The Observer, September 21, 2007
Volume XL, Issue 4
News you can't use
Police jail McDonald's employee who oversalted burger
A Georgia McDonald's employee spent the night in jail and is now facing criminal charges after a police officer claimed she salted his burger so much, he became ill.
Kendra Bull was arrested last week after being charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and was freed on $1000 bail.
Bull, 20, claims she accidentally spilled salt on the burger meat. She then told her supervisor and a co-worker who both attempted to "thump the salt off."
She also says that she ate a burger made from the salty meat during lunch and did not become ill.
Police officer Wendell Adams received a burger made of the oversalted meat, returned a short time later, and told the manager it made him sick.
Bull admitted to oversalting the meat, but Adams took her outside for questioning.
"If it was too salty, why did [Adams] not take one bite and throw it away?" said Bull.
City public information officer George Louth said that Bull was charged because she served the meat "without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it."
The burger was sent to state crime labs for tests.
Ohio trio jailed in fishbait heroin case
Three people in Lebanon, Ohio, who attempted to sell vinegar and catfish bait as heroin were caught recently by undercover detectives.
The same people are also accused of attempting to sell fake LSD.
John Burke, director of the Greater Warren County Drug Task Force, said he wasn't sure what would happen if the vinegar and catfish concoction. Authorities don't know whether the accused actually sold any of the concoction was consumed.
"We have gotten no reports of anyone else getting them, but quite frankly the people who may have gotten them aren't likely to report it," prosecutor Rachel Hutzel said Wednesday.
William Perry, 22, of Columbus, and Rosanne Wead, 20, of Piqua, each pleaded guilty last week in Warren County Common Pleas Court to a count of trafficking in counterfeit controlled substances. Jerry Snowden, 27, of Piqua, pleaded guilty last month to a counterfeit substance charge. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Wead was sentenced to six months in prison; Perry has not been sentenced.
