Comments on: Prankster Engineers Restaurant Strip Searches

By: hossman

hossman — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 00:07:00 +0000

FYI, the AP has another article that contains a few more details not found in the ABC story…

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20040409/ap_on_re_us/strip_search_hoax

By: rick

rick — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:18:09 +0000

Nice find, yet again.

By: John F

John F — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 02:04:16 +0000

Oh jeez that is d=umb… I mean REALLY REALLY Dumb.

Usually I get pissed off when people online send me chain messages telling me that such-and-such free web service will start charging soon unless you forward this message to everyone on your buddy list… I snap at the sender because unless there is some media verification of this message, there ain’t no chance it’s going to happen.

Those who send those messages along are usually 18 years old or younger and don’t know better because they don’t spend much time online or paying attention to the news. That’s understandable…

BUt for a MANAGER to fall for something like this? Give me a break — “Oh yeah, I am calling because Jane is suspected of terrorist ties. I am from the Office of Homeland security and if you could, uh, go ahead and strip search her and check her body cavities, I bet you’ll find her loaded with heroin that she was going to sell to finance her terrorist network….”

…Right, someone ON THE PHONE passes on the news and the manager takes it seriously. We truly must be a nation of idiots.

By: a_stupid_box

a_stupid_box — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:57:05 +0000

Kudos to the prankster(s). Any manager stupid enough to violate someone’s rights because someone SAYS they’re the authorities deserves the lawsuit that’ll result.

By: jamie

jamie — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:20:12 +0000

I think the managers are lying. Gess that is why this story is posted on this site.