Georgia sheriff calls police after Burger King store receives 'wrong' order

Footage has emerged of a Georgia sheriff calling police when a Burger King restaurant allegedly messed up his order.

The incident was captured on body camera and shows Craig Owens Sr summoning deputies to the outlet in Cobb County – located in the metro Atlanta area.

It happened in March 2023, but the footage has just been released on Facebook by David Cavender, his rival for sheriff in the next election.

The video appears to show officers rushing to the scene with their lights and sirens on.

Sheriff Owens asks them to get the name of the store owner or manager so he can make an official complaint as the “food was wrong.”

The staff reportedly refused to change the order and locked the door out of fear for their safety.

One clip shows the sheriff sitting in his car telling deputies, “I want to order her (his wife) a Whopper without mayonnaise, cut in half, okay?”

“I’m going to get all the names I can,” one of the deputies tells him.

They gain access to the locked Burger King and the video later shows them handing over a piece of paper with their names on it.

“You didn’t tell him who I was, did you?” the sheriff asks.

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His rival for the position, Cavender, said the images showed abuse of power and waste of police resources.

In a statement released by local website WKTC, Sheriff Owens denied the claim and said it was a matter that any citizen had the right to report.

“I was not in uniform and at no point in my interactions with the team did I identify as a member of the law enforcement community,” he said.

“At no point did I state my position, nor did I ask respondents to do anything they would not, have not done, or have not done for anyone else making a commercial dispute call.”