Even though the "Twinkie defense" didn't work for Dan White back in 1979, maybe the "Sausage McMuffin defense" will work for Mr. Richards in 2008.

Poor guy, somebody was having a real rough morning. 

Sounds like the sandwiches were wrapped a lot tigher than the customer was.

This man is food challenged. 

Every time I go Golfing I stop @ Mc Donald's on Mt Vernon     I order a #2 with a small O/J

But once I went to the MC on 24th   no potatoes and no straw    so I go back though the drive thru

Yes I felt like a strangle hold on them but I didn't want to miss my golf game

Ron

PS:   always take some Tums with you   It usually hits me on the 3rd hole

I think he was just having a bad day. The headline in the paper ("busted") makes it sound as if he was being stealth and got caught. The guy just got pissed off and used bad judgment.

I dunno..I had one of "those days" on Saturday.  Long day babysitting the 3 week old with an evening ahead babysitting the 17 month old and instead of stopping at Longs for eggs I went to the 99 cent store.  When I got to the store they were out of eggs so I had to drive over to Vons where I got the blasted eggs and some Propel and later discovered the Propel had expired.  (Family coming for breakfast Sunday morning)  Came home to find trash from the kitchen scattered all over the living room, and the dog looking down at the floor in shame.  Not shameful enough to suit me.

If I had gone to McDonalds at that moment and they screwed up my order, WWIII would look like a pea shooting match in comparison and that atty's crime would have been laughed at..

I can relate to the gentleman.

 I too have had days like that, but i wouldnt have pushed the cashier, i would have just taken my food and left. lol. but as far as i know the sausage mcmuffin has always had egg. there is also probably more to the story also.

CHUBBY, CHUBBY!!

BIG BONED! hahaha...

This is the most stupidest thing I have heard.  Usually when you go to a fast food resteraunt and they mess up your order they let you keep the messed up order along with the correct one.  It just goes in the trash unless this McDonalds planned to serve to someone else :)  As far as this man is concerned for pushing the clerk, maybe he forgot to take his bi-polar medicine.

McDonald's fast food

Slogans: McDonalds. I'm lovin' it. (i'm pretty sure Richards with never be saying this again...)
              What you want is what you get  (obviously not true..."I WANTED EGGG!"
              It's a good time for the great taste of McDonalds (unless your last name is Richards)
              Nothing can do it like McDonald's (can do what? cost a man $25 thousand dollars for four missing eggs that taste like s**t anyways....)
              You deserve a break today...at McDonald's (and then, you can take a seat in a BPD car and visit jail....)
              We love to see you smile (unless you don't know a sausage mcmuffin has no egg...)

"Hey man, what are you in here for?" "Oh me, well uh, I stole a few mcmuffins.." HAHAHAHA

I think this is crazy....drop all charges allow this man to move on with his life. I have issues with Mc Donald's. The employee's at the Mc D's near me are complete idiots. I have wanted to come across the counter on a couple of managers before. They can never get you order correct. If you say no cheese then every burger in the bag won't have cheese.....they just make me sick. OK I'm back. Bad days are terrible. If I am having a bad day I am a lunatic so I feel for the mo- fo that forgets my egg.

Everyone has bad days. Gas cost 5.00 bucks a gallon there is going to be many more assaults .........just hopefully they are not at Mc D's.

Maybe he should have ate his Wheaties instead

What is it about City and County government attorneys in this town? Is there some credential you need on the resume or application to certify jerk status before you get hired in this town for one of these jobs? The husband and wife legal team who had the meltdown in Santa Barbara has that case still on the docket, and now we read about shyster egg-roid rage on Niles Street. Anyone shopping for good eats at 6AM on a Sunday morning, and decides on a Mickey D to satisfy his jones after cruising Niles Street has some major disorders in my book.

timec, you will be singing a different tune when your kids grow up and get jobs at McDonald's and some rich white guy comes in and assaults them over a messed up order.... I can almost hear you hollering at my house right now!

I've been waiting for this blog since the News Alert came in my email! C'mon guys, yes, we've all been there, where we want to take our frustration out on the minimum wage employee at a fast food restaurant, but the point is, Richards went wacko - he jumped over the counter and pushed an employee. HE WAS IN AN EGG RAGE!

Anyone ever see Falling Down?

He should be prosecuted like any other robber. He stole from McDonalds in a threatening way. Nothing unusual for those who feel they have a special right to lord it over the little people. 

If I think about it, I guess I can understand his frustration. Some mornings I want to hide in the bushes and when my TBC delivery person throws my newspaper in the sprinklers, I want to jump out and beat him with a 7 iron....

Fortunately, OldBlue56, you are a former servant of the people and would never follow through on such an idiotic scheme. 

