A Washington State Deputy, Edward Bylsma, sues Burger King after discovering employees spit on Whopper that he ordered. Bylsma is seeking $75,000 after he discovered a glob of saliva on his Whopper sandwich that he ordered while on duty. The saliva was matched through DNA evidence to one of the Burger King employees that Bylsma suspected spit on his Whopper. The employee plead guilty to assault.
Read more about Deputy Edward Bylsma’s lawsuit against Burger King, and see a video related to the incident below.
You can read news reports about the story here, here, and here. After Deputy Bylsma went through the drive through he noticed that the employees who gave him the burger were acting suspicious and after he inspected the Whopper he discovered the spit on the Whopper. The lawsuit names Burger King, and the franchise operators as defendants in the case.
It is sad that anyone would have to deal with this type of behavior, but the fact that it happened to a police officer who was simply picking up food while on duty makes this much worse. The 22 year old employee who spit on the Whopper was eventually terminated. There are no reports on the employee’s sentence for the assault charge and conviction. Hopefully it has nothing to do with food handling.
So, what do you think after reading about why Deputy Edward Bylsma sues Burger King? I think if employees spit on my Whopper I’d be ready to file a lawsuit as well. Deputy Bylsma is a better man than I am, because I’m afraid that if this happened to me there would be a story here on Right Juris about how I used a Taser on a Burger King employee who thought it was funny to spit on a Whopper. So, you know how I feel about this, but what do you all think? What type of punishment would be appropriate for this guy, and how much would you award Deputy Bylsma after he found spit on his Whopper? I know I’d award him quite a bit, but that’s just me.
April 15th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
eewwwww
April 17th, 2010 at 7:17 am
I think he should be given a long community service sentence picking up roadside waste and sentenced to a food handling class at the community college or local cookery school payed for by his parents with their signature on the check.. To mess with someones food is completely unacceptable.
April 17th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Messing with someones food is unacceptable. What I don’t understand, is why the writer considers it so much more horrible because it was a Deputy Sheriff?
I’m fairly certain the fact that it was a Deputy Sheriff is why he was even able to take it this far.
April 17th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
It would be equally bad to do this to anybody. The sherriff has a right to a safe clean meal and to be treated like a decent human being for his meals. I think there is a growing polarization between more and more of the public and law enforcement officers. I also think there is a growing menatlity among law enforcement that looks at more and more of the citizenry as insurgents, due to the war on drugs. Frankly why should a small amount of substance be used to criminalize someone forever,, blocking them from any decent jobs, as well as being used as a net to suck someone into the criminal justice system which will never leave them alone.They may even lose their car over this. its like state sanctioned kidnapping in public. I am not saying using drugs is good but what is with this obssession with criminalizing nonviolent people in transit just cause they are on the road. Freedom, should mean basic freedom of passage in America, not “lets light them up and see if we can help them” as officers so often say on police reality shows before they swoop in on some person and change their lives forever. So that may be part of the visceral reaction on part of some people. So now this incident makes the officer just more mistrustful and alienated from the public he stops “to help” and it just breeds frictions. basic law and order doesn not have to mean zero tolerance on everything with such a diverse population.