Simply amazing. Now if only they could do the same thing wearing a Teletubbies costume.

Go thru with a ski mask and it's even funnier.

Sure the McDonalds manager overreacted. I would have simply said "Get Lost".

But why hassle them in the first place? The girl clearly said she couldn't understand her. It's kind of pathetic to be screwing with a McDonalds crew simply going about their day.

Man, that be some RACIST Shit! Ma homie cannot get a Chalupa because she ain't no fleshy earth creature? Oh you don't think it's bad now, but where does it end? Today they don't serve Autobots, tomorrow they won't serve Cylons. Big fat McRacist better give her that boy toy in her happy meal!

"Car 15, respond to McDonald's for a report of subjects attempting to order cheeseburgers while speaking in an unintelligible voice." Yeah, I'll bet the police rushed right over for that one.

Who the hell orders Chalupa's at McDonald's anyway?
I'd rather eat raw energy cubes.

I don't know. I can't explain it, but for some reason I don't think this belongs on consumerist. Oh also, it wasn't funny.

She's a blonde in disguise.

Did her boyfriend give her that pearl necklace?

McDonalds managers have no sense of humor, and cannot discern sarcasm from rude comments. "Get out of my drive-thru"?? Get out of my biosphere!

as a dispatcher here's what would happen:

me: car 92, suspicious vehicle bolo

car 92: nashville highway, go ahead

me: its going to be at the mcdonalds on main street, subject ordering food in a transformers mask. complainant thinks they look ...."suspicious" (intentional voice inflection)

car 92: 10-4 enroute

***10 minutes pass***

car 92: car 92, no contact with that subject, show me clear.

me:10-4

now, what really happened is: that officer sat in his car and finished eating his mcdonalds he got from the other side of town, and when he was done, acted like he went to the other mcdonalds and didnt see the horrible law-breaking food-ordering criminals. because he knows, and i know, (and giant manager man should know), that is a stupid reason to call the police. /rant

It would have been funny if he refused to serve them because she was wearing the helmet. But, the reason he wouldn't serve them is that McDonald's does not sell spicy chicken chalupas. They actually were being jerks. What should the manager have done? Run to a Taco Bell?

The incident appears to be karmic retribution for the dozens of times we've all been treated with disdain for being unable to understand the tinny, metallic voice coming through the worst communication device ever invented by man--the drive-thru speaker. Optimus Prime was being a jerk, but it's unfortunate the McManager felt compelled to out-do her.

In a tangentially related article, McJerks in the midwest:
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I agree with Fredmertz: jerks. Not just for ordering something that's not on the menu in order to exacerbate the guy's confusion, but for being entitled assholes poking fun at a blue collar guy just doing his job under the bullshit auspice of making an anti-corporate stand (while at the same time shilling the hype for a forgettable corporate Hollywood film).

this reminds me of Jackass. Since when consumerist decided to use stupidity to feel smarter? shame on u...

McDonald's employees know their job sucks. They don't need jerks like this to remind them. I actually feel sorry for drive thru clerks. I'm totally for him calling in the plates. They don't need to put up with this sh*t.

Thanks a lot Jackass and your band of imitators.

As someone who has worked in customer service (but never at McDs, thank God) I would have found this hilarious.

I love how the manager tells them to stay and then tells the police that they won't leave.

So this is what those "We Have the Right To Refuse Service" signs are for!

Becausing being a dick to near(if not) minimum wage employees is cool.

That just reminds me of the kind of thing that people do when they're 16, bored, and one of their friends just got a driver's license. Like many things 16 year-olds do, it's not that funny, though they're convinced it is.

Gawker network synergy at its worst.

@Kishi: exactly. weren't we all kids at some time?