I can never figure out why people eat at corporate fast food joints. The workers are forced to become factory styled robots doing assembly line routines all day long. The pay these people get is terrible. The only thing the customers seem capable of leaving after dining or driving through these establishments is a heap of garbage for staff and city workers to pick up. If starch and corn syrup are on your must-have-diabetes-wish-list these places are tailor made for you. If you refuse to pay for any service why would you expect to receive any?

 **He should be prosecuted like any other robber. He stole from McDonalds in a threatening way. Nothing unusual for those who feel they have a special right to lord it over the little people. **

Gaslight... He DID pay for them.. he went through drive through paid for his food, checked it, it was wrong, and then even paid the difference to have his egg put on it. so he didnt STEAL them he Paid and took what was his.

 OB, dont beat anyone with that thing... if he/she is on a bike, just throw a stick through their rim of their tire.. it would be hilarious...

Maybe they forgot to ask if he wanted fries with that or maybe they asked one to many times. 

 Wayfarer-- Hashbrowns. lol.... it was morning time.

Tiff, delivering newspapers on a bike went out WAY before you were born! :)

Crazy people come in all colors--and job descriptions.

Maybe that was the real issue Tiff.  Like Nancy II pointed out the movie "Falling Down."  Which is a good one to watch if you have never seen it.  My favorite scene is when he explains the "concept" to the failed drive by shooter. 

I blame televangelists.

While his behavior was unwarranted,  I can understand his frustration with this particular  store, especially the morning shift.  I have quit going to McDonald's for political reasons however, this store. I quit going to long ago.  They can never get your order right, and they are not able to fill orders as you want them as other McDonalds do.  At least that has been my experience with the workers there, unless I talk to the manager. It seems the workers don't know what comes with what special.  I have got the feeling from some workers there that they don't want to be bothered with special orders either.  This McDonalds has got to be the worst one in Bakersfield in my opinion.

I blame Liberal's  and Illegals and Random

I'm sadden by your remarks allRed, it was probably a Liberal,  Liberal Illegal or Random that was working his shift when the customer went 'postal'

There is a Sausage McMuffin and a Sausage McMuffin with egg.  If he ordered the Sausage McMuffin, the mistake was his.  Tough morning or not, it was not the fault of the Mc Donald's cashier.

dg thats why I always say a # 2 with a small oj

I'm on in the evenings, montfred.  I get to use the WiFi on my dinner break.

OB

I would be the one on the news if he would have pushed one of my babies. He would have an egg but it would not be in his bag....... I have a saying that I stick by. Don't mess with my money or my kids.......

After reading everyone's comments it is hard for me to stop laughing.  I'm biased against the attorney because I worked at McDs when I was a teenager.  The punishment should fit the crime.  The attorney should be forced to work at McD for a year, so he'll know what it is like working at a fast food restaurant.  His salary from McDs should go to a college fund for the clerk that he asaulted, so she'll never have to work at McDs again.

So. he cracked, scrambled to the counter which he went over easy,laid his hands on another just to get his eggs? 

ROFL Anglo...good one !

The guy sounds pretty athletic for an attorney ...at least to me.  :-)

Tiffanilynn, He stole an extra bag worth $6.44. "So he had got everything he wanted. He paid for it. But still felt some need to take a bag he didn't pay for."

That sure is an expensive $6.44. 

See article: http://www.bakersfield.com/...

McDonald's has that effect on me too.  That's why I don't eat there. 

This guy should  use the "sausage" defence.  His ability to make rational decisions was diminished by grease clogging the artery to his brain.

Then he shoud sue McDonald's for causing the condition.

I'm lost.  I went back and read the article again.....the guy paid for the first order at the drive through, went in and gave the bag back and paid the difference between the "special price with no egg" and the one with egg, both bags were put on the shelf, he jumped the counter and grabbed his bag.  Where did the $6.44 come in?   What did I miss?  Or am I still asleep?

(edited)  Hmm...wouldn't anyone ordering an Egg McMuffin have a reasonable expectation of paying for, and getting, an egg with their muffin?  What kind of "special price" would they have on an Egg McMuffin that had no egg?  Maybe since McD's went to being a "Coffee House" with Lattes and Frappes (McCafe) They're working on keeping your cholesterol down by not putting eggs on Egg McMuffins.  This warrants further investigation.  We need a special undercover team on this right away.

Ahhhh...I didn't pick up on the "Sausage McMuffin" part.  However, that doesn't explain the part about him paying twice and being accused of stealing the alleged muffins.  We're getting closer to solving this crime now.

If anything, the guy should be accused of battery for shoving the worker.

Off subject.   Always check your bag before driving away from the window at Taco Bell.  They'll short you a taco or two EVERY time.

They once shorted my husband his entire $7.00 order.

A buck here a buck there, it all adds up.

The employees should have held him down and if he moved gave him a Whopper.  Sorry.  I'll leave.

Nancy,

He paid for one bag of Sausage McMuffins, but he took two bags. The second bag was worth $6.44.

This thread cracks me up in how people wronged at McDonald's feel that corporate giant is at fault.