Mac Attack...Really
People addicted to fast food, in addition to compromising their health, tend to be more grumpier. Morgan Spurlock reports on his month long McDonald's diet that he was irritable and suffered from terrible headaches. He experienced nausea a the thought of his next Big Mac meal while at the same time experiencing cravings for it. He writes in Don't Eat This Book that he became both a physical and an emotional wreck while on his fast-food-only diet which was the subject of the documentary film "Supersize Me."
All this may explain the behavior of two Long Island men at a drive up McDonald's window recently. Denise Bonilla reports in Newsday August 18, 2005
A 71-year-old man argued with a customer behind him at a McDonald's drive-thru, stabbed the man twice, then ordered five double-cheeseburgers and went on his way yesterday, Nassau County police said.
The argument happened when a 45-year-old man, whose name was not released by police, believed he'd been cut off in the drive-thru and started yelling at
John Kent, of 924 Fulton St., Farmingdale, just before 2 p.m. Kent was in a Ford van at the McDonald's on 655 Fulton St. in Farmingdale.
The other man was with his 3-year-old daughter in an Isuzu truck, said Det. Lt. Raymond Cote, of Nassau's Eighth Squad. Kent and the man got out of their vehicles and approached each other, Cote said. Kent took out a folding knife, police said, and the man pushed Kent away, returning to his truck.
Kent then walked over to the truck, and through the open driver's side window stabbed the man in his left bicep and chest, Cote said. The daughter was not injured.
Kent then got back into his van and continued through, Cote said. The man followed Kent, writing down his license-plate number and called 911 before returning home. An ambulance took him to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow where he received six stitches, Cote said. His injury is not life-threatening.
In the meantime, Kent drove to the Eighth Precinct in Levittown to report that he had been in a fight, Cote said. Kent told police the man came at him with the knife and he knocked it to the ground. He said he then picked it up and threw it at the man in self-defense, Cote said. Witnesses support the 45-year-old man's version, he said.
Kent, who works as a steamfitter, was charged with second-degree assault, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies, and endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, police said. He will be arraigned today in First District Court in Hempstead.
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