sanriosucks: My prick of a dad always told me eating at McDonalds would give me hepititus.
Anyway, I always heard (or read on wiki once) that Grimace was meant to represent a shake (like the frozen liquid thing).

/since I'm sure someone was wondering...

Nah, Grimace doesn't represent a milkshake. In the early days, he was sorta like the hamburglar who would come and steal people's milkshakes, then he became a good guy. Even Wiki doesn't have an idea what he is. He's said to have his mother's eyes, his fathers chin and his grandmothers fat ankles or some shiat.

/What the hell is Gonzo?

caddisfly: A college buddy did this at a bagel shop and was arrested for burglary. Not long thereafter he was committed to an insane asylum. I don't think he fully understood that it was wrong, that he shouldn't have done that.

/csb!

From lox to locks. Oy!

Even worse, back in the mid Eighties, a fired employee broke into a new Hardee's in West Des Moines and torched the place. He probably would have gotten away with it if he hadn't boasted to his friends about how clever he was. He pulled his pick up truck up to the drive-thru, climbed up on the cab, pushed up the loose ceiling tiles on the underside of the of the canopy, climbed up and crawled into the store part and dropped down trough a removed ceiling tile in there. One of his buddies ratted him out.

Actually, it's still open.

It was originally built in 90 days. It was also kind of a big deal that it also only took 90 days from the fire until it reopened. The property claims adjuster worked in my office, so I got all the details.

Oh, and the drive-thru canopy ceiling is not one single piece of double thick, stuccoed over sheet rock and there is no connection to the interior of the restaurant.

As a former McDonald's employee in high school, this is next to impossible to pull off.

The steps he'd have to take:

- Get in
- Turn on the grill and let it warm up
- Put teflons on the grill clamshells (maybe could skip this, but run the risk of destroying the heck out of the patty)
- Cook the meat (the grills can be tricky to use if you don't know how they work)
- Get the buns
- Turn on the bun toaster and let it warm up and toast buns (skippable, I suppose)
- Get the condiments
- Turn on the deep fryer and let it warm up
- Load a basket with fries and cook it in the deep fryer
- Assemble the food
- Eat
- Leave

All this probably takes about 20 minutes if he knows what he's doing, longer if not.

MrEricSir: Geez, if you're going to break into a restaurant to make food, why McDonald's? Treat yourself to something nice at least.

My first thought.

I have never been so out of my mind I wanted a MC DONALD'S HAMBURGER.

sanriosucks: Aulus: Actually, it's still open.

It was originally built in 90 days. It was also kind of a big deal that it also only took 90 days from the fire until it reopened. The property claims adjuster worked in my office, so I got all the details.

Oh, and the drive-thru canopy ceiling is not one single piece of double thick, stuccoed over sheet rock and there is no connection to the interior of the restaurant.

Dude, I know this is the wrong place to discuss this, but I totally want into that Hardees. I've come to learn that to access the inside all I need to is get up into the drive thru canopy, which is only protected by a single sheet of sheetrock, which has stucco over it. After that, access is granted to the inside, and the riches that are bound to be in the Hardee's are all mine...

Or ours... Let me know;)

Remember, I said there is now no communication between the interior of the canopy and the actual store. It's bricked up and there's no room to swing a hammer in there.

Twitch Boy: As a former McDonald's employee in high school, this is next to impossible to pull off.

The steps he'd have to take:

- Get in
- Turn on the grill and let it warm up
- Put teflons on the grill clamshells (maybe could skip this, but run the risk of destroying the heck out of the patty)
- Cook the meat (the grills can be tricky to use if you don't know how they work)
- Get the buns
- Turn on the bun toaster and let it warm up and toast buns (skippable, I suppose)
- Get the condiments
- Turn on the deep fryer and let it warm up
- Load a basket with fries and cook it in the deep fryer
- Assemble the food
- Eat
- Leave

All this probably takes about 20 minutes if he knows what he's doing, longer if not.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out this guy was a former McDonald's employee. It that's the case, it might also explain why he chose McDonald's instead of a place with better quality food.