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Thursday, May 17, 2007

NOT AGAIN!


After the McDonald's condom fiasco (see May 10 blog below), another Happy Meal has been laced with something more than cookies.

It seems an Ottawa, Ill., 8-year-old found a lighter, a pipe and a bag of marijuana in her Happy Meal yesterday. After wondering what the heck these new toys were, she promptly turned over the stash to her parents Keith and Andrea Ireland.


Police said the drugs and paraphernalia were placed in one of the Happy Meal boxes for safe-keeping by McDonald's employee Brandon Scott, 17, for later, when he got a chance to get happy too.


I guess it's insignificant to say, "What was this kid ... high?"

In any case, once the Happy Meal McBig Deal was straightened out, Scott was fired and McDonald's apologized. The Irelands plan to sue anyway.

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Thursday, May 10, 2007

SUPER SIZE?

Someone was ecstatic, but it wasn't the grandma who found a condom and its package in her granddaughter's Happy Meal.


A representative for the Wellington, New Zealand, McDonald's where the condom was discovered, said the fast-food restaurant ran out of the usual children's gifts and prepackaged sports bags were substituted in the Happy Meals instead.

How the condom got into the only open sports bag that was used for display purposes or how that sports bag got into the meal was the mystery of the day. Click here to read all about it.

In any case, it leaves one wondering what McDonald's workers do there besides get the french fries hot.

If you think that was gross, check out the bionic burger.

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