THIS Is Why They Make Minimum Wage: Burger King Employees Bust Out All The Windows After Prank Call
http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/this-is-why-they-make-minimum-wage-burger-king-employees-bust-out-all-the-windows-after-prank-callApril 10, 2016| by Robert Gehl
Some exceedingly dumb folks at a Minnesota Burger King were fooled into smashing out the windows of their restaurant after a prank caller pretending to be a firefighter told them to do it.
Employees at the restaurant in Coon Rapids got a call Friday night from someone claiming they were with the fire department. They said the restaurant “could explode,” so they needed to relieve the pressure by busting open all the windows.
And they did just that, CP24 reports.
Officers arrived and found that the manager and employees of the Burger King were smashing out the windows,” Sgt. Rick Boone told the Star Tribune. “The manager explained they’d received a phone call from a male who identified himself as a fireman who said there were dangerous levels of gas in the building and they had to break out all the windows to keep the building from blowing up.”
Boone said there was no immediate cost estimate for the damage. The restaurant was boarded up Saturday, and investigators were trying to identify the caller.
Someone placed a similar call to a Burger King in Shawnee, Oklahoma, on Thursday night, claiming there were high levels of carbon monoxide in the building. KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City reported that the window damage there was estimated at $10,000.
“It is a little upsetting that they would try to give the fire department a black eye,” Thomas Larman, of the Shawnee Fire Department, told the station. “We would never do anything like that. We’re here to serve the public, protect the public.”
A similar call to Burger King in Morro Bay, California, about a purported gas leak in early February resulted in $35,000 in damage. Not only did employees smash the windows, but a manager went as far as ramming his car into building. And police in Tucson, Arizona, say several similar prank calls were placed to Jack in the Box restaurants there in early February, fooling workers at one store. A similar incident happened at a Wendy’s in Phoenix in late January.
