Employee’s nightmare: McDonald’s strip search

Boston Herald ^ | November 16, 2005 | Darren Garnick

[TankerKC]

Does anyone else remember reading a similar story (to include the jumping jacks) a few years ago?

[Numbers Guy]

According to the article, she was left with other employees for a while.

No, other employees were brought into the office area in which she was imprisoned. She was never free to go. Go to the ABC News Primetime website and you can watch the report, which includes excerpts from the surveillance video.

I find it astounding that so many people here are blaming the victim.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Amazing that nobody else called the city police to ask "is this real?"

[martin_fierro]

Wrong. Just wrong.

[anonymous_user]

I guess this is pretty common.

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/ubb/get_topic/f/57/t/000284.html

[RightFighter]

Restaurant Shift Becomes Nightmare (Click to see edited video)

When Louise Ogborn volunteered to work late at McDonald's, she had no idea that the shift would turn into three hours of emotional and physical abuse -- all via a bogus phone call.

[CORedneck]

I just left a job almost two months ago. The manager and I didn't get along and one of the reasons, I did not suck up to him. He was also condescending as well. Most of the people in his department were college graduates (within the last 5 years) and they sucked up to him. I myself don't play politics and don't kiss@$$.

What I remembered, he would try to micromanage me in my job and I would frequently get called to his office to get @$$-chewed for something. He usually will yell and pound his fist on his desk. When I got a new job offer, I was happy to get out.

In my opinion, any manger that gets abusive should be terminated.

1) The sheeple have been indoctrinated with such a respect for government and authority that people will do anything a person in a position of relative authority (cop, etc.) tells them to do, without regard for whether the demand makes sense or whether the person actually has sufficient authority to make that demand, or whether they have gone through the legal procedures required to do so (such as getting a warrant in the case of a premise search), or

[CharlesWayneCT]

I can't get my kids to do jumping jacks with their clothes on, how did Summers get her to do this?

Certainly not by threatening her with the loss of a McDonald's job.....

[frogjerk]

I find it astounding that so many people here are blaming the victim.

I don't blame her other than she did not go kicking and screaming regarding the strip search and subsequent sexual abuse...That should be taught by all parents to their children, especially girls...

[metmom]

" Parents should be very careful about teaching children to always follow the orders of those in authority."


I couldn't agree with you more. It's tough trying to teach children to be obedient so they listen to their parents and the PROPER authorities but at the same time teach them to say "NO" and stand up for themselves when the situation demands it. The predator types search out this kind of kid, which is why they are most often the victims. I find it hard to condemn the girl because the factors are probably a combination of her personality type and upbringing. My oldest daughter is more like this type while my youngest would probably have tries to beat the snot out of them and broken the door down to escape. Same parents, different kids. The couple needs to be eliminated.

[BurbankKarl]

Was Sweet and Sour sauce used anywhere in this story?

[Numbers Guy]

I don't blame her other than

In other words, you DO blame her . . .

[ChildOfThe60s]

I've read the story. Sorry, there is something disturbingly wrong with the victim AND her parents. When my daughter was 12 she wouldn't have taken that. From anyone. Period. We taught her how to deal with aggressors.

The whole story is full of sick people.

Beam me up Scotty. There's no intelligent life on this planet.

[USS Alaska]

Please, watch your language, it's not a hummer, it's a lewinsky. {and it's not sex}

[mugs99]

The couple needs to be eliminated

I agree. Predators should be treated the same as a rabid dog.
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[frogjerk]

I don't blame her other than

In other words, you DO blame her . . .

I blame her for not putting up a fight or using her brain. I do not blame her for the absolute evil actions of the others involved. I blame her parents for raising an incredibly naive child. It seems to me if nobody else was involved she would be willing to strip naked and stand in front of a window and do jumping jacks if someone "of authority" over the phone asked her to.

[CharlesWayneCT]

This story would be unbelievable if there wasn't a video, and if the players weren't all talking about it.

In fact, the fact that Summers says McDonalds should pay would suggest the possibility (which I discount) that this was a setup to try to get money from McDonalds.

Except as I say it doesn't really seem to be anything more than at least FOUR people who have absolutely no sense, taking orders from a person on the phone.

Note in the video that early on, during the 1st strip search, a 2nd manager is in the office -- the report never mentions her, so I'm guessing she isn't cooperating with ABCnews.

So, in fact, it looks like Summers gets a call from who she thinks is a policeman. The policeman asks her to question a suspect, and when told to strip-search, summers calls in a 2nd manager to prove she doesn't take indecent liberties.

I can't explain why she would call her fiancee in, or why she wouldn't wonder why the police would ask her to do so. Her fiancee seems to be the one that did all the really horrible things (I'm not discounting the trauma of a strip-search, but it was two women in the room at the time, and it doesn't appear they touched her, and they did give her a "covering" of sorts).

I don't know how McDonalds would be at fault for this. I'm actually curious what crime the caller committed. Probably impersonating an officer. I guess it might also be a crime to ask people to do stuff, but if you just ask and they do it how is that a crime? Nothing they had the girl do was illegal, and unless the caller told them to threaten the girl, I can't see what crime other than impersonating an officer is actually in play here.

I'm not trying to say the guy isn't scum and deserves to be locked away, just wondering.

I'll say this, combining this with the story last week about how easy it was to get sexual predators to show up at a house to have sex with a minor they found over the internet, I don't have high hopes for our country after 40 years of the liberal's idea of public education.

You remove God from the schools, this is what you end up with -- people who have NO idea what is right and wrong, who only think that "authority" defines morality.

So they do bad things because someone in "authority" tells them it's OK, because they have no internal moral compass, and no external absolute measure of "right" and "wrong".

[frogjerk]

When my daughter was 12 she wouldn't have taken that. From anyone. Period. We taught her how to deal with aggressors.

Exactly my point. Her parents did not do their job on this front.

[Sloth]

I find it astounding that so many people here are blaming the victim.

I find it astounding that so many people here fail to understand that: 1.) the girl being an innocent victim and 2.) the girl being very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very stupid -- are NOT mutually exclusive facts.

[GOP_1900AD]

Reminds me of the coke head who managed the Micky D's I worked at for my first job. In addition to coke dealing out the back door they were also skimming the till. That one's not on my resume - LOL!!!