Not Long Before the End

The final collapse of Western civilization may be near. There are signs and portents, for those who know how to interpret the omens.

Take, for example, the case of Latreasa Goodman. This is a woman in Florida who went to McDonalds and ordered the 10-piece Chicken McNuggets with fries and a drink. After paying for the items she was informed that they were out of McNuggets. The manager refused to give her a refund, instead offering any other item off the menu. Our gal Latreasa did not want any other item, she wanted her McNuggets, or she wanted her money back.

Faced with this impasse, she had at least three choices on how to handle the situation:
A) Take her fries and drink, losing her $3.49, and drive off, never go back to that McDonalds.
B) Choose another item to go with her fries and drink, drive off, and never go back to that McDonalds.
C) Call 911.

Ms. Goodman picked option C. Three times. The first time she called, the 911 operator actually agreed to dispatch a police officer to the scene, but the police apparently did not show up fast enough to suit Ms. Goodman. Hence calls two and three.

When the police finally showed up, they cited Ms. Goodman for abuse of the 911 emergency system. Her riposte is classic: "This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one. This is an emergency."

I love the way she repeated that it was an emergency, just in case they didn’t understand the first time she said it.

The astonishing thing to me is the sense of entitlement possessed by this woman. The cops spent more money in gas driving out to where she was than the value of the dispute, but she obviously didn’t care about anything else other than getting what she wanted.

One lone nut job does not a trend make, I know, but to me this woman epitomizes the trend toward total reliance upon government for the solutions to all problems. God forbid she solve the problem peacefully on her own.

You can listen to recordings of the 911 calls, and see a previous mug shot of Ms. Goodman here.