Burger That Made Officer Sick Sent To Crime Lab
McDonald's Worker Spent Night In Jail After Officer Complained
POSTED: 6:01 pm EDT September 9, 2007
UPDATED: 6:33 am EDT September 11, 2007
UNION CITY, Ga. -- Samples of a burger that a Union City police officer said made him sick have been sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab for analysis.
Kendra Bull, 20, a McDonald’s employee, spent a night in jail Friday and faces criminal charges after Officer Wendell Adams complained the burger she prepared with too much salt made him sick.
Bull was charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and arrested at 1:30 a.m. Friday. After a court hearing later that morning, she was released on $1,000 bond.
Bull said she accidentally spilled too much salt on the hamburger meat, but told her supervisor and another co-worker, who she said tried to thump the salt off. Bull took a break and said she ate a burger made from the salty meat.
Adams ordered a Big N' Tasty at the drive-through window and also got a burger made from the oversalted meat. A short time later, Adams returned to the restaurant and told the manager he got sick from eating it.
Bull admitted to spilling the salt on the burger, and the officer asked her to step outside, where she says Adams questioned her further.
Bull, who has worked at the restaurant for five months, said she did not know a police officer had ordered the burger because she could not see the drive-through window from her work area.
Bull said Adams insisted the burger must have had something worse than salt on it. Adams did not eat the entire burger.
Union City public information officer George Louth said Bull was charged with reckless conduct because she served the burger "without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it."
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