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Prank caller leads Coon Rapids Burger King employees to smash their windows
StarTribune ^ | APRIL 9, 2016 | James Walsh

Posted on 04/09/2016 5:04:53 PM PDT by Sawdring

To the frantic manager of a Coon Rapids Burger King Friday night, the choice was to act fast or face disaster.

A caller who said he was a fire department official said there was a gas leak in the building and that unless the windows were smashed, a gas buildup in the building would cause an explosion. So the manager and Burger King employees evacuated the restaurant and started smashing ground floor windows. Every single one.

Problem was, it was a hoax. The caller was no firefighter. There was no gas.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: burgerking; coonrapids; gasleak; minimumwage; minnesota; theking
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1 posted on 04/09/2016 5:04:53 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring

geniuses don’t work at burger king


2 posted on 04/09/2016 5:07:38 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Sawdring

Kind of like the Democrats and global warming.


3 posted on 04/09/2016 5:07:48 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Sawdring

Can’t fix stupid


4 posted on 04/09/2016 5:07:57 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Sawdring

I read somewhere that the exact same thing happened at a BK in Texas on the same night.


5 posted on 04/09/2016 5:08:05 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: Sawdring

Prison time for the hoaxster.


6 posted on 04/09/2016 5:08:14 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Sawdring

Another reason why this sort of business is going to try to automate its workforce as fast as possible.

A very large percentage of our national population is not worth employing in any business. The implications of that are disquieting.


7 posted on 04/09/2016 5:08:18 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking, but I know what I'm thinking.)
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To: Sawdring

How stupid can they get? If you don’t smell gas... Then there’s NO gas leak. Just damn ignorant and stupid.


8 posted on 04/09/2016 5:09:36 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.x)
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To: JohnBrowdie

I guess that includes management.


9 posted on 04/09/2016 5:12:00 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Off the NWO)
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To: Sawdring

Gas, both natural and propane have a scent added to it so as to be noticeable. The manager was an idiot. Read: http://nlsd.net/index2.html


10 posted on 04/09/2016 5:12:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: ClearCase_guy

I wonder if insurance covers windows broken by employees who decide what they need to do is break all the windows.


11 posted on 04/09/2016 5:13:39 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Off the NWO)
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To: Sawdring

The manager has to have a double digit IQ.


12 posted on 04/09/2016 5:14:19 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Sawdring

"....good thing he didn't say a gas build up in their shorts"

13 posted on 04/09/2016 5:15:03 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon sThailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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EMMMMbarrassing! The Manager has to know that next scheduled automatic raise has been, shall we say “Postponed Indefintely”


14 posted on 04/09/2016 5:15:03 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Sawdring

Duh, gee, boss.........


15 posted on 04/09/2016 5:15:35 PM PDT by umgud
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A caller who said he was a fire department official said there was a gas leak in the building

Wow! Even very simple critical thinking could ferret out the lie here.

How would the fire department know there was a gas leak in the building unless they were on the scene?

If they were on the scene they would use fans to ventilate the building and direct the evacuation and ensure that it was complete.

The fire departments mission is to prevent or minimize the destruction of property not to direct its destruction.

16 posted on 04/09/2016 5:18:34 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

never liked their hamburgers anyway............


17 posted on 04/09/2016 5:21:13 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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Not everybody is aware that gas smells, but he should have been with it enough to close the restaurant and call the fire department from across the street.


18 posted on 04/09/2016 5:21:33 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: JohnBrowdie

geniuses don’t work at burger king


19 posted on 04/09/2016 5:26:14 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
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To: Cen-Tejas

whoppers are sinfully delicious.


20 posted on 04/09/2016 5:28:19 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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