Very interesting involvments of mcDonalds over the years.
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Lawsuits, fines -
1990 McDonald's files suit against five members of London Greenpeace over a leaflet they produced in 1986, entitled What's Wrong With McDonald's? The fast food giant drops charges against three of the activists after they issue public apologies, but continue to fight against the remaining two, Dave Morris and Helen Steel. The McLibel case would ultimately become the longest-running court trial in British legal history.
27 Feb 1992 Trying to get the lid off her McDonald's coffee to add cream and sugar, 79-year-old Stella Liebeck accidentally splashes the 180-degree beverage on herself, causing third-degree burns to the thighs, genitals, and buttocks. After skin graft surgery and weeks of recuperation, Liebeck asks McDonald's to turn down the temperature of their coffee and pay $20,000 to defray her hospital bills. McDonald's tells the old lady to fuck off, as they had done for a decade of similar burn claims. Eventually, a jury awards Liebeck $2.9 million in the resulting lawsuit, which immediately triggers a renewed call for legislative tort reform. The judgment is reduced to $680,000 on appeal, after which the case is settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.
12 Oct 1992 Mark Hopkins dies from electrocution while working at a McDonald's in Manchester, England.
28 Jun 1994 The McLibel trial begins against Dave Morris and Helen Steel. It will ultimately last three years, making it into the Guinness Book of Records.
1995 McDonald's agrees to pay the federal government $5 million after failing to notify the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission of playground injuries involving the Tug-N-Turn.
5 Jul 1995 5-year-old Kagan Akdogan is critically wounded falling 10 feet off the Jungle Gym in the playground of a McDonald's in Istanbul.
Jan 1996 McDonald's threatens to sue Vegan Action over their McVegan t-shirt logo, a parody of the Golden Arches.
15 Feb 1996 Linda Gump breaks her right foot slipping on a McDonald's french fry while leaving the Wal-Mart in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Gump sues Wal-Mart and wins $35,173.22.
Feb 1997 In Perry, Michigan, Raymond Bills drinks a mouthful of bleach that was supposed to be McDonald's iced tea. He later sues for $10,000.
11 Sep 1998 In Menomonie, Wisconsin, Veronica Minor discovers a rolled-up condom in her chicken sandwich.
24 Jul 1997 The British government slaps McDonald's with fines totaling $13,850 for polluting an English waterway.
9 Jun 1999 A McDonald's in Walsgrave, England is shut down by government health inspectors after four hours of serving food with raw sewage on the kitchen floor.
29 Jun 1999 McDonald's agrees to pay the federal government $4 million after failing to notify the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission of playground injuries involving the Big Mac Climber.
Oct 1999 Veronica M. Martin suffers a second-degree burn and a permanent scar on her chin when a hot pickle drops from her hamburger. Later she files suit against the franchise, which is ultimately settled.
28 Nov 2000 Katherine Ortega receives a deep-fried chicken head in her meal at a McDonald's franchise in Newport News, Virginia.
Jan 2001 In Hong Kong, Lui Siu-chung loses his lawsuit against a local McDonald's for a bit of paper he claimed to have found in his hash browns. The judge orders Lui to pay the defendant $30,000.
8 Feb 2001 When Stephanie Felty bites into a Chicken McNugget purchased at a McDonald's in Alcoa, Tennessee, a broken hypodermic needle lodges in her jaw.
6 Apr 2001 McDonald's admits that their "vegetarian" french fries contain "a small amount of beef flavoring." A company spokeswoman says: "We use something similar to beef broth, just to enhance the flavor."
May 2001 University student Yazna Llulle is knocked unconscious at a McDonald's in Santiago, Chile when a large sign falls on her head. The only help offered by the restaurant manager is the address of dental clinic, which turns out to be closed.
1 May 2001 On behalf of 16 million vegetarians, a class-action lawsuit is filed in Seattle against McDonald's over the "small amount of beef flavoring" included in its french fries, which the chain had claimed were cooked in "100% vegetable oil."
4 May 2001 Midway through her McDonald's cheeseburger, Jackie Wollenberg notices blood stains on the wrapper. When she confronts the bandaged employee of the Largo, Florida franchise, he reassures her: "I just had a blood test last week, and I'm clean."
19 Jun 2001 In Detroit, 11-year-old Vincent Ingram bites into a McDonald's cheeseburger and notices that it infested with live maggots. He later files a $1 million lawsuit against the restaurant.
Sep 2001 Wendy Robinson lifts the bun off her Big Mac to discover a wad of chewed gum.
Jan 2002 During an argument with a McDonald's employee in West Palm Beach, Florida, customer Carmen Beauchamp is allegedly dragged into the kitchen and repeatedly punched and kicked by two of the workers. She later files suit against the restaurant.
1 Feb 2002 In Panama City Beach, Florida, John O'Hare bites into a tough McDonald's bagel, breaking some teeth and bridgework. He files suit against the franchise a year later.
May 2002 McDonald's sues Italian food critic Edoardo Raspelli over an unfavorable review published in La Stampa. "The ambience was mechanical, the potatoes were obscene and tasting of cardboard, and the bread poor. I found it alienating and vulgar." The chain seeks $24.7 million in damages.
29 May 2002 Two managers of a McDonald's in Utah strip search an 18-year-old female employee, then force her to pose nude and jog naked in front of them. She quits her job the next day and later files suit against the restaurant.
