Sunday, December 3, 2006
Like The Clash always said, Know Your Rights
An 18 year old girl that worked at a Kentucky McDonalds was made to go into her manager’s tiny office and remove all of her clothing to facilitate a strip search. Some guy on the phone claiming to be a cop told the McDonalds manager to do it. The girl proceeded to be humiliated and even sexually assaulted by the manager’s boyfriend. All because the guy on the phone said to do it.
Oh yeah, the whole thing is captured on video surveillance tape.
As it turned out, the guy on the phone of course was not a cop, but a wannabe cop. He turned out to be a prison guard.
He lives in Florida and has been pulling this same scam for years. Armed with a AT&T calling cards purchased at his local Wal-Mart, this guy called various fast food restaurants across the country and told them to do strip searches on someone “suspected” of a crime. Sometimes it was an employee. Sometimes it was a customer.
He was tracked down down by real cops in Kentucky and charged with a whole host of crimes. Being that he was tried by authorities in Kentucky with a jury consisted of people from Kentucky, he was found Not Guilty. Even though they have the surveillance tape from Wal-Mart showing the man buying the actual AT&T calling card used to call the McDonalds. Even though they found another AT&T calling card in his trailer used in a similar stunt to another fast food restaurant.
He was still found NOT GUILTY.
The young woman humiliated by the McDonalds manager is suing McDonalds for $200 million. Though I’m sure she won’t get $200 million, she will most certainly get something.
People need to know their rights.
Case Closed? [ABC News]
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She’d rather be a victim of sodomy than to humiliate herself by appearing in public for the fifteen seconds it would take to her run to her car wearing only an apron. Now that makes sense.
After posting that, I realized she had no keys, but still, it seems odd she’d do that rather than running out screaming.
Watching the video, she said she was raised to always do what adults told her to do. I thought parents stopped doing this years ago.
It would be very easy to judge what she did or didn’t do, but it’s hard to know exactly what she was thinking.
see i dont get this. she was young, but she should have known for the cop to be there, and even worse they would take you in before strip searching you. or youd think atleast. no one arrested her they just asked her to do it. my questions are as follows though.
did the guy see the surveilance cams of all the woman he did this 2? did he think it was just fun knowing some one was submitting to his will? hes sick, but hes not really in deservance of any crimes. if the mcdonalds worker is dumb enough to succumb to these rules, he deserves to get introuble.
this happened over 2 years ago though, i want to know if she got money or not, supposedly it was 31 million dollars.