Remember that scene in the Eddie Murphy film Coming to America where he and Arsenio Hall take out an armed robber (a barely recognizable Samuel L. Jackson) with a mop handle? Well, the real-life scene on Sunday at a Taco Bell in Indiana probably wasn’t as cinematic, but it was cool nonetheless. [More]
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Domino's Worker Uses Customer's Debit Card For Phone Sex While Still Making Pizzas
By 9.3.10
You might not think that when you call up your local Domino’s to order a pizza with your credit/debit card, that the employee you just gave your sensitive information to is going to brazenly turn around and rack up $296 in phone sex charges only minutes later. Or that they’d be so stupid to use the restaurant’s phone to make the call. Alas, that’s exactly what a woman in Kentucky claims happened to her. [More]
Cop Fired After Threatening To Arrest KFC Employees Over Refund Policy
By 8.30.10
A once high-ranking police officer in Arizona now finds himself out of a job — and all because of the chicken at KFC. [More]
Wendy's Cook: I Pulled Knife On Co-Worker For Serving Bad Bacon
By 8.30.10
An employee at a Wendy’s in Connecticut has been charged with second-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment, threatening and breach of peace after allegedly pulling a knife and threatening to stab a co-worker. But he claims it was all for a good reason: He was upset at the other employee for serving bacon that had dropped on the floor. [More]
Domino's Delivers Racism To Your Front Door In Under 30 Minutes
By 8.23.10
From unveiling a new recipe to promising more honest ads, Domino’s has done a great deal to restructure its image in recent months. And then some jackass delivery guy in North Carolina has to go and ruin the fun for everyone by dropping the “N word” on a customer’s receipt. [More]
Batman Is In Your Taco Bell Drive-Thru Stealing Your Food
By 8.19.10
Times are tough for the Dark Knight. But hey, even caped crimefighters need to eat. [More]
Man Goes Balls Out — Literally — Trying To Steal Soda Truck From Chili's Parking Lot
By 8.18.10
While some inept robbers think wearing panties on your face will mask your identity, one man in Oklahoma seems to think that a complete lack of underwear — or really any clothing — is the key to a successful crime. [More]
McDonald's Employee Robs Place Of Work Twice, Still Keeps Showing Up To Work
By 8.9.10
It takes balls to rob the McDonald’s you’ve been working at for months. It takes balls of steel to do it twice in one month. And it takes balls of steel the size of large boulders to keep showing up for work afterward. Alas, your big mouth will ultimately get you and your massive balls arrested for armed robbery. [More]
Man Robs Wendy's, Calls Them Twice To Complain About Lack Of Cash Stolen
By 8.2.10
Most folks who successfully pull off a robbery at a fast food restaurant are happy with whatever cash they were able to make off with. But not one man in Atlanta, who wanted the employees of the Wendy’s he’d held up to know that he was disappointed with his haul — and that they’d better start selling more Baconators in preparation for his next heist. [More]
Wendy's Employee Caught Using Credit Card Skimmer To Steal 135 Identities
By 7.29.10
How many times have you handed over your credit card at a fast-food joint and never thought twice about the security of your identity? Here’s some news that might give you pause — an employee at a Wendy’s in Washington state has been charged with using a card skimmer to steal the identities of 135 customers and racking up around $75,000 in fraudulent charges on those accounts. [More]
Stupidest Man In Canada Cuts In Front Of Cops To Rob Starbucks
By 7.27.10
Another tip to anyone wishing to hold up a Starbucks: Not only is it a bad idea to go ahead with the robbery if there are police officers in the shop at the time, but you should probably not cut in front of the cops in order to start your hold up. [More]
Panty-Faced McDonald's Burglar Arrested
By 7.26.10
Remember last week, when we reported on the McDonald’s drive-thru that had been robbed by what appeared to be a female wearing what appeared to be a pair of pantied stretched across her face. Apparently we were only right about one of those assumptions — Yes, in spite of many readers’ doubts, that was a woman in the photos; but it wasn’t a pair of panties; it was a girdle. [More]
Woman Wears Panty Mask To Rob A McDonald's Drive-Thru
By 7.22.10
Perhaps in an effort to hearken back to her bandanna-sporting bank robber forebears, a woman in Oklahoma decided to fashion a mask out of a pair of undies for her late-night burglary of a McDonald’s drive-thru. Thank God it was caught on camera. [More]
Kentucky Man Caught With $64,000 In Stolen KFC Gift Checks
By 7.2.10
Yesterday, we wrote about the 10 Commandments Of Good Coupon Users, and among them was “Don’t raid multiple coupons from the coupon dispenser.” Well, a man in Kentucky ignored — to the extreme! — this commandment, treating a document-storage facility like a coupon dispenser and making off with $64,000 worth of KFC gift checks. [More]
Burger King Employee Busted For Drugging Sandwiches
By 6.30.10
Anyone who has ever eaten too much Burger King has probably felt a bit sleepy afterward. But for at least two BK customers in Jacksonville, FL, that sensation might have come from the fact that their fast food had been spiked with prescription painkillers. [More]
Domino's Pizza Held Up By The Most Polite Robber Ever
By 6.29.10
Somewhere near Cookeville, TN, a very polite man has just saved his house from foreclosure. But what the bank doesn’t know is that he got at least some the money for the late mortgage payments from the cash register of a local Domino’s Pizza. [More]
Burger King Employee Clocks Out, Then Clocks Customer
By 6.22.10
Here’s a lesson for all food service workers who intend on punching out a customer — be sure to clock out before you unleash your fists of fury in the parking lot. [More]
Guilt-Stricken Taco Bell Robber Returns Stolen Money
By 6.14.10
It’s not often that a story about a Taco Bell heist ends happily, but a would-be thief in Indiana was apparently so stricken with guilt (or afraid of getting caught) that he returned the cash he’d ripped off only days earlier. [More]
