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McDonald's Cashier Punches Woman Over Botched Happy Meal
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Nell Casey
Published Jan 22, 2014
Modified Jan 22, 2014
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Published Jan 22, 2014
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Just days after receiving some positive press for a change, McDonald's returns to the headlines with allegations of assault at one of their Brooklyn locations. The Post tells the harrowing tale of a mother who was allegedly punched in the face by a cashier at the fast food joint after demanding cheese for her son's Happy Meal hamburger. This is what you get for being a good parent these days.
After receiving the wrong meal, Giu Ying Shi complained to cashier Marisol Acosta, at which point Acosta "starts cursing at her, calls her stupid, [and] said, 'You need to learn to speak English,'" according to Shi's lawyer Lawrence Glynn. Acosta then allegedly threw a punch at Shi's face. "Knockout! Knocks out a tooth," Glynn stated in the Brooklyn Supreme Court Trial. Defense attorney Michael Stonberg claims the act was more of a "lunge or a slap" though it "goes without saying that Marisol Acosta was not authorized to get into an altercation with a customer."
The franchise owners immediately fired Acosta, but Shi is suing the franchise anyway, claiming that they're liable for the incident since none of the managers intervened to prevent the attack. So it goes. Sadly, our McDonald's have a history of violence, including a cashier beating a customer with a metal rod and the infamously rowdy West Village outpost. Perhaps it's something in the food?
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