Posted on 02/28/2024 2:19:49 PM PST by lowbridge
Employees at a Kentucky Dairy Queen were forced to eat ice cream that had been tainted with cleaning solution, sending some of them to the emergency room.
A manager at a Campton, Ky. location of the chain called all employees to a mandatory staff meeting Friday night where they forced the staffers to down the chemically contaminated soft serve “whether or not they liked” it, according to the parent of one of the young staffers.
“I was livid,” Angel Patton told WKYT of the moment her 17-year-old daughter came home and told her what had happened.
“They were told by the manager that whether or not they liked chocolate ice cream, they were going to eat it today,” the furious mother said.
Some of the eight employees who were involved were taken to the hospital following the meeting, according to Patton.
“Some of the kids had complained that they had a burning sensation when they swallowed the ice cream,” she told the local CBS affiliate station.
Her daughter has since quit the food service job and the Wolfe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.
“We still have multiple people coming in to give statements, but as of now, it’s still under investigation,” Deputy Elijah Banks told WKYT.
Banks said he was unable to discuss the incident further since minors were involved. No charges have been filed as of Tuesday, the station reported.
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I hope that manager winds up in jail for a very long time.
Forced?
Attempted murder.
Odd that he would force them to do it, unless of course he was trying to make a point... I am wondering if some of these kids had contaminated the mix prior and he was trying to show them what happens.
UNDERSTAND, EVEN IF THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED I DON’T CONDONE IT... but I am hard pressed to understand why someone would intentionally do this... this is about the only reason I can come up with.
Seems like Biden must be involved somehow.
I’m pretty sure this would violate the Labor Code her in CA. And another thing “…whether or not they liked it.” Begs the question how many liked it
Forced?
....
I read that as “if you want to continue to work here
then eat some of this tainted ice cream”. However it
is finalized it want be good for the manager or Dairy
Queen. jmo
Anyway... "After the fair trial", or something like that.
The owner of the place where I spent my 3 months in the food service industry would have done something like that. It incentivized me to study hard and get a job doing anything else.
I think I ate at a location like that once … only once
My first thought. But he should not have required them to eat the contaminated ice cream.
Maybe the employees didn’t clean the ice cream machine properly so the stuper-visor thought this was a good consequence to “teach them a lesson.” DQ needs to brace for a big lawsuit.
If there was ever a “good time to be insubordinate” this is one of those times. The kids should have said “You first!”
That sounds like the peer pressure which often happens in cults.
I think you’re right, that someone didn’t clean the machine properly and left some sterilizer in it. Back when I worked in fast food, 50-some years ago, the manager would have found out who did it and made sure that person never did it again, possibly by administering physical therapy behind the carwash next door. This DQ manager really screwed up, and will pay for it.
Presumably black perp(s)...
Manager not identified, Yogi . . .
Reminds me of the fast food employees who were “forced” to disrobe by a caller
Oh no sounds like DQ might be in for a big ole ugly lawsuit. Attempted murder anyone?
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