Crime & Safety

Impatient Darien Man Attacked McDonald's Customer: PD

A Darien man was arrested in Bridgeport after he claimed to be a cop and attacked a woman waiting for her food.

An impatient Darien man was arrested after he threw a tantrum after not getting his coffee fast enough, according to police.

Police said Wednesday that William King, 49, was in a drive thru line at the Fairfield Avenue location behind a young mother and her two children, according to the Connecticut Post. He began yelling at her to hurry up.

The woman waited for her food at the drive thru window when King got out of his truck, grabbed the woman's food and threw it in her face. He then claimed he was a police officer, yelled a racial slur and sped off, police said.

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King isn't a police officer, but real police officers stopped him a short time later and charged him with breach of peace.

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