employee.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, that employee deserves some sort of metal. I've got
to admit, I've heard of people trying to fight that
or hide from robbers but hiding their car. Never heard
of that move before. It's like an action movie, but
it's real life.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah, basically. But just to be clear, even though this
ended well, you should always comply during a robbery for
your own safety. So don't try this at home unless
you've got some serious stealth skills and to get away
car waiting for you, or I don't know, your spider man.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeah, I wonder it sounds like the other employees were
keeping them occupied, and so he's like, well, they don't
see me, so but the fact that he even got
to go look for that is crazy.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Maybe the only thing that I can think of is
maybe he like saw them pull up in the front,
get out, leave it running, come in, and he was
able to kind of like get out of you before
they got in, and was just like, hey, regardless, smart
move condos.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
That's awesome. That had a very happy ending, and that
employee should definitely be getting a race. Okay, imagine this.
You're a suspect in a theft case and you're running
from the cops. Right, well, what do you do? Well, Jj,
we'll call him, decided to hide in the ceiling of
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a subway. Yeah, you heard me right. He thought the
ceiling tiles would be his ticket to freedom, but spoiler alert,
he didn't quite make it.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Classic move. Just a guy in a t Rex T
shirt trying to escape the long arm of the law
by crawling into a restaurant ceiling. I mean, it sounds
like the beginning of a bizarre heist movie. So JJ's
day started with stealing a BMX bike, probably the worst
decision ever to try and steal a kid's bike, especially
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when the kids right there. But this was just the
warm up act. After that, he moved on to stealing
a Hardley Davidson motorcycle from a guy at the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, it's like he was taking off the worst crimes list.
First a BMX bike, then a motorcycle, and then well
then he thought the subway ceiling was his safe zone.
The bike had been swapped for the Harley, and when
the cops started piecing this all together, they realized JJ
was their guy. And where does he go? Right into
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a subway? This guy has no fear.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
It's almost like he thought he was invisible once he
walked into that subway. He locks himself in the women's restroom,
probably thinking this is the perfect hideout. But he didn't
account for the rustling noise because, surprise, surprise, he was
trying to crawl into the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, because h in a ceiling when you're already wanted
for two thefts is definitely the best option. Not but
here's the best part. The subway owner kicks open the
restroom door and what does he find? Pieces of the
ceiling everywhere and JJ, who somehow fell through the ceiling
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and landed on the floor, so clearly the whole escape
through the ceiling plan was not going well for him.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I'm imagining him in slow motion, just falling out of
the ceiling, like an awkward scene in a cartoon. But
it doesn't stop there. Oh No, the cops pull him
out of a restroom stall by his feet because naturally
he refuses to come out. And what did they find
in the ceiling His shoes and a knife. So it
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wasn't just an awkward ceiling escape. He came prepared, honestly.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
The real twist is when the cops found a huge
wad of Deli ham wrapped in butcher paper on him,
like what Apparently JJ had been in the subway earlier,
tried to apply for a job and then helped himself
to a little Delli meat snack. Maybe he thought that's
what they meant by employee perks.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
That's honestly the most bizarre part of the whole thing.
But hey, JJ didn't stop there. He got charged with
grand theft for the motorcycle, petty theft for the bike,
and even malicious injury for all the damage he caused
in the restaurant. Oh and the ham. Yeah, he got
another petty theft charge for that, so he was in
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deep trouble.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Yeah, this guy went full on crime spree with a
side of deli meat. But hey, everyone's innocent until proven guilty, right.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I could just imagine the cops when they're like patting
him down and like trying to get the situation under control,
and they just pull out a lot of meat. How
do you maintain your cool in that scenario? Also?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Like, what was this guy's plan? He came into the
subway earlier that day, applied for a job, stole some
deli meat, and then went and liked.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Kept ramping it up from there. Like, why no, he
just woke up that morning and he didn't he just
chose stupidity.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I just I wanted to be like, why, what was
your plan?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
So many questions?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Oh, don't overthink it.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
It'll hurt, it'll hurt too much, all right? Picture this.