28 Jul 2002 In Sacramento, California, Ta Van Le and his wife Huyen Ta Le bite into some McDonald's Sausage McMuffins with Egg and notice that they are infested with live maggots. The couple later files a $50,000 lawsuit against the restaurant.
18 Nov 2002 In Houston, cancer patient Marcus Long bites into a McDonald's breakfast burrito heavily laden with black pepper. After two weeks of nosebleeds, he decides to file suit against the restaurant.
24 Nov 2002 A woman bites into her apple pie at a McDonald's in Eunice, Louisiana and cuts her lip on the razor blade hidden inside. 18-year-old employee Adam Joseph Fontenot later pleads guilty to shoving razor blades into three apple pies, and receives 5 years in prison.
29 Dec 2002 Sharon Offak, manager of a McDonald's in Painesville, Ohio, allegedly adds liquid hand sanitizer to the coffee before serving patrons their free refills. She is later arrested and charged with contaminating substances for human consumption, a felony.
26 Feb 2003 In Detroit, Joseph Taylor bites into a McDonald's salad at the franchise on Wayne State University campus. To his horror, he discovers an already-chewed piece of gum. Taylor later sues for $25,000.
Apr 2003 While at a McDonald's drive-thru in Ardeer, Australia, Paul Corda allegedly hears employees calling he and his friends "poofters" and "faggots." When he complains to the manager, Corda is offered a free meal coupon. Seven months later, he files suit against the company.
4 Jul 2003 Government authorities shut down a McDonald's and a Burger King near Buenos Aires, Argentina after discovering E. coli bacteria there.
10 Jul 2003 Two sheriff's deputies in Tampa, Florida are hospitalized after eating McDonald's hamburgers laced with broken glass.
19 Oct 2003 While eating a hamburger at a local McDonald's, a Marine stationed at Cherry Point naval base in Havelock, North Carolina is jabbed by the broken tip of a small-gauge hypodermic needle hidden inside the sandwich.
26 Nov 2003 The British government's Advertising Standards Authority bans an ad for McDonald's french fries which claimed: "We peel them, slice them, fry them and that's it." Somehow the company omitted other steps in the process, including par-frying, freezing, and adding sugar and salt.
7 Dec 2003 At a McDonald's in Maryville, Tennessee, Janet Woodby's 6-year-old daughter nearly chokes on a bone fragment allegedly contained inside a chicken McNugget.
15 Jun 2004 The McDonald's Corporation is sued by the family of Cynthia Molino, one of three employees killed in May 2002 when Frank Nastasi crashed his Cadillac into a company-owned (non-franchise) restaurant in Mount Ephraim, New Jersey. McDonald's apparently refused to honor Molino's life insurance policy, claiming that she was ineligible for death benefits -- because the two-year veteran had recently been promoted to manager and was still within her probationary period.
Protests
16 Oct 1985 First annual International Day of Action Against McDonald's.
1990 Phil Sokolof runs a full-page ads in major newspapers proclaiming: "McDonald's, Your Hamburgers Have Too Much Fat!"
28 Jun 1994 McLibel trial begins.
20 Mar 1996 The Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition dumps a 600-pound cow carcass in the middle of a McDonald's drive-thru in Huntington Beach, California.
15 Feb 1997 The Animal Liberation Front spreads butyric acid inside a Troy, Michigan McDonald's and spray paints "McShit, McMurder, McDeath" on the bathroom walls.
16 Aug 1997 The Animal Liberation Front burns down a McDonald's in West Jordan, Utah.
5 Mar 1998 Using a Harley Davidson Cobra lock, college student Jennifer Beatty attaches herself to the metal gate outside the McDonald's Student Center at Morain Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Illinois. For her act of disobedience, Beatty is arrested and expelled.
12 Aug 1999 In Millau, France, Jose Bove uses tractors to tear a portion of the roof off a McDonald's under construction. He also paints the slogan: "McDo Dehors, Gardons le Roquefort" -- McDonald's Get Out, Let's Keep the Roquefort. (It rhymes in French.)
31 Aug 1999 The Animal Liberation Front burns down a McDonald's in Fulton County, Georgia.
Oct 1999 In a press release, PETA declares this "Slam McDonald's Month."
3 Apr 2000 PETA demonstrators burn a McDonald's flag on the steps of the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah.
16 Oct 2000 Protesters in 20 Italian cities splatter McDonald's windows with blood and hurl raw meat at police.
24 Feb 2001 In Paris, protesters hurl stink bombs at 20 McDonald's restaurants.
4 May 2001 Hindu protesters hurl wet cow dung at a McDonald's in Thane, India.
Jun 2001 During an assembly at Stonington High School sponsored by McDonald's, 15-year-old Tristan Kading antagonizes his school officials. "She asked me about myself, and I said I hate large corporations like McDonald's," he said. "She said that won't get you a job at McDonald's."
Jul 2001 Vandals set fires at seven McDonald's in Montreal.
8 Sep 2001 The Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front jointly burn down a McDonald's in Tucson, Arizona.
May 2002 McDonald's sues Italian food critic Edoardo Raspelli over an unfavorable review published in La Stampa. "The ambience was mechanical, the potatoes were obscene and tasting of cardboard, and the bread poor. I found it alienating and vulgar." The chain seeks $24.7 million in damages.
