free scorpion with every egg McMuffin
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CHANDLER, AZ -- A teacher got an unwanted side dish with his McDonald's breakfast on Friday morning.
Inside the bag with his Egg McMuffin, he said he found a scorpion.
"I went to get a napkin and I saw the scorpion just sitting on the side," said teacher Jeff Tallman.
It wasn't just any scorpion -- it was a baby scorpion, which is even more venomous than it's adult counterpart.
"We wanted to stay away from it. So, I stapled the bag up -- saved it as evidence I guess," said Mackenzie Handel, one of Tallman's students.
Handel said he went to pick up the Egg McMuffins for himself and the teacher from the McDonald's at Arizona Avenue and Ray Road.
"Oh, it freaked me out! I was like scared, 'cause I don't like those things," said Handel.
Tallman said he was a little scared too, but the fact that the scorpion showed up in his class was somewhat fitting. Tallman is the science teacher at Chandler High School.
A manager at the McDonald's store in question said he's never seen a scorpion at his restaurant and points out the bug may have hitched a ride in Handel's car.
But the manager also said he's willing to pay for the cost of the Egg McMuffins, or replace them.
Inside the bag with his Egg McMuffin, he said he found a scorpion.
"I went to get a napkin and I saw the scorpion just sitting on the side," said teacher Jeff Tallman.
It wasn't just any scorpion -- it was a baby scorpion, which is even more venomous than it's adult counterpart.
"We wanted to stay away from it. So, I stapled the bag up -- saved it as evidence I guess," said Mackenzie Handel, one of Tallman's students.
Handel said he went to pick up the Egg McMuffins for himself and the teacher from the McDonald's at Arizona Avenue and Ray Road.
"Oh, it freaked me out! I was like scared, 'cause I don't like those things," said Handel.
Tallman said he was a little scared too, but the fact that the scorpion showed up in his class was somewhat fitting. Tallman is the science teacher at Chandler High School.
A manager at the McDonald's store in question said he's never seen a scorpion at his restaurant and points out the bug may have hitched a ride in Handel's car.
But the manager also said he's willing to pay for the cost of the Egg McMuffins, or replace them.
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danger boy wrote: »
But the manager also said he's willing to pay for the cost of the Egg McMuffins, or replace them.
Nice to see that he's willing to pony up that $.50 :rolleyes:
On the other side, my daughter says that scorpions taste like burnt popcorn"The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage." Thucydides -
Disc Jockey wrote: »Nice to see that he's willing to pony up that $.50 :rolleyes:
On the other side, my daughter says that scorpions taste like burnt popcorn
probably not live baby ones though..
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Good one Al. I have Unbreakable-One Night in Vienna on DVD. So many kick **** albums it would be difficult to pick a fave. George Grand was kind enough to give me Blackout and Love At First Sting as freebies on my last vinyl order. Thanks GG!
Well I would say those to albums are by far the Scorpions best, so George served you well.
As for the McD's scorpion, those bags are flat until they open them up to put in the food, so I would have to say the manager is probably correct that the scorpion hitched a ride from somewhere outside the restaurant. -
Scorpions did some rockin' ballads. I like The Scorpions.
I had front row center center stage tickets for the Scorpions concert with Ted Nugent and Blackfoot back in 79 at the Met center in Bloomington, MN. They rocked :cool: -
What about animal magnetism? that album kicks **** as well.Polk Audio SDA 2.3tl Fully Hot Rodded. 😎
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Disc Jockey wrote: »Nice to see that he's willing to pony up that $.50 :rolleyes:
On the other side, my daughter says that scorpions taste like burnt popcorn
i see it's been awhile since you bought a egg mcmuffin:Dmore like $2.00:p -
The McScorpion muffins are pretty good, but they don't compare to the uncooked Chicken McNugget sampler or bb-gun pellet stuffed McRib sandwich.
Now that's some eatin'! -
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Yum, do the heads taste as good as the feet?
