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Talk about overstepping your bounds … 

A Georgia woman took her twin autistic sons and their service dog and went to a local McDonald’s. As they were getting ready to leave the establishment, an off duty manager (with her own child in tow) approached the woman and told her that the dog was not permitted in the restaurant. By the time the incident was over, the off duty manager had punched the customer in her face.

Jennifer Schwenker explained that Barkley is a service dog, allowed by federal law in all public places including restaurants. Schwenker offered to provide proof of the permit for the dog, Marietta police said.

It wasn’t enough for Allen, they said. The tape shows her following the family around the McDonald’s, even down the hall to the restroom.

When Schwenker tried to leave, she lost track of one of the boys. In a panic, she threw her drink on the floor and it splashed on Allen, police said.

The tape shows Allen running after Schwenker in a rage, police said. Marietta police Detective Gwen Lewis told Davis that she has never seen anything like it.

Schwenker did not want to speak to Davis about the incident, but her husband said they are talking to a lawyer.

Allen is charged with battery assault and disorderly conduct.

JM and Jan Owens, who run the store where the incident occurred, released a statement:

“At our McDonald’s restaurant, we respect and value our customers. Their safety and well-being is always a top priority.

“We strive to comply with all applicable laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act. It is our policy to make our restaurants accessible to all customers, including those with disabilities and special needs, whether or not they need the assistance of service animals.

“We are fully cooperating with the police department in their investigation, and the individual involved is no longer employed by our company. ”

Thankfully, the owners are handling it right.  The video showing it all unfold can be found here on WSBTV.

I ask you … Why?

Pop quiz time, kids!

You’re sitting at home minding your own business. You see your friendly neighborhood mail carrier at the house across the street. He’s acting strange … you start watching … What’s that he’s doing? Why, he’s defecating in your neighbor’s yard! You whip out your camera and start taking pictures of it. The mail carrier is immediately placed on unpaid leave while an “investigation” ensues. (No, the question of the day is not “why do they need an investigation when they have photos of the dude taking a dump on the yard?”)

The question of the day, boys and girls, is why, upon completion of the “investigation” was the mail carrier permitted to keep his job? If it’s any comfort to the person whose yard he crapped in, though, he’ll be transferred to a different route.

You can’t make this shit up, can you?

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Since he doesn’t know what else he can do.

The manager of a Michigan Applebee’s has apologized to a family whose toddler received an alcoholic drink — which landed him in the hospital with a BAC of .10 — but says he doesn’t know what else he can do besides apologize.

The mother of the 15-month old boy says her son started acting strangely after drinking what she thought was apple juice. So, she tasted it and discovered the cup contained an alcoholic margarita mix.

“Nobody at the table ordered alcoholic drinks,” said [Taylor] Dill-Reese [the boy's mother]. “So, he definitely shouldn’t have received one.”

The mom says a manager apologized to the family but didn’t know what else to do. Thankfully the child is okay after being checked out at the hospital. Applebee’s issued a statement calling the incident  “unacceptable” and promised to work with local authorities and even conduct their own investigation.

For starters, they can pick up the kid’s medical bills. I’m tempted to say the server who made the mistake should be canned. And I sincerely hope their dinner was free.

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That’s it, I’m making a new tag category: YGBK.

As in, “You Gotta Be Kidding” …

So, here’s the latest … this house looks like Hitler. Come on, admit it. You totally see it, right? I mean, it’s just so obvious.

Like I said, some people just gotta bitch.

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This is really stretching it, guys.

Never mind the way she looks like she has man hands. Never mind her lack of clothing, or her accentuated cleavage. The important question here is: do you see a dirty word on this billboard? CBS New York does.

Seriously, do you see it?

Here, let me help … The table behind the model forms an F … the model’s bikini bottom is a U … and the Calvin Klein logo takes care of the rest.

Some people just gotta find something to bitch about, y’know?

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Chicks wielding pink handguns can be deadly …

Meghan Brown, a 25-year old former beauty queen who tips the scales at a whopping 110-pounds knew just what to do when the home invader started beating her fiancee about the head …

[42-year old Albert Franklin] Hill barged into the home at around 3 a.m. after Brown responded to a knock at the front door, according to a police report. He allegedly grabbed the 110-pound Brown around her nose and mouth and dragged her to an upstairs bedroom.

The woman’s fiance, Robert Planthaber, said in an interview that he was quickly awakened by the altercation and ran to Brown’s side.

“I attacked him and took a severe beating to the head,” Planthaber told FoxNews.com. “But I got him off of her long enough for her to scramble to the room where she keeps her pink .38 special.”

Meghan shot the suspect several times — hitting him in the chest, groin, thigh and back. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Today’s post is brought to you by the letters S and W and the number 38.

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It had nothing to do with the will …

A 28-year old Philadelphia man killed a 70-year old man with a rock stuffed in a sock. He told cops he killed the man because in the Bible, it says to stone homosexuals to death.  He claimed the old man made sexual advances at him.

The fact that he’s the executor and sole beneficiary of the old man’s will was entirely unrelated, I’m sure.

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This is the cutest zombie I’ve ever seen!

Someone dropped a litter of three month old puppies off at an Oklahoma animal shelter. The puppies were sick, so a vet decided to put them down. The next morning, an animal control officer heard whimpering, peeked in the container with the bodies and realized that one of the euthanized puppies was very much alive.

The surviving puppy was named “WALL-E,” after the garbage-collecting robot in the Disney-Pixar animated movie of the same name. In the movie, the lovable WALL-E was the last of his kind.

After the shock discovery, vet Amanda Kloski took the puppy in temporarily. When a woman in Pennsylvania heard WALL-E’s incredible story, she wrote about him on Facebook, prompting people from all over the U.S. to call the veterinary clinic and offer him a home.

The clinic was set to look at offers from all the prospective owners Wednesday and make a decision about his new home.

“He needs a really special home because he’s really special,” Kloski said.

Isn’t he just adorable?

FOX News, News9 Oklahoma

Someone needs to say it to this guy

Imagine purchasing cell phones — lots of cell phones — from a store (say, Best Buy, Walmart, Kroger, whatever) and not linking them to an account with any cell phone providers.  You’d have lots of cell phones capable of doing only one thing: calling 911.

Now, imagine spending the next six months making an average of 100 calls per day on your non-initialized cell phones.  To 911.  18,000 calls to 911.

For reasons unknown, 43-year old Maurice Cruz did just that.  It took the combined efforts of CHP investigators as well as the US Secret Service to track Cruz to his home despite his efforts to remain anonymous.

He was charged with misusing a 911 emergency line and is being held on $5,000 bail.

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