[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

One of youse (who shall be left anonymous) was saying this happened at a convenience store in Northern Virginia. Unfortunately, this appears to be a variation of the urban legend. It would have been great if it really happened.

[fatnotlazy]

This site (Snopes) is just too funny.

And the Bud story has been around in one form or another for some time, as the article says. The article mentions Beck beer in one version. I think just about every beer maker has been represented in one or another version of this story.

[rineaux]

If the employee pulled the product, the company would have canned him. NO pun intended. Company motto, Profits before Patriotism.

[RabidBartender]

If you’re using Firefox, just go to Tools->Options->Content, uncheck the Enable Javascript box, and hit OK. You’ll be able to copy the text then.

Annoying as heck! :)

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I work with a bunch of people who get these stories in their e-mail and promptly send them to a W-I-D-E distribution list, that always includes me.

I then send them a link to Snopes, debunking their story. They never learn. They just keep doing it.

Starting with this story, I’m going to start a sort of reverse-Snopes campaign. I’m going to search Snopes for the most unbelieveable stories and start sending them to all my gullible friends.

[Old Sarge]

Snopes is a Leftist site, run by Leftist activists, who use their False Authority Syndrome to further the Leftist Agenda.

They took down all the links to the Clinton Body Count and put a Bush Body Count in its place.

They also, in April of 2003, stated that they feel that since they are an “independent site” and must maintain their objectivity, they cannot morally support the soldiers of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

They live for web hits and ad dollars. Do not feed them. Do not give them the web traffic they so desperately need.

[Coleus]

This Bud's Not for You

Claim:   A Budweiser employee who saw Arabs celebrating the 9/11 attacks at a convenience store pulled all the Budweiser product from that store.
Status:   False.
Example:   [Collected via e-mail, 2001]

Thought you'd like to know what happened in a town north of Bakersfield California. After you finish reading this, please forward this story on to others so that our nation and around the world will know about those who laughed when they found out about the tragic events in New York, PA and the Pentagon.

September 11th, a Budweiser employee was making a delivery to a convenience store in a town called McFarland. He knew of the tragedy that had occurred in New York. He entered the business to find two Arabs whooping and hollering and really cheering it up. It was obvious they were elated with what had happened earlier. The Budweiser employee went to his truck, called his boss and told him of the very upsetting event. He didn't feel he could be in that store with those horrible people. His boss told him, "Do you think you could go in there long enough to pull every Budweiser product and item our beverage company sells there? We'll never deliver to them again."

The employee walked in, proceeded to pull every single product his beverage company provided and left with an incredible grin on his face. He told them never to bother and call for a delivery again.

Budweiser happens to be the beer of choice for that community. Just letting you all know how Kern County handles this situation!! [And now the rest of the story: It seems that the Bud driver and the Pepsi man are neighbors. Bud driver called Pepsi driver and told him. Pepsi called his boss who told him to pull all Pepsi products as well!! That would include Frito Lay, etc. Furthermore, word spread and all vendors followed suit! At last report, the store was closed indefinitely. Good old American Passive-Aggressive Butt-Whoopin'!]

Pass this along. America needs to know that we're all working together.

Variations:

• An 18 October 2001 version of the standard e-mail changed the beer company from Budweiser to Beck.

• A 30 October 2001 version opened with the canonical "Budweiser" story but continued on into a new second part about the Bud driver's calling "his Pepsi friend" and that driver's removing all Pepsi and Frito Lay products from that store as well.

Origins:   This tale about an avenging Budweiser employee first surfaced on the Internet around 20 September 2001. It is but one of the innumerable "celebrating arabs" tales that circulated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks that year. This rumor about Arab employees caught celebrating on the 11th as they watched the events of the day unfold has been aimed at countless businesses, both big and small. Invariably, when the authorities check into them, there is never anything to these stories, but the negative effect such slanders have on the businesses named in them is enormous. (Our "Hole in the Middle" page details a few of these rumors, making specific mention of the ones aimed at Dunkin' Donuts and National Liquidators.)

The Budweiser version is every bit as much a fiction as all the rest of this genre: The events described never happened, said Dennis Muleady, marketing director for Advance Beverage of Bakersfield, the Budweiser distributor for the McFarland area. As well, a query to Anheuser-Busch produced the following response:

Please know that we have investigated the matter and have found there is no truth to this story. We've checked extensively on this story in a number of different locations, with wholesalers and retail accounts and there is no report of a customer reacting in such a manner. Therefore, no product has been pulled from any retail account.   Like all Americans, we at Anheuser-Busch along with our wholesalers were shocked and saddened by the tragic and violent terrorist attack on our country. We keep the victims and survivors in our thoughts.

Barbara "bud wiser" Mikkelson     Last updated:   6 December 2005
The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/rumors/budweiser.asp

[darkangel82]

Budweiser? People actually drink that @ss-water?