Fill Your Water Cup with Soda? Could Be a Felony …
Let this be a lesson to you kids …
After filling a courtesy cup with soda Thursday at the McDonald’s soda fountain and then leaving the restaurant, Mark A. was arrested by Collier deputies and now faces a felony theft charge, a sheriff’s report shows.
While his charge is petty theft, because of previous petty theft convictions, the charge for drinking the unpaid-for soda was increased from a misdemeanor to a felony, the arrest report shows. In Florida, a third-degree felony can result in a sentence of up to 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
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25 April 2012
8 Comments
There is more to the story though – the manager told him he owed a dollar for the soda; he refused to pay. He was ordered out, he rfused to leave, swearing and creating a scene. He had a long history of priors. He clearly wanted to be arrested.
“Filling your water cup with soda COULD be a felony” is a misleading headline.
Proving that this guy had a flagrant disregard for the law and no respect for others. Those are exactly the kind of people that should be arrested when they do stuff like this.
Technically you still COULD be arrested for filling your water cup with soda. Just only if you refuse to pay and/or leave the establishment.
They got it all figured out in Florida, don’t they
Not in my town, ya don’t!
It should work both ways — have you gotten about three miles away from a drive-thru only to discover that they shorted you an item or charged you extra for a topping that you didn’t get? Arrest THEM!!
Our tax dollars at work taking down the REAL criminals…
Far be it for me to stand up for the police, as I often point out the bad ones’ misdeeds and misuse of authority. However, what are they to do? Restaurant manager calls to report a theft after the guy refused to pay. They show up and he’s swearing, creating a scene, refusing to leave, and has a long history of petty crime. It sounds like he *IS* a “real criminal.”