McDonald’s Customer $1 Felony Costs Jail Time, Florida
If you see the words $1 felony and McDonald’s in the headline, you can take good odds that it happened in Florida. Today’s weird crime occurred at a Florida McDonald’s where 52-year-old Mark Abaire, from Naples, Florida, was caught walking out of of an East Naples McDonald’s without paying for a drink.
Oh, the humanity.
Didn’t Trayvon Martin get shot to death not far from there and his shooter wasn’t even arrested until a month later. In Florida, if you want justice you better be Mayor McCheese or the Hamburglar, apparently, because black in a hoodie isn’t going to get you much sympathy.
The story goes on! Abaire allegedly filled a courtesy cup with soda on Thursday, at which point a watchful crew saw him committing the high crime. He dared try to use a cup meant for water and sneak half a can of soda in it. Reports say he didn’t even use ice, so he really had a full courtesy cup.
The manager who called the cops on Abaire told deputies, who instantly responded (or more likely were already there), that around 10 p.m. the felon entered the restaurant and asked for a glass of water. The employee told Abaire the small courtesy cup was for water only, but Abaire still filled it with a delicious soda concoction from the fountain. He then sat outside the restaurant and enjoyed his drink.
The manager went outside and demanded Abaire at least pay for the soda, which was valued at $1. Upset, Abaire allegedly cursed and decided he didn’t want to leave his soda behind and wanted to just sit outside with his drink. Instead of just giving the disgruntled man a slap on the wrist, for some reason his charges were upgraded to a felony. For his little drink incident, Abaire now faces up to 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
To recap, don’t try to sneak extra soda from McDonald’s. Sure, it is fine for them to screw up your order, give you flat and crappy soda in the drive-thru and generally waste your time, but just don’t try to do the opposite. You’ll end up a felon, apparently.
Also, Abaire’s bond is set at $6,500. George Zimmerman was released on $120,000 bond. So in Florida, sneaking a drink of McDonald’s soda will get you arrested 1 month faster than killing a black teenager in a hoodie.
In Florida, the value of a black teen in a hoodie’s life is approximately 18.4% more valuable than a soda sneaked into a courtesy cup ($120,000/$6500). Keep that in mind next time you and the kids are deciding on Disney California or Disney Florida.
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2:16 pm
He does not look so threatening.
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2:12 am
Well it is you after all.
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9:56 pm
maybe we should put you with him in same room and a locked door without food or drink
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5:43 pm
The manager should just make a sacrifice and let the man go. It isn’t worth it trying to sue someone just because they took a soda. Instead of suing the guy and losing money from court fees (a 25 thousand dollar value), they should just forget about it and lose a few cents from material and ingredient cost.
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6:43 pm
They aren’t suing him, he’s being arrested by the state. Apparently they have a 3 strike system down in Florida and since the theft counted as a strike, he went to jail for something incredibly stupid. McDonalds isn’t footing the bill, the state is.
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8:01 pm
Welcome to ‘Merica.
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9:54 am
Welcome to Florida,not every state has the same Laws we are called the United States for a reason. up until the time the US started states were their own individual countries and in away they still are the only difference really is since we are All under the same federal government we don’t need passports to go to different states. Not only that you’ll find many of the states have their own different cultures if you travel enough.
It’s why states with enough approval can vote to stop being part of the Us territory. You can actually blame a lot more problems on state and city governments than the actual federal government system. Not that the federal government is perfect either.
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10:05 pm
actually most law won’t affect states if the said states decide to change the law like gay amrriage or abortion
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10:58 pm
“In Florida, the value of a black teen in a hoodie’s life is approximately 18.4% more valuable than a soda sneaked into a courtesy cup ($120,000/$6500).”
You need a lesson in statistics. It’s 1,846% more valuable, if you are measuring by bail bond price (which is stupid in its own right).
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