Wow, talking about falling from the top.
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Posted on 10/05/2007 4:02:28 PM PDT by Westlander
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. - A jury awarded $6.1 million Friday to a woman who said she was forced to strip in a McDonald's back office after someone called the restaurant posing as a police officer.
In the lawsuit, she said someone called the restaurant in Mount Washington impersonating a police officer and gave a description of a young, female employee, accusing her of stealing from a customer. The caller demanded the woman be strip searched.
Ogborn was forced to undress, endure a strip search, and to perform sexual acts, the lawsuit said. The events were captured on surveillance video, which was shown to jurors during the trial.
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You mean, hold the mayo.
Where’s the BEEF??!
These are some of the dumbest people I have ever heard of.
Supersize that!
Unfortunately for the young victim, McDonald’s will appeal this decision for as long as they can. It is also sickening that McDonald’s defense was that the victim was also to blame because she should have known it was a hoax.
It seems somebody here should be going to jail. No?
$6.1 million. Proof people, that ‘dumb’ can be expensive.
Why do you think McDonalds should pay?
Sounds like everyone involved was waiting for an excuse to be bad.
According to the article, somebody did.
It really gives a whole new meaning the the 'chicken strip'.
1/2 agree but what the victim should have known, hoax or not---she should have known better!
This is a testament to how we raise our kids. Mom and dad working, busy with whatever, kids in front of the TV, video games, ipod, brain turned off to a throbbing house music beat. No life skills are learned today by American kids. If they were, the kids would say, upon being asked to strip, wait, let's call the police now, I want a marked cruiser outside and a policeman with a badge here now. While we're at it, let's call my parents. They can call our family attorney. OK? That's before I take off one stitch of clothes. I don't have kids but if I did they'd know when to say that.
And well they should. I do not see how McDonald's can be blamed for actions that they had no control over.
Did she, at least, get a cup of overheated coffee?
Wow, talking about falling from the top.
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McDonald’s has also announced that they will be giving away DVDs of the surveilance camera footage with every purchase for the next week to recoup the costs of the lawsuit. < /sarcasm > < /pornification of the culture >
No company should be liable when a manager sexually abuses an employee?
If it was a McDonalds owned store, the McDonalds pays since it was an assistant manager who performed the strip search.
If it was a franchise store then the franchisee should pay the freight.
If McDonalds was aware of the phone calls being made in other parts of the country and didn’t inform all McDonalds stores it should pay at least a portion of the award.
I don’t think McDonald’s is responsible for this at all. Sure they could have warned them but failing to warn and doing the deed are two very distinct entities. McDonald’s has deep pockets so they will be made to pay for the evil of the perpetrators and the unbridled ignorance of this girl.
I question what was meant by “force” in this case and the whole thing just doesn’t pass the smell test here. I suppose I am just having a hard time absorbing that anyone could be that ignorant. I suppose if I knew what the means of force was and that this person was truly that ignorant, I could see her being awarded perhaps 200k.
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