7 Nov 2002 A McDonald's under construction in Voreppe, France suspiciously burns down less than a month prior to its grand opening.
3 Mar 2003 A McDonald's franchise in Chico, California is vandalized with "MEAT IS MURDER" and "ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT" in red spray paint. Beneath the graffiti sit two unlit molotov cocktails.
21 Jun 2003 Protesters in Thessaloniki, Greece set fire to a local McDonald's with molotov cocktails.
16 Oct 2003 Police in Cardiff, Wales arrest three protesters outside a McDonald's and beat the shit out of them.
Senseless violence
18 Jul 1984 James Oliver Huberty opens fire at a San Ysidro McDonald's, leaving 20 dead and 16 wounded. He held off police for an hour, sometimes taking time to finish off victims already wounded. A witness reported Huberty, a recently dismissed security guard, as saying that he'd "killed many people in Vietnam and wanted to kill more."
26 Sep 1984 A work crew destroys the San Ysidro McDonald's. It is later converted into a neighborhood park.
10 Aug 1993 Dion Terres kills two and wounds a third with a .44 Magnum revolver in a Kenosha, Wisconsin McDonald's.
1 Jun 1996 A man with a shotgun in northern Australia shoots up a house, a police station, and a four SWAT team officers near a McDonald's restaurant.
24 Jun 1996 A university student gives birth in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Tukwila, Washington. She then dumps the baby in a garbage can and cleans up in the McDonald's restroom. The woman is arrested later that day on campus.
Dec 1996 One person is shot to death and two others injured when a former McDonald's goes postal at his old jobsite in Vallejo, California.
27 Feb 1997 Shawn Michael Demers allegedly shoots a mother and child at a McDonald's in Lakeland, Florida.
8 Jun 1997 A mother is shot to death in front of her children outside a McDonald's in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
16 Jun 1997 A 9-year-old girl is shot to death during an armed robbery at a McDonald's in Barstow, California.
Mar 1999 Miguel Cano shoots at Ismael Ramos Jr. inside a Las Vegas McDonald's, accidentally killing bystander Crystal Lee Ledesma.
14 Feb 2000 Three teenagers accidentally set a Houston, Texas McDonalds on fire while trying to cut open its safe with a blowtorch. Two firefighters are killed trying to extinguish the blaze. Allen Jerome Davis, Juan M. Torres, and Pedro Isreal Loredo are later charged with two counts of felony murder.
1 Mar 2000 In Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Ronald Taylor goes on a shooting spree, starting his rampage at an apartment complex, then continuing on to a local Burger King and a McDonald's.
19 Apr 2000 A dynamite bomb explodes at a McDonald's in Dinan, France. One employee is killed by the blast.
28 Jun 2000 Willis Lee, janitor at a McDonald's in Houston, Texas, shoots two armed robbers while they are holding up the restaurant.
5 Jul 2000 Zsolt B. shoots up a McDonald's in Budapest, killing one person and wounding three.
14 Dec 2000 Seven soldiers from Fort Carson allegedly rob a McDonald's in Fountain, Colorado. They are arrested at the base a four hours later.
25 Mar 2001 In Richmond, California, Khante "Kiki" Johnson allegedly stabs her boyfriend in the heart with a steak knife, killing him. Japaicka "Pecka" Colon had returned from McDonald's with a ham, egg, and cheese bagel and coffee instead of the two sausage McMuffins and orange juice she requested.
9 May 2001 A 23-year-old man is shot to death outside a McDonald's in San Francisco.
10 May 2001 A 50-year-old woman is shot to death outside a McDonald's in St. Petersburg, Florida.
28 May 2001 After receiving some cold french fries, a disgruntled customer in Orlando, Florida shoots out the front window of the responsible McDonald's with a BB gun.
6 Jun 2001 Employee Genoveva Velasquez is shot five times in the McDonald's parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland. Her alleged killer, boyfriend Michael Alfonso, is arrested in Mexico three years later.
Sep 2001 A bomb explodes inside an Istanbul McDonald's, injuring one person in the leg.
15 Dec 2001 A suicide bomber strikes a two-story McDonald's in Xi'an, China, killing two and injuring 26.
1 Apr 2002 Students rioting near Cairo University vent their frustration against the local McDonald's franchise.
15 May 2002 Believing it to be empty at 4:20am, Frank Nastasi crashes his Cadillac into a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Ephraim, New Jersey, killing three female employees. Shortly before his excursion, Nastasi sent an email to a friend saying: "John Nash, there is no way to save it, you are right it would take a miracle, think and John Lennon and Yoko, Occam's razor, Catch 22, too imaginable."
14 Jul 2002 In the parking lot of a McDonald's franchise in London, two men are shot and stabbed by a group of black males.
23 Sep 2002 A car bomb explodes in a McDonald's parking lot in Jounieh, Lebanon.
11 Oct 2002 An ammonium nitrate bomb explodes in front of a McDonald's in Vantaa, Finland. The blast kills seven.
19 Oct 2002 A car bomb explodes behind a McDonald's franchise in Moscow, killing one and injuring at least seven.
25 Oct 2002 A pair of deer jumps through the plate glass window at a McDonald's franchise in Washington, D.C., injuring four women.
Nov 2002 A gunman threatens a McDonald's employee at a franchise in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, then sets fire to the restaurant.
