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[Outtrigger888]

Coon Rapids

My home town :/ lived there for the first 26 years of my life. So lay off

 

[DOWN]

This is an incredible but wrong prank

 

[pelicansurf]

I worked at fast food as a dumbass 16 year old and I probably would've smashed the windows knowing it was bullshit, just to see if I could get away with it. I would've known it was immediately bullshit at age 16 though, come on.

 

[Jason Frost]

He kills Ronald twice before driving away?

#GAMEGIFCHANGER

 

[Pai Pai Master]

He kills Ronald twice before driving away?

McDoubletap™

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

That manager is kind of dumb. I mean, I understand the inclination to believe the fire department but how would they magically know the levels of gas?

Even if I thought there could be a chance of it being true, I'd just turn everything off, get everyone out and like leave the door open or something, then wait for the fire department, and, when they didn't come, call 911. At that point it'd probably start to become clear it was a hoax.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Yeah, this was happening quite a bit a few years back iirc. We had a particularly interesting one down the street from my house at a KFC in 2009. Place closed down not long after.

How do you go back to work the next day after peeing on your coworkers or getting peed on by them?

 

[King Gilga]

I'm sorry but I have no sympathy, that's just ridiculous, same with that kfc thing.

 

[Ensoul]

Hey, at least the manager fell for it too. Nothing like messing up with your boss.

I am sure his boss isn't happy with him though.

 

[Indrid Cold1]

I'm going to Burger King and call a woman claiming to be part of the bomb squad. There's a bomb that will kill everyone in 30 seconds unless you have sex with the guy holding the cell phone.

Bit rapey this.

 

[Staccat0]

I feel really bad for people when they get caught up in stuff like this. The human brain does weird shit sometimes. People just don't understand how wired we are uo follow orders from authority even if we have a thread on here that proves it day after day.

Stories like this are sad man. Best case scenario, you laugh at them and get a smug satisfaction out of being smarter than a person who gets paid less than you and may very likely have a below average IQ. Laughing at their misfortune is pretty gross IMO.

 

[Downhome]

I'm sorry but I have no sympathy, that's just ridiculous, same with that kfc thing.

Yeah, I feel just like you. A part of me is happy when things like this happen just so it weeds out the morons of the world. I mean, not really happy, but you get what I mean.

The employees were likely being told to do it by the manager, so I don't blame them. If my manager told me to bust out all the windows I may have done it just for the hell obit for fun, haha.

Manager should be fired and never be placed in a position like that ever again.

I'm not even completely against saying don't even seek out those that made the call. I guess you should, but again...that small part of me. I can't believe they are looking for federal charges though.

I'd love to see and hear video/audio of the entire thing from start to finish, ugh.

 

[NeonBlack]

They couldn't just prop the door open?

First thing that came to mind. I guess the manager may not have critical thinking skills.

Ground floor? A multi story burger king?

No different then the two story McD and Wendy's in my city.

 

[koolaroo]

This kinda stuff happens a lot unfortunately. So long as you claim to be with corporate you can get away with anything.
Reminds me of this story or pretty much anything pranknet did

 

[TI82]

Reminded me I wanted to go try that dr pepper shake

 

[Baka Sempai]

This kinda stuff happens a lot unfortunately. So long as you claim to be with corporate you can get away with anything.
Reminds me of this story or pretty much anything pranknet did

Isn't this the second BK to get hit by the same type of prank ?

The previous one was a couple of months ago

http://www.eater.com/2016/2/3/10900402/burger-king-prank-smashed-windows-gas-leak

 

[impact]

They could have hired smarter people with that money.

Yea there's always dozens of smart people applying to Burger King but they picked these ones instead.

 

[lawnchair]

reading about that compliance movie right now, damn that is some FUCKED UP shit ... how is that even possible

 

[ElTorro]

I demand a Simpsons gif for this story.

 

[Izuna]

Just a fucked up prank bro...

 

[jond76]

Not sure if I'd trust those folks to make my food. Haha

 

[norm9]

Not sure if I'd trust those folks to make my food. Haha

They like to put cheese on my Whopper when I specifically order it with no cheese.

 

[harriet the spy]

This authority bias at work.

And the culprit (who was acquitted, but it really seems like he was guilty) had dreams of being a cop. Shudders.

 

[CloudyTuba]

I don't understand why you would believe someone that isn't even at your restaurant. How do they know anything is wrong? Did they even ask how he knew this?

Also, do windows really cost $10,000? That's quite a bit.

 

[U2NUMB]

I demand a Simpsons gif for this story.

that's an unfortunate town name.

It 100% is for a Raccoon. Their city logo has a Raccoon face right in it no doubt to try and keep the focus there. I have lived in the Twin Cities most my life and have always thought it was strange to keep just because you know the word itself has an ugly past.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

that's an unfortunate town name.

 

[KHlover]

I don't understand why you would believe someone that isn't even at your restaurant. How do they know anything is wrong? Did they even ask how he knew this?

Also, do windows really cost $10,000? That's quite a bit.

Windows are expensive as fuck. They also get more expensive with size. ... actually I'm suprised it's only $10k.

 

[Bubba T]

Ah, Coon Rapids. Not much good from that town, although I do remember going there for a high school track meet and dusting everyone in the 100 meter dash lol.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

From Wikipedia about Compliance's inspiration which were phone call scams-

The strip search phone call scam is a series of incidents that extended over a period of about ten years before an arrest was made in 2004. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of female employees, and to perform other bizarre acts on behalf of "the police". The calls were most often placed to fast-food restaurants in small towns, located in rural areas of the United States.

Over 70 such occurrences were reported in 30 U.S. states, until an incident in 2004 in Mount Washington, Kentucky (population 9,117), finally led to the arrest of David Richard Stewart,[1] a 37‑year-old employee of Corrections Corporation of America, a firm contracted by several states to provide corrections officers at private detention facilities.

On October 31, 2006, Stewart was acquitted of all charges in the Mount Washington case. He was suspected, but never charged, of having made other, similar scam calls.[2][3]

what the fuuuck

Someone was really convinced to give oral sex to a stranger through a prank phone call.

 

[Bubba T]

Man if I was the prank caller I'd seriously be laughing my ass off right now.