Drug and Alcohol
Sales
in McDonalds in Atlanta
Editors Note - the below messages were sent to McDonalds Corporate since March 19, 2008. Their corporate office informed me that it was not their problem but a problem for the neighborhood. They are a part of this neighborhood and we expect them to protect their property and protect us from the elements that they are harboring in their store.
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They are BACK - March 18, 2009 Well, you were
doing a good job here in downtown Atlanta. You had regular security and the
loitering and drug dealing stopped. I felt safe even walking by. For several
months you have not had security and sure enough the drug dealers, vagrants,
and pan handlers are back. Surprised by Action - June 11, 2008 I am pleasantly surprised. Today I went in the McDonalds here in downtown Atlanta and I saw that you were remodeling the unit. This is wonderful. The biggest surprise and the greatest pleasure was to see the the establishment is now provided the security that it needs and customers desire. A security guard was in the unit. I saw no panhandling, no drug sales, no loitering, no alcohol or pornography sales. It felt safe and secure. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. You are a great neighbor and the neighborhood will reward you with customers, trade, and wealth. Assaulted while just driving by - May 19, 2008
The chaos inside of the McDonalds is spilling
over onto the street. Tonight, I was driving by this unit and somebody threw
a drink onto my car. First, my son was threatened and attacked, second, he
received a threatening phone call, and now I am assaulted while driving just
in front of McDonalds. Someone is going to die in this Place - May 14, 2008 Someone is going to be found dead in this restaurant. The homeless, loiterers, vagrants and panhandlers use this place as a homeless shelter. McDonalds should be ashamed. I bet Corporate Management does not know about this place. Heads would roll if they did. Porn Sales at McDonalds - April 23, 2008 I could not believe it. Walking not more than a half step out the front door of McDonalds in their entry way, a guy was selling pornographic DVD's. There is even video of this. Video of McPorn at the Atlanta McDonalds. This situation at this McDonalds is going from bad to worse. How much crime will McDonalds tolerate before you bring in some security here to protect your property, your customers and the bad elements that you are harboring on your properties. Responsible People at the McDonalds overlooking drug sales and panhandling in their restaurant: Dear Commissioner Kwanza Hall, These are the people that are listed on their corporate documents. They have not been forthcoming about current management or who I directly could contact. They obviously do not want to talk with me. Maybe they will talk to the city. Maybe they will talk with someone who can require that they conform to the neighborhood codes of conduct. Thanks for looking into this. Normer
Drug Sales at McDonalds - April 20, 2008 I visit this restaurant regularly. You have my emails to McDonalds prove it. Visiting this unit, allows me to know the people, the customers (if you call loiterers customers), and the management and workers. My complaints about the loitering, the drug selling, the loitering, the panhandling and the dangerous conditions are about your management. I watch your manager fraternize with the very drug dealers that I called 911 about earlier this month. I watch him allow the loitering crowd use this unit as their own personal community room. I watch as they allow them to put their bags behind the counter for safe keeping. I watch them give free drinks and food to the street crowd who loiters just inside and out. I watch how the management friendlily chats with the drug dealers just outside the door. I watch them sell drugs with immunity from your staff. This McDonalds is an embarrassment to Atlanta. No right minded tourist would dare brave the drug crowd outside to come inside to panhandlers, drunks and druggies. I have gone to other restaurants just next door to this McDonalds. They do not have these problems. You have them because you allow them. Drug Packaging Actually Going on in McDonalds - April 14, 2008 Your corporation either does not care or you are just plain criminal. Today, (the one of many trips that I make to the restaurant over the last several weeks, go to www.normer.com ), I witness the height of criminality in your unit at Marietta and Board in Atlanta. I have been reporting to you for several weeks that criminal activity is going on in your unit there and I have not seen anything that you have done to rectify it. At 6:00 pm, I saw a young man actually packaging marijuana for sale inside your store. You are responsible for what happens here. You have allowed it to go on unchecked for several weeks and have done nothing to change it. I believe there are drug laws and conspiracy and racketeering laws that govern this type of behavior by a corporate entity. I will be the first to testify against you when charges are brought against you or you