5 Dec 2002 A bomb explodes inside a McDonald's in Makassar, Indonesia, killing three.
6 Dec 2002 An explosion at a Bombay McDonald's injures 17. Officials later claim it was just a faulty air conditioner.
1 Feb 2003 Istanbul police manage to defuse a time bomb left inside a two-story suburban McDonald's.
22 Feb 2003 Angry that his take-out order was lacking two hamburgers, Danny Thomas returns to the McDonald's in Portland, Oregon and jabs a ball-point pen into manager Antonio Mapapalangi's left cheekbone. Then Thomas goes to his 1996 Infiniti and uses his Taurus .357 Magnum revolver to fire six rounds into the drive-through window. He later receives a 13-year sentence.
25 Feb 2003 A man tosses an unlit molotov cocktail into a McDonald's in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
22 Mar 2003 A grenade explodes in an empty McDonald's near Athens, Greece.
Apr 2003 The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front sets off a bomb at a McDonald's in Istanbul.
5 Apr 2003 A stick of dynamite explodes in the bathroom of a crowded McDonald's in Beirut, Lebanon, injuring three people. Simultaneously, a car bomb in front of the restaurant malfunctions, breaking only the rear windshield.
23 Apr 2003 At a McDonald's parking lot in Houston, Waynetta Nolan runs down the restaurant manager in a hit-and-run because her request for mayo on her cheeseburger was initially refused. Nolan receives 10 years in prison for the crime.
17 May 2003 At a McDonald's in Germantown, Maryland, Milika L. Hayes allegedly smashes fistfuls of hot fries into the face of a 4-year-old boy after he accidentally brushed against her shirt with his ice cream cone. She is arrested by police and charged with first-degree assault and disorderly conduct.
15 Jun 2003 A bomb explodes at a McDonald's restaurant in Xi'an, China. Xu Yonggang is later arrested and charged with the crime.
Jul 2003 In Muncy, Pennsylvania, McDonald's manager Danielle S. Baum takes a rifle from her truck and kills a feral cat in the parking lot. She later pleads guilty to animal cruelty and pays a $375 fine.
6 Sep 2003 Herbert Butler allegedly kills his wife, then drives a McDonald's in Johns Island, South Carolina and shoots employee Christopher Simmons in the chest.
1 Oct 2003 In the bathroom of Columbus, Ohio McDonald's, Larry T. Scott allegedly shoots Charles Mintun twice in the chest.
18 Oct 2003 During an argument at a McDonald's in the south side of Chicago, an unidentified 27-year-old man brandishes a gun at a female employee. He is later shot by police a few blocks away.
29 Oct 2003 A man walks up to the drive-thru window at an Atlanta McDonald's and shoots employee Carl Goodman three times.
31 Oct 2003 A former employee crashes his car into a McDonald's training center in Amsterdam.
12 Nov 2003 Two men suffer gunshot wounds to the leg in a possibly-gang-related shooting outside a McDonald's in north Minneapolis.
25 Nov 2003 An off-duty Chicago police officer shoots and kills 21-year-old Steven Curry, an unarmed man, outside a McDonald's in Hyde Park.
27 Nov 2003 After kicking out all the employees and customers, Donald Jaworowicz stages an eight-hour armed standoff at a McDonald's in Springville, Utah.
1 Dec 2003 An 18-year-old man sitting in the drive-thru of a Madison, Wisconsin McDonald's is struck by a shotgun blast delivered by a minivan which had pulled alongside him.
5 Dec 2003 60-year-old Mary VanDosen is killed by a runaway vehicle after its driver suffered a seizure and plowed into a McDonald's parking lot in Sturgis, Michigan.
10 Dec 2003 Robert Crawford is shot and killed outside a Phildelphia McDonald's.
13 Dec 2003 Sitting in a McDonald's drive-thru in Mission Hills, California, Sergio Ernesto Reyes is shot dead in his truck waiting for his order.
20 Dec 2003 Caltone Cockrell is arrested for allegedly shooting Zahmall Davis at a McDonald's drive-thru in Madison, Wisconsin.
13 Feb 2004 One man is shot dead during a heated argument in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Riverdale, Maryland.
24 Apr 2004 Around 10pm, Raymond Lewis Young II allegedly shoots two men in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Greenville, South Carolina.
7 May 2004 Sometime before dawn, an alleged auto thief is killed when he crashes his stolen car into the McDonald's drive-thru in Riverdale Park, Maryland.
12 Jun 2004 During his son's birthday party at a McDonald's in Selma, Alabama, Lorenzo Walker allegedly whips out a pistol and fires eight shots, twice wounding his girlfriend's pregnant sister Latoya Powell.
22 Aug 2004 The Tampa Bay Area Bomb Squad safely detonates a pipe bomb discovered earlier that night in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Port Richey, Florida.
14 Oct 2004 Jason Eric Steif is shot to death at a McDonald's in Reading, Pennsylvania while sitting in the drive-thru.
24 Oct 2004 A bomb explodes outside a McDonald's in Trabzon, Turkey, injuring six people.
21 Jan 2005 During an alleged armed robbery at the McDonald's on Paradise Road in Las Vegas, Charles Anthony Walker allegedly shoots to death 49-year-old conventioneer Thomas Latimer.
8 Feb 2005 In Rockford, Illinois an unidentified gunman in a Pontiac four-door drives up to the McDonald's on Auburn Street and fires three shots into a dining-room window. A few diners are injured by shards of glass.
