I did similar (and probably worse) stuff as a teenager and any police involvement took the form of a "Don't do it again." and usually ended with them walking away laughing about it. This case is ridiculous and a serious waste of police and judicial resources not to mention tax dollars.

The question isn't did the kids do cause for a citation, it was did the police have the right to cite the teenagers? The answer yes, they were doing their duty, it doesn't matter if was stupid or not, police are not at fault, it is McDonalds and the stupid teenagers. If I reported something to the police and told me they aren't wasting their time on my stupid report, they better be fired.

I agree wholeheartedly with you. As a non-Mormon who lived in Utah while attending BYU, I thought many times that Utah's statutes were a bit outdated and over the top sometimes, but this is ridiculous (even though I, too, hate rap). Was anyone actually hurt in any way, shape, or form by this incident? Certainly not the business - because other than the youths who were cited, there was no immediate business. I find it difficult to understand that the State of Utah was willing to spend taxpayers money to send a police officer after these four hard-core criminals.

wait, the kids were placing an order and there were no cars in line behind them.... Are you telling me that if I place an order (speaking not singing) but I speak very slowly I am interfering with doing business too? They were placing an order the employee could just have taken it - what about the case of people that stutter but won't stutter when singing or rapping? Wouldn't they then have the right to sing their order to the benefit of all? If it were me taking the order I would have appreciated the humor and it surely would have put a smile on my face. I much rather this kind of teenage fun then destructive fun - kids have energy and need to use it....I do not see where the kids were being stupid, McDonalds on the other hand definitely overreacted - I would love it if the judge with dismiss this case and actually fined McDonalds for the waste of time and money it caused the taxpayers.... The police just acted according to the law, but they too could have left it with a warning (although I really do not know for what, but they could have done that...)

I guess McDonald's doesn't clown around anymore :-) Sorry, couldn't help myself.

Wow - what happened to McDonald's?

When I was a teen way back in the 70's, McDonald's had a promotion with the 'Big Mac' jingle. If you could sing it in under 10 seconds (or something like that) you got a free Big Mac (or fries, or something). Obviously back then they actually WANTED you to SING your order....

That's the problem with Society these days.
No one is held responsible when they do something stupid.

So what should I do when someone can't decide what they want off the menu (not exactly rocket science) and is holding me up in line? Will the police be called because they can't choose between a burger or chicken? Or they got 3 fewer fries in this package than the other. Because not be ready to order when you get in line is just as stupid!! So let's just have a police task force that waits in fast food lines for the idiots who can't even order and have them all arrested!!

what a stupid waste of time. maybe the cops can get "footloose"II made. the town elders must be angry.

I agree completely. If they didn't stick around or tell the manager to f--themselves this should've been ingored. Not disurbing the peace if you stop when asked.

Obviously, those kids should have been tasered!! That would've taught them a lesson.

Look here brother, Who you jivin' with that Cozmik Debris?

Izzat a Real Poncho, or izzat a Sears Poncho?

Arresting someone for "rapping" is one thing, for making a nuisance and essentially disturbing or preventing commerce at a place of business is another.

Whoever we Are, Wherever we're From, We oughta noticed by Now Our Behavior is Dumb.

and If our Chances Expect to Improve it's Gonna Take a lot More than Tryin' to Remove the Other Race, the other Whatever from the Face of the Planet All-together.

I agree.. this issue is so stupid.. That manager needs to be fired for waisting my hard earned tax payers money... So if it is against the law to hold up a line, the i can technically call the poice or ask a Mcdonalds manager to have a customer arrested because they are takeing to long to complete their order.. Cause waiting in line to lone is a violation of my Mcdonalds ordering rites... I sure hope the parents of those boys has a long talk with them as well as some choice words for that manager.. To the cops who may read this.. stop waisting our tax money on stupid @!$%#.. I always wait way to long at a mcdonalds drive through. Maybe I should call the cop and the people taking the order and have them cited and arested...

Have you guys actually heard the rap? It's pretty catchy really. When it first came out I heard that if you sang it at a McDonald's drive thru you'd get a free burger, but now they're citing kids for singing it? What's up with that?

Hey, I'm with you dude, ALL the way

if they had chosen a different genre of music say accapella, country or show-tune would they still have been cited?

The police refuse to act on reports all the time based on nothing more than their perspective of what they hear from witnesses. This should have never become official

But attorney Kasey Wright, who represented American Fork in court Wednesday, said the case isn't about free speech.