are sued for negligence when something terrible happens here as the result of this activity. Clean up your store in Atlanta. Panhandling in Atlanta Unit on You Tube - April 13, 2008 Posted on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBIHq-eIzE Loitering, Panhandling and Poor Management at McDonalds - April 9, 2008 What is it like to enter a facility where people are loitering outside the door and pan handling everyone that enters the McDonalds? It is pretty frightening. I live in this neighborhood and I refuse to be afraid in my own neighborhood. I enter. No tables are available to sit. Of the twenty odd patrons not customers, only two customers have anything that approaches food on their tables. The rest are sitting around sleeping, reading the paper, or just sitting there. I approach the manager. He tells me his name is Antonio. I ask for his last name and he tells me he does not give out his last name. John is another manager there that I spoke with. I asked Antonio why he has not done something to get the loiterers out of the facility. He said that he has called the police 3 times to no avail. He says that they will not come. I call 911 to report the problem. They are there in 5 minutes driving people who were not customers out of McDonalds. Two gentlemen were standing behind me who were not eating or waiting for their food. The management indicates to police that they belong there. These were the strangest acting people in the facility. I should not be the one calling police. Your management should make sure that the establishment is clean (it isn’t), well managed (it isn’t), free of vagrants, loiterers, drug dealers and non customers (they don’t). Something is going to happen here bad. Some unsuspecting customer is going to get hurt here because you are not supervising your stores properly. Either Antonio did not do what he said he did or he was referring to the past. It is a problem for McDonalds and Atlanta. I am working with both. The emails that I send you, I am sending Atlanta. You have the first responsibility, however. Normer Adams Attempted Stabbing of my Son in front of McDonalds on April 3rd - Letter from him to McDonalds
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McDonalds, Drug Dealing in Barbara Asher Square McDonalds – April 1, 2008 Dear McDonalds, Today was a busy day. I love to eat at McDonalds. I like the hamburgers and fries. I do not like to have crack and whiskey with my fries however. Certainly there are enough dealers inside the McDonalds to give this unit # 17492 at 30 Marietta Street in Atlanta, Georgia a run for its money. And I do mean run. I had lunch there with my son. The counter lady was very good about attending to all the customers. She picked up their trash and gave free drinks to the panhandlers in the unit. Someone who was identified as the unit manager could be found cavorting with the drug dealers in the unit. On prior occasions he, too, gave out what appeared to be free food and drinks to the drug and alcohol dealers. I saw no money exchanged and they were just too friendly with those who appeared to be selling stuff in the unit. During lunch, I made a total of two calls to 911 about improprieties in the unit. The drug dealers, aggressive panhandlers and alcoholics put on a good show. One guy was seen selling what appeared to be drugs and had what appeared to be a gun in his pocket. The police was called about this situation. We made another call at lunch about drug selling by a couple that I have seen in the unit on four separate occasions…this week. Police did detain them three blocks down the street and found drug paraphernalia on them. We finished the delicious meal and we were on our way. I also had supper there tonight. I had to go back for supper. I had a meeting there with a client. This is a foster youth that I am mentoring into adulthood. While there, I made a total of six calls to 911 during supper. Aggressive panhandlers, alcohol sales and drug dealing were also a part of the fare. The police arrested one of your customers for selling alcohol in the unit. Your managers seem oblivious about what is happening in this unit. Loitering is rampant. Drug and alcohol sales complete for the food and drink dollar. Your corporation seems very content to allow this activity to happen. I live in the neighborhood and I personally am offended that you allow this activity. CVS operates a store down the street and they do not have this kind of activity in their store. They provide 24 hour security. Since I enjoy the food, I am staying low key. I would have a Mac Attack if I did not come into your McDonalds. I fear, however, someone is going to get hurt. The liaise faire attitude about this activity really does astonish me. You are braver than I am with your property and staff in this unit. Oh, I forgot, your staff are friends to the very ones selling this stuff out of the unit. Sorry. Who is watching the store? By the way, do not have your complaint department to call me again. They are not helpful to your cause. Have your corporate executive staff call me. 678 570 8831. Drug Dealing in Barbara Asher Square