Suit: Burger King served pot burgers to cops

cnn

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) -- Two police officers sued Burger King Corp., claiming they were served hamburgers that had been sprinkled with marijuana.

The lawsuit says Mark Landavazo and Henry Gabaldon, officers for the Isleta Pueblo tribal police, were in uniform and riding in a marked patrol car when they bought meals at the drive-through lane October 8 of a Burger King restaurant in Los Lunas, New Mexico.

The officers ate about half of their burgers before discovering marijuana on the meat, the lawsuit said. They used a field test kit to confirm the substance was pot, then went to a hospital for medical evaluations.

"It gives a whole new meaning to the word 'Whopper,"' the officers' attorney, Sam Bregman, said Monday.

"The idea that these hoodlums would put marijuana into a hamburger and therefore attempt to impair law enforcement officers trying to do their jobs is outrageous."

Three Burger King employees were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and aggravated battery on an officer, a felony. They later were indicted.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Bernalillo County, alleges personal injury, negligence, battery and violation of fair practices. It seeks unspecified damages along with legal costs.

Officials at Miami-based Burger King declined to comment, citing a company policy against discussing pending litigation.

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Yeah, heard about this one awhile back




I almost got a job at BK. woot

Humourous, but why would someone actually go through with that? Just sprinkled on? I would imagine they would know it wasn't oregano.

Yep the cops are pissed, because they couldn't get it their way, and kept ordering more

Man that's funny

Haha thats hilarious! :1orglaugh

That's just stupid, don't they know that Tribal cops
already have all the good weed and peyote. To be
effective ingested, it either has to be some high grade
shit... which no matter how rank BK is, you'd still be
able to smell the dank or with dirt weed, you got to
eat a fuckload.

yeah theres no way that a bit of weed sprinkle on a burger would do that, unless it was good weed, and it was actually cooked with the burger, and cooking it like that would make the entire place smell like weed.

they should be happy noone spat in thier burgers