Friday, October 30, 2009

McPrank: 4 teens cited for Mc Donald’s rap

Four teens were cited for disorderly conduct after rapping their order over the intercom at a Mc Donald’s drive up. The teenagers were mocking a video they found on YouTube. Spenser Dauwalder the 18 year old and three friends 17 years old, were told that they were holding up the line. To give his order or leave, Spenser stated that there was nobody in line but them. Ultimately the boys left without buying anything. The manager of the Mc Donald’s wrote the vehicles’ tag number down and called the police. The employees did ask the teens several times to speak plainly. The American Fork Police officer Sgt. Gregg Ludlow found the teens at a high school parking lot outside of a volleyball match. The citation the boys received was no more than an infraction, a lot like a speeding ticket. This is given to people that does something to cause an annoyance or an alarm to others.
I was happy to hear that society is stepping up instead of stepping back on allowing teenagers to conduct themselves in public with manners. It is wonderful to see that some areas in the United States are not allowing this kind of disturbance and horrible behavior. I think they were given ample enough ability to do what was right by speaking in the manner that the person inside could understand what they were saying.
I do feel that the employee should in no manner of felt threatened unless one of the teens threatened them personally. As the article on http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33541983/ns/us_news-weird_news/ "The employee in question felt that her safety was at risk as a result of the alleged actions of these individuals in the drive-thru, not as a result of them rapping their order," franchisee Conny Kramer said in the statement. "As such, she contacted the local authorities.” I found to be interesting if this was true of they just wanted to make an example of the kids for others not to behave so.

But Sharon Dauwalder, Spenser's mother, said they will fight it nonetheless. "We have to," she told The Associated Press on Thursday. "The citation is there." This is the type of parents that allow this kind of behavior from kids. I will agree once the boy reached 18 years old your pretty done as to what you can get them to act like and what you can’t. But to condone the behavior goes to say, makes you wonder where the boy got the concept that acting as such is acceptable. Our society today constricts parents to do half the things they used to do to control their children. I was raised as the old saying goes, “This hurts me as much as it does you.” I was not abused I was disciplined, I was taught how to act in public when mom and dad was there and when they weren’t. I agree this is a small issue that was made into a big issue, but it is something that should have never been allowed to have happened and shouldn’t be condoned to be acceptable.

1 comment:

  1. I heard this story the other day and I thought it was pretty silly. I can't imagine feeling threatened by those kids. I could understand the McDonald's employee being a little annoyed if they were holding up the line, but definitely not threatened. I worked at Sonic in high school and we had people trying pranks like this all the time. We never felt threatened. We usually just laughed and told them to knock it off.

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