When you read this article as it was written, you can easily detect the bias the so-called-journalist who wrote into it. If you were to transpose the word Marijuana with Coors or Budweiser, and the word smoking with the word drinking instead, you’ll easily see the difference too.
INDIANAPOLIS — Police have arrested a couple allegedly caught smoking marijuana while waiting in the drive-through line at an Arby’s restaurant with their 1-year-old in the back seat.
A restaurant employee noticed the aroma late Friday and called 911, then had the couple wait for their order of chicken as police sped to the scene.
Officer Brian Silcox said he smelled marijuana while approaching the car. He said both 27-year-old Marshall Chatman and 25-year-old Constance Payne told officers Chatman had been smoking a cigar.
Police also said a loaded handgun was found in the car.
Chatman and Payne were arrested on charges of neglect of a dependent. Chatman also was arrested on a marijuana possession charge. Child welfare officials took custody of the baby.
The couple’s first court appearance is scheduled for Wednesday.
It was idiotic for that family to smoke Marijuana while visiting a drive-thru, but it is reprehensible for the company Arby’s to have people arrested simply for smelling like Cannabis and buying their products.
The Manager represents the Arby’s brand and their policies, and it was the Manager of Arby’s who called and worked with law enforcement to have this couple placed in custody. Since the manager is an authorized representative from Corporate Arby’s, it became pseudo corporate Arby’s policy that people who smell like Marijuana need to be arrested.
How many late night tokers have frequented Arby’s over the last 30 plus years to satisfy a munchie craving? How much money does Arby’s make every quarter by serving people who choose a safer alternative?
The bottom line, if you are medicated or medicating and have the munchies – don’t go to Arby’s or they will call the police on you.
[Like I needed an excuse to not visit Arby's. Anybody so desperate for customers they have to call a roast beef sandwich a "roastburger" doesn't deserve cannabis dollars anyway. -- "R"R]
You ever hear of car jackings? Nothing wrong with carrying protection IMO, especially when you have your child in the car. Now smoking a blunt with your kid in the car, that’s stupid.
Get rid of the “dick” and maybe you can still tempt some of us with that crappy food you sell. We don’t ALL have good taste.
FIRST OF WHY HAVE A HANDGUN IN A CAR PERIOD!! SECOND A CHILD IN THE CAR SUBJECTED TO SECOND HAND SMOKE!! THIRD ” Constance Payne told officers Chatman had been smoking a cigar BUT WHAT PUT THE ICING ON THE CAKE WAS A LOADED NOT EMPTY HAND GUN WAS FOUND IN THE CAR WHY WERE THE BULLETS NOT IN THE TRUNK AS THE HAND GUN LAWS DICTATE THE GUN ON SAFETY AND WHY DID THE CAR NEED TO BE SEARCHED TO FIND THE LOADED GUN?? IF HE HAD HAD PROPER TRAINING HE WOUND HAVE SURRENDERED THE GUN WILLINGLY THE BOTTOM LINE NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW NOT YOU NOT ME NOT EVEN THE ACTORS ON TV…… J.M.O.
Maybe the Arby’s employee wasn’t calling the cops just because they were smoking weed, but because they were doing it with a one year old baby in the back seat.
Yea….I work at an arbys, and work every area and have many times had people come in or though drive-thru, smelling like alchohol and pot, but have never once called authorities. I used to smoke it myself, before i became a manager. Don’t be pissy just because one guy is a dick
My only complaint about Arby’s closing on Sundays for Christianity is that they aren’t co-owned by Orthodox Jews and Seventh-Day Adventists, so they could be closed from sundown Friday through Sunday night.
First of all, there was no evidence they were smoking in the car. A bag of weed was found on people who smelled like weed.
Second, there was no evidence they were impaired while driving.
Third, you don’t know whether the loaded handgun was found in a locked glove compartment. I’d assume the child was strapped into a child safety seat in the back and wouldn’t have easy access to the gun.
You’re falling victim to the reefer madness that says if a person has a puff on a joint, they are destined for a car wreck. Yet you’ll readily accept the idea that someone blowing .01-.07 on a breathalyzer may be just fine to drive. You’ll readily accept fast-food restaurants acting as guardians of safety at the same time you’re driving by bars with parking lots.
Numerous studies have shown marijuana using drivers to be far safer than their alcohol-using counterparts. One such study found people highly impaired by THC to drive at about the same impairment as a .05 drunk. Stoned drivers tend to compensate for their impairment by driving slower as well. Various prescription drugs say “Until you know how you’ll react to Fuqitol, don’t drive or operate heavy machinery” which suggests to me that once you’re used to Fuqitol, drive all you like.
I’m not suggesting that one pull a five-foot bong rip and then go out on the highways. I am suggesting that the fear of stoned drivers is way overblown compared to the threat of drinking, texting, putting on makeup, shaving, cell phoning, kid watching, fast-food eating, cigarette smoking, road raging, napping, and prescription or OTC drugged drivers.
I hesitate to offer a position on religion, one way or the other, but as far as fairness goes your statement steps on its’ own tail.
For real? So if they had crashed and their child died, or if they were high and fell asleep, their child found the loaded gun and killed hisself…your argument would be???
Or if they’d been high and chill…laid back in their home and the child got out of the house and into the street….
I hope none of you who think the couple was shafted have kids. If they want to smoke they should do it when they don’t have their child in the safety of their home – hmmm- and not driving around. If they were to have run over your child would you really have said, “That’s okay my chill, laid back cannabis brother/ sister. I feel you that was some good stuff.” I highly doubt it…idiotic
Also, if Arby’s were closed – chainwide- on Sunday’s for Christianity…I quote you, “Aren’t we a people of free religion?” Thanks for the chuckles. And I’ve gotten Arby’s on a Sunday.
I don’t know that boycotting Arby’s is called for, but I bet that particular one will see a drop in late night business.
Is it fair to punish other Arby’s stores for the actions of one asshole manager? I guess I could just go to my local Arby’s and ask them if they would call the cops on me if I smelled of marijuana.
Well im done with them now, Ill be writing them to let them know that too. Do they smell around for alcohol? I bet they dont and those are the people that will kill someone. Im glad those cops had nothing better to do than rush to the Arbys to arrest a low level, non violent , pot smoker and his wife, take there kid and now may have lost their jobs and soon their car and home, its so stupid! Just what the system needs another kid to throw into a foster home. That will help that kid like a hole in the head!
I – like you – boycott them for their recent condemnation of cannabis users, but I’ll polity and respectfully disagree with you about being closed for the same reason you condemn them for. In my opinion, it’s their expression of religion that allows them to be closed. In countries more repressed than our own, a business may not be closed for religious reasons. And, they probably loose quite a bit of money for their convictions. I wasn’t aware they were closed on Sundays, I know Chic Fillet is closed on Sundays, I dated a girl that worked there many years ago, back when it was more common to have business closed on Sundays. Holy moly this AK47 – Sour Diesel has kicked my ass. No offense intended cannabis brother.
i boycott arbys the way i do kellogs. we cant even get a roast beef sandwich on sunday because the whole chain is closed for Christianity. arent we a people of free religion