Lawsuits, fines -
1990 McDonald's files suit against five members of London Greenpeace over a leaflet they produced in 1986, entitled What's Wrong With McDonald's? The fast food giant drops charges against three of the activists after they issue public apologies, but continue to fight against the remaining two, Dave Morris and Helen Steel. The McLibel case would ultimately become the longest-running court trial in British legal history.
27 Feb 1992 Trying to get the lid off her McDonald's coffee to add cream and sugar, 79-year-old Stella Liebeck accidentally splashes the 180-degree beverage on herself, causing third-degree burns to the thighs, genitals, and buttocks. After skin graft surgery and weeks of recuperation, Liebeck asks McDonald's to turn down the temperature of their coffee and pay $20,000 to defray her hospital bills. McDonald's tells the old lady to fuck off, as they had done for a decade of similar burn claims. Eventually, a jury awards Liebeck $2.9 million in the resulting lawsuit, which immediately triggers a renewed call for legislative tort reform. The judgment is reduced to $680,000 on appeal, after which the case is settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.
12 Oct 1992 Mark Hopkins dies from electrocution while working at a McDonald's in Manchester, England.
28 Jun 1994 The McLibel trial begins against Dave Morris and Helen Steel. It will ultimately last three years, making it into the Guinness Book of Records.
1995 McDonald's agrees to pay the federal government $5 million after failing to notify the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission of playground injuries involving the Tug-N-Turn.
5 Jul 1995 5-year-old Kagan Akdogan is critically wounded falling 10 feet off the Jungle Gym in the playground of a McDonald's in Istanbul.
Jan 1996 McDonald's threatens to sue Vegan Action over their McVegan t-shirt logo, a parody of the Golden Arches.
15 Feb 1996 Linda Gump breaks her right foot slipping on a McDonald's french fry while leaving the Wal-Mart in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Gump sues Wal-Mart and wins $35,173.22.
Feb 1997 In Perry, Michigan, Raymond Bills drinks a mouthful of bleach that was supposed to be McDonald's iced tea. He later sues for $10,000.
11 Sep 1998 In Menomonie, Wisconsin, Veronica Minor discovers a rolled-up condom in her chicken sandwich.
24 Jul 1997 The British government slaps McDonald's with fines totaling $13,850 for polluting an English waterway.
9 Jun 1999 A McDonald's in Walsgrave, England is shut down by government health inspectors after four hours of serving food with raw sewage on the kitchen floor.
29 Jun 1999 McDonald's agrees to pay the federal government $4 million after failing to notify the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission of playground injuries involving the Big Mac Climber.
Oct 1999 Veronica M. Martin suffers a second-degree burn and a permanent scar on her chin when a hot pickle drops from her hamburger. Later she files suit against the franchise, which is ultimately settled.
28 Nov 2000 Katherine Ortega receives a deep-fried chicken head in her meal at a McDonald's franchise in Newport News, Virginia.
Jan 2001 In Hong Kong, Lui Siu-chung loses his lawsuit against a local McDonald's for a bit of paper he claimed to have found in his hash browns. The judge orders Lui to pay the defendant $30,000.
8 Feb 2001 When Stephanie Felty bites into a Chicken McNugget purchased at a McDonald's in Alcoa, Tennessee, a broken hypodermic needle lodges in her jaw.
6 Apr 2001 McDonald's admits that their "vegetarian" french fries contain "a small amount of beef flavoring." A company spokeswoman says: "We use something similar to beef broth, just to enhance the flavor."
May 2001 University student Yazna Llulle is knocked unconscious at a McDonald's in Santiago, Chile when a large sign falls on her head. The only help offered by the restaurant manager is the address of dental clinic, which turns out to be closed.
1 May 2001 On behalf of 16 million vegetarians, a class-action lawsuit is filed in Seattle against McDonald's over the "small amount of beef flavoring" included in its french fries, which the chain had claimed were cooked in "100% vegetable oil."
4 May 2001 Midway through her McDonald's cheeseburger, Jackie Wollenberg notices blood stains on the wrapper. When she confronts the bandaged employee of the Largo, Florida franchise, he reassures her: "I just had a blood test last week, and I'm clean."
19 Jun 2001 In Detroit, 11-year-old Vincent Ingram bites into a McDonald's cheeseburger and notices that it infested with live maggots. He later files a $1 million lawsuit against the restaurant.
Sep 2001 Wendy Robinson lifts the bun off her Big Mac to discover a wad of chewed gum.
Jan 2002 During an argument with a McDonald's employee in West Palm Beach, Florida, customer Carmen Beauchamp is allegedly dragged into the kitchen and repeatedly punched and kicked by two of the workers. She later files suit against the restaurant.
1 Feb 2002 In Panama City Beach, Florida, John O'Hare bites into a tough McDonald's bagel, breaking some teeth and bridgework. He files suit against the franchise a year later.
May 2002 McDonald's sues Italian food critic Edoardo Raspelli over an unfavorable review published in La Stampa. "The ambience was mechanical, the potatoes were obscene and tasting of cardboard, and the bread poor. I found it alienating and vulgar." The chain seeks $24.7 million in damages.
29 May 2002 Two managers of a McDonald's in Utah strip search an 18-year-old female employee, then force her to pose nude and jog naked in front of them. She quits her job the next day and later files suit against the restaurant.
