Kelli Horton (right) is the coolest mom ever! First, she took her kids for a car ride, then to McDonald’s for lunch, and then she let them play in the play area for as long as they wanted! Dude, that must have been the best day ever! Mom, can we get ice cream too? Mom…?

A St. Charles County woman was arrested at a McDonald’s on Highway 94 Tuesday after leaving her children in a play area while she took heroin in the bathroom, police say.

Lt. Craig McGuire of the St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department said Horton took her children, 4 and 2, with her to buy heroin in St. Louis, then drove to the McDonald’s at 5950 Highway 94.

Police said Horton left her children in a play area while she ingested two capsules of heroin in the bathroom.

Well at least she stopped at McDonald’s first. With all the horrible locations in the greater St. Louis area, she really could have picked a lot worse. Like Burger King, or Taco Bell. Their playgrounds are the worst, and their bathrooms are already all filled with crack heads so there’s never any drug stalls available. Sure the handicap stall might be available, but even though you really want to use it because of all the space, you just can’t. Can you imagine being in there doing heroin, and then you look under the door and see a set of wheels rolling up? You’d just feel horrible! That’s the only place they can comfortably do drugs in there and you’re squatting in it. Come on! You’re not even using the handrails! You can do your heroin in another stall, and when you’re both done, you can easily rob her for anything she has left. It’ll be easy since she’s in a wheelchair and that stall has plenty of room to flip her over.

via STLToday

Alesha McMullen has been charged with Class D felony property damage after freaking out in a Kansas City McDonalds after she was displeased with the service and food she had received.

McMullen threw numerous objects over the counter at employees, knocked over both registers and completely disregarded those “Wet Floor” signs.  All the damage came to about $3,000 in total.

Oh, and because I love  you…there’s video!

No word yet as to why a related video to this on YouTube concerns Fresh Prince star Alfonso Ribeiro.

Last Thursday we ran a story (with accompanying video) about a guy that refused to pull forward at the drive through and wait for his grub and thus demanded a refund.  Things didn’t go well after that:

After waiting ten minutes I knocked on the drive-thru window and asked for the food or money back. No response. I pulled out of drive-thru, parked my car and entered McDonalds. I patiently waited at the front counter. After 2 minutes the manager addressed me, saying they would not serve the food or provide a refund and to talk to the police outside.

Well the man himself dropped by the site yesterday to deliver a follow up!

From our comments section:

After the complaint to McD’s and the video on youtube I got a call from McD’s PR that she wanted to meet with us (myself and passenger) to discuss what happened and how McD’s will resolve it. Day of meeting the owner of that McDonalds in St. Charles calls and says she told PR to cancel the meeting and she was sorry what happened to us. She said she showed the video to every employee at that McDonalds and had a meeting with them about what they did wrong, that it was not their policy to call police and that they can pass food out the back window if there is a problem. She then said she was going to mail us some gifts. Few days later we got a $25 Visa card and a few of the beanie babies McDonald’s was giving out awhile ago in Happy Meals.

While I appreciate the apology, we really liked the idea of sitting down and talking with someone from McDonald’s about their policies and what could have been done differently. Instead it feels like they just tried to buy us off with $25 and beanie babies.

Thanks for new info but your McBribe brings up a tangential issue:  Why the hell is/was McDonald’s giving out Beanie Babies?!  What’s next Pogs?  Maybe Tickle Me Elmos?

Beanie Babies make one craptastic Happy Meal prize and an even worse bribe.  Give this guy something legit or at least sit down with the man McDonald’s!

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File this under weird.  We were recently sent a link to an experience with one local guy and a local McDonalds.  [Editor's Note: Thanks to our tipster!  You know who you are...]

I would try to explain this, but its best I don’t.  I’ll let the email he sent to McDonalds do the explaining:

I went through drive-thru and ordered one double-quarter pounder meal. When I got to the drive thru window I was asked to move forward. Having problems with McDonald’s in the past taking a long time to make food if I pulled forward I told them no, I did not want to move forward, I will wait here for my hamburger and fries. They continued to knock on my window for about a minute until a manager, Marie, walked out of the McDonald’s, approached the car and knocked on my window. I told her I would like to just wait for my food here and to please go make it so I could leave. She knocked several more times before she went inside. Another McDonald’s employee came outside and directed cars in drive-thru to leave McDonald’s and exit the parking lot. After waiting several minutes I rolled down my window and asked if the food was done. My reply was the middle finger from one of the employees and comments of “he must be crazy”. They then locked the drive-thru window. After waiting ten minutes I knocked on the drive-thru window and asked for the food or money back. No response. I pulled out of drive-thru, parked my car and entered McDonalds. I patiently waited at the front counter. After 2 minutes the manager addressed me, saying they would not serve the food or provide a refund and to talk to the police outside. I went outside and spoke with the police and told them what I have written here. The manager came out too. The police told the manager to go get my food. The manager did so and the police said I could leave.

We will admit that we aren’t a fan of the “pull forward so we can take forever with your meal” play many fast food joints employ, but we can also say that we never thought to just sit there…and then try to return our food.

We want to give out a hardy “Good for you!  Stick it to the man!” but frankly you both sides are crazy in this battle.  [Editor's Note: That's a common theme these days in St. Louis.]

Oh wait!  There’s video!

Gary Hemminghaus, 40 a year old who suffers from Down syndrom, has worked at a Hazelwood McDonalds for 20 years.  20 years.  A McDonald’s.  20 years.  Yeah, Down syndrom, but still.  2o years!

From the Post Dispatch:

“Gary makes work fun,” said his boss, Sadie Travis. “He gets along with everyone, and his attitude really picks you up.”

Hemminghaus has Down syndrome, and when he was hired, his job trainer told him he would be a productive worker if he could prepare just one sandwich. Instead he learned how to make all the lunch items.

“We need more people like Gary,” [co-worker Dushaun Chisolm] said. “He’s upbeat, and he says hi to everyone.”

So the guy has Downs, but yet has not only hung in there for 20 years [Editor's Note: 20 years!], but has also been a successful employee.  What do you get a guy like that?  Big ass bonus?  Nope.  Promotion of some kind?  Nope.

Try a ride to work and some cake and ice cream.

Dude  works at a McDonald’s for 20 years and gets the same thing he gets every year on his birthday.

Gary Hemminghaus usually gets a ride to his job at McDonald’s in his stepdad’s pickup truck, but on Monday, he’ll be taking a limousine.

Hemminghaus, 40, will be celebrating his 20-year anniversary at the Hazelwood store at 7300 North Lindbergh Boulevard, and he’ll be the guest of honor at a cake and ice cream party that will be topped off with Hemminghaus autographing photos of himself in his work uniform.

Ok, not the limo, but don’t give McDonald’s credit for that one, his family paid for the limo rental.

McDonalds did say that Gary could get anything off the dollar menu for “just 4 of those big silvery coins!”…plus tax.