McDonalds – March 31, 2008 Tonight I went into the McDonalds at 7:36 pm to buy a ice cream cone. There I witness the same people that I had seen on the previous three visits. These were the same people selling drugs and cavorting with people that were dealing drugs and using alcohol. One young black woman with a small child was there. She seems to be in the middle of all the activities around drug dealing at McDonalds. She keeps the stuff in the baby carriage. You men run the money to her and she dispenses the drugs or alcohol. Tonight I did not see anyone using drugs, but there was a lot of activity with the exchange of money. I believe there was an undercover cop in the place tonight. He looked different than the local clientele. He was using his cell phone a lot and very observant. I went back into the McDonalds at 9:46 pm to get a coke. The same young woman was there. She was there for over two and half hours, loitering. She seemed awfully friendly with a McDonald’s worker. He is a young black man with a small beard. I later learned that his name was. He was sloppily dressed and very friendly with all the loitering “drug suspects” in the room. He seemed to give free drinks and food to this crowd as well. To my surprise, I learned that he was the “manager” of the unit. I spoke with him and told him that I expected that he clean the unit up. I told him that I would be coming in there everyday to see what had been done. He made the excuse that the police knew about the activities here and had not done anything about it. I told him that I expected the management to manage the restaurant and to keep drug dealers out of the unit. He told me that he would do something, with a half smile. Frankly, I am fearful for those in our neighborhood. I refuse to be afraid in my own neighborhood. On another matter, I spoke with “Angela” in the corporate complaint office. She in not so subtle manner told me (verbatim), “if I was afraid, I would not go into an establishment that I was afraid of.” She also told me that I was talking to the wrong people that I needed to talk to the police, the mayor and those who could do something about it. I told her that McDonalds needed to do something about it. She did not represent McDonalds well. March 29, 2008 Dear Sir/Madam, This is my Third correspondence to McDonalds Corporate concerning this situation in downtown Atlanta at this particular store, store #17492. I am now forwarding all correspondence to the Atlanta Police Department and to the media. Tonight when I went to get a hamburger, the same individuals that I have witnessed selling drugs and loitering in the unit was still there. Tonight, it seems that they were doing more business than the hamburger joint. They have included on their menu of items alcohol. Another thing that I witnessed is that the main proveyer of drugs has a personal relationship with someone behind the counter. It sounded like his name was Mikey. Those of us who live in the neighborhood will not tolerate this going on in our neighborhood. McDonalds, clean it up. Normer Adams 678 570 8831 normeradams@normer.com March 27, 2008 Dear Sir/Madam, This is the second time within the week that I have witnessed what appeared drug dealing in your McDonalds. Loitering, selling of drugs, and poor service characterizes this place every time that I go in. A counter lady was the person at the counter who seem oblivious to the loitering and drug dealing going on. I did not tell her for fear that this may be a coordinated operation with the sellers and others. The same people involved in the first drug dealing episode that I reported were involved. A petite black woman with a baby carriage and baby. Half the people in the establishment had no food on their tables. It appeared home to them. This is OK, but not in our neighborhood. You need to put some full time security in this shop. Someone is going to get hurt from all these bad people doing bad things in this place. I certainly do not feel safe in this place. When someone is shot, beat up or even overdose, McDonalds you will be responsible. You are tolerating drug dealing here. Clean it up. You will have thanks from the neighborhood. Thanks Normer Adams, ps - please keep my name confidential. They may come looking for me. March 19, 2008 DRUG DEALING IN McDonalds Restaurant at Marietta and Broad Tonight, after ordering, a loud crowd was loitering in the McDonald’s on Broad Street Plaza. Few were eating or drinking. Panhandling was taking place. The thing that bothered me the most was the drug dealing. Several times in a few minutes, people off the street came into the restaurant and bought what looked like packets of drugs from a young women with a baby carriage seated in the restaurant. I tried to report this to the manager, but she never came over to me after I requested a visit from her. I did not want to tell her at the counter for fear of my life. Drug dealers are not the nicest people in the world. Please clean this place up and Broad Street Plaza. Open drug dealing, using and loitering is a constant at this place.
Normer Adams
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