It's early Friday morning and Shawnee, Oklahoma, and a guy
breaks into a sonic drive in. But this isn't your
typical robbery. Oh no, police didn't need a canine to
track down the suspect. All they had to do was
follow a trail of food and by trail, I mean,
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a path of hot dogs, buns, chicken breasts, and corn dogs.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
It's like a weird food scavenger hunt, but instead of treats,
they're just following stolen snacks. So outter the break in
police show up at the sonic, see broken glass, and
spot a man running away, and instead of trying to
make a clean getaway, this guy literally leaves a trail
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of food behind him.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah, talk about leaving a trail of bread crumbs, I mean,
except this time it's foot long hot dogs and corn dogs.
So the officers follow this trail of tasty treats for
two blocks, all the way to a house. And where
do they find Stewie as we'll call him, In a
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bedroom with fresh blood on his hand and shards of
broken glass stuck to his shoes. Really is like the
world's weirdest treasure hunt.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Oh gross. I mean, I get that he might have
been in a panic, but blood on his hands and
glass on his shoes, that's that's not a good look.
And then, of course when the cops ask him about it,
he's like, I could have blocked out from drinking and
done something stupid. Oh oh, Stewie, you think.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, that's a great excuse. I was so drunk, I
didn't know I was stealing hot dogs. Like, how drunk
do you have to be to break into a sonic
and leave a trail of food. It's honestly impressive in
the most bizarre way. But anyway, Stevie got arrested and
charged with second degree burglary and obstruction. I'm curious to
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know if it was just the hot dogs he was after,
or like, did he go full meal deal condiments included.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Honestly, if he took the hot dogs and didn't grab
any ketchup or rusted, that's really just poor planning. I mean,
you've got the dogs but no condiments. What's even the point?
It's gross, dry and boring. Anyway, poor Stewey was left
to sit in jail, probably thinking about that weird food
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trail he left to.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Mind or nursing a really bad hangover.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Yeah, and lots of cuts.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Definitely not his finest moment, but hey, at least he
didn't leave a trail of spicy mayo. Now that would
have been a crime against taste.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
No spicy mao.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
No, I don't do mayo. I'm a mustard girl.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Oh see, I like Mayo and mustard. I just not
catch up anyway. We could have a whole conversation about this.
But my question is this whole time, like, how much
did he take if he literally left a trail for
two blocks?
Speaker 1 (42:02):
So was he like trying to just hold everything and
carry it and that's why it's falling around? Was he
like shoving it down his pants and so like football hot.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Dogs coming out at the bottom of his pants.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Like falling out of his pant like so many questions.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
That's why it's just really hungry for a hot dog.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
He got drunk and did something stupid. This, ladies and gentlemen,
is why I don't drink.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
You got to drink a lot to do with something
it that stupid? Oh man, huh. So, I guess you
can find art in the strangest places, because we've got
a couple of thieves stealing twelve hundred dollars worth of
artwork from an Arby's. Yeah you heard that right, Arby's.
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Who who knew they had art on the walls? Right?
Speaker 1 (42:56):
I honestly, I didn't even know Arbi's had an art collection.
I can't remember the last time I was in an army,
But apparently they do so. Back in twenty eleven, these
two women will call them Thelma and Louise walk into
an Arby's in Johnson City, Tennessee. One of them buys
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some food, totally blending in like regular customer, while the
other goes full on heist mode and grabs two pieces
of artwork steals them. One's a still life of pears
and the other is this fancy metal wall art the
restaurant had just bought for their remodel.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Yeah, because who wouldn't want to steal a still life
of pears from an Arby's lobby? I mean, that's a
priceless piece of art right there. It's not like they're
snatching expensive paintings from a high end gallery. No, they're
just taking decor from a fast food joint. I can't
even wrap my head around it.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I know, it's like it's almost like they thought, who's
going to notice a missing pair painting in the Arby's lobby.
