On the news tonight there was a report that in Morris Ill. a man went to a McDonalds and purchased 3 Happy Meals for his 3 kids.
He took them to a park met his wife and they proceded to have a nice picnic.
His 8 yr. old daughter opened hers and said to the mom I have a lighter in mine. The mom said a lighter?
She then brought the Happy Meal to her mom and dad and in it were also a pipe and a bag of marijuana.
Apparently a 17 yr. old boy put his pot in a Happy Meal box for later use.
Mc Donalds fired him immdiately! Ya think!
Now the parents are thinking of suing. I am sure trama to the daughter and we are a suing Nation.
My thought here if you were an adult ordering a Happy Meal ( which why would an adult buy for themself) would you keep the pot and say finders keepers?

Well, I have never tried marijuana even one time, so I think I would just flush it down the john and forget about it. I wouldn't sue; that seem silly to me. I might have a quiet talk with the manager, or with the young employee, if I knew who it was.

I've never smoked, not even cigarettes, so I'd have no use for it. I'm sure I could find a friend who would be willing to give it a good home though.

Given the level of damages quite often given to people who sue in the USA, the fact that this man had three children, and no doubt a lot of costs that go with them, and given the chance that life is often cruel anyway so there are no guarantee's you'll be around for long then yes, if I were him, I would sue McDonalds, take the money and put my kids through school with it.

On the other hand, some one ought to take him aside and explain to him why fat and greasy filth is not an appropriate food to be giving to his children... They should be eating vegetables and fruit and healthy stuff like that.

I don't think this case will ever see the inside of a courtroom, or even an out-of-court settlement. The child identified the lighter, but apparently had no idea about the pot or pipe. Traumatized by a lighter? Come on. I doubt there would have been trauma had the child known what the other stuff was.

But then, I suppose if you get a good lawyer . . .

And after the finger in the chili incident, maybe the parents planted the pot. That possibility should be examined.

No no no no, I don't smuk it no more . . . but it would have been tempting. Pipe, bag, lighter? Sheesh. Then I'd be running around with an illegal grin. But I'm back to freelancing, and nobody cares as long as the work's done correctly.

That could develop into a problem. I might want to bang on my drum all day instead of working. Well, play guitar in my case. Yeah man, lots of Deadhead stuff, crank it! pfffffffftttt

Heh. Glad it didn't happen to me

PS, Lydia likes a kid's meal now and then when the low grease light comes on.

I know... man, I'm going to every McDonalds I can find on my lunch hour. How many Happy Meals do y'all think I can eat??
It's funny, well not funny, but rather sad that this family is discussing suing a McDonald's that reasonably had no intention of that kid putting pot into the Happy Meal.

I guess if you smoke pot, McDonald's is a GREAT place to work!!!!

Thats hilarious! Although I've never worked in McDonalds I've had friends that have worked there and if they werent smoking pot when they started they were when they left. Most of the staff are complete stoners at my local "restaurant" (I use that term as loosely as possible) and after hearing most of the stuff that goes on in at least this particluar McDonalds kitchen I generally try not to eat there.

If I found a bag of pot in my happy meal (unless I had kids with me like in this case) I probably wouldn't even report it, I would just laugh and flush it.

I would probably take the Happy Meal back and simply explain to the manager that my child wanted the Shrek doll in his Happy Meal and not this. Then I'd take my McRefund, go home and let him deal with it. I wouldn't just flush it and let it go... I think I'd have a responsibility to bring it up with the manager. I wouldn't sue, though.

Bad luck for the teen- about 60% of America would have yelled "score one happy meal for the parents"- finally- a reason to go to Mickey Ds!

And AM- you know what a Deadhead says when he is NOT stoned "Oh man, what is this- this music SUCKS"

Nice to know that McDonalds have kept their sense of humour... Campaign to remove "McJob" from the dictionary

Apparently, the usage "McJob" to mean a low-skilled, low-paid job with few or no prospects for advancement is a gross misrepresetation of the fantastically interesting array of fascinating, well-rewarding and sky's-the-limit careers on offer in the restaurants of the world's best-known fast food chain. (The ones that have nothing to do with the minimum-wage pushing of a dirty mop across lightly greased floors and business and managerial processes so defined and controlled that no intellectual effort or cretive talent need be applied, anyway).

On the debate topic, it would depend how big the bag was. If it would be worth more than the cost of the burger, finders keepers it is.

Oh, and the maggot principle also applies. If I only discovered it halfway through eating it, I'd be a mite more miffed. At least, I would be once I pranged the car on the way back form the drive in and got booked for DUI. That's the sort of situation where McD's, or any other big business, would likely settle out of court to avoid publicity for the sort of figure that would allow me to ride in a chauffer-driven limousine for two years after I'd got my licence back.