Burger King Calamity: You're Too Fat For Whoppers

[DudeAsInCool]

This segment is part of Beatking's Series on Troubled Youth:

Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food.

Policeman Gerry Scherlink said the pranksters told one customer who had just placed an order: "You don't need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead."

The offenders are reportedly tapping into the wireless frequency at the restaurant in Troy, Michigan. Police believe the culprits are watching and broadcasting from close range.

Officer Scherlinck said the men are telling customers who order a Coca-Cola that, "We don't have Coke." And when the customer asks what they do have, the hacker would say: "We don't have anything. Pull ahead."

But what has managers concerned is the profanity the hackers are using, according to police.

A drive-through customer has told police if he had children with him in the car and someone used profanity, he would have been upset.

Burger King franchise owner Tony Versace issued the following statement in response to the incidents: "We apologise to our customers who've been insulted by the use of this drive-through speaker."

Management at the fast-food restaurant are reportedly trying to change the radio frequency used for the speakers, reports Local 4.

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[HolyMoly]

That is a hoot, hehe. My 22 year-old son manages a Burger King in SW Washington state. So, I followed a few links and came up with a link to a short RealVideo story (which I captured for posterity) from Detroit's Channel 4 news:

RealVideo for 56k modems

RealVideo for broadband

BTW, a while back, I sent a suggestion to the Candid Camera people for a "constructive" prank. Some fast-food restaurants with drive-thru windows have straight-in approaches with minimal or no overhang near the window. I suggested they find such a restaurant (BK, McDonalds, Jack In The Box, etc.) and fill up a city bus with studio people ... then go through a drive-thru during a "light time" (mid-afternoon on a workday) and order, "I'd like 200 Big Macs, 150 small french fries, 100 Cokes, 100 Sprites, and 2 Filet-o-Fish sandwiches," then set up cameras in the restaurant to record the chaos as they attempted to fill the order, hehehehe.

[DudeAsInCool]

Funny stuff, HM.

[Kooperman]

I made a Krystal burger (White Castle) order for my softball team once ( we had plenty of beer and no food at the ballpark)...I ordered 75 Krystal burgers, 12 orders of fries...and one small Coke.

[DudeAsInCool]

who got the coke?

[Kooperman]

One of the player's kids....not many Coke drinkers on my team, Dude....

[DudeAsInCool]

Your loss :) I consider coca-cola the nectar of the Gods!

[jipper]

you would have thought the pranksters would have come up with better lines than..""We don't have anything. Pull ahead."

Besides, all the police have to do is look for some bush with a massive aerial sticking out of it!