Clearance Items: Fast Food Crime Watch!

We love Thursdays because it’s time for The Consumerist Grease Blotter

, chronicling the connection between crime and fast food since, uh, last month:

“Buy me some food or I’m gonna shoot you” [Tampa Bay 10]
“Hey buy me some food or I’m gonna shoot you,” one of them said.

“Well, shoot me then,” Stofer replied.

That’s when one of the teens fired the pellet gun, striking Stofer in the left side of his face.

Burger King robbed minutes after officer leaves [Des Moines Register]
“It is possible that the suspect saw me in the drive thru and waited until I left to rob the store, ” Officer Mandy Bernlohr wrote.

Passer-by was punched by man [Eastbourne Herald]
Then out of the blue he hit him on the left hand side of his eye, and he fell to the ground where Mr Oates’ punched him further…Oates dragged his victim out of KFC into Susans Road, ripping his shirt.

Restaurant Workers Accused Of Faking Robbery [KETV]
Employees told investigators that a man with a gun entered the business, demanded money and then ran away.

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