@boandmichele: Yeah. But thanks to the wonderous advances of time, we're no longer kids, and can drop the things that primarily interested us solely because we were kids. Maybe if there was some point to what they were doing, okay. But the idea of "let's put on a helmet, go to the drive-through, order something they don't have, and then laugh 'cause they can't understand me- oh, and tape it!" doesn't have any underlying humor to it for me. It's more like they're just hassling McDonalds employees and thinking that makes them cool.

I couldn't find a parking spot at the end of a Mcdonalds parking lot so I drove in reverse through the entire lot to save some time instead of getting back on the road and pulling back in.

They called the cops on me. I was going to order food from them.

Do police actually have time to respond to crap like this? Here in Edmonton, the police don't even bother to respond to homicides IN PROGRESS.

Wow. Extremely slow news day.

Holy crap, that helmet costs forty dollars.

@bbbici: But they're always thwarting theft at the Tim Hortons...

All I know is Roddimus Prime would NEVER have tried to pull this shit.

Way to stick it to the man! Y'all showed them!

For the record: the movie was horrible. [Let the flamewar begin!]

that's awesome, I can't stop chuckling - who was he calling the license plate into, McD's Corporate???

Sure he may have overeacted but if I was the mgr at a McDonald's in the Mission I would have been a heck of a lot more worried than he looked. Could have been a prank, could have been a hold-up. Pretty immature overall.

they dont like you driving backwards through the drive-thru either.

Seriously, did this girl not have a "Magic: The Gathering" tournament to go to instead?

Also, McDonald's won't let you order from the drive-thru if you don't have a car. And simply making car noises won't fool them.

i had a cop incident in McDonalds once.

My friend was singing to the music and our other friend was ordering at the drive-thru. My friend asked if she could give her friend the food.

They let her and the people up front were laughing and having a good time.

When we were trying to leave a cop cuts us off and tells us our eyes look "glazed over" Give me a break... None of us have ever done drugs in our lives! Never went back to McDonalds!

I guess a Manager in the back called the cops. Oh any my friend was singing too.

There may very well HAVE been a Spicy Chicken Chalupa on the menu. McDonald's does offer regional menu items. Not saying there WAS a Spicy Chicken Chalupa... just saying there MAY have been one on the menu.

That was not funny. That was stupid.

Also, the manager was right to call the cops after they refused to leave after he asked them to. They then became trespassers and were interfering with his business.

I must be getting old.

I like consumerist when a company over (or under) reacts to normal everyday situations, not when some prankster decides to get some jollies.

We used to mess around with the peeps at the drive thru when I was a teenager also, but we never considered it worthy of making a film.

can anyone explain why my reasoned post was deleted? I said nothing wrong, just saying it was juvenile and they were asked to leave for safety reasons

optimus prime. pearl necklace. every boy's dream.

@B: Also, McDonald's won't let you order from the drive-thru if you don't have a car. And simply making car noises won't fool them.

Neither will Taco Bell, even if only the drive through is open. I should mention that having 5 people making car noises, in appropriate seat-like positions, does not work either.

However, calling a taxi to simply take you through the drive through DOES work, and if you buy him some food, he wont charge you.

Yeah, way to make a bold stand against McDonald's -- by harrassing the poor slob who actually works there and has about as much to do with corporate policy as Mayor McCheese does. And ordering stuff that's not on the menu? Man, that never gets old -- until you turn 17, that is.

If I worked at a fast food restaurant, I know I'd love nothing more than to be hassled by a pair of priveleged douchebag assholes with a video camera who have never had to work a real job in their sheltered little lives.

Do you guys beat up homeless people on weekends?

Not funny, just stupid.

Doesn't this chick have better thing to do with her time? Like attending DragonCon or something?

Don't mess with the minimum-wage workers to make your point.

If you feel you need to use the helmet, go to the headquarters and meet with the execs who refuse to find a better ordering technology.

Henry

I had a friend in high school who ordered at a Wendy's drive-up using a megaphone. Ahh, good times!

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what a bunch of unfunny losers. asshats like that are why so many ff joints add "special" ingredients & gave up on service ages ago.