Woman Tasered in Front of Daughter After Cutting McDonalds Drive-Thru Line

She didn’t get the HALF of what she deserved!

What an arrogant, self-centered, selfish woman! She should be ashamed for throwing a tantrum like that in front of her child… what kind of example was she for a young developing mind?

Too bad this wasn’t the old days, when the cops would have hit her with a sap & knocked her to the ground!

This is normal human behavior combined with misjudgment. Every human being would cut the line if they could get away with it, and every human tries to up the stakes when they are told their bad acts won’t fly. Her mistake was in taking on the grunts at a fast food restaurant, who don’t care if the cars waiting in line are stuck there for 20 minutes, 40 minutes, or eternity. If they were getting paid by the number of customers served, instead of by the hour, she’d have gotten way with it no sweat.

I’m glad McDonald’s refused to serve her and she got tased. If she had gotten her way she would be showing that 3-year-old that they can grow up showing no respect to anyone else and can get away with doing anything they want. Well someone showed her otherwise. Perhaps her kid wasn’t the only one with the 3-year-old mind in the car when she cut in line.

Too bad the employees didn’t bring the food out to every other car
and leave her there for another 2 hrs.

The description of this situation just screams to me that Evangeline Lucca, the woman tasered, is most likely bipolar and was in a manic mood swing. My dad was bipolar, and when he went manic, he would become belligerent and arrogant, with a hair-trigger temper that would erupt into absolutely volcanic rage at the most trivial things.

I would bet $1000 against a stale donut that this woman was riding the “crazy train” off the rails manic. It also wouldn’t surprise me a bit if the police had had previous encounters with this woman, recognized her, recognized that she was manic, and acted to protect her child.

I cannot begin to put into words how much I wish something like this had happened to my father when he was manic and I was a tiny child. Terrified isn’t a strong enough word to describe what it feels to be a child who is helpless in the control of a parent who is bipolar manic and enraged.

These Tased and taser issues are getting out of control, “Law Enforcement Professional’s” just love there ability to use these dangerous, ” Toy’s Are Us” toys”. I’m waiting for a portable water boarding system or Technic, to be invented. Then they can “Try Training their use of both at the same time, on all the other uncharged and non convicted nutty’s out there. Of course that’s fine until your the nutty. Listen Carefully…. Wipe away the sleepy from your eye’s America….The Land Was Green Before the Tanks Came !!”….with super tasers?

Steve, Any head protection is better than carrying a badge.

Patrick Williamson, so the police should have beat her? Is that what you are saying? I’ll take a Tasering over an a**-kicking any day, thank you very much. Apparently a drive taze/pain compliance alone wasn’t enough to get her out of the car. She still required a full blown taze.

amazing,a 37 year old child.

This woman was acting like a shrew but I really am against tasing people like that. It can kill people with medical conditions they don’t know about. It is mean and it really hurts. My husband was tased for his job and it really made him very angry.

The local paper says the employees called the police because she does this all the time. If that is the case, she is lucky all she got was tased because people have been the victim of roadrage for less. Maybe she is bipolar or maybe she is just another self-entitled ill-behaved person that acts this way because she has been allowed to get away with it for too long. She certainly is a bad mother for not only modeling this type of behavior but for putting her child in danger and, ultimately, child protective services. I hope this teaches her that this beavior is unacceptable and if she is ill that she gets help and stay on her meds.

We were considering a move to NC but not now. I think there is something seriously wrong with the drinking water there. I would love to see a video posted on You tube of the crazy woman flopping out of the car like a fish.

I disagree; the tased and tasers are NOT out of control. Our crummy society IS out of control. Watch the news and see how much trash is in our society. This woman brought all of it on herself and inconvenienced the POLITE customers. Her 3 year old daughter saw Mommy acting rude, selfish and stupid.

Stupid slugs at the drive-thru. Power abusing cops who got off tasing a woman with her toddler. And the posters here thinking that a three-year-old would even know that her mother cut the line are freaking geniouses! Never mind the damage done by these cops tasing and hurting her nom to the point of her falling out of the car! Now THAT a toddler would understand. I wonder how much of all of this has to do with mom’s surname, I wonder rhow willing these cops would have been to expose this child to the horror of them hurting her mom, if she had blond hair and blue eyes. Surely a few strong men could have tried to talk her down and remove her with less than this gang-style beat-down.

She felt entitled. They really should check out her mental health before giving her child back. That kind of irrationality isn’t normal.

This woman should be charged with child abuse along with everything else. How dare she put a child in this situation! Our children are watching us. Everything we do, right and wrong, shapes who they are. You know this wasn’t the first time this woman lost her temper and acted irresponsibly. I pray she gets help for her child’s sake and for her own.

was she black? lol

” Every human being would cut the line if they could get away with it”…Sorry puddin tain, I wouldn’t cause I know the right thing to do to wait my turn. Glad the woman got what she deserved and hope they place the child in the hands of decent human beings and not back with this low-life, cause the child will grow up just like this idiot.

