US teen kills father over fast-food row

November 20, 2008, 12:56 pm

Authorities in Texas say a teenage boy fatally shot his father during an argument over a wrong fast-food order, then killed himself.

Galveston County sheriff's officials say the violence occurred on Sunday at the family home southeast of Houston.

Sixteen-year-old Robert Lee Mueller Jr returned home with the wrong food order for his father, 59-year-old Robert Lee Mueller.

Both died late Tuesday after nearly two days in a Houston hospital. The father was shot once in the head. The boy shot himself after police arrived.

Source: Yahoo News

Is it bad I started laughing and spit up Dr. Pepper all over my new clothes?

Cause that story is hilairous.

Roukan wrote:

Is it bad I started laughing and spit up Dr. Pepper all over my new clothes?

Cause that story is hilairous.

Im wondering the same thing.. only, it was chocolate milk... and a new wireless modem >_> <_<...

Killing your dad over fast food? They get my order wrong all the time.. but its usually double what I ordered :O

OMG! yikes..... Best wishes to the rest of the family. Hope they arent like either of them. "Im so sorry for your lose, How did they die?" "Err...Son killed father with a gun and himself over a wrong food order."  

Both Roukan and Chloe reacted correctly, I think. 

Only in that most messed up place in the world called america could this happen.

Makes me laugh this kinda thing.  This is exactly why idiots shouldnt have access to guns!

Tell you what.. he must have really wanted that meal!

   This kid must have been very stupid or very ill. I laughed, though, I laughed - hard.

Criingey wrote:

Only in that most messed up place in the world called america could this happen.

oh yea... only in america

imax wrote:

Criingey wrote:

Only in that most messed up place in the world called america could this happen.

oh yea... only in america

I meant killing over fast food.. and a family member at that!

Im gonna keep my mouth shut cause ill get into trouble if i say what i thought

I lol'd.

Not ONLY in America... but I get the point and yeah, this is pretty ignorant. There had to have been something intensely dysfunctional going on way before this though. This is just the end to a long means, I think.

In fairness, the fast food would probably have killed them anyway...

Something tells me there were probably more serious issues between the two of them, and what may seem like something hardly worth arguing over, to them may have escalated not just from fast food, but from personal grudgeries.

Kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back.

Exactly! Things like this that happen aren't as random as people think.

In the UK it would have probably been a knife in the neck or something. While Guns are becoming a lot more common (converted BB guns mostly) Knife crime has rocketed in recent years. Of course knifing yourself to avoid the repercussions isn't as quick as shooting yourself (unless you miss, obviously).

Neoteny wrote:

Ballak wrote:

Something tells me there were probably more serious issues between the two of them, and what may seem like something hardly worth arguing over, to them may have escalated not just from fast food, but from personal grudgeries.

Kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back.

That's how I saw it. Probably the dad yelled at him and went to beat him or something for bringing home the wrong food and things just went out of control.

I put money on this type of reason behind it.  My guess the dad was prolly high or drunk and was violent, The kid brought home wrong order and the dad went to take it out on him but the kid said not this time. Then saw what he did and snapped the rest of the way and killed himself.  Sadly this stuff goes on everywhere.