NEWS: McBlind Obedience?

CULTURE: McBlind Obedience?

This story really sums up the lengths to which people will go if they think they're dealing with an authority figure.

So these people get a random phone call in the evening from someone claiming to be a police officer, and they never question the things he's telling them to do. On the one hand, the calls this guy made were reprehensible, but the fact that there were more than 60 cases of people who actually followed through is even worse.

Ogborn was sexually abused, humiliated, and worse for hours before someone finally decided something was wrong with what was happening:

It took a ninth-grade droupout to end it all for her. Not Summers, who was stripsearching her, not Summer's boyfriend, who sodomized her, not the other assistent manager who knew the poor girl was naked in there.

As you can probably guess, a slew of lawsuits have come out of this, but most notable is the fact that McDonald's is placing the blame on Ogborn.

Utter heartlessness on behalf of McDonald's. Way to go.

The story is pretty lengthy, but worth reading.

There's also footage from ABC's coverage of the story here.

McOldNews

D'oh....well for being a Snarky McSnarkypants...I deserve a spanking. This thread did introduce new information.

Fucking disgusting.

No...McFucking disgusting.

There needs to be a boycott of McDonalds NOW. How anyone can still purchase food there, knowing that they are blaming the victim, is only donating to their fucking defense fund.

Apparently, Donna Jean Summer's former boyfriend is pretty good at spankings.

McDumbasses

You think that's disturbing.. allow me to introduce you to Mr. Milgram. His studies held true in the 60's.. and they still hold true today. Most people will blindly follow authority.

Zimbardo 's Stanford Prison experiment proved that even if normal citizens are placed in percieved roles of authority (like the caller guy) most people will obey and acquiesce to their demands.

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[Edited on Nov 16, 2005 12:37PM]

Let me preface the statement I'm about to make by saying this: What was done to this girl was so wrong, and the perpetrators should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.















That being said, she's TOTALLY hot.

Yeah, I'll agree there...

I gotta wonder, what exactly constitutes sodomy in this case?

Oral sex.

oh, and welcome extrafox. good news article for under 20 posts.

The McQuestion Everything group on SG should be mandatory reading for McManagers.

God. That really disgusts me. Not that I ever eat at McDonalds but I'm going to encourage others not to eat there too.

What the hell? All 3 are pleading not guilty? Fuck off...

i had to re-read this paragraph about a million times and im not done yet.

Ironic t-shirts are great

I don't know I still find it hard to belive that she would preform oral sex because someone who says they are a cop on a telephone told her too. but i guess that is what happend...

Okay, let me preface THIS statement by saying that what happened is wrong and disgusting and that I feel very sorry for all the victims in this case.


But seriously, how the fuck can you be that fucking dumb? For christ's sake. How can you believe that your store manager has the authority to strip search you? How can you believe that the manager's boyfriend has the authority to SODOMIZE you? All because some wanker on the phone says so? Fuck that.

It makes me wonder if this girl has had this sort of thing happen to her before; if maybe that's why she didn't scream bloody murder and raise holy hell like most I know would have.

There's only one law one must obey. Things fall down, not up.

[Edited on Nov 16, 2005 by Zablowdowski1004]

The argument about this specific girl and her past would work if similar things hadn't happened to people in other places under the same circumstances. I think it's clear that the guy on the other end of the phone was targeting stupid people to be the molestors and young people to be the targets for a specific reason.

I think it's also clear that the people who abused the girl actually wanted to do so; a strip search is the closest you could come to a reasonable measure (and it isn't) for catching a thief, the rest was just silly. I don't find the girls lack of a violent response all that suprising; we're conditioned to obey authority figures and older people, and though some teens rebel, plenty of others don't. What I find suprising is that the other employees didn't immediately call the police--they were removed from the situation and have no excuse to have not called.

I can only hope that if I was in any role of a similar situation, I would do the right thing.

Maybe it's just my quiet opposition to authority, but I'd have told the caller to drag himself down here and book me. I think the maintenance man that made everyone stop is an unsung hero.