Burger King Employee Posts Photo Of Himself Stepping In Lettuce, Gets Busted By 4chan Users
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huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/burger-king-employee-steps-in-lettuce-busted-4chan_n_1679793.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopularThe tech media likes to describe Internet image board 4chan as a lawless, unruly place, but apparently there's justice in the Web's Wild West after all.
An anonymous 4chan user and Burger King employee posted a photo of himself stepping in bins of lettuce to the site on the evening of July 16. The original poster captioned the image with "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King."
But some 4chan users were appalled by the image and decided to take action. They grabbed the GPS data included in the picture in an effort to pinpoint where the photograph had been taken, the Cleveland Scene reports.
In addition to contacting local news media in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, where the image originated, users also managed to pull up the address and telephone number of the exact Burger King location where the event allegedly took place. E-mails and phone calls quickly followed.
And according to Hypervocal, it only took 4Chan users about 15 minutes to expose the alleged perpetrator.
A montage of the 4chan users' responses was posted to Reddit on Tuesday.
The Huffington Post contacted a manager at the Mayfield Heights Burger King, who said that the alleged perpetrator was a long-time employee. Though the manager refused to disclose other details, she stated this was the employee's first disciplinary incident in his employment history.
The Cleveland Scene spoke with a shift manager about the incident, who said that both the employee and the shift manager on duty at the time of the incident would be fired.
This is one of reasons why I cant ? with fast food, smh....
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Fast food loses again
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That's why I don't ? with fast food no more. Trust me it's miserable working there and they don't give a ? about your food. I use to work at Subway. ? would be in the back preparing tomatoes with their bare hands, sneezing all on the vegetables and ? . Any little thing they could do to stick it to the manager.
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TheEyeronic1 wrote: »
what an idiot.
Exactly, camera phones are just self incriminating.
Conventional digital camera or a iflip wouldve sufficed. then you email the file to a friend and tell them to upload it from a internet cafe or other public space. ? wrong with people. Pursuit of e-fame got ? on ? .
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GOAT!!!!!!!!!!!
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4chan dont play
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Them 4chan ? need their own appreciation thread. I only hear about their exploits on the IC and would NEVER post in that ? , but I stay reading about all the Ls they be servin up over the interwebs.
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Got dammit bruh...? like this just ? my whole experience...? be noid to eat anything he ain't make himself...I wanna see those Reddit pics though...
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I would've written that ? off as a wack thread.
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Weren't they the ones who got the names, Facebooks, phone numbers, and addresses of the kids who verbally abused the fat ? on the school bus?
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They should also post his name and pic on the net so that customers could thank him.
And by thank, I mean beat the ? out of him. -
? like this happens at every resturant, not just fast food!
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im now paranoid as ? going to fast food stores...
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Yeah IDK why posters are acting like this only occurs at fast food restaurants.
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