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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: burgerking; coonrapids; gasleak; minimumwage; minnesota; theking
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To: Sawdring

I’d like to go to a news site that actually gave the city AND state of the story’s location.


21 posted on 04/09/2016 5:28:32 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: JohnBrowdie

“”””whoppers are sinfully delicious.””

They taste like broken glass for some reason.


22 posted on 04/09/2016 5:32:22 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy

they do at that restaurant, at any rate.


23 posted on 04/09/2016 5:34:15 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: JohnBrowdie

They really fell for a whopper.


24 posted on 04/09/2016 5:41:42 PM PDT by doosee (Captain, we are approaching a new level of Hell.)
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To: Sawdring

Got that wrong. It was Thursday night in OK City.

http://kfor.com/2016/04/08/employees-at-oklahoma-burger-king-bust-out-windows-after-prank-call/


25 posted on 04/09/2016 5:50:03 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: Sawdring

Some guy got a bad burger (normal for BK), or crap service....and sweet revenge


26 posted on 04/09/2016 6:01:02 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: SkyDancer

Mercaptan!


27 posted on 04/09/2016 6:04:38 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Coon Rapids, MN. Suburb of Minneapolis.


28 posted on 04/09/2016 6:05:54 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

In the story, supposedly, it also happened in California.


29 posted on 04/09/2016 6:06:41 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring

And these people think they deserve $15.00 an hour?


30 posted on 04/09/2016 6:07:33 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Sawdring

The new “Knockout Game”


31 posted on 04/09/2016 6:07:52 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: Sawdring; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...

DANG!


32 posted on 04/09/2016 6:07:53 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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To: Sawdring

I’ve eaten at that Burger King.

I hope stupid isn’t contagious.


33 posted on 04/09/2016 6:08:47 PM PDT by toast
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To: Sawdring

These heroes deserve $15 dollars an hour!


34 posted on 04/09/2016 6:09:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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To: Sawdring

That takes a special kind of stupid.....


35 posted on 04/09/2016 6:28:06 PM PDT by nevergore
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To: Sawdring

Nawww. Everyone should know that if you need to smash your windows EMS will send a letter. They don’t inform you of such things over the phone.


36 posted on 04/09/2016 6:28:36 PM PDT by pa_dweller (Go ahead Libs, drink the kool-aid. It's got electrolytes!)
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To: Sawdring

What a great name for a suburb of MSP— “Coons Rapids”


37 posted on 04/09/2016 6:29:52 PM PDT by Fast Ed97
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To: Sawdring

Yeah, and they couldn’t put that in the article?


38 posted on 04/09/2016 6:31:39 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: pa_dweller

This incident amplifies the degree to which Americans have become compliant to orders of any kind. Just be quiet folks and follow orders, even if the orders are given by an anonymous phone caller. Never question authority. Rule #1.


39 posted on 04/09/2016 6:41:41 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Sawdring

Didn’t they smell a hoax? Apparently not.


40 posted on 04/09/2016 6:53:21 PM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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