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Police Taser Woman Refusing To Leave McDonald's Drive-Thru
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Christopher Robbins
Published Feb 5, 2012
Modified Feb 5, 2012
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Police used a Taser on a woman who cut in front of the drive-through line at a North Carolina McDonald's, and authorities took her 3-year-old daughter into custody. After a "lengthy conversation with the customer" asked her to move and wait in line, the McDonald's employees called police, who warned her for 20 minutes that she should move her Ford Pickup truck before moving in and shocking her. "[The police] started trying to forcibly drag her out of the car, and that's when you could hear the clicking sound of the Taser one time," a customer told the Fay Observer. "Then they Tased her again, and when they Tased her the second time, she just flopped out of the car like a fish.
According to an employee, 37-year-old Evangeline Lucca often cut the drive-through line and bypassed the ordering menu and the payment window, preferring to order and pay for her food at the pick-up window. "She did not want to wait in line," a spokesman for the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office said. "They told her she had to go around and wait like everybody else did…She wasn't having any of that."
Lucca has been charged with second-degree trespassing, and her daughter has been remanded into the custody of the state. "Everything is proceeding just as the prophets said it would," Famine Johnson, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse tells us. "Most people try to point to the bigger problems like a world financial meltdown, or nuclear disaster, but it's the little things that really exacerbate the deep fissures of the human existence," Johnson said as he piloted a giant moaning goat head down the river Styx. "As soon as Madonna hits the stage tonight, mankind will know true horror." Johnson added, "Go Patriots."
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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