Ohio McDonald’s Closed After Customer Claimed to Find Crack Pipe in Food
A McDonald’s in Columbus, Ohio, has been temporarily shut down after a couple reported finding a crack pipe in their drive-thru order. An emergency health inspection was carried out Wednesday by Columbus Public Health in light of the alarming allegation, The Columbus Dispatch reports. The health agency gave the restaurant until Jan. 4 to get itself up to code after finding several safety violations, including a failure to protect “food from sources of contamination.” The customer who reported finding drug paraphernalia in his order wrote about it on Reddit, saying he’d alerted McDonald’s staff so that a crack pipe wouldn’t later “end up in a Happy Meal.” The restaurant said its temporary closure had nothing to do with the allegation of a crack pipe, but instead stemmed from a “dust issue” caused by construction work. An internal review involving security footage and employee interviews “found nothing” to suggest the drug paraphernalia came from the McDonald’s, the local franchisee said.
