A man in Florida went to a McDonald's drive-thru last Friday and allegedly demanded a free meal. He claimed he deserved it because he said he was a cop who had just come back from a sting operation.
He flashed a gun and a badge. That was when the restaurant called the real cops.
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When police arrived, Joseph Pineda was still in his car. He was arrested and charged with felony impersonating a police officer and a misdemeanor charge of improper exhibition of a firearm.
Would he have done better impersonating the Hamburglar instead?
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.