McDonalds employees set world record for idiotcy

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The McDonald's manager that ordered her to blow him is *more* guilty than the guy on the phone -- the manager *had* to know at this point that the whole thing was a hoax.


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A couple of things:

1) The guy who got blown was not a manager or even an employee, which lends more credence to the fact she thought she was in danger.

2) The caller researched all of the names of the manager's superiors and used this to help her believe he was legit. The strip search is weird, for sure (and that should have tipped her off), but things never went beyond that when she was in the room. All of the crazy [censored] started when her husband was alone with the girl.

[Los Feliz Slim]

I'm feeling really, really bad for the girl. Read the whole text of the story on abcnews.com. That's where I got this gem:

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The demands became more and more bizarre. When Ogborn says that when she failed to address Nix as "sir," the caller tells him to hit her violently on the buttocks over and over. At one point on the video, Ogborn was "spanked" for almost 10 full minutes.

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They'd been working her over for a while before she performed the BJ. I wish people knew better than this, but obviously they don't.

[Blarg]

I read some long reviews of it. Apparently he was only an average hacker but had great people skills, and most of the real juice of what he did was simply by talking to people on the phone and getting them to surrender information. It was kind of creepy.

People are terribly sloppy with this kind of thing regularly. I think most people don't really understand how common and bad this kind of thing is. If you're an employer, you can find out all kinds of things about people, etc. Or if you're a snoopy employee, like the bank tellers who check out the credit histories of guys they want to date(my friend tells me the girls in banks did this all the time when he worked there, though it's illegal).

[diebitter]

Lord, it gets more and more depressing [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[HopeydaFish]

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1) The guy who got blown was not a manager or even an employee, which lends more credence to the fact she thought she was in danger.

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Wow...I thought he worked there. Instead, he was just the creepy fiance of the manager...basically a stranger to the girl. That's unbelievable and makes it understandable why she felt like she was trapped.

What gets me is that, according to the abcnews.com article, the guy on the phone had been doing this to other people for about ten years. I guess they caught him. He specifically targeted fast food restaurants, apparently because they're trained to operate by the book. Once they're on their own, they're lost. Disgusting.

ScottieK

[siccjay]

Holy [censored], I've ate at that McDonalds before HAHAHAHA

Mt. Washington isn't too far from Louisville. It's REALLY small and there are some strange people out there.

It just goes to show that once you get outside of the major cities in KY, [censored] just gets stupid.

[man]

does anyone else think it's possible that any of us would do something comparably irresponsible in this situation? seriously. I don't think this has much to do with intelligence. I think it has to do with a subscription to authority.

there was a psychological study a while back on the effects of authority (I forget the name of it, maybe someone knows). some random people were told they were participating in a study on the effects of electricity on the human body. they were sat in front of a video monitor where they could see their human subject (an actor), and a control pad for administering different "shocks." they were told to administer higher and higher levels of shocks until the actor would be writhing on the floor in pain.

many of the participants continued to administer the shocks until the subject "passed out."

I'm not saying that you guys would force an underage girl to give you head. but it's easy to say "god, people are so dumb sometimes." and it annoys me when it's dismissed as being that simple. it's not. it's human nature. and blaming it on so-called stupidity isn't doing anything to help the problem.

[swede123]

This thread really made me think of this classic Onion article.

Swede

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I highly doubt that anybody in this thread is attempting to help the problem, and that's not a criticism of either them or the thread.