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That's a great story, indeed, but why that person thought that she deserved $100,000 in compensation, instead of two weeks of free meals, demonstrates what is not quite right with the moral values of some people IMO. Yes, the company made a big mistake, and Quality Control obviously missed that, but who never makes mistakes, and was there any real danger, from a medical point of view?My favorite: ...
This may be why we get the impression that we pay far too much for some things. The insurance costs against the possibility of frivolous claims are not free. I wouldn't have been happy if it had happened to me, but I wouldn't go as far as to suggest I had suffered such a trauma that I needed $100K to pay for conselling, or something.Alea jacta est! -
hearingimpared wrote: »Yum, do the heads taste as good as the feet?
Heads are MUCH better than feet because the brain & eyeballs are much juicier...TNRabbit
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Ah...the everchanging internet stories.
According to Snopes it was not a McNugget Happy Meal...but an order of chicken wings.Chicken Head Update:
From the "You Deserve a Beak Today" category, McNoggins!
On 28 November 2000, a breaded deep-fried chicken head was found in a box of chicken wings purchased at a McDonald's in Newport News, Virginia. Katherine Ortega says she discovered the McNoggin while divvying up the wings at home for her family of four. (Fried chicken wings were being test-marketed in that area.)
On 30 November 2000, the Ortegas announced they had hired a lawyer and were contemplating a lawsuit against McDonald's. Legal experts don't think the family would win an award much higher than a couple of thousand dollars because no one ate the piece or was physically harmed by it. (Even in our litigious society, harm has to be demonstrated, and it's not enough just to claim "I was grossed out by this" to gain the big bucks. A small award to compensate for the shock of the discovery might not be out of order, though.)
Katherine Ortega has posed for a number of photos of her holding the chicken head, which may work against her if she tries to seek compensatory damages for psychological harm arising out of the incident. A jury will have a difficult time believing she is now nauseated by chicken or has difficulty sleeping after being presented with photographic evidence of her repeatedly and voluntarily handling the offensive item.
Those who have taken the photographs note the fried batter on the item looks to be the same as on the chicken wings. The McNoggin, however, has yet to be examined by experts. John E. Smith, owner of the McDonald's in question and two others, states "My ability to conduct a thorough investigation has been delayed because I have not been given an opportunity to examine the object in question. Although I have made several requests to see this object, the customer refuses to give me that opportunity."
An enforcement officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who is looking into the case is at a loss to explain how the head ended up in Ortega's order of wings. The first thing that happens in the processing of live chickens into poultry parts is their beheading, with the heads immediately being discarded. The carcasses then go on to the next stage (which is being dropped into the boiling water to de-feather them). Though the process is mostly mechanized, a plant operator helps with evisceration (the removal of the bird's internal organs) and an on-site USDA inspector is supposed to check each and every chicken. How both could have missed a chicken head going through is a mystery.
At this point, not enough is known to determine if anyone is trying to hoax anyone else, if a poultry plant worker or McDonald's employee thought he'd have himself an innocent bit of fun, or if something went severely wrong with the food processing procedures at the plant and thus a McNoggining could happen again. Further information will be provided as soon as it is available.
Eveidenty nothing ever happened regarding the fried chicken head. The last info I could find about it was in 2007"Just because youre offended doesnt mean youre right." - Ricky Gervais
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The guy is a science teacher. If he starts wanting some chunk of change I am going to be pretty skeptical.
I will say one time a got what was bascially a piece of fried chicken fat/skin at Popeye's in their chicken finger meal. That was a few years ago, I ate there maybe twice a month. I have never been back, and I will never go back. -
That's a great story, indeed, but why that person thought that she deserved $100,000 in compensation, instead of two weeks of free meals, demonstrates what is not quite right with the moral values of some people IMO. Yes, the company made a big mistake, and Quality Control obviously missed that, but who never makes mistakes, and was there any real danger, from a medical point of view?
This may be why we get the impression that we pay far too much for some things. The insurance costs against the possibility of frivolous claims are not free. I wouldn't have been happy if it had happened to me, but I wouldn't go as far as to suggest I had suffered such a trauma that I needed $100K to pay for conselling, or something.
I will use this picture to traumatize my children next time they want to go to McDonalds...
