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Beef over pickles in Quincy T stop ends with punch, shattered pickle jars, foot chase and arrest

Transit Police say a Quincy woman learned Saturday it's also against the law to assault people selling food inside MBTA stations

Transit Police report Tina Drouin, 49, of Quincy, grew upset around 2 p.m. when she ordered a steak and cheese sub at the Nathan's Famous stand in the Quincy Center Red Line stop, because the worker allegedly loaded up her steak and cheese sub with too much "shit," specifically, too many pickles.

Police say that when the worker refused to refund Drouin's money, Drouin punched the worker in the face, then "pushed two large very heavy jars filled with pickles and pickle juice into the sub maker knocking her to the floor and shattering the jars."

Drouin, police say, then ran out of the station. But the worker decided she wasn't going to put up with Drouin's alleged shit and so got up and ran after her. Police say the worker caught up with Drouin on Hancock Street near City Hall and held her until Transit and Quincy police arrived. Police had to summon an ambulance to transport Drouin to a local hospital after she complained of neck pain.

Innocent, etc.

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have their own little goofy crime wave going on. I guess I'd rather have a pickle jar thrown at me than be shot or stabbed.

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The report says the suspect is TINA Drouin. Which one is it?

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Coffee, please ...

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Was I falsely accused of a crime earlier today?

I would never throw pickles at anyone. I would take a picture of the over-pickled food object and tweet my outrage.

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You're a tough girl.

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Everybody knows that pickles do not belong on a steak & cheese. It's perfectly understandable that she lost her temper when she was refused a refund.

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Makes me want to puke, but that's why I don't order these things from chain stores. Go to Als or another local spot (spuckie spot spuckie spot spuckie spot ...) and ask for EXACTLY what you want and you will get it.

That simple - you want cheap food from minimum wage workers, you keep your fists to yourself and ... PICK OFF THE DAMN PICKLES LIKE A GROWNUP, OKAY?

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I know this is Boston, but pickles (or hots, shrooms, and peppers) on a steak and cheese sandwich are pretty familiar options for most people for whom this is a 'cheesesteak' rather than a 'steak and cheese' (ie the Midaltlantic states).

If the woman in question asked for hers with 'everything', and the server grew up south of CT (and this is a Nathan's stand after all - a NY chain), it would be completely normal to load it up with pickles, et al.

(full disclosure - I like my cheesesteak with onion and shrooms, but my cold steak and cheese subs with "hots and sweets").

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As a Philadelphia-area native with roots in the area deeper than just about anyone who isn't a Lenni-Lenape, and a man who takes my food seriously, let me make one thing clear: pickles are not a standard cheesesteak ingredient in "the Mid-Atlantic" or anywhere else. In fact, most places that serve cheesesteaks do not offer pickles as a topping, though if the place also offers hoagies, they probably do have them around and presumably could put them on if you made a special request. However, if I ordered a cheesesteak with "everything", I definitely would not expect there to be pickles on it. Hot and sweet peppers as well as mushrooms are all standard offerings, so that part is at least reasonable.

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...but PICKLES?!?!

Pickles never, ever, ever go good with steak. Pickles are briny and steak soaked in even more salt would kill the texture.

(Although, admittedly, steak with Cheez Whiz Philly Style would be interesting...)

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Of course it's no excuse for assault, but the TPD post is rather one-sided.

The employee "dutifully prepared her sub" and "could simply not please Drouin". But if I saw an employee putting something on my sandwich which I didn't like, I'd absolutely expect them to make me a new one or give me a refund, which this employee refused to do. And the police didn't comment on the employee's choice of language or tone of voice.

This is yet another example of why I think it's a bad idea for the police to pretend they're online journalists.

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It totally is a one-sided report about how someone got punched over pickles. This reporting needs balance (this is sarcasm).

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Innocent until proven guilty, asshat. The job of the police is to be fair, and the prosecution must prove the defendant guilty. Is assault ever okay? Absolutely not. Does that justify the police making out the victim as a delicate little rose? Absolutely not.

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