"This is not a First Amendment case," he said. "This is disturbing the peace. It's interrupting a business."

This guy is an idiot. Did they damage the property or steal anything? No? Then give me a break. It would be one thing if the restraunt called the cops and the cops arrived to find a bunch of kids causing a problem. But unless there's a lot more to this story, all I see here is a long list of idiots, the cops involved, the McDonals manager, and the town that just needs to let this drop quickly.

Wright said he's open to working out a deal in the case "if it can serve the demands of justice and the public interest."

The "demands of justice and the public interest"??? Are you serious? I wouldn't take a deal either, dragging this out longer makes you look like more and more of an idiot.

If the manager at Micky"The Crack Cop Kill'n" D's didn't didn't like the crap, he didn't have to serve them.

RAP "that is CRAP, that you can't "C"", started out as cop killer music. So if generation "DUMB,FAT, and LAZY" wants their super sized bag of garbage, then maybe they should learn that not everyone wants to listen to C"RAP"(CRAP).

Remenber the sign that states,

NO SHIRT!

NO SHOES!

NO SERVICE!

Maybe, NO C"RAP"(CRAP), should be added to it!

Simple solution.

Every teen and preteen in the area stop going to that restaurant. I'm sure that the other restaurants in the area could use the business. Not to mention the complaining manager of the McDonalds could explain the drop in revenue to his bosses.

Absolutely, Brian K, as there is no justification for the police reacting in this manner.  Teenagers would respect the police officers and the law if they had been given a warning.  Oh, do I remember my two boys and the foolishness.  The officer would just bring them home.  Actually, I think it is pretty cute that they rapped their order - wish I had been there.

Mc Donnals is the ones pressing charges not the police

Maybe they got "uppity" with the police. We are only seeing one side of this.

That's true, but I mean really, how bad can it be? They were just trying to make the McDonald's people laugh. I probablly would have. WHy call the police in the first place?

I might not be a fair judge because I have six sons, but singing at McDonald's would have been mild compaired to some of the things I (and the boys) lived though. The police would bring one or more boys home and give them a talking to, but I can't imagine the police even bothering with this kind of deplorable behavior. LOL. Get a life McDonalds manager and Utah Police.

This is funny as hell !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jEbK4xAz2Q

Heard the Taco Bell rap yet ??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnsu6wluOXI&feature=related

good point, if they were so busy, how did he have time to take down the information.

What blatant waste are you talking about?

It's not like the cops only get paid when they do something, they're getting paid whether they answer the call or not. Not going to the McDonalds on the complaint would not have saved the taxpayers one red cent.

I have 10 years of management experience. Annoying customers are a part of life, its what you get paid for.
Calling the police is excessive, and unneccessary. I deal with hundreds of cars a day, about 30% don't turn off their stereos, or are talking on their phones while ordering...should I start calling the cops on them too?

"If they stopped when told and left, then give em a scare and send em home."

If they really left when asked, then I don't see why they deserve even a 'scare'. They did nothing wrong. Last I checked, joviality is no crime.

Embarassing story, in any case.

Or child molestation and numerous wives

? What kind of comment is that to hid behind MORSAW. Your bigotry shines through.

Right on, Mormon people are ALL RACIST BIGOTS! Who have multiple white wifes, worship GW Bush and Orrin Nazihatch and they molest children yearning for that zion (penis). They own corrupt companies such as Slaveway Randalls. Have you ever seen a Hispanic Mormon? I will give you some time to think about answering that question. How about an Asian Mormon? The correct answer is NO. They only had 1 African American join their fellowship and it took until 1978 to "allow blacks in their churches" (they outdid MC Bigot Jerry Fartwell) The mother is committing treason by not filling a lawsuit against McDonalds to pay for their Bologna trial and hiring their sons defense attorneys. I would at least call Jesse Jackson because it was about rap, could it be reasonable to believe that if they displayed the song as country would the officer cite them? no Even though the kids are white they can sue McDonalds for racial discrimination because blacents and ebonics and slang are culture in nature among black racial tribes McDonalds supervisor committed the racist act by calling the police because he was rapping and after they left when told he insisted on filing charges. Add 1 count of Harassment and 1 count of wrongful arrest if they were detained. The mother should sue for at least 1 million dollars in punitive damages unless tort reform was past by the NaziTah's Repubinazis. I wonder if the court has the flag of the fuhrer in the court room. The kids should do a hi Hitler salute to the Judge after the guilty verdict has been read followed by fkk you puritans. (I wonder if they will get the death penalty for doing that.)