Well turns out the manager was watching, and he's got
the skills of a detective. He spots the whole thing
on surveillance footage, and oh bonus, he finds the thieves
food receipt. Who's the real winner here the manager. He
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immediately calls the cops and the duo's art heist is foiled.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
They didn't even get away with it. I mean, if
you're going to steal art, maybe don't leave a receipt
behind like a bad criminal in a movie. So these
ladies were charged with theft over five hundred dollars and
taken to a local detention center, all for stealing pairs
and a metal art from Arby's.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
I mean, if I'm being honest, I'm kind of impressed,
Like who knew Arby's would be the scene of a
high stakes art theft. But it's a shame that the
only thing these ladies will be remembered for is their
art crime spree at a fast food joint.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Right, I mean, if they were going to steal art,
they really could have picked something with a little more class.
But at least they didn't steal the curly fries. Those
things are priceless and the only good thing about Arby's
in my.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
You know, I used to go eat Arby's a lot
with my dad when I was living at home, and
I can't remember like the just like the roast beef
and like cheesy stomach does not feel great afterwards, and
you really don't feel good about yourself for the choices
that you've made after you consume one. But you know,
every now and then it's just too bad.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah, I don't know. I've just never been I've never
been an Arby's girl. But also it's quite surprising to
me that two pictures from the wall at Arby's would
be worth that much money.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Hey, they just remind they had, you know, it was
in their budget. They were just trying to class up
the place a little bit.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
I guess. I guess those women maybe they came in
before and saw the new remodel and these pictures were like,
you know what, we really need those for our house.
It would be great addition to our art. People are weird.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
That's putting it very lightly.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
I just like, I don't I don't know. Sometimes it
would be nice to have a little more insight into
people's brains, to like understand why they make the decisions
they do. But then I don't know. It also hurts,
That's what I should say. It also hurts. Yeah, I
don't know. I'm We're better just not knowing.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
It's ignorance, is bliss. Yeah, yeah, Seriously, after all of this,
I'm I'm really just going to start cooking at home more.
Fast food is way too expensive these days anyway, and
I don't want to experience any of these sorts of
Shenanigan's firsthand. No, accept Taco Bell. I will always go
to Taco Bell. That's that's all there is to it.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Hopefully I won't have any more crazy people in the
drive through.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
But yeah, I'm just gonna make my husband go for
me so I don't have to.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Deal with it, deal with the people. Yeah, this is
why I don't go. I just door dash, which is
worse because it's twice as expensive. Yeah, that's why I
don't think that. Yeah, unless it's bubble Tea, I will
drive a distance for some bubble Tea. Yeah. I'd be
curious to know what our listener's guilty pleasure is when
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it comes to fast food. And I don't know what
kind of craziness would you endure to get your favorite treat?
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Have you endured any kind of craziness at a restaurant?
Speaker 2 (47:39):
That would be great to know. I haven't, personally, thank god,
but uh yeah, if you have, definitely let us know
and we can share it in a future episode. Be
sure to follow us on Instagram at Weird true Crime
for episode related content and funnies. We would love to
hear from you. Whether you have a case you'd like
to hear, a cover, or something funny to share. Shoot
(48:02):
us an email at Weird true Crime at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Before we say goodbye, let's hear our riddle one more time.
First you throw away my outside, cook my inside, then
you eat my outside and throw away my inside. What
am I the answer? Any ear of corn? Corn? I
like corn? Anyway? Let us know. Did you figure it out? No?
Speaker 2 (48:32):
But that makes total sense.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
You take off the ear, yeah, then you cook it,
and then you eat the kernels and.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
You throw the corn. Yeah. I should know this. My
kids love corn and it's one of the only vulgebools
that they will eat. Should have thought about them. That's cute. Well,
until next time, stay safe and make good choices.
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