28 Jul 2002 In Sacramento, California, Ta Van Le and his wife Huyen Ta Le bite into some McDonald's Sausage McMuffins with Egg and notice that they are infested with live maggots. The couple later files a $50,000 lawsuit against the restaurant.
18 Nov 2002 In Houston, cancer patient Marcus Long bites into a McDonald's breakfast burrito heavily laden with black pepper. After two weeks of nosebleeds, he decides to file suit against the restaurant.
24 Nov 2002 A woman bites into her apple pie at a McDonald's in Eunice, Louisiana and cuts her lip on the razor blade hidden inside. 18-year-old employee Adam Joseph Fontenot later pleads guilty to shoving razor blades into three apple pies, and receives 5 years in prison.
29 Dec 2002 Sharon Offak, manager of a McDonald's in Painesville, Ohio, allegedly adds liquid hand sanitizer to the coffee before serving patrons their free refills. She is later arrested and charged with contaminating substances for human consumption, a felony.
26 Feb 2003 In Detroit, Joseph Taylor bites into a McDonald's salad at the franchise on Wayne State University campus. To his horror, he discovers an already-chewed piece of gum. Taylor later sues for $25,000.
Apr 2003 While at a McDonald's drive-thru in Ardeer, Australia, Paul Corda allegedly hears employees calling he and his friends "poofters" and "faggots." When he complains to the manager, Corda is offered a free meal coupon. Seven months later, he files suit against the company.
4 Jul 2003 Government authorities shut down a McDonald's and a Burger King near Buenos Aires, Argentina after discovering E. coli bacteria there.
10 Jul 2003 Two sheriff's deputies in Tampa, Florida are hospitalized after eating McDonald's hamburgers laced with broken glass.
19 Oct 2003 While eating a hamburger at a local McDonald's, a Marine stationed at Cherry Point naval base in Havelock, North Carolina is jabbed by the broken tip of a small-gauge hypodermic needle hidden inside the sandwich.
26 Nov 2003 The British government's Advertising Standards Authority bans an ad for McDonald's french fries which claimed: "We peel them, slice them, fry them and that's it." Somehow the company omitted other steps in the process, including par-frying, freezing, and adding sugar and salt.
7 Dec 2003 At a McDonald's in Maryville, Tennessee, Janet Woodby's 6-year-old daughter nearly chokes on a bone fragment allegedly contained inside a chicken McNugget.
15 Jun 2004 The McDonald's Corporation is sued by the family of Cynthia Molino, one of three employees killed in May 2002 when Frank Nastasi crashed his Cadillac into a company-owned (non-franchise) restaurant in Mount Ephraim, New Jersey. McDonald's apparently refused to honor Molino's life insurance policy, claiming that she was ineligible for death benefits -- because the two-year veteran had recently been promoted to manager and was still within her probationary period.
Protests
16 Oct 1985 First annual International Day of Action Against McDonald's.
1990 Phil Sokolof runs a full-page ads in major newspapers proclaiming: "McDonald's, Your Hamburgers Have Too Much Fat!"
28 Jun 1994 McLibel trial begins.
20 Mar 1996 The Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition dumps a 600-pound cow carcass in the middle of a McDonald's drive-thru in Huntington Beach, California.
15 Feb 1997 The Animal Liberation Front spreads butyric acid inside a Troy, Michigan McDonald's and spray paints "McShit, McMurder, McDeath" on the bathroom walls.
16 Aug 1997 The Animal Liberation Front burns down a McDonald's in West Jordan, Utah.
5 Mar 1998 Using a Harley Davidson Cobra lock, college student Jennifer Beatty attaches herself to the metal gate outside the McDonald's Student Center at Morain Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Illinois. For her act of disobedience, Beatty is arrested and expelled.
12 Aug 1999 In Millau, France, Jose Bove uses tractors to tear a portion of the roof off a McDonald's under construction. He also paints the slogan: "McDo Dehors, Gardons le Roquefort" -- McDonald's Get Out, Let's Keep the Roquefort. (It rhymes in French.)
31 Aug 1999 The Animal Liberation Front burns down a McDonald's in Fulton County, Georgia.
Oct 1999 In a press release, PETA declares this "Slam McDonald's Month."
3 Apr 2000 PETA demonstrators burn a McDonald's flag on the steps of the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah.
16 Oct 2000 Protesters in 20 Italian cities splatter McDonald's windows with blood and hurl raw meat at police.
24 Feb 2001 In Paris, protesters hurl stink bombs at 20 McDonald's restaurants.
4 May 2001 Hindu protesters hurl wet cow dung at a McDonald's in Thane, India.
Jun 2001 During an assembly at Stonington High School sponsored by McDonald's, 15-year-old Tristan Kading antagonizes his school officials. "She asked me about myself, and I said I hate large corporations like McDonald's," he said. "She said that won't get you a job at McDonald's."
Jul 2001 Vandals set fires at seven McDonald's in Montreal.
8 Sep 2001 The Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front jointly burn down a McDonald's in Tucson, Arizona.
May 2002 McDonald's sues Italian food critic Edoardo Raspelli over an unfavorable review published in La Stampa. "The ambience was mechanical, the potatoes were obscene and tasting of cardboard, and the bread poor. I found it alienating and vulgar." The chain seeks $24.7 million in damages.
