TOTALLY WORTH IT
The price of the Beefy Crunch Burrito had gone up from 99 cents to $1.49 and the man at the Rigsby Road Taco Bell drive-thru had just ordered seven.
The fast food customer was so disgruntled by the price hike he shot an air gun at the manager, displayed a semiautomatic assault rifle and pistol while in the restaurant's parking lot, fled as police were called, exchanged gunfire with three officers who pulled him over, then barricaded himself in his hotel room — all over $3.50 plus additional tax.
(Thanks to Jeff Meyerson)
First there was the Thin Mints Melee...
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | March 21, 2011 at 09:30 AM
Taco Rage... a very serious problem in San Antonio.
Posted by: philinTexas | March 21, 2011 at 09:38 AM
Great one, Jeff!
Posted by: Just Some Guy | March 21, 2011 at 09:40 AM
Heck. I'd do it for $2.50!
... they're paying me, right?
Posted by: Kibby F5™ | March 21, 2011 at 09:41 AM
The Beefy Crunchy Burrito Incident - soon to be a Russell Crowe movie.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | March 21, 2011 at 09:49 AM
I saw "Thin Mints Melee" at SXSW back in the 90's.
Posted by: wiredog | March 21, 2011 at 09:51 AM
Jack Bauer would have shot the manager in the thigh after a helicopter assault on the restaurant.
Posted by: nursecindy | March 21, 2011 at 09:52 AM
SOMEONE had an Anti Social Burrito Order:
this calls for the SWATASBO TACO!
Posted by: sandy | March 21, 2011 at 10:01 AM
SWASTACO?
Posted by: sandy | March 21, 2011 at 10:03 AM
... wasn't he thinking outside the gun?
Posted by: Kibby F5™ | March 21, 2011 at 10:04 AM
Thank you, come again!Posted by: Meanie the Blue | March 21, 2011 at 11:06 AM
When I was in college, a local restaurant sold an order of soup beans and cornbread for 50 cents. Being Southern and poor, this was one of my favorites. My total food budget for a week was $15.
Then, the price shot up to 99 cents, which the manager defended as "only 49 cents more".
I protested that it was a 98% increase, overnight. Other price increases followed and the restaurant was out of business in less than 2 years.
I can see both sides of this argument, if you don't count the whole "shooting at the police" part.
Pay for it, then take your business elsewhere.
Posted by: Steve | March 21, 2011 at 11:13 AM
Thank God for the concealed carry of assault weapons. How else could the average citizen protest rising burrito prices?
Posted by: Betsy | March 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM
Good point, Betsy.
Didn't Rising Burrito Prices open for Aerosmith?
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | March 21, 2011 at 11:46 AM
When they said gas prices were going up, I thought they just meant fuel.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | March 21, 2011 at 12:03 PM
Jack Bauer would have shot EVERYONE at the Taco Hell.
I recently (yesterday) tried the Beefy Crunch Burrito
and it was 99cents in its new incarnation with "Spicy red hot Fritos" instead of the previous regular Fritos that they used.
I figured Frito Lay must be dumping their waste products in/on Taco Hell.
There was less than an ounce of Taco meat, which as our media reports is not beef...
and lots of cheesy sauce, rice, Fritos and Bean dip.
The soft taco was much better but still had very little "meat"...
I'm gonna start going elsewhere for my Tacos....
Posted by: Steve the zamasama | March 21, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Snork @ ANNIE!!!
“The weird thing is,” Tillerson said, “He was here a week ago around the same time last Sunday. He yelled at me then too.”
Soon to be a bestseller called:
GUTTED by Stephen King
SPICY RED by James Patterson
THE GIRL WHO CRACKED THE TACO BELLE by Stieg Larrson
BEEFY DECEPTION by Jonathan Kellerman
THE TACO GUNMAN by DAVID BALDUCCI
SAN ANTONIO INCIDENT by DAN BROWN
GASSED by Ronald MacDonald
Posted by: funny man | March 21, 2011 at 12:58 PM
Stieg Larrson is dead, and maybe Ronald McDonald, too.
Posted by: Mazar Larry | March 21, 2011 at 01:21 PM
When I got to the "automatic weapons" part, I knew it had to be in Texas! lol
Posted by: Cudjoebill | March 21, 2011 at 02:23 PM
Is it really safe to fire teargas into a room where someone has just consumed 7 burritos?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | March 21, 2011 at 03:05 PM
Annie, true, they could have just tossed in a lit match and saved the city money, tear gas cost.
Posted by: oldfatguy | March 21, 2011 at 04:59 PM
Steve, what did you expect for a buck?
Posted by: Elon | March 21, 2011 at 07:03 PM
"It was unclear who shot out the windshield of a police patrol car during the shooting." But it's Texas, so who cares.
Posted by: Ralph | March 21, 2011 at 07:42 PM