- A Michigan woman found a box cutter and pen in her daughter's McDonald's Happy Meal.
- Dawn Paret claimed that she found the items instead of the toy the meal was supposed to come with.
A Michigan woman discovered something peculiar in her child's McDonald's Happy Meal — and suffice to say, she wasn't happy.
In a Facebook post on June 10, Dawn Paret claimed that she found a box cutter and a pen instead of a toy in one of her daughters' Happy Meal boxes.
"You hear of things like this, but never did I think it truly could happen," she wrote, adding that she was worried that her daughters could have gotten hurt if they found the items before she did.
In the post, Paret showed a photo of her holding a gray Bic ballpoint pen and a bright yellow Crewsafe utility knife.
"McDonalds I need an answer as to WHY and HOW a box cutter ended up in the bottom of our daughter's happy meal. Simply saying, a happy meal box is your 'catch all' and someone must've accidentally grabbed that one is not the answer I want," she continued.
Users on Facebook advised Paret to lawyer up before contacting McDonald's about the mishap.
"Call the company. Record them. See what they say AND call a lawyer. Immediately," one user wrote.
"OMG!!! I hope you contact corporate about this...this is definitely unacceptable! The thought of what could be the result of this is SO scary!!!" another user commented.
Just a month before Paret's unfortunate discovery, another Michigan woman claimed she found an identical box cutter in her child's Happy Meal box.
"So this incident happened Saturday I went through McDonald's drive-through off grand river and Challis Road in Brighton," the woman, Kayla Almashy, wrote in a Facebook post on May 22.
"I just want to make other parents aware to check their happy meal boxes because my daughter handed me a box cutter that was in her happy meal box thinking it was a toy!!!!" she added.
People online were outraged, too, with one Facebook user writing that the item might have been placed there deliberately: "OMG! That is not a mistake. Why would someone do that! People are just sick," the user commented.
McDonald's, Paret, and Almashy did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.