7 Nov 2002 A McDonald's under construction in Voreppe, France suspiciously burns down less than a month prior to its grand opening.
3 Mar 2003 A McDonald's franchise in Chico, California is vandalized with "MEAT IS MURDER" and "ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT" in red spray paint. Beneath the graffiti sit two unlit molotov cocktails.
21 Jun 2003 Protesters in Thessaloniki, Greece set fire to a local McDonald's with molotov cocktails.
16 Oct 2003 Police in Cardiff, Wales arrest three protesters outside a McDonald's and beat the shit out of them.
Senseless violence
18 Jul 1984 James Oliver Huberty opens fire at a San Ysidro McDonald's, leaving 20 dead and 16 wounded. He held off police for an hour, sometimes taking time to finish off victims already wounded. A witness reported Huberty, a recently dismissed security guard, as saying that he'd "killed many people in Vietnam and wanted to kill more."
26 Sep 1984 A work crew destroys the San Ysidro McDonald's. It is later converted into a neighborhood park.
10 Aug 1993 Dion Terres kills two and wounds a third with a .44 Magnum revolver in a Kenosha, Wisconsin McDonald's.
1 Jun 1996 A man with a shotgun in northern Australia shoots up a house, a police station, and a four SWAT team officers near a McDonald's restaurant.
24 Jun 1996 A university student gives birth in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Tukwila, Washington. She then dumps the baby in a garbage can and cleans up in the McDonald's restroom. The woman is arrested later that day on campus.
Dec 1996 One person is shot to death and two others injured when a former McDonald's goes postal at his old jobsite in Vallejo, California.
27 Feb 1997 Shawn Michael Demers allegedly shoots a mother and child at a McDonald's in Lakeland, Florida.
8 Jun 1997 A mother is shot to death in front of her children outside a McDonald's in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
16 Jun 1997 A 9-year-old girl is shot to death during an armed robbery at a McDonald's in Barstow, California.
Mar 1999 Miguel Cano shoots at Ismael Ramos Jr. inside a Las Vegas McDonald's, accidentally killing bystander Crystal Lee Ledesma.
14 Feb 2000 Three teenagers accidentally set a Houston, Texas McDonalds on fire while trying to cut open its safe with a blowtorch. Two firefighters are killed trying to extinguish the blaze. Allen Jerome Davis, Juan M. Torres, and Pedro Isreal Loredo are later charged with two counts of felony murder.
1 Mar 2000 In Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Ronald Taylor goes on a shooting spree, starting his rampage at an apartment complex, then continuing on to a local Burger King and a McDonald's.
19 Apr 2000 A dynamite bomb explodes at a McDonald's in Dinan, France. One employee is killed by the blast.
28 Jun 2000 Willis Lee, janitor at a McDonald's in Houston, Texas, shoots two armed robbers while they are holding up the restaurant.
5 Jul 2000 Zsolt B. shoots up a McDonald's in Budapest, killing one person and wounding three.
14 Dec 2000 Seven soldiers from Fort Carson allegedly rob a McDonald's in Fountain, Colorado. They are arrested at the base a four hours later.
25 Mar 2001 In Richmond, California, Khante "Kiki" Johnson allegedly stabs her boyfriend in the heart with a steak knife, killing him. Japaicka "Pecka" Colon had returned from McDonald's with a ham, egg, and cheese bagel and coffee instead of the two sausage McMuffins and orange juice she requested.
9 May 2001 A 23-year-old man is shot to death outside a McDonald's in San Francisco.
10 May 2001 A 50-year-old woman is shot to death outside a McDonald's in St. Petersburg, Florida.
28 May 2001 After receiving some cold french fries, a disgruntled customer in Orlando, Florida shoots out the front window of the responsible McDonald's with a BB gun.
6 Jun 2001 Employee Genoveva Velasquez is shot five times in the McDonald's parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland. Her alleged killer, boyfriend Michael Alfonso, is arrested in Mexico three years later.
Sep 2001 A bomb explodes inside an Istanbul McDonald's, injuring one person in the leg.
15 Dec 2001 A suicide bomber strikes a two-story McDonald's in Xi'an, China, killing two and injuring 26.
1 Apr 2002 Students rioting near Cairo University vent their frustration against the local McDonald's franchise.
15 May 2002 Believing it to be empty at 4:20am, Frank Nastasi crashes his Cadillac into a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Ephraim, New Jersey, killing three female employees. Shortly before his excursion, Nastasi sent an email to a friend saying: "John Nash, there is no way to save it, you are right it would take a miracle, think and John Lennon and Yoko, Occam's razor, Catch 22, too imaginable."
14 Jul 2002 In the parking lot of a McDonald's franchise in London, two men are shot and stabbed by a group of black males.
23 Sep 2002 A car bomb explodes in a McDonald's parking lot in Jounieh, Lebanon.
11 Oct 2002 An ammonium nitrate bomb explodes in front of a McDonald's in Vantaa, Finland. The blast kills seven.
19 Oct 2002 A car bomb explodes behind a McDonald's franchise in Moscow, killing one and injuring at least seven.
25 Oct 2002 A pair of deer jumps through the plate glass window at a McDonald's franchise in Washington, D.C., injuring four women.
Nov 2002 A gunman threatens a McDonald's employee at a franchise in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, then sets fire to the restaurant.
