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A Boynton Beach man calls 911 after Burger King runs out of lemonade, complains about drive-through service, and receives a court notice for misusing the emergency line.
0:00 You know, there are good reasons to call 911, and then there are the reasons that police say a man in Boynton Beach called reporting his so-called emergency. 0:08 CBS 12's Liz Cadantes joins us live in the newsroom to let us hear that call that has dispatchers outraged. 0:13 Liz? 0:14 Understandably so too, Suzanne. Gene Fortune was ordering at the Burger King on West Boynton Beach Boulevard Friday night. 0:20 Fortune got upset when a worker told him they didn't have any more lemonade, so he pulled out his phone and dialed 911. 0:29 Yeah, I'm in the Burger King Boulevard, a place in there. When I get there, I'm in the window, I tell the lady I want the limonade, fresh limonade. 0:39 She say, yeah, you, I don't have, we don't have the limonade. 0:42 I say, why you didn't say that to me before? 0:45 Well, Fortune says on the f- stays on the phone with the operator for more than 5 minutes. 0:50 He tells police he's unhappy with the service and the girl in the drive-thru window was giving him attitude. 0:57 She says she's going to let me make me stay here for 15 minutes. 1:01 That's what she says. Okay, before she give me the food. 1:05 Okay, if the food's not done, sir, the food's not done. 1:08 The food is done. The food is done. She says she's going to make me stay here for 15 minutes because I'm talking too much with her. 1:15 That's what she says. I come from work, I'm hungry, I come to here to buy something. 1:21 Well, Fortune pulled to the side of the restaurant and waited for police to arrive. 1:26 When they did, Fortune was given a notice to appear in court for misusing 911. 1:31 Eric. 
