WESTFIELD – City officers may have been reminded, early Sunday morning, that when things are complicated it’s worth the extra effort to find somebody with a clear head to speak with.
An incident began at 4:37 a.m. Sunday when a caller from the East Main Street McDonald’s called city police to complain about a customer at the drive-up window.
The caller told a dispatcher that the occupants of a vehicle at the drive-up window were refusing to leave and were yelling at the workers who could not serve them chicken during the breakfast hours.
When Officer Effrain Luna arrived, within minutes, the vehicle had left but just minutes after he left the employee called again to report that the car had returned and the occupants were banging on the drive-up window.
Luna reports that he found the vehicle nearby where it was parked in an East Main Street parking lot and the occupants started to walk the manageable distance to the owner’s home.
A supervisory officer, Kevin Bard, arrived to speak with the trio who had been in the car and attempted to explain that the restaurant does not serve chicken McNuggets during breakfast hours, even if the option is listed on the menu board.
Bard reports “The occupants had a very difficult time understanding this concept due to their alcohol consumption.”
“I stopped trying to reason with these individuals because their minds were in such a disarray and their brain cells were not registering with reality”, Bard wrote and reports that he went to the registered address of the car to find a responsible person to surrender the keys to.
Bard reports that the person who answered the door was “a white male with facial beard dressed in a black mini dress, black nylons, pink high heels and brunette wig with red highlights, with balloons for breast(s).”
He reports that he immediately asked if there was someone else in the house he could speak with.
Bard then spoke with a man “who was someone I was able to finally have a conversation with and that we both could understand each other.”
Bard said the man took custody of the keys and quickly agreed that “it was in everybody’s best interest” to leave the car parked and retrieve it in the morning after everybody had some sleep.
