NEWS: Prankster convinces Burger King employees to smash windows to "relieve pressure"

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Man phones restaurant pretending to be from the fire dept, monitoring the restaurant. Convinces staff that there is a dangerous gas buildup and they need to smash windows to relive the pressure before it explodes.

Staff go right ahead and furiously shatter the restaurant's glazing.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ore-windows-to-relieve-pressure-a6977031.html

Reading to the end, it seems it's happening a lot.

I wonder what the limit is of what a convincing telephone jokester could persuade people to do...
 
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So they thought they needed to let gas out, and to do so, opened doors, and ran out to get tyre irons and smash windows.

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this sort of thing has been done before - though with much darker consequences. Some bloke convinced fast food managers/team leaders to sexually abuse employees via a phone call pretending to be someone in authority. Think there was a film made about it too.
 
Racism, suicide, sexual abuse...

Thread's already somewhat darker than I expected at the outset :D

Gotta ride this tiger though!
 
Remember the time that Australian radio show convinced some poor nurse that it was the Queens Mum calling to speak to the Dutchess in Hospital, and the nurse then committed suicide due to the media attention/embarrassment/career destruction is caused?

Pranksters need to realise these are people's lives and livelihoods that they're using for fame/financial gain.
 
examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_phone_call_scam

In February 2003, a call was made to a McDonald's in Hinesville, Georgia. The female manager (who believed she was speaking to a police officer who was with the director of operations for the restaurant's upper management) took a 19?year-old female employee into the women's bathroom and strip-searched her. She also brought in a 55?year-old male employee, who conducted a body cavity search of the woman to "uncover hidden drugs." McDonald's and GWD Management Corporation (owner and operator of the involved McDonald's restaurant) were taken to court over the incident. In 2005, U.S. District Judge John F. Nangle granted a summary judgment to McDonald's and denied, in part, a summary judgment to GWD Management.[4] In 2006, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgments.[5]
On June 3, 2003, a Taco Bell manager in Juneau, Alaska, undressed a 14?year-old female customer and forced her to perform lewd acts at the request of a caller who had claimed he was working with Taco Bell management to investigate drug abuse.[2]
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and a film:


edit - ah film title already mentioned above too :)
 
dowie said:
examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_phone_call_scam



and a film:


edit - ah film title already mentioned above too :)
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That film was on film4 a couple of months back and I watched it.
The beginning had me intrigued when it was stating that this actually happened and had in no way been exaggerated I just had to find out what it was.

Pretty dark to be fair and the employees had to be a bit daft to believe that a police officer would ask what they asked over the phone.
 
Reminds me of the time Graham Norton called up some poor shop-owner on national television and started soliciting him for gay sex. It was something to do with the name of the shop being a mild double-entendre (probably unintentionally). The shopkeeper started responding and seemed up for it. He also had a pretty strong Pakistani accent. Meaning there's a good chance his life was seriously adversely affected by having his homosexual negotiation broadcast to the nation.

Some people don't think. The top of the ******s list will always be reserved for Jonathon Ross and Russell Brand, I think.
 
dowie said:
this sort of thing has been done before - though with much darker consequences. Some bloke convinced fast food managers/team leaders to sexually abuse employees via a phone call pretending to be someone in authority. Think there was a film made about it too.
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Thanks, I was trying to remember what it was when I read the OP.
There was a film made about it.

Oops, should have carried on reading the thread.
 
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