[skeptoid]

Bethel is 400 miles wast of Anchorage and has a 6500 foot paved runway, but no roads to anywhere else, and no MacDonalds.

Residents have been getting more and more frustrated with their wireless service, so GCI flew in 6,000 MacDonalds cheeseburgers to mollify the locals at the big opening day of the new service!

(audio link at the source)

[doc1019]

McDonald’s cheeseburgers suck to begin with and to feed them to people after hours in flight! WOW! What a way to pacify the mob. And, 6000 burgers for 100 people ... what’s with that?

Mayhap I’m reading this wrong?

[aposiopetic]

I had only heard of Bethel because of the Bethel Dream Center (http://www.betheldreamcenter.com/bdc/Home.html).

[DemforBush]

6000 McDonald’s cheeseburgers?

Wow, that’s almost a quarter pound of meat!

;-)

[SamAdams76]

Salad days for Bethel, AK. First Internet and now McDonalds hamburgers right on its heels. Who knows what is next in store for this rugged Yukon town.

[smokingfrog]

3G speeds ... wow

[dainbramaged]

We lived in Juneau for many years and when McDonald’s first opened up in the 80’s it was huge and there were people camped out in the snow overnight to get some mickey D chow. They had big mac airlifts to villages and other small towns in southeast Alaska until everyone finally got indigestion and the novelty faded.

[Secret Agent Man]

they wanted their customers to either get constipated or have diarrhea?