'Rats in the kitchen': McDonald's hit with bad reviews after arrest in CEO's killing

McDonald's locations in Pennsylvania have been subject to a flood of bad reviews as reviewers express outrage that an employee reportedly called in the tip that led to the arrest of the suspect in the shooting of a health insurance CEO, according to a report.

Police on Monday announced the arrest of Luigi Mangione at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after an employee called police.

According to Axios, online activists gleeful over the killing of Brian Thompson have turned on the McDonald's franchise that turned him in — with some writing an avalanche of fake bad reviews.

"Following the 'outing' of Mangione as a person of interest, sympathizers took to the internet to slam the McDonald's employee for tipping off police," said the report. "Users left reviews for at least three McDonald's locations in or around Altoona, Pennsylvania, with dozens of people leaving one star ratings and complaining about 'rats.' Others more explicitly called out 'snitches.'"

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One user wrote, "This location has rats in the kitchen that will make you sick and your insurance isn't going to cover it."

Mangione, who hails from a wealthy and well-connected family, is reported to have read several books on chronic back pain. The shell casings on the scene of Thompson's murder were inscribed with the words "deny," "defend," and "depose," a phrase associated with the health insurance industry's claims denial process.

The public uproar of schadenfreude over the killing, and the outpouring of people justifying it by detailing stories of their frustration dealing with health insurance companies, has alarmed many political observers.

"Review-bombing" a restaurant for political reasons is not a new tactic. Earlier this year, when President-elect Donald Trump made a campaign stop working at a McDonald's in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, in an elaborate attempt to attack Vice President Kamala Harris' personal story, that McDonald's Yelp page was flooded with bad reviews, with one person saying a "senile old man got bronzer on my fries."