Enough with the racist comments already!!!! Your ‘black’ comments are just as rude, insensitive and ignorant as the woman in this story.

I’d wait in line for an hour to watch an idiot get tased.

Cops felt like having Kentucky FRIED Chicken for lunch!!! Lol…

Hey MsT-Mac, don’t start none, won’t be none. It’s a shame this idiot is reproducing.

Typical Americans. Fighting over food.

Haha, I am starting to respect Mcdonalds, after the one Mcdonald worker guy who beat the crap out of the girl who jumped the counter and now this for refusing her order because she cut in line. She should have learned not cutting in line is wrong. Good for McDonalds.

I just realized what is wrong with this country. It’s not Evangelina, it’s all the idiots out there that blame the cops. No wonder we are so screwed up, half you morons think it’s the cops fault, or that tazing is extreme. We as a society have become so soft that if we don’t toughen up, start punishing stupidity instead of celebrating it (see occupy movement) we are done as a society. Wake up people and get control of your country

Hey Karen, are you a member of the Jersey Mafia? Hilarous!

A shock seems excessive until I hear WHY she cut in line and WHY she was refused service… Was she at the order sign or at the window? Had she previously placed an order and it was incorrect and she just wanted to get it fixed? Inside that’s EXACTLY how it works. You get a burger instead of chicken and you just pop back to the counter no matter how many people are in line and no one objects.

Now… if she was one of those fools who insists there are in line simply because they came in through the back entrance and didn’t actually go around the building and get in the lane, then she should have been refused.

I have to ask when did tasers become the tool of non-compliance? Do as I say or you’ll get tased! Yes, I know you have no weapon, are not trying to flee and are not a physical threat to anyone but here… You might just be an idiot, but ZAP! Have your jolt of potential heart stopping electricity.

What did police do with non-compliance before they had tasers? Oh yeah, they weren’t such jerks back then… even if the other person was.

Guess she is part of the OCCUPY movement. Occupy McDonalds.

LOL.. all this whining over someone tasing her…. if her child wasn’t in the car, they should of shot here stupid @@@ and rid the world of another person who thinks they are better than everyone else and the world owes her something. Good job to the Police!

She threatened officers. The police should have let the people that were in line that she broke in front of have a shot at her with the taser. Selfish idiot. She shouldn’t be allowed to breed.

Back in the early 70s, i lived in Newport Beach, Ca. There is a tiny little restaurant called the Crab Cooker. By tiny, I mean they have a seating capacity of 25 people. The food is delicious and is known nation wide. Well, this restaurant doesn’t take reservations so the lines are loooooooong. Then president Richard Nixon had an assistant call to make reservations only to be told by the owner of this restaurant that NO, the president would have to stand in line like everybody else. Big huge stink made over this incident. You can read about it on the Crab Cooker website under history. I thought it was hilarious.

Should have taken her to jail, and her child to DCS.

i think the cops should be tasered in there eye balls

I would have paid to tase that stupid selfish woman.

Just about every time I go to the movies anymore there is somebody in the audience I’d like to taser. Loud, texting, obnoxious people.

Was alcohol involved??

Adam,
Maybe you should go back and READ the article. Your post has nothing to do with the situation at hand.

Maybe a few years in jail will teach her some manners. I’m certain there are plenty of folks who would love to adopt her daughter and get her out of that unstable situation. Women like this have no reason to have children and they kid needs to be taken away from her.

Patrick…If I ever act like that woman, much less in the presence of my child, please feel free to tase me.

American police are like the Taliban and why Americans fear the police unlike other developed countries. They are trained to employ violence not persuasion or people skills. The American public is largely primitive and ignorant. tasers were supposed to be used in lieu of guns and only where lives were threatened. It is time to outlaw tasers. american police do not have the sophistication or restraint to be trusted with them History will write of this chapter in a shocking manner.

well, as a Christian, I be patient with the woman. What do Jesus do if the woman is cutting off the line? What if the woman they tasered happened to have Post-Traumtic-Dramtic-Disorder?

Regardless of the social Faux-pas that Mrs. Lucca supposedly committed, the best course of action for the restaurant employees and management was to just serve the woman and let her be on her way.
I am a culinary arts student and I know that this type of response by employees is in appropriate and wrong.
Hospitality industry employees are bound by a customer service code, regardless of the fact a guest becomes unruly. This is exactly why management personnel are hired to help defuse these type of situations.
Having a person physically abused by law enforcement personnel because she didn’t want to move could have all been prevented by serving the meal and letting her go.
Shame on McDonald’s Corporation, shame on the poorly trained employees and management of the Hope Mills, McDonalds.
Mrs. Lucca should be compensated for the abuse on private property and her daughter should be compensated for the trauma she experienced. I hope she files a lawsuit.

