Hilarious Moments Caught On Camera At McDonald's

It doesn't happen every time you go to McDonald's. But hit up a Mickey D's dining room often enough, and it's bound to happen sooner or later. 

You'll just be sitting there, lazily dragging a rapidly-cooling french fry through a mound of sweet ketchup, debating with yourself about whether or not to have a fourth Orange Fanta to help lubricate that Double Bacon Smokehouse Burger's journey through your lower intestine, when you feel the energy in the room start to shift.

Maybe there's a disheveled customer at the front counter, in the early stages of an argument about how many cups of McNugget sauce he's entitled to. Perhaps a disoriented sorority girl has wandered in, still awake after a long night but fueled more by Jagermeister than by conscious decision-making. Voices get raised. Staff begins to cluster in solidarity. An f-bomb is dropped. And that's when you feel that familiar tingle of anticipation prickle up and down your whole body: Something's about to go down in this McDonald's.

You may not get to see every weird moment play out in person right before your eyes, but thanks to YouTube, it's finally possible to enjoy them from the comfort of your own home. Here's a collection of some of our favorite outrageous moments at Mickey D's, from drive-thru pranks, to robberies caught on camera, to irate customers that really should be at home sleeping it off. You're welcome.

If you've ever found yourself shouting your increasingly frantic request for extra pickles through the muffled, garbled speaker at a McDonald's drive-thru, you can understand how frustrating it is to not be heard when you feel like you're already screaming at the top of your lungs.  

This YouTuber decided to up the ante considerably, bringing a megaphone with him to the drive-thru and blasting his voice through the tinny speaker, no doubt thoroughly routing out the eardrums of the unfortunate staff who happened to be wearing drive-thru headsets that day. The staff seems remarkably good-natured about the experience, and they even issue a few polite chuckles at the lame jokes and the tinny amplification, especially considering the bones of their ears may never be able to properly conduct sound ever again.

For what it's worth, the real punchline may come at the end of the video, after the shouting YouTuber collects his food and drives away.

All we know is this: Somewhere in Toldeo, Ohio, a 25-year-old woman is probably having a hard time explaining to her fellow inmates what she's "in" for. At 6:30 in the morning on New Year's Day, presumably following a night of partying harder than we certainly ever have, this customer whipped through the McDonald's drive-thru for some life-sustaining Chicken McNuggets, only to have it patiently explained to her that a 10-piece is limited to afternoon and evening hours only. 

The customer reacted in only the way that someone fueled with McNugget-denial rage could be expected to: By reaching through the open drive-thru window and attacking the employee in a flurry of punches and scratches, who fights back by trying to pull her up out of her car and through the open window by her hair. The customer is released, and the window closed, but it's not over yet: The irate customer hurls something through the window, shattering the glass and resulting in a vandalism charge. Happy New Year!

If you've ever tried to earn a living in the spirit-crushing salt mines of the foodservice industry, whether that's at a fast food place like McDonald's, the sandwich counter at a busy deli, or at a more formal full-service restaurant, you've probably realized one thing: Customers, very often, are the worst. 

That's what makes this clip such a cathartic moment for anyone that's been at the receiving end of any manner of customer nonsense. She's not asking for any trouble. She's put her little McDonald's visor on, brushed the hair out of her face, and punched in for another day at the drive-thru window, just like every other day. She doesn't need these YouTube bros, who have swapped out the horn in their car for a high-powered truck air horn, blasting noise and shoving a camera in her face to record her reaction. She didn't ask for it, she doesn't need it, and SHE'S NOT HAVING IT.

It's not so much her irritated reaction that we find so funny; it's the almost offhand manner in which she dismisses her would-be tormentors. There's no yelling, no carrying on, no jumping up and down; a simple flip of an open soda into the passenger compartment and the quiet sass of a slammed-shut drive-thru window door is enough to communicate just how over it she is.

Baltimore, Maryland is home to a new hero. His name is "Traffic Jam Jimmy," and he's not going to let a little thing like being broadcast on live television get in between him and his fish sandwich. One snowy morning, after Jimmy had been out on the roads giving reports live from the field on the traffic conditions during an epic snowstorm, he got a little peckish, and tried to swing through a McDonald's for a quick snack, just as the Fox affiliate switched back to his live feed. 

Traffic Jam Jimmy was caught red-handed on his dashboard camera, trying in vain to order a Filet-O-Fish during breakfast hours, as thousands of house-bound viewers watched. Jimmy took it all in stride and continued his report, imploring viewers to "stay put," before pulling up to the next window to pay for his order.

Meanwhile, back in the studio, the news anchor was unable to hide her hysterical laughter. "Jimmy, I told you we were coming back to you," the anchor laughed, wiping tears from her eyes.

We're posting this video mostly to serve as a warning to anyone who thinks it might be a good idea to get falling-down drunk, put on a cowboy hat, and head down to the local McDonald's to crawl around on the floor and verbally harass teenaged girls. 

Don't underestimate the raw strength and power of dads defending their brood. Though we may be sitting their calmly in our windbreakers, looking all docile and nonthreatening, start messing with our daughters and the situation is gonna get all Papa Bear, pretty darn quickly.

After a few shouted verbal warnings by the annoyed father to knock it off, he finally stands up and with all of the care and attention you might afford a cloudy day or a pesky fly at a picnic, and knocks the drunk off his feet, sending him flying three feet across the room, before crashing into a trash can. Score one point for the superhuman strength of the protective dads of the world, and zero for the annoying, babbling drunks.

If you're anything like us, you may find yourself a little preoccupied with a few of the unaddressed questions this video seems to gloss right over. For example, during the interminably long introduction (which we've skipped past — you're welcome), you may find yourself wondering, "Wait, how did a 14-year-old kid get his hands on a $1,000,000 Lamborghini," or "Why is going to McDonald's the best thing he can think to do next?" 

The car, a Batmobile-esque assemblage of lightweight carbon fiber, air scoops, and three-point harnesses, is hardly outfitted for road use, let alone a cruise through the drive-thru. In order to keep the car's weight down, it doesn't even have a passenger seat, and in order to keep the driver from being decapitated, there aren't even windows that open all the way. The nonplussed McDonald's employee makes do, however, passing the brown paper sack of deliciousness through the tiny access panel carved into the middle of the driver's-side window, while the engine of this muscle machine revs with the throaty, growling fury of 10,000 rabid cougars trapped in a metal trash can.