Dipping sauce dispute leads to destruction at Sonic, Oklahoma cops say
Police in Del City, Oklahoma have identified two suspects they say shattered the front glass of a Sonic Drive-in last month during a dispute over dipping sauces.
Police recently announced the pair — a man and a woman — had been positively identified.
“Charges are soon to follow,” the department said Thursday in a statement posted to Facebook, alongside surveillance stills of the accused couple. “Thank you to everyone that took the time to help.”
The suspects’ names weren’t immediately released.
In a May 20 police report, authorities said the pair visited the Sonic Drive-In on Sunnylane Road and were unhappy with their food order. That’s when the woman exited her car and began to have words with a worker at the drive-thru.
Following her lead, the man exited the car too and began banging his fists against the drive-thru window, police said. Things only escalated from there.
“The unknown female returned to her vehicle and unknown male returns to the passenger side of the vehicle and grabs what appears to be a glass cup, and throws it at the South glass door shattering it,” according to the police report.
Del City police Maj. Mike Arterbury told local station KFOR the dispute started after the customers received the wrong dipping sauce with their order of chicken tenders.
It’s not clear what dipping sauce they were given, nor what they would have preferred.
“They were upset over their order,” Arterbury told the news station. “They could just call the corporate office and go about it that way, which would be the more civil way.”
No injuries were reported.
Arterbery said the pair will likely be charged with destruction of private property.