A drive-thru customer at McDonald’s threatened to kill an employee after being upset about how long their order was taking.
Hayley Jempson tried to grab the worker through a window sill in the outlet of the restaurant next to the Cameron Toll Shopping Center in Edinburgh.
The 30-year-old said to the woman, “Look, when you’re done with work, I’ll fucking kill you.”
The frightened employee pressed a panic button, which alerted the police.
Jempson attacked another McDonald’s employee after she stormed to its main entrance during the tirade.
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Jempson also threatened to burn down a diner that she was fired from and texted an employee suggesting she had a gun.
Jempson threatened a worker at McDonald’s next to the Cameron Toll Shopping Center.
She appeared before the city’s sheriff’s court for conviction Thursday after pleading guilty to a number of charges, including assault and threats and abusive behavior.
Finance deputy Christine Brownlie said Jempson placed her order in the fast food transit at 2 p.m. on May 8.
Ms. Brownlie said Jempson returned on foot and “asked for her order” and became “hostile and aggressive” towards employee Louise Ferguson.
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The court heard Jempson lean towards the plexiglass screen and Louise “tried to grab” a panic button.
Ms. Brownlie said another worker, Michael Main, met Jempson as she approached the restaurant entrance and was “forcibly held in the chest with both hands, causing him to stumble back.”
The court was later informed that Jempson had been “fired” from a job at Ozzy’s Takeaway in Prestonpans, East Lothian. Ms. Brownlie said Jempson called the store around 7pm on September 15 last year threatening to damage it, and then texted a worker saying, “She would go to the store with her partner and see him burn down”.
Jempson threatened to burn down Ozzy’s diner in Prestonpans, East Lothian.
Nine days later, the court overheard Ozzy’s worker Jennifer Findlay texting Jempson asking for money back. After a message suggesting that Jempson had been taken into custody by police officers, a message she sent back read, “A grass says we had a gun and I only told two or three people about it.”
In later messages, Jempson wrote, “I’ll be at your door in 15 minutes” and “I don’t take anyone cheeky,” added, “And I’ll bring a gun.”
After Jempson texted her saying she was “going to start a war,” Jennifer replied that she did not want to be threatened.
Jempson replied, “I’m not threatening you. I promise it. See you later.”
In another indictment on March 24, Jempson threatened a woman in the Craigmillar neighborhood after calling her “damn weed” who “called the police about me.”
The court overheard Jempson yelling, cursing and threatening violence against an employee of the Lidl supermarket in the city’s Niddrie on February 3, repeatedly referring to him as “Baldie-B ******”.
Jempson has targeted an employee at the Lidl store in Niddrie.
Jempson, who now works in a chip shop, also admitted to attacking her partner at the Cameron Toll Shopping Center on August 6 by trying to hit his head and hit him on the body.
Defense agent Victoria Good, who acted for Jempson, said her client suffered from “mental health problems”.
Sheriff Adrian Fraser sentenced Jempson of Craigmillar to 18 months of overseeing a community repayment order and 72 days of curfew between 10:15 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. on one day.
The sheriff is postponing Jempson’s sentence for attacking her partner so that she behaves well.