http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_fe_st/odd_salty_burger

In Union City, Georgia, a McDonald's employee was arrested because meat that she had oversalted was served to a police officer. The officer claimed it made him sick, and samples of the burger were sent to a state crime lab.

Kendra Bull is free on $1000 bail. She is charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct.

The rest of the news you can get there. What follows is my opinion.

This story is an example of absolute insanity and the overreach of our criminal justice system. Oversalting a hamburger is not and should not be a crime. The police officer, in my opinion, should be stripped of his badge and charged with abuse of power, as well as fined enough money to pay Ms. Bull's loss of pay plus the bail money she had to fork over for her freedom pending trial.

But that's not enough. Because she was tried, this means a district attorney found enough evidence to bind her over for trial. And a judge refused to throw it out at her arraignment.

Laws were not made for the purpose of intimidating the public and holding them in fear. The purpose of laws is to create an orderly society by protecting the general public from those who will not obey the rules.

When a low paid employee runs the risk of being imprisoned because a police officer didn't like his burger, something's seriously wrong.

And let's go a little further. The burger was sent to the state crime lab (I'm more worried about what they'll find in the MEAT, personally!) This means Georgia's citizens will also have to foot the bill while a crime lab puts a serial killer's DNA test on hold to test a burger that Officer Friendly found unpalatable.

The officer represents the worst of the worst in law enforcement, in my opinion, and has no business serving in a public capacity. He dishonors the thousands of men and women who put their lives on the line to deal with REAL crimes, not a lousy burger!