McDonald's milkshake saga isn't true, well, most of it

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — The story about one man's milkshake mishap at McDonald's over the weekend isn't all it's been made out to be.

Josh Raby, the man whose story went viral after publishing a series of tweets about a late-night drive-thru experience at a Clarksville McDonald's, said Wednesday on Twitter that "he made writerly choices" in telling the story.

"If you are wondering what I'm getting at, this is gonna be the part of the viral story where the person tells you they made a lot of it up," Raby tweeted Wednesday morning.

Eric Larson, owner and operator of the McDonald's restaurants in Clarksville, told the Leaf-Chronicle Wednesday no employees will be losing their job over the story.

"I'm very happy the truth came out from Raby," Larson said in a text message. "The reputation of McDonald's, my employees, my family and my community are very important to me.

"I'm very happy he let everyone know it was a creative writing joke."

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Raby detailed more of the saga in a series of tweets Wednesday:

Raby did actually go to a McDonald's at 1 a.m. he said, but he embellished some of the story, according to his tweets.

Raby said he only spent 8 minutes in the drive-thru. In Raby's original tweets, he claimed he was there for at least 37 minutes.

Despite Wednesday's admission of the embellished story, McDonald's is still picking Raby up today for an "Ultimate Drive-Thru Experience."