Will He Be Busted for Alleged Peanut Buster Parfait Fit at West Des Moines Dairy Queen?

A customer became irate with employees of a West Des Moines over an ice cream treat, according to reports.

Officer Ryan Anderson was dispatched to the Dairy Queen store at 2020 Grand Ave. Monday evening on a report of disorderly conduct after a customer who had purchased a Peanut Buster Parfait two and one-half hours earlier returned to the store and reportedly demanded his money back.

He had eaten half of the ice cream treat, made of vanilla ice cream, hot fudge and peanuts, and declared that it was “too salty,” according to Anderson’s report. The clerk declined to fill it up and also denied a refund when he asked for it.

At that point, he reportedly turned the container upside down, causing it to “explode,” Anderson wrote, then threw it at the clerk.

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Video surveillance caught the incident on tape. The man reportedly scared two children, who were hit with some of the ice cream while they waited in line with their parents.

“You can tell the two children standing beside him were scared,” Anderson wrote.

One of several witnesses in the store at the time of the incident supplied Anderson with the license plate number of the allegedly irate customer. Anderson said he went to the man’s residence, but no one answered the door.

The 16-year-old employee who reported the incident and was hit by the container told Anderson she didn’t want the man charged because she didn’t want to testify in court.

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