I cannot believe that ANYONE would condone or make excuses for this disrespectful, obviously entitled woman. We in America live in a society where there are basic rules, like going to the back of the line and waiting your turn. What makes this idiot think her time is more important than the customers following the rules. She had the opportunity to move her car, or get out when the police told her. I am so sick of people crying police brutality in instances where the perpetrator is 100% in the wrong, and then call them to help when they need the police. I applaud McDonalds for not allowing this BULLY to strongarm them into okaying her low life behavior. And to expect them to serve this woman is just ignorant. The problem with this country right now isn’t the police. It is the entitlement attitude. Until more businesses do like this McDonalds the attitude will continue.

when they Tased her the second time, she just flopped out of the car like a fish.”……..so funny!! love it!!! lol

Great job McD and cops. Rude, crude, obnoxious, lawless behavior has become the norm. Time to enforce laws and live by rules made for all of us. One small step to turn this country back to something to be proud of. Glad the McD employee stood their ground.

Who’s the idiot that said American’s are afraid of the police? I’m not! I’m a law abiding citizen! What do I have to be afraid of? Also, from someone who graduated the Police Academy and was a prison officer for five years, we ARE taught people skills! Just not ANIMAL skills!

To Don L – You stated ‘Tasers are supposed to be restricted for use when ‘less-lethal’ force is necessary. That metans they’re supposed to be used *only* when a firearm wouild be used, if tasers were not available.’ You actually interpreted that backwards. They use the least amount of force necessary and then it escalates up to the next level if the least did not work. I would be willing to bet that the next time an officer gives her a verbal command, she will comply without the attitude.

cutting in line and being obstinate at the mcdonalds drive through with your kid? really? were you in THAT big a hurry to instruct your child on how to die a fat amputee with type two diabetes, kidney failure, and bursted blood vessells in the tongue??!

Sounds like she was having a Big Mac attack. It also would appear that her actions, especially threatening the deputies, indicate she is more than just a few fries shy of a Happy Meal.

I hate the rudeness that our culture condones. However, I know how rude some fast food workers can be too. The best thing those McDonald’s workers could have done is serve the woman and let her go. It is not their responsibility to have her disciplined thereby giving them something to laugh at after the fact. Those cops tased this woman for what? Overkill

Let her have her way? This is why we have morons like this. They constantly get away with it. She got what she deserved, yet she should have got more. You are not special now go to the end of the line.

@Don L. Spot on. Thank you for being HUMAN.

I notice that most of the people responding have taken the role of judge and jury based merely upon what has been reported in this article. I suppose the assumption that the police are always right is a good one, but to then assume using a taser is the appropriate remedy is very troubling. Why do we always assume beligerence can only be resolved with violence? I am not a liberal pacifist, but I am seeing our rights being eroded in this country not by the police, but by people’s attitudes from watching too many fictional cop shows on TV!

UM! She wasn’t tasered for cutting in line, she was tasered for being “defiant,” and “would not get off McDonalds property,” and was “threatening the deputies. Big difference!

“Tasers are supposed to be restricted for use when ‘less-lethal’ force is necessary. That means they’re supposed to be used *only* when a firearm wouild be used, if tasers were not available”

Posted by: steward | February 6, 2012, 9:52 am 9:52 am
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Uhhh, nope. Apparently you have never been in law enforcement. It is called a continuum of force from the BOTTOM UP NOT top down. If commands do not work, then hands, then the next and so on. If you can use a gun…you use a gun because at that point your or someone elses life is at risk. Prior to tasers it was commands, hands, pepper spray, batons, then handguns. Then it became commands, hands, pepper spray, tasers, batons (i.e. asps), then handguns.

Do not try to define what you do not understand.

@ Paula:

I worked as an Asst Mgr for a retail store a while back, and the protocol was if you had trouble with a customer, you asked them to leave. If they refused to leave, you called police so you could issue a trespass warrant. Limits the store’s liability. If the McDonald’s people had tried to remover her themselves, that’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. The police have much greater liability protection. McDonald’s did the right thing.

All I can add to this is ” Dont Mac-Taze Me Bro”

Um, what in the world is wrong with you people?

She was rude. That’s all. Anyone cheering that she “got what she deserved” or “I would have tased her myself” are out of your flippin’ mind. You also need to learn what the phrase “slippery slope” means, and how it easily could apply to you next, for a far lesser “violation”.

This is a horrible case of abuse by police, and they should be taken to court and personally sued until they’re bankrupt.

What should have been done, you may ask?

Tell her to move. If she refuses, then cite her for trespassing (warn her first that it’s going to happen), serve her the food, and send the ticket to her house. End of issue, and nobody gets hurt.

I bet she was driving a Lexus.

@ITSA ME – Being human and being ignorant are not the same thing. :)