You Can Have It Your Way...For A Price

How can a fast food chain buy a whole bunch of bad publicity for $1.04? Try this:

Ice does not appear on Burger King’s menu, but it should after a Newton (MA) teen limped into the Moody Street fast-food restaurant last week looking for some cool relief of a sore ankle.

John Michael Jasset staggered into the restaurant about 5 p.m. last Thursday after being hit by a car. He was thrown from his bike and also scraped his knee, arms and hands, his mother, Cheryl Jasset, said.

But when he asked for some ice to put on his ankle, he was told he had to pay for it.

The charge: 99 cents, plus 5 cents for tax. That’s the price of a small soda.

"I’m never going to Burger King again," John Michael said.

The 16-year-old Pond Street resident said that right after the accident, he exchanged information with the driver, picked up his bike, called his friends - who hadn’t seen the accident and rode ahead - on a walkie-talkie and hobbled into Burger King to nurture his injuries.

Special orders don't upset them, but giving some ice to an injured biker apparently does.