Woman gets 10 years for running over McDonald's manager
Did she stop? Did she say, `Oh my Lord, what have I done?'
- Assistant District Attorney John Jordan
No mayo? Hell, I woulda just popped a cap in her and been done with it....
Man, it's SO hard to get decent help these days, especially at McDonald's. You may be lovin' it, but all poor Waynetta Nolan wanted was a little mayo on her Quarter Pounder. Can't a sister get a burger the way she likes it?
A McDonald's customer who flew into a violent rage when she was denied mayonnaise on her cheeseburger got 10 years in prison today for running over the restaurant's manager.
Waynetta Nolan, 37, could have received as much as 20 years in prison for hitting Sherry Allen Jenkins with her car, dragging the employee across the parking lot and breaking her pelvis at the McDonald's in southwest Houston.
Nolan showed little emotion this afternoon when the jury came back with the punishment after four hours of deliberation. Earlier this morning, however, as the jury heard testimony in the punishment phase of Nolan's trial, her 43-year-old victim tearfully said she couldn't pick up her grandchildren because of the injuries she suffered in the incident.
"I put the mayonnaise on her burger," Jenkins told jurors. "I took the onions and the mustard off. What did I do?"
OHMIGAWD!!! I am SUCH a DUMASS!!!
Jurors took less than an hour on Wednesday to convict Nolan of aggravated assault in the courtroom of state District Judge Brock Thomsas. Nolan testified then that she thought she had rolled over "a bump" when she ran over Jenkins.
Nolan was contrite during her testimony today and apologized for running over Jenkins on April 23. She said she had been going through "a bad time" in her life when she lost it in the drive-through line.
The incident began when an 18-year-old employee working at the drive-through window near Bissonnet and Beltway 8 told Nolan mayonnaise was not an option on McDonald's cheeseburgers. When Nolan became angry, she was encouraged to pull her car around to the window counter and speak to the manager.
Witnesses said Nolan cursed and threw a cheeseburger back though the drive-through window.
When Jenkins offered a special-order cheeseburger with mayonnaise, witnesses said, Nolan complained her french fries had grown cold. After receiving new fries, she then demanded a new drink.
Unable to pacify the belligerent customer, Jenkins finally called police, who asked her to get the customer's license plate number. Jenkins walked out to the drive-through line to get the number.
Nolan testified she had inched her car forward to put ketchup on her burger when she heard a car horn. Realizing she was blocking drive-through traffic, she said, she gunned her car forward and hit Jenkins.
After running over Jenkins, witnesses said, Nolan sped from the parking lot and drove into oncoming traffic on a one-way feeder road. She was arrested at her home after a man who saw the assault followed her and reported her plate to police.
Of course, as any one who has lived in Houston for any length of time would know, using an automobile as a weapon is acceptable ONLY if adultery is involved. Of course, that's been overdone, so even that mode of score-settling has grown old and tired.
Now, perhaps I'm lacking in compassion here, but it would seem Ms. Nolan has some serious anger management issues. As if being a DUMASS wasn't bad enough. Fortunately, she's going to have ten years to think wonder if the mayonnaise was really worth it. To make matters worse, the Texas correctional system doesn't serve mayonnaise. Man, talk about cruel and unusual punishment....
