When I heard about the woman who punched through a McDonald’s drive-thru window because she couldn’t get McNuggets, it was the third or fourth time I’d heard about someone freaking out over those chunks of fake meat. And I wondered, damn, what the hell is in chicken nuggets?

Yesterday, Slate ran a piece titled McRage about crime in fast food places. McDonald’s released the following statement in response to the beating of a transgendered woman in a McDonald’s near Baltimore (sorry Jayati) last week: “There’s no room for violence under the Golden Arches.”

People get upset at McDonald’s. But I don’t hear about people flipping out over the Filet-O-Fish or the apple pie – it’s always about the McNuggets.

Twenty years from now, Melodi Dushane will still be the Ohio woman known for punching through a McDonald’s drive-thru window after hearing that they don’t serve McNuggets in the morning.

Latreasa L. Goodman called 911 three times to report that her local McDonald’s had run out of McNuggets. She paid for a 10-piece and was then told that she had to order something else because the restaurant was out of nuggets. She was cited for misuse of 911. Listen to the police tapes here. MSNBC reports she told police:

“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.”

A 19-year old man in Wisconsin was so upset that his local McDonald’s didn’t carry a 50-piece McNuggets that he refused to leave the restaurant. He was arrested for disorderly conduct. The article received one comment: “he could of just ordered two 20 piece chicken nuggets..”

A 70-person fight erupted in a San Francisco McDonald’s near the stadium after Game 1 of the World Series between the Giants and the Rangers. There’s nothing funny about the vicious punching and kicking in this brawl, which started when a woman started arguing about her McNuggets order and another woman told her not to talk like that in front of her daughter. In fact, it’s downright scary. But check out 1:13 when a couple shares a passionate kiss in the midst of the violence and 1:41 when a guy says “Hey I have to get my food” in a Southern accent.



In Pennsylvania, a 46-year old man reported that someone stole 50 boxes of McNuggets from his vehicle, and “The nuggets seemed to be the only thing taken.” Why anyone would have 50 boxes of McNuggets in their car? Was it 4-pieces or 10-pieces? And was the perp a friend of the victim who got hungry? Or did someone trail him from the McDonald’s?

A young man in Missouri pulled a gun on a McDonald’s drive-thru worker after he was told it was too late to get food. He said that his 6-month-pregnant wife was going to kill him if he came home empty-handed. Blaming the woman — how typical. He probably doesn’t even have a wife and just wanted chicken nuggets.