{"id":322799,"date":"2010-02-15T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002150"},"modified":"2010-02-14T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T04:22:09","slug":"man-spends-7k-one-year-battling-sonic-over-3-45-overcharge-resulting-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/322799","title":{"rendered":"Man Spends $7K, One Year Battling Sonic Over $3.45 Overcharge, Resulting Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/sonic-thumb-158x138-37012.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Ray wanted his happy hour discount at a Sonic in Colorado, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs4denver.com\/investigates\/sonic.happy.hour.2.1486807.html\">wasn&#8217;t about to settle<\/a> for paying more than double the $3.40 he thought he owed. Although his receipt read 4:11, meaning happy hour was over, Ray correctly insisted Sonic&#8217;s clock was fast. But the restaurant wouldn&#8217;t budge on the price and Ray ended up leaving in handcuffs, touching off a yearlong legal battle. <\/p>\n<p>From CBS 4 Denver:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our clock is 15 minutes fast,&#8221; Crawford told Garcia, &#8220;and we have an automated system. I&#8217;m sorry, there&#8217;s nothing I can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unhappy with that explanation, Garcia insisted on speaking to a manager. Sonic manager Bobby Aragon wrote that &#8220;there is a time difference of 13 minutes between national time and our sonic time.&#8221; But Aragon was not willing to give Garcia the half price deal.<\/p>\n<p>Unsatisfied with that explanation, Garcia pressed the issue and was told to leave. When he didn&#8217;t, Sonic workers called Golden police. Officers arrested Garcia and charged him with trespass and harassment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Sonic still hasn&#8217;t changed its clock to the right time, the story says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs4denver.com\/investigates\/sonic.happy.hour.2.1486807.html\">Happy Hour Ends In Arrest Of Sonic Customer<\/a> [CBS 4 Denver]<br \/>\n<i>(Thanks, NORMLgirl!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray wanted his happy hour discount at a Sonic in Colorado, and wasn&#8217;t about to settle for paying more than double the $3.40 he thought he owed. Although his receipt read 4:11, meaning happy hour was over, Ray correctly insisted Sonic&#8217;s clock was fast. But the restaurant wouldn&#8217;t budge on the price and Ray ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}