Four teens pull up to a McDonald’s Drive through and attemp to Rap their order. Apparently, they had spent too much time on YouTube watching different McDonald’s rap videos. They apparently didn’t watch the whole video to see that no one actually understood what the rappers wanted.
The people at a Utah McDonald’s were not amused and asked the “musicians” to speak clearly. When the manager asked them to speak their order or leave they became beligerent used foul language and eventually sped off. The police were called, the young men were tracked down, and citations, similar to speeding tickets were issued.
That should be the end of the story. Bad behavior, even in good fun should be punished.
But NOOOOOO… now the parents are involved.
“One of the teens defended what happened and questioned why police took a joke so seriously. They said their parents were siding with them… They’re more upset at the McDonald’s and how the manager handled the whole situation. “It was basically harmless,” said one mother. “It wasn’t interfering with anything, and it’s just hard to believe a ticket would be issued for that.”
I understand kids having a little fun, but the kids really need to know when it is time to play and when it is not. Becoming abusive was surely the last straw, and parents should be ashamed for defending such bad behavior, as mild as it may have seemed.
If this amazes me, can you understand how mad it makes me when a parent gets on TV and defends a kid who robbed or killed someone? It all starts somewhere.
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