People are sooooo stupid. Check this out.

[acmavm]

http://joplinglobe.com/story.php?story_id=120637&c=87

Lawman arrested in strip-search investigation
Correctional officer arrested in Florida

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Investigators had a hunch early on that a strip-search con artist might be a policeman.

After all, he usually posed as a lawman when cajoling and threatening numerous fast-food restaurant managers into forcing employees and sometimes even customers to disrobe, and into performing sex acts, all in the interest of a supposed investigation.

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Joplin suspect

Rogers said the motivation for the hoax remains uncertain. Investigators have theorized that the caller is "a control freak" who derives a kind of thrill from getting others to do what he tells them to do.

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In that case, a male caller posing as a Joplin police officer persuaded a 16-year-old female manager to strip-search a 21-year-old male cook in the women's restroom of the restaurant on the premise that he was suspected of having stolen an elderly female customer's purse while she was in the restaurant.

The caller further instructed the manager to perform an oral-sex act on the cook and threatened her with arrest if she did not do so, according to police. After she had completed the act, he reportedly instructed her to hand the phone over to the cook, then told the cook that he actually was not the suspect in the theft.

The caller told the cook that the manager was the real suspect, and that everything he had had them do up to that point was intended as a test of her innocence or guilt. He then instructed the cook to conduct a strip-search of the manager, which he did before the two were interrupted by a second manager who had been called to the scene when other employees became concerned with what was transpiring in the restroom, according to police.
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What in the hell is the human race coming to? Are people stupid enough to think that a phone call from a cop telling them to strip search and perform sex acts is for real????? Obviously that was a stupid question, because apparently they do. This story just has me flabbergasted.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. wow, that is unbelievable.

i am dumbfounded as well.

[CanuckAmok]

2. Well...you gotta remember that the pick of the litter...

...of 16 year olds aren't managing fast-food restaurants. They're touring with "Up With People", and so forth.

[acmavm]

3. It's not only 16 year olds that are caught up in this ignorace. Like this

guy:

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In the Kentucky case, authorities have charged another man who allegedly participated in the strip-search of the female employee and sexual acts performed on her. Walt Nix, 42, a boyfriend of an employee of the McDonald's in Mount Washington, was arrested the night of the alleged hoax on charges of sodomy and assault.

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I would make a smart remark about it being Kentucky, but that just wouldn't be right (or true). But what the hell.

I'm going to bed. This is just one more ignorant human escapade in a long day of the same (but finding his story was the topper).

[wtmusic]

4. Hey, the guy sounded convincing and the manager was cute

I offer no apologies. :crazy: