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Area Man To Hang Out At McDonald's For 20 Minutes Until Lunch Menu Goes Up
ERIE, PA—Upon being informed by a McDonald’s cashier that the lunch menu would not be available until 11 a.m., restaurant patron Don Turnbee elected to wait 20 minutes inside the fast food establishment Saturday until the items he ordered would be served.
Eighteen and a half minutes before lunch is served.“There aren’t any other stores or anything that I like around here, so I figured I would just wait,” said Turnbee, who typically frequents the McDonald’s in the Buffalo Road shopping plaza, but chose to stop at the Pleasant Valley location because of its proximity to his wife’s hair salon. “The girl at the counter said I could still get breakfast if I wanted, but 10:40′s too late for breakfast.”
Added Turnbee, “I want lunch.”
The 41-year-old explained that he had already eaten breakfast earlier that morning, when he and his wife, Shelly, went to a nearby Bob Evans. Turnbee said he was not aware of the lunch-serving policy at this particular McDonald’s.
“They said they start [serving lunch] at 11 on weekends and 10:30 on weekdays,” Turnbee told reporters. “The one on Buffalo Road does it earlier, so I guess it’s different at different McDonald’s. It should probably be the same, but it’s different.”
According to restaurant employees, when Turnbee entered the establishment, he proceeded to order a No. 3 value meal with no pickles and a large Sprite. After they told him that lunch was not available until 11 a.m., Turnbee reportedly stood in silence for a few seconds, backed away from the cash register, and made his way to the seating area.
“Before I ordered, I saw that the breakfast menu was up,” Turnbee noted. “But sometimes they forget to switch the menu if you get there right when breakfast ends. Also, if it’s close, they’ll usually serve you lunch anyways. I guess they don’t do that here.”
After dispensing several napkins and filling two ketchup containers, Turnbee selected a booth with a view of the menu board. He then sat for approximately one minute before glancing at his wristwatch and returning to the condiment counter to fill another ketchup container.
By 10:48 a.m., Turnbee had begun slowly walking around the restaurant’s perimeter, perusing the various decorative paintings hanging on the walls. He also examined a plaque featuring a brief description of the restaurant and its founder, even though he had previously read the same inscription on an identical plaque at the Pleasant Valley McDonald’s.
At one point, Turnbee entered the men’s room. He later acknowledged that this trip was mainly to fill time.
“It’s getting pretty close to 11,” Turnbee said.
As he waited, Turnbee expressed his commitment to ordering lunch, stating that he would not, under any circumstance, order breakfast.
“Their Egg McMuffins are pretty good, and the pancakes are all right, but I’m in the mood for a burger,” said Turnbee, who when spotted moments later eating a hash brown explained that he needed something to tide him over, and that “hash browns are basically French fries.”
With five minutes to go before lunch, Turnbee began standing in line, allowing customers to proceed ahead of him if they confirmed they were ordering breakfast. He repeatedly peered out at patrons in the drive-thru, apparently to make certain they were not being served lunch.
“There shouldn’t be any difference between the drive-thru and when you go inside,” he said.
According to Turnbee, he has been in this position many times before, though mostly at Wendy’s—a fast food establishment he said isn’t very good at making clear when they serve breakfast.
“I just hope that when the lunch menu goes up they’re ready to serve everything,” Turnbee said. “They should have the fries and the nuggets already cooked because people are definitely going to order them when they order lunch. You can usually order pop with breakfast, so that shouldn’t be an issue.”
Continued Turnbee, “I wonder if the girl will remember my order or if I’ll have to order again.”
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Four cops busted
FOUR policemen, including a senior officer, were last night being held at the high-security New Horizon Remand Centre in Kingston, following their arrests for the December 2004 disappearance of two men from a shopping centre in Kingston.
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| The burnt-out Honda CRV which was found in the mangroves along the Port Royal Road in January 2005. (Observer file photo) |
The men – Kemar Walters and Oliver Duncan – were abducted from the bustling shopping centre along the Washington Boulevard and their Honda CRV later found burnt to a shell on the Port Royal Road in Kingston. However, their bodies were never found.
Mark Shields, the deputy commissioner in charge of the crime portfolio, said the identities and ranks of the cops would not be released as the investigation was continuing.
“I will not comment on that, all I will say is that they are in custody and will be questioned in due course,” Shields told the Observer.
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| SHIELDS. they are in custody and will be questioned in due course |
Shields said the families of the kidnapped men were informed of the arrests and while their remains had yet to be found, the police were looking to help the grieving families find closure.
The news further jolted the image of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, following sharply on Tuesday’s announcement by Police Commissioner Hardley Lewin that he had retired 10 cops in the public interest, in connection with the deadly lotto scam in the northcoast resort city of Montego Bay.
Walters and Duncan were reportedly bundled into a vehicle and carted off by three armed men, one of whom was wearing a police vest.
Walters’ father, Lloyd Walters, operated an auto repair garage on West Main Road in St Andrew where Duncan had been a client for about a year.
Police said that on the day both men were abducted, Duncan had gone to the garage driving a dark blue Honda CRV. He gave Walters a lift to the nearby Washington Plaza on Washington Boulevard as he was going to purchase auto parts.
But the men were apparently detained by the cops and have not been seen since. One of the cops reportedly drove away the sports utility vehicle.
Two weeks after the incident a burnt out shell of a Honda CRV was found in the mangroves on Port Royal Road but despite several searches by the police in that area, the remains of the two men were not found.
Duncan was alleged to be a major player in a multimillion-dollar car-stealing ring which involved policemen, body repairmen and car alarm technicians.
Three cops who were assigned to the Organised Crime Unit were implicated in the case.
Then Police Commissioner Francis Forbes sought help from Scotland Yard investigators to crack the case, but the investigation hit a snag and a police corporal who was charged with unlawful abduction in connection with the case was freed because of lack of evidence.
However, in April last year, Shields called a press conference to announce that the police had uncovered fresh evidence and had reopened the probe.
Yesterday he again appealed to his colleagues in the force with information about the abductions to come forward.
“It remains a blot on the history of the Jamaica Constabulary Force but we will not stop until we reach the end of the investigation,” Shields said.
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewellyn, is also being kept abreast of the latest developments of the investigation, Shields said.
