Rap when you're ready: 4 Utah teens cited for disorderly conduct for McDonald's order


8:57 a.m. EDT, October 30, 2009
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A rap by four teenagers at a McDonald's has gotten them a bad rap in one Utah city.

The teens were cited by American Fork police earlier this week for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald's drive-through.

The teens said they were imitating a popular video on YouTube. They rapped their order, which begins with, "I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce ..." once quickly before repeating it more slowly.

Spenser Dauwalder said employees at the restaurant told him and his friends they were holding up the line and needed to order or leave.

The 18-year-old said nobody was in line. He and his three 17-year-old friends left without buying anything.

American Fork Police Sgt. Gregg Ludlow says a manager wrote down the car's license plate number and called police. The teens were later cited by officers at a high school parking lot outside a volleyball match.

"We thought, you know, just teenagers out having fun," Dauwalder told KSL Newsradio. "We didn't think it would escalate to that."

Disorderly conduct citations are issued when someone does something to cause annoyance or alarm, Ludlow said. The citation is an infraction similar to a speeding ticket, Ludlow said.

"It was not just that they were rapping, they continued to hold things up," Ludlow said.

Ludlow said the teens were asked several times to speak plainly and that ultimately the manager came outside.

The owner-operator of the McDonald's said in a statement that the issue was about employees' safety at the restaurant in American Fork, about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City.

"The employee in question felt that her safety was at risk as a result of the alleged actions of these individuals in the drive-thru, not as a result of them rapping their order," franchisee Conny Kramer said in the statement. "As such, she contacted the local authorities."

But Sharon Dauwalder, Spenser's mother, said they will fight it nonetheless.

"We have to," she told The Associated Press on Thursday. "The citation is there."






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[Edited 10/30/09 11:47am]

that's code for :
"she thought they were black and were about to come inside and ravish her."

I think I am going to try that!


"I want a big mac and I can not lie
I want em with a large order of fries
large chocolate shake
and mc nugget 8 pack
with sauce sweet and sour
I'm really hungry so
i'll be back in an hour"
[Edited 10/30/09 12:25pm]

my word...

reminds me of the time Shaggy phoned his local Tescos.....

DesireeNevermind said:

Smart ass kids.

is lack of originality a felony or a misdemeanour?

DesireeNevermind said:

She got their licence plate number as they were leaving so surely any 'proposed' danger to her safety was gone but she still felt it was necessary to call the police after they were gone cause she felt unsafe?

whistle said:

Thankfully for PRINCE and his last 4 albums no....

OnlyNDaUsa said:

zing!

Is that a name of a real town?

Don't the police have murderers and rapists to catch or something?

Sheesh

Where does it say that they were arrested in the story, per the title? Did I miss something or were they just ticketed?

can't rap your order?

what is Utah thinking?

next they will make it illegal to marry more than one wife.....jeez

OnlyNDaUsa said:

connorhawke said:

Salt Lake City? Oh yeah, that's Mormon country.

sextonseven said:

Mormom muffins!

Actually I meant American Fork....just seems like a strange name to me

Strange enough for me to doubt my reading comprehension skills.

DesireeNevermind said:

When you go through a drive thru, do as you are told!

japanrocks said: