Wait, Employees SHOULD NOT drop their pants behind the counter??? I want to see where in the lawbooks it says that!

"Hanging a moon is disgusting.... I plan to dig into it"

Bad choice of words there.

God Love Newfoundland!

So, the franchise owner says that mooning is "Just disgusting," and according to the reporter, he plans to "dig into it?"

Someone needs to start GOATSE checking his text!

"How did I get here? This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife! MY GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?"

this reminds me of the saturday night live where they have the male ex-strippers working at a fast food restaurant. sadly though, no one i've ever talked to has seen this episode but me. "oh so you want the nuggets huh...."

I love the "he didn't wash his hands, either"

got a good laugh outta this one...especially the comments.............

It says using meat the next day that was kept overnight in the cooler. Not meat that wasn't kept overnight in the cooler.

So, no proof of a major corporate consipiracy to hide evidence of using tainted meat. Instead, proof that teenagers goof off at work.

Am I the only one who found "...hanging a moon out the drive through window...disgusting...Iplan to dig into it..." HILARIOUS??

@trollkiller: oops beat me to it : )

Nice to see CBC reporting the hard hitting news. Excellcent use of tax dollars. I kid, I kid. CBC carries The Hour and Hockey Night In Canada, so no complaints for me.

Honestly? If I got mooned by a drive thru worker, I would be on the phone with the owner and/or the police/health dept. SO FAST.

They have Dairy Queens in Canada??????????

yeah, this is one of the reasons I really really REALLY don't trust teenagers and my health.

A complete lack of understanding of the consequences of proper food handling is just the beginning.

But it's not just teens. I've seen adults wearing plastic gloves doing unspeakable things (well, I can speak of them):
- wiping down counters with dirty rags, then pulling tortillas out of the bags for the next order.
- smoking: while wearing the gloves.
- wiping their noses -- on the gloves.
- shaking a friends hand, then going back to carving meat at a Vegas casino buffet carving station.
- handling cash, while wearing gloves.

It would be one thing if they then changed gloves, but in all these cases (except the smoking) I observed the employees touching food products with the soiled gloves.

It's important that we as consumers take an active interest in our health -- because we can't trust the government, the stores, or the employees to do so.

So, if you doubt the employee has clean gloves, ask him or her to change them prior to your order, be it at Dunkin Donuts, the burrito cart, the big supermarket deli, or the buffet carving station.

And TELL THE MANAGER. If the manager doesn't give you a satisfactory answer, TELL THE LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH.

There's nothing like being shut down for even a day to make a restaurant take safe food handling procedures more seriously.

Goofy Newfies.

Penn and Teller's Bullshit! did an episode on germs. Your butt is much cleaner than your hands.

"Where do you draw the line between goofing around on the job, and goofing around on the job then posting it on the internet for anyone to see"

well, i'd say that the line is drawn somewhere around the posting on the internet for everyone to see, but the reporter may not realize that.

@Antediluvian: - handling cash, while wearing gloves.
i can't STAND it when i see someone try to make me a sandwich (or whatever) after handling cash... i'll ask them to change their gloves.

@mgyqmb: That would depend on how deep you "dig into it".

You know, I thought Clerks II was just a movie... Apparently it is based on a true story...

should NOT ahhh, damn no wonder I've been unemployed for the last 12 years...

j/k

@trollkiller I was thinking exactly the same thing! Reminds me of Tobias' constant 'poor word choices' on arrested development.

@weakdome: The drive thru workers weren't mooning customers. The worker mooned another worker.

The owner called the mooning disgusting?

Does Joe Buck happen to own this DQ?

This probably goes on at 90% of cheap food places...thememployees just aren't stupid enough to post it on Facebook. One of the cafeteria cashiers at my school almost got fired for surfing porn sites on the touch-screen-cash-register-computer.

will someone please tell me how these videos are NOT copyrighted by the person who took them?!? Why does the news media get to show any person's video they want?

@trollkiller: hahahahahahah

Staged?

@meneye: will someone please tell me how these videos are NOT copyrighted by the person who took them?!? Why does the news media get to show any person's video they want?

It is called "Fair Use".
[www.copyright.gov]
Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered "fair," such as criticism, comment, news reporting,, teaching, scholarship, and research.

@trollkiller: Aaaaand also because they were posted on to a public site. You have to actually own the copy rights before you can claim them.

@youbastid: Thats not correct, at least for American copyright laws. Protected items are copyright upon creation. The person who owns the copyright can post where they choose and still not lose that copyright.

Posting content online does not give consent to redistribute or reduce or remove a person's rights a as copyright holder unless they explicitly state otherwise. This is why creative commons is used for a lot of what is posted online. That gives the people who created some form of media that is under copyright an easy way to grant some use permissions beyond the standard fair use (and even what trollkiller mentioned, the examples of fair use are still somewhat restricted.)

@tolldog: So what constitutes that what they created is a protected item?
They created a video with a cell phone. If I make a video with a cell phone, it's only mine as long as I don't post it somewhere. In order for it to be both mine AND for me to post it somewhere, I have to copyright it. What they posted wasn't copyrighted material, under any definition of the term. This is why "One Night in Paris" is perfectly legal to buy.

@youbastid: You are a bit confused about copyrights, let me see if I can help clear it up for you. This pertains to just Copyrights in America.

You own the copyright on any original work that you "fix" to any median. Example: You tell a story you do not own the copyright to the story. You write the same story you own the copyright the instant pen touches paper. You record the story you own the copyright on the recording as well as the story.

In the case of a video each frame along with the entire recording is copyrighted automatically.

You do not need to register a copyright. The only advantage to doing so is if there is a copyright infringement.

The copyright owner for "One Night in Paris" would be the person that pressed the record button on the camera. Paris sued for invasion of privacy not copyright infringement. World Wide Red Light District now owns the copyright.

@mgyqmb: I didn't see the Penn and Teller show, but since feces is mostly made up of bacteria, and there have been reported cases of Hepatitis being transmitted because someone didn't wash their hands after using the bathroom, I'm gonna go ahead and call "Bullshit" on Penn and Teller. (The shows I did see were hack pieces anyway.)

I've had "dinner roll" fights with kitchen staff before.... but using meat that has been left out overnight to feed to customers is just dangerous.

I guess this is what happens when you pay rebellious, resentful angst-ridden teens practically nothing for a highly stressfull, demanding, demeaning job like fast food service.

Btw.... Had no idea there were Dairy queens in canuckia.

@goller321: The episode in question included a bit on the usefulness of paper toilet seat covers. They attempted to "prove" that these covers were unnecessary by doing petri dish experiments with swabs of people's hands, faces, and buttocks, only to discover that yes, there was more bacteria on people's hands than on people's butts.

Trouble is, paper toilet seat covers are there to protect people from contact with bacteria from the FLUSH RESIDUE on the toilet seat, not the bacteria from other people's butts. The scientific thing would have been to take a swab of the toilet seat cover, but they didn't, which rendered that particular episode BULLSHIT indeed.

@trollkiller: and I believe that Rick Solomon sold the video in the case of Paris Hilton.

but that still does not explain why I can't upoad content from television networks to youtube and count it as 'news reporting', 'teaching', or 'commenting'.

From my experience with that region of Canada, they don't seem to be the sharpest pencils in the box.

From what I saw, the teen demographic's main pastimes were dropping out of school, getting drunk and breeding.

@meneye: Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair:

1.
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2.
the nature of the copyrighted work;
3.
amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

[www.copyright.gov]

BTW Canadian law are different. I do not know what constitutes fair use in Canada.

@trollkiller: "You do not need to register a copyright. The only advantage to doing so is if there is a copyright infringement."

Well that would be pretty much the only reason to register would it not? Why else would you register a copyright for any reason other than to protect yourself against infringement? How is this different than the case here?

@goller321: Hack pieces? Another good citizen who believes only what mainstream media tells him.

@kashmirkong: Wow, way to propagate a stereotype that all Newfoundlanders are stupid, inbred drunks. I'm sure teenagers don't do stupid things ANYWHERE else.

@youbastid: Registering your copyright gives you certain extra protection against infringement, but you can still sue someone for infringement even if you don't register your copyright; it's just easier to win.

Here's a link, and the FAQ from copyright.gov:
[www.copyright.gov]

Why should I register my work if copyright protection is automatic?
Registration is recommended for a number of reasons. Many choose to register their works because they wish to have the facts of their copyright on the public record and have a certificate of registration. Registered works may be eligible for statutory damages and attorney's fees in successful litigation. Finally, if registration occurs within 5 years of publication, it is considered prima facie evidence in a court of law. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "Copyright Registration"[1] and Circular 38b,[2] Highlights of Copyright Amendments Contained in the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), on non-U.S. works.

[1] [www.copyright.gov]
[2] [www.copyright.gov]

Great, my beautiful and totally insightful comment hasn't shown up. Usually if you post about that, it magically appears. Let's see if the pattern holds true.

Ah-ha! Magic FTW!