Someone got out of the wrong side of his sleeping bag.

" Have you ever seen a Hispanic Mormon? I will give you some time to think about answering that question "

I don't have to think about that very long, considering that Mexicans are from the Spanish take over of central and south america. The catholic influence upon the hispanics is overwelming, just like the mormon's control Utah.

So, how many catholic churchs are there in OGDEN, beside the one's the momon's burned down.

"How about an Asian Mormon?"

One of my good friends from college and her entire Chinese family are Mormons in SLC.

A redneck is a farmer! How could this cop be a farmer and a cop? People use the word redneck for anything and everything and it is actually a farmer! You know, the sun beating on the back of his neck!

You might check a dictionary before you correct people on their use of words. "narrow, prejudiced, or reactionary: a redneck attitude."

red⋅neck

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–noun

1.
an uneducated white farm laborer, esp. from the South.

2.
a bigot or reactionary, esp. from the rural working class.

–adjective

3.
Also, red-necked. narrow, prejudiced, or reactionary: a redneck attitude.

that might be where the term redneck originated but now it means white trash dead beat uneducated hillbillies, but that doesn't stop rednecks from being proud(git' r' dun) it's stupid really a whole class of people proud of their social shortcomings. no better than people that think its "gangsta" to live in a ghetto and hustle crack all day while their families fall to pieces but hey.....somewhere the real news is rolling in it's grave.....

"it's stupid really a whole class of people proud of their social shortcomings"

Ebonics comes to mind when you say that.... what a shame THAT was...trying to dumb down the school system for the inner city kids, instead of helping them reach their full potential!

i agree

The gift certificates wont even be enough for the bigmac.

What is with everyone hatin on Utah? This is not a thing that happens all the time jsut a case of one uptight person who doesn't know how to have fun! I live in Utah and my husband and I always have a little fun when we go through drive throughs everyone laughs and has fun! So do't blame it on all of Utah because this isn't happening all over Utah!

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kisses4cc post #10.1,

"I live in Utah and my husband and I always have a little fun when we go through drive throughs everyone laughs and has fun!"

You better not try that at McDummys, the busy Stupidviser will take the time to write down your license number, and report you to the busy police; who will take the time to chase you down and cite you.

They have nothing more important to do.

What a bunch of Dummy's.

The Truth is Now, IT IS NaziTah is a racist state that black people and hispanics don't live in. That is where the Ku Klux Klan congregates, and the favorite state of vacation for George W Bush, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity. That is where Faux News is on the free local digital tv stations. They probably have several channels airing the following lineup Hitler,O'Reilly Factor, Liberty University reruns, Lenin, John Hagee, Jimmy Swaggart, Stalin, Jack Abrnaoff live from prison, Pat Roberson and paid advertising by Rush Limbaugh "How to: Doctor Shop" ALL ON ONE NETWORK!

You are my kind of Grandma GMA4, I am also a GMA5 and more people need to laugh and not take life so seriously. Kids can stop good clean fun and spend more time in parked cars steaming up windows, setting fires freebasing or something equally nasty like rapping at MickyDees.

And, McDonald's is not for kids, friarjac? Since when? Remember the clown, the slide, and the toys or do you get happy meals?

What a mundane existence you must lead if even so negligible a deviation from the norm as singing an order is called idiotic. It's a dumpy fastfood chain, not the Senate.

"most adults, and ownere/managers of businesses, would not be [amused]"

I doubt this very much.

Lottie-dah

Lottie-dah is right...cops NEVER should have been called, but since they were...the KIDS SHOULD SUE FOR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS...MCDONALDS SHOULD BE SUED...THE MANAGER SHOULD BE SUED...THEN...THE TOWN SHOULD APOLOGIZE.

ok... McD being sued... I can see that (sue the manager and franchisee - you can't sue McD Corp 'cuz they don't own the restaurant).

sue the cop? Depends on whether the cop pressed the citation, or was forced to by the McD manager laying a complaint.

Sue the town??? WTF? Why should the TOWN apologize? Did the mayor insult the kids? Give the police sensitivity training, maybe, but force the TOWN to apologize - ridiculous!