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Alleged Intoxicated Mom Tries To Order ‘Happy Meal’ At Dairy Queen Drive-Thru

By Robert Jonathan
Published on: 11:26 PST, Aug 25, 2016

A Maine mom reportedly got her fast-food restaurants mixed up when she pulled up to a Dairy Queen drive-thru and tried to order a Happy Meal for her two young kids.

Police charged the woman, who had the kids in the car at the time, with a drunken-driving-related offense in the incident that occurred last Friday at about 10 p.m., several media accounts indicate. This incident was reportedly also the second such arrest in the last month.

According to the Penobscot Bay Pilot, Dairy Queen workers at the Belfast, Maine, fast-food/ice cream outlet allegedly suspected the customer might be drunk and stalled until cops could respond.

“Christy Neumann, 42, reportedly argued with Dairy Queen staff, insisting that she was, in fact, at McDonald’s, and ‘was going to get her kids a Happy Meal,’ according to Belfast Police Sergeant Matthew Cook….Neumann was charged with operating under the influence, violating conditions of release and endangering the welfare of a child…The children were picked up at the scene by their grandfather..”

The motorist failed field sobriety testing and was booked into the Waldo County Jail, the Bangor Daily News reported. “The bail conditions she was supposed to comply with stemmed from an incident on July 25 in Searsport, when she also was arrested and charged with operating under the influence and endangering the welfare of a child,” BDN added.

In an unrelated Dairy Queen incident that occurred in the Tampa-area last week, Florida health inspectors reportedly shut down a local store that had roaches “inside the soft serve ice cream machine, under the Blizzard machine and inside the sugar candy box at the cake prep station,” ABC affiliate WFTS reported.

In a statement from its Minneapolis corporate headquarters, a Dairy Queen executive responded, in part, that “Our restaurants are required to adhere to our strict food preparation and sanitation and health procedures that comply with or exceed county and state health regulations. We are currently working closely with this operator and the health department to correct these deficiencies. Ultimately, our goal is to elevate the level of performance standards throughout this location so they meet and exceed our, as well as our valued consumers’, expectations.”

In a wholly unrelated occurrence about a year ago, Dairy Queen employees in Albuquerque allegedly attacked a pregnant Chicago woman who stopped in for a Georgia Mud Slide Blizzard and was apparently dissatisfied by the concoction that she was served. The alleged violent encounter prompted a 26-page, multi-count personal injury lawsuit filed by the customer against the Dairy Queen corporation, as well as the local store and its manager and workers, in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, court. Dairy Queen’s current slogan is “fan food, not fast food,” but if the allegations are accurate, the customer in this instance seemingly had good reason not to be a fan of the food she was served.

On a much more pleasant note, Dairy Queen — which has about 6,700 franchise stores in the U.S., Canada, and overseas — has announced an unofficial end-of-summer Frappe giveaway by its “DQ-ristas.” On Tuesday, September 6, participating locations will give away one free small Ultimate Oreo Frappe per customer from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. local time. “The Ultimate Oreo Frappe is a combination of coffee, ice and Oreo cookie pieces blended with creamy DQ signature vanilla soft serve and crowned with whipped topping and Oreo cookie pieces to create the perfect treat and afternoon pick-me-up,” the company explained. Apart from the borough of Staten Island, Dairy Queen opened its first store in New York City in May 2014.

Parenthetically, today happens to be National Banana Split Day.

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