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The iPod is a multi-function device and using it to rap your order at McDonalds is not a crime.
A Salt Lake City judge cleared Spenser Dauwalder, 18, of disorderly conduct for ordering at a McDonald’s by singing along to a rap song playing on his iPod. Dauwalder and his three 17-year-old friends in the car faced $750 fines.
The teen was imitating the Mickey D rap in the YouTube video above, which, translated into lay speak asks for fries, a double cheeseburger, a 10-piece chicken dinner and two Dr Peppers.
Fast food manager Ilene Timoko said she was pulled away from the front counter to deal with the drive-through hijinks. When Timoko donned the headset used to converse with customers, she said she heard “rapping and swearing.” She said she went outside and asked the boys to “place an order or leave.”
The car zigzagged in the parking lot — perhaps to keep Timoko from writing down the license number — and concerned about the reckless driving, that’s when she called police.
Defense attorney Ann Boyle countered that the boys’ actions are protected by the First Amendment right to free speech. “Using the f-word is not a crime in America,” Boyle told the Salt Lake Tribune. “Singing your order is not a crime in America.”
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
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