Anyone else hear about this?

[CapeCodTenor]

I read about this in the Boston Herald while comming in to work this morning and was sickened why what I read. I feel so bad for this poor girl. Here's the link: ABC News Primetime

 

[stinkerbelle]

I do NOT understand why the shift-manager "Summers" would do this.
what a moron!
and her fiance had a sexual act performed on him? because "the voice on teh phone said so?"

"Summers told Ogborn that the officer on the phone had their store manager on the other line and that he had described her and accused her of stealing a purse from a customer."

on the orders from a COP?

omg...I hope this poor girl is set for life after she sues everyone. how horrific for her.

 

[akhenaten]

Is that the incident where the MCD Manager gets a phone call from "a police officer" who has her strip search a young female worker? And the incident kept escalating........until the "officer" tells the manager to get her fiance to come to the restaurant and help with the "investigation"

That was so UNREAL!!! The fact that the manager called in 2 other employees and not one of them intervened!!
Not to even say what I REALLY think about the ,manager and her fiance!!( the words I want to use could not be posted here)

How is Mc Donalds resonsible?? you sound like the female manage...she said Mc Donalds should have told her to not follow phone instructions and strip search an employee??!! You need to be told that as a store manager you should not strip search and employee !!???
I find the 4 others who walked into that office...Manager, Fiancee and the 2 other employees responsible.....

It inspired me to have a conversation with my children about "respecting authority" but not to the degree that poor child did.....

 

[CapeCodTenor]

I can't believe that the shift-manager would do this. The police would not do something like this on the phone. You said it best, "What a moron!" This poor girl...I feel so bad for her.

 

[WhoopyPie]

I guess people can be really stupid. I would have said right away um I don't think so.

 

[Chicago526]

I hadn't heard of it. I don't get how you would believe someone on the phone was a cop just because they say so, though. They'd always show up in person, especially for a reported theft.

I feel horible for the girl though.

 

[CheshireVal]

That is horrible. I think something shifty is going on with Summers and her fiance. It's just too bizarre.

That poor girl.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

How is Mc Donalds resonsible??

McDonalds is responsible because the shift-manager was employed by McDonalds at the time of the incident.

 

[akhenaten]

I think we should also applaude the Actual Police officers who managed to track down and arrest the creep who initiated those phone calls....

It was awesome police work!!

 

[Aidensmom]

That is unbelievable! Summers and her fiance had to have been involved in this, no one could be that stupid as to just obey outrageous commands from some unknown person on the phone. A police officer is not going to call someone and tell them to "interrogate" someone, they are going to show up in person.

ETA: Just fininshed reading the whole thing, that this has been going on 10 years? How can people be so gullible?

 

[ducklite]

I saw that on the news the other night. First off, I feel for that poor girl, but she should have walked out when told to take her clothes off. NO job is worth that type of humiliation, and she would have had a good case for getting her job back, and a good lawsuit! IF her boss had told her to empty her pockets and perhaps allow a search of her locker/pocketbook, I can buy that, but to strip naked?

The boss and her stupid boyfriend both belong in jail, if for nothing else--being STUPID! I mean, come on! Get real!! Does that man REALLY think a police offier would tell him to commit a crime? The thing that really bothered me is how many other people were in and out of that room, including other managers, and no one said a thing! I hope that McDonald's pulls the franchise from the idiot who hired the people who did this. And I hope their attorney's are getting ready for one hell of a lawsuit. I hope that girl wins MILLIONS.

Anne

 

[marybet]

That is just bizzare . Why would that girl ever take her clothes off, and why would that manager ask her to???? Wouldn't you have thought she would have told the police to come to the resturant? This just blows my mind.

 

[CheshireVal]

I saw that on the news the other night. First off, I feel for that poor girl, but she should have walked out when told to take her clothes off. NO job is worth that type of humiliation, and she would have had a good case for getting her job back, and a good lawsuit! IF her boss had told her to empty her pockets and perhaps allow a search of her locker/pocketbook, I can buy that, but to strip naked?

The boss and her stupid boyfriend both belong in jail, if for nothing else--being STUPID! I mean, come on! Get real!! Does that man REALLY think a police offier would tell him to commit a crime? The thing that really bothered me is how many other people were in and out of that room, including other managers, and no one said a thing! I hope that McDonald's pulls the franchise from the idiot who hired the people who did this. And I hope their attorney's are getting ready for one hell of a lawsuit. I hope that girl wins MILLIONS.

Anne

The girl definitely should have walked out. I'm a little confused about the sex act/sodomy, too. Why did she comply? And why did the fiance go along with the guy on the phone if he really was just an "innocent?" I mean, really!

 

[akhenaten]

That is unbelievable! Summers and her fiance had to have been involved in this, no one could be that stupid as to just obey outrageous commands from some unknown person on the phone. A police officer is not going to call someone and tell them to "interrogate" someone, they are going to show up in person.

Thats what I thought when I watched the story...but apparently they were not "involved " the phone call came from a guy in Florida who had been resposible for many other attempts ...I don't know if any others were as "successful" as this one....

so they are indeed just morons and sadists....the opportunity knocked and they did not question....just acted

 

[ChristmasElf]

This story ran on Primetime lsat week. McDonalds has since fired the manager, the man who was the managers fiance was arrested for sexual battery and sodomy and is facing 35 years (which I hope he gets every second of) and the girl and her parents have not decided what their plans on a lawsuit may be.

McDonalds is aying that their handbook for employees addresses the issue of "suspicious" phone calls and says the real cops (who were less than 1/4 mile away) should have been called and that NO cop would ever do this kind of phone call.
The calls by the way, were traced to a Phone Card that were purchased at a WalMArt in Panama City Florida and they have now figured out who the exact caller was that placed the call (and he has done this similar calling throughout several other states as well)

ABC is following the story and will show an update when the case goes to trial

 

[The Mystery Machine]

It is disgusting. Why anyone would believe a caller on the phone is beyond me.

I would have walked out of the store.

 

[stinkerbelle]

can I tell you...
I was a shift manager of a taco bell when I was younger (highschool/college days)

No where did I remember seeing "you can't strip search your employees"

but...common sense...wouldn't do it. hell - if my job was on the line to do that to another person, I'd leave the job.

Yes, the guy on the phone is in the wrong...and yes the shift manager/fiance have to be involved somehow...but, really, they are idiots.

 

[ducklite]

I can't believe the manager wasn't arrested for unlawful imprisonment or something along those lines. Like I said, sometimes I think there should be a law against STUPID people. I hope that manager never breeds, don't need that type of genes in the pool.

Anne (who has a lot of compassion for mentally challenged people, but no tolerence for STUPID people--and there is a big difference!)

 

[Michie]

Did I read the article wrong, she was 18 and her boyfriend 43?

 

[akhenaten]

Did I read the article wrong, she was 18 and her boyfriend 43?

The manager was much older than 18......i'd say both MGR and boyfriend in 40's