Elderly Man Falls Victim To Motel 6 Prank

NOVEMBER 23--Joseph Jones, 73, was sleeping in a Motel 6 room in Spartanburg, South Carolina late Sunday evening when he was awakened by a phone call.

The male caller, who identified himself as a hotel administrator, spun out a bizarre story about a prior guest having left “highly sophisticated cameras” in the guest’s room. The man told Jones that “he would tell him what to do to get rid of them,” according to a Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office report.

At the caller’s direction, Jones took the ceramic toilet tank cover and smashed the television (presumably a hiding place for a hidden camera). Since the cover shattered without breaking the TV, the caller told Jones “to throw the TV outside and he did.” Jones was then told that cameras were “behind the mirrors and that he needed to smash them.” The guest complied, grabbing a wrench he had in the room to smash the mirrors.

The call, of course, was not coming from the front desk, but rather was a prank bearing the hallmarks of Pranknet, the online group of miscreants whose damaging hoaxes have been frequently chronicled in these pages. Pranknet (which is also known as Prank U or Prank University) specializes in social engineering and manipulation geared toward damaging businesses and embarrassing victims.

While it was tragic, it was more a case of extreme stupidity on many parts than rape. Does America really need to constantly reward stupidity with big paydays?

If awards are based on stupidity, maybe the manager, Donna Sumners, who put Ogsborn through her ordeal, also deserved the $50 million demanded when she sued McDonald's

Ogsborn was 18 at the time and consented to a strip search in a small McDonald's office instead of telling the manager screw herself. After the strip search, she did not demand to put her clothes back on, made no protest when the manager's boyfriend came to guards her, and never screamed at the top of her lungs for help in the packed restaurant or put more up than a feeble protest.

From wiki:

"McDonald's based its defense on four points:

(1) Summers deviated from the company's management manual, which prohibits strip searches, and therefore McDonald's should not be responsible for any action conducted by Summers outside the scope of her employment; (2) workman's compensation statutes prohibit employees from suing employers; (3) Nix, who actually performed the acts, was not a McDonald's employee; and (4) the victim did not remove herself from the situation, contrary to common sense."

I know it is incredible for modern Americans to understand but at some point in our lives COMMON SENSE has got to come into play or soon we will all be dancing naked jumping jacks under orders of authority with no million dollar pay outs.

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