Hank.
This joke should be run over by a tank driven by a British wank.
I think we’re getting carried away with the puns. We need to focus on the OP, who says David Stewart won’t be spending time in the clank.
Edit: oops clank isn’t slang for prison, clink is, isn’t it
Looks like this thread already sank.
You should’ve gone with tank.
Well, the next time I need a synonym for prison I’ll know who to thank.
::rumble rumble::
Field Marshall Montgomery: “What’s that noise?”.
Lieutenant: “Many tanks!”
Field Marshall Montgomery: “You’re welcome, Lieutenant, but what’s that noise?”
Sorry to break into the punfest, but I just watched the surveillance video and sweet Og, I still can’t believe that the asshole manager and her fiance did this horrible thing.
I remember the original thread and was aghast then, but now, having seen the video…it just makes me sad. That poor girl! I’d like to think that now, at 40, I’d be more than willing to run through a McD’s naked and screaming*, after I ripped Wes’s balls off, but I can see how a teenage girl would be terrified to make a move.
People suck.
*I can’t see how I’d ever get into that situation, but still.
What a silly case. But I guess the lawyers were laughing all the way to the bank.
Hey, if it’s fine by Annie Lennox, it’s fine by me.
These people must all be retarded. Who would think that part of a strip search is giving/getting a blow job?!
All IQs below 60!
If that was the case, I imagine things would get very interesting very fast at airport security:
Pad, pad, pad, pad, Oh… Excuse me sir, are you carrying a package? I need to investigate it. Let me just… reach around a bit there…
Oh my god it’s growing! It’s armed! Everyone clear the building, this guy is loaded!
Wait, I didnt say you could leave, sir. I have to investigate this further…
I read this last night, and was all “WTF? Did he post in the wrong thread?”
This morning, I got it. :smack:
We studied this case in my psychology class. Intelligence has nothing to do with it. In fact, honor students (which this girl was iirc) tend to be more obedient when asked to do “odd” things because they are used to complying with authority. It’s easy to point and laugh and consider them mentally retarded instead of facing the terrifying truth of how easily people can be persuaded by even flimsy displays of authority.
I just doubled checked and she wasn’t the one that was an honor student (this was just one of many cases). Here is a link that discusses the famous Milgram Power of Authority study.
It would only be really retarded if the unfortunate girl complied.
It’s not necesarily dumb, but rather, unthinking.
There’s a push in modern society to train people to respond unquestioningly to authority. People with free thinking independent mindset are somewhat outcast in a society that demands complacent drones.
But, I mean, really… what the hell?
I mean, maybe the manager guy wanted to abuse this poor girl, and the fake call somehow enabled him to have an internal excuse that let him pressure her, and she was pressured by him, but… still, the girl isn’t 11 years old.
There’s no sympathy deserved here as far as I can see, anymore than I’d feel sorry for someone if I said “hey, touch this hot burning stove! it’ll burn your hand!” and they did.
Man, I have no doubt in the stupidity and spinelessness of people, but I still have a hard time believing that this is real.
Did it multiple times to multiple people, and they all complied?
Didn’t anyone involved in the whole process say “um… wtf?”
"On Jan. 26, 2003, according a police report in Davenport, Iowa, an assistant manager at an Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar conducted a degrading 90-minute search of a waitress at the behest of a caller who said he was a regional manager – even though the man had called collect, and despite the fact the assistant manager had read a company memo warning about hoax calls just a month earlier. He later told police he’d forgotten about the memo. "
Are you fucking kidding?
No.
I read the rest of the article.
This is some kind of joke, right?
I’m not a person who has great faith in the general intelligence and decency of humanity, quite the opposite, but even I can’t believe this is real. No way.
Maybe one in a million people could be manipulated in that way… but dozens?
I mean…
er…
okay then.
"Although a McDonald’s security executive had sent a 10- to 15-second voice message to every store in the region about hoax calls about a week before the Mount Washington incident, Siddons, the manager there, said in her deposition that it didn’t mention strip-searches. "
Okay, so there were warnings saying “be on the lookout for unusual people calling asking you to do weird things” I’m guessing, but since they didn’t mention strip searches, they served no warning at all.
I mean… there are like 82 levels of thought, any one of which would tell you “hey, something is wrong here, abort!” and it would only take one.
“The company also failed to execute a plan it had developed to send warning stickers to be placed on the headset and cradle of the phone in every store, Peaster, McDonald’s global security director, said in a deposition.”
YOU NEED STICKERS ON THE PHONE TO REALIZE “HI I’M A COP NOW DO HORRIBLE THINGS” MIGHT NOT BE LEGIT?
retires from humanity
Knowing our society, maybe she’ll win 5 million dollars from her lawsuit. Bizarre.
If the manager used physical intimidation, then he deserves more punishment than the caller. I mean - if I say “hey, kill that guy over there” to a stranger, and you do, you’re more at fault than I am.
Read up on the Milgram experiments, mentioned briefly in kimera’s link above, with more information here. It’s fascinating and depressing in equal measure.
I have, but I don’t view the situations as analogous.
In the Milgrim experiment, the person you’re hurting was supposed to have volunteered for the experiment, knowing that they’d be hurt. Given that scenario, I don’t find it all that surprising that people were willing to continue on with the experiments that the subjects were volunteering to do. While it is indeed depressing how easily people are ordered around and submit themselves to authority figures, I don’t see the Milgrim experiment as a particularly bad example of that.
This, though, is just mind-bogglingly stupid.