5 Dec 2002 A bomb explodes inside a McDonald's in Makassar, Indonesia, killing three.
6 Dec 2002 An explosion at a Bombay McDonald's injures 17. Officials later claim it was just a faulty air conditioner.
1 Feb 2003 Istanbul police manage to defuse a time bomb left inside a two-story suburban McDonald's.
22 Feb 2003 Angry that his take-out order was lacking two hamburgers, Danny Thomas returns to the McDonald's in Portland, Oregon and jabs a ball-point pen into manager Antonio Mapapalangi's left cheekbone. Then Thomas goes to his 1996 Infiniti and uses his Taurus .357 Magnum revolver to fire six rounds into the drive-through window. He later receives a 13-year sentence.
25 Feb 2003 A man tosses an unlit molotov cocktail into a McDonald's in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
22 Mar 2003 A grenade explodes in an empty McDonald's near Athens, Greece.
Apr 2003 The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front sets off a bomb at a McDonald's in Istanbul.
5 Apr 2003 A stick of dynamite explodes in the bathroom of a crowded McDonald's in Beirut, Lebanon, injuring three people. Simultaneously, a car bomb in front of the restaurant malfunctions, breaking only the rear windshield.
23 Apr 2003 At a McDonald's parking lot in Houston, Waynetta Nolan runs down the restaurant manager in a hit-and-run because her request for mayo on her cheeseburger was initially refused. Nolan receives 10 years in prison for the crime.
17 May 2003 At a McDonald's in Germantown, Maryland, Milika L. Hayes allegedly smashes fistfuls of hot fries into the face of a 4-year-old boy after he accidentally brushed against her shirt with his ice cream cone. She is arrested by police and charged with first-degree assault and disorderly conduct.
15 Jun 2003 A bomb explodes at a McDonald's restaurant in Xi'an, China. Xu Yonggang is later arrested and charged with the crime.
Jul 2003 In Muncy, Pennsylvania, McDonald's manager Danielle S. Baum takes a rifle from her truck and kills a feral cat in the parking lot. She later pleads guilty to animal cruelty and pays a $375 fine.
6 Sep 2003 Herbert Butler allegedly kills his wife, then drives a McDonald's in Johns Island, South Carolina and shoots employee Christopher Simmons in the chest.
1 Oct 2003 In the bathroom of Columbus, Ohio McDonald's, Larry T. Scott allegedly shoots Charles Mintun twice in the chest.
18 Oct 2003 During an argument at a McDonald's in the south side of Chicago, an unidentified 27-year-old man brandishes a gun at a female employee. He is later shot by police a few blocks away.
29 Oct 2003 A man walks up to the drive-thru window at an Atlanta McDonald's and shoots employee Carl Goodman three times.
31 Oct 2003 A former employee crashes his car into a McDonald's training center in Amsterdam.
12 Nov 2003 Two men suffer gunshot wounds to the leg in a possibly-gang-related shooting outside a McDonald's in north Minneapolis.
25 Nov 2003 An off-duty Chicago police officer shoots and kills 21-year-old Steven Curry, an unarmed man, outside a McDonald's in Hyde Park.
27 Nov 2003 After kicking out all the employees and customers, Donald Jaworowicz stages an eight-hour armed standoff at a McDonald's in Springville, Utah.
1 Dec 2003 An 18-year-old man sitting in the drive-thru of a Madison, Wisconsin McDonald's is struck by a shotgun blast delivered by a minivan which had pulled alongside him.
5 Dec 2003 60-year-old Mary VanDosen is killed by a runaway vehicle after its driver suffered a seizure and plowed into a McDonald's parking lot in Sturgis, Michigan.
10 Dec 2003 Robert Crawford is shot and killed outside a Phildelphia McDonald's.
13 Dec 2003 Sitting in a McDonald's drive-thru in Mission Hills, California, Sergio Ernesto Reyes is shot dead in his truck waiting for his order.
20 Dec 2003 Caltone Cockrell is arrested for allegedly shooting Zahmall Davis at a McDonald's drive-thru in Madison, Wisconsin.
13 Feb 2004 One man is shot dead during a heated argument in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Riverdale, Maryland.
24 Apr 2004 Around 10pm, Raymond Lewis Young II allegedly shoots two men in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Greenville, South Carolina.
7 May 2004 Sometime before dawn, an alleged auto thief is killed when he crashes his stolen car into the McDonald's drive-thru in Riverdale Park, Maryland.
12 Jun 2004 During his son's birthday party at a McDonald's in Selma, Alabama, Lorenzo Walker allegedly whips out a pistol and fires eight shots, twice wounding his girlfriend's pregnant sister Latoya Powell.
22 Aug 2004 The Tampa Bay Area Bomb Squad safely detonates a pipe bomb discovered earlier that night in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Port Richey, Florida.
14 Oct 2004 Jason Eric Steif is shot to death at a McDonald's in Reading, Pennsylvania while sitting in the drive-thru.
24 Oct 2004 A bomb explodes outside a McDonald's in Trabzon, Turkey, injuring six people.
21 Jan 2005 During an alleged armed robbery at the McDonald's on Paradise Road in Las Vegas, Charles Anthony Walker allegedly shoots to death 49-year-old conventioneer Thomas Latimer.
8 Feb 2005 In Rockford, Illinois an unidentified gunman in a Pontiac four-door drives up to the McDonald's on Auburn Street and fires three shots into a dining-room window. A few diners are injured by shards of glass.
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