Knoxville News-Sentinel
KINGSTON, Tenn. — If you’ve got a beef about the beef, don’t dial 911.
Rockwood resident Donna M. Nichols learned that lesson after calling 911 twice to report that the Hardee’s hamburger she’d purchased “tasted funny,” authorities said.
Nichols, 50, was arrested Wednesday in Rockwood and remained in the Roane County Jail on Monday under $1,500 bond. She was charged with abuse of the 911 system.
Dispatchers reported Nichols called 911 twice Wednesday, the first time from a pay phone in front of a liquor store. Rockwood Police Department officer Dwayne Gray said Nichols told him that before dialing 911, she’d called Hardee’s and “they had told her to return and they would refund her money,” according to the arrest report.
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