--- title: Florida Man Throws Cheeseburger at Pregnant Woman Gets Arrested description: And he's not the first canonical: https://time.com/2811079/man-arrested-for-throwing-cheeseburger-at-pregnant-woman/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-03T12:30:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:16.124Z og:title: Man Arrested For Throwing Cheeseburger At Pregnant Woman og:description: And he's not the first og:url: https://time.com/2811079/man-arrested-for-throwing-cheeseburger-at-pregnant-woman/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5893da4ee9b3c014/6986883a169ab09fd327888a/burger-king-whopper.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: burger-king-whopper og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Arrested For Throwing Cheeseburger At Pregnant Woman twitter:description: And he's not the first twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5893da4ee9b3c014/6986883a169ab09fd327888a/burger-king-whopper.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Man Arrested For Throwing Cheeseburger At Pregnant Woman > Sponsored content. 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Anger management is another. 23-year old Taylor Allen Stephens was arrested for throwing a cheeseburger into the face of a pregnant family member and then shoving her to the ground during an argument on May 23rd. He fled the scene after the incident, but eventually returned to face the consequences of his crime. Stephens turned himself into the police where he was charged with aggravated battery against the woman, after a witness corroborated the victim’s account. This is not the first time that a Florida man has assaulted a woman with a cheeseburger. In 2008, [a man was charged](http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/12/04/cops-florida-man-assaulted-girlfriend-with-cheeseburger/) with domestic violence for shoving his cheeseburger into his girlfriend’s face. In 2011, another Florida man was charged with a misdemeanor for [throwing a cheeseburger ](http://www.upi.com/Odd%5FNews/2011/03/30/Man-charged-in-cheeseburger-assault/UPI-14201301514351/)at a car in a McDonald’s drive thru. [Police found a ](http://www.upi.com/Odd%5FNews/2011/03/30/Man-charged-in-cheeseburger-assault/UPI-14201301514351/#ixzz33VfJFrjd)“large spot of ketchup measuring 6 inches by 6 inches on the side of the victim’s vehicle and cheeseburger pieces on the hood” that could be traced back to the culprit. \[Via [NWFDailyNews.com](http://www.nwfdailynews.com/local/crime/police-blotters/report-man-hits-pregnant-woman-with-cheeseburger-1.326180)\] **MORE**: [Man Arrested for Attacking Wife with Sandwich](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/08/man-arrested-for-attacking-wife-with-sandwich/) **MORE**: [The 25 Best Burgers in the U.S.](http://time.com/96222/25-best-burgers-in-the-u-s/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2811079/man-arrested-for-throwing-cheeseburger-at-pregnant-woman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2811079/man-arrested-for-throwing-cheeseburger-at-pregnant-woman/"},"headline":"Man Arrested For Throwing Cheeseburger At Pregnant Woman","datePublished":"2014-06-03T12:30:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:16.124Z","description":"And he's not the first","url":"https://time.com/2811079/man-arrested-for-throwing-cheeseburger-at-pregnant-woman/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","Food & Drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5893da4ee9b3c014/6986883a169ab09fd327888a/burger-king-whopper.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5893da4ee9b3c014/6986883a169ab09fd327888a/burger-king-whopper.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"burger-king-whopper","caption":"","creditText":"Bloomberg / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2811079/man-arrested-for-throwing-cheeseburger-at-pregnant-woman/","name":"Man Arrested For Throwing Cheeseburger At Pregnant Woman"}}]}] ```