You're Too Fat for a Whopper!

[wonderwench]

roflmao:

Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food.

Policeman Gerry Scherlink said the pranksters told one customer who had just placed an order: "You don't need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead."

The offenders are reportedly tapping into the wireless frequency at the restaurant in Troy, Michigan. Police believe the culprits are watching and broadcasting from close range.

Officer Scherlinck said the men are telling customers who order a Coca-Cola that, "We don't have Coke." And when the customer asks what they do have, the hacker would say: "We don't have anything. Pull ahead."

But what has managers concerned is the profanity the hackers are using, according to police.

A drive-through customer has told police if he had children with him in the car and someone used profanity, he would have been upset.

Burger King franchise owner Tony Versace issued the following statement in response to the incidents: "We apologise to our customers who've been insulted by the use of this drive-through speaker."

Management at the fast-food restaurant are reportedly trying to change the radio frequency used for the speakers, reports Local 4.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_853744.html?menu=news.latestheadlines

 

[SinisterMotives]

Not that I condone interfering with the store's business, but that is a classic prank if I ever heard of one!

 

[wonderwench]

I don't either - but it is pretty funny.

 

[lilcountriegal]

Actually, those two way radios that you can buy at WalMart for trips (kind of like reeeealy nice walkie-talkies) also interfere with fast food drive thru frequencies.

On a number of occasions driving down the highway in a business district, I've had a drive through order come through on the two way radios. Either that or the "Hi... Welcome to Burger King, can I take your order".

I usually just place an order over the two way and continue on my merry little way down the highway.

 

[SinisterMotives]

The radios in restaurant drive-throughs are supposedly triggered by very low frequency noise from car engines, so it wouldn't surprise me if that happened a lot, lil.

 

[janeeng]

Now that is too funny! hey don't let Dom on here read that, I could see him running out and buying the stuff to do just that!

 

[h.j. anslinger]

Those guys are psy-terrorists

 

[wonderwench]

Naaaah, they're just script kiddies with walkie talkies.

 

[jon_forward]

hey dom...ya need a loan?

 

[janeeng]

hahaha, no he will just heist them instead!

 

[Johnney]

this is some shit id do! wonder what id have to do to try this??

 

[NightTrain]

Yeah, you gotta be careful about overlapping frequencies....

Back in '96 when my first son was born, my wife and I had a few friends over for a few drinks and poker in the dining room.

We had the baby monitor in the living room, and Misty heard a woman's voice in the living room, so she checked.

Turns out that it was the neighbor having phone sex on her cordless phone with some guy up on the North Slope (the oil fields on the North Coast of Alaska) - but it sure as hell wasn't her husband that she was talking to. Her phone was on the same frequency as our baby monitor..

I didn't have the heart to tell her not to use her cordless phone anymore.

 

[janeeng]

NT, ask Jim about the time I called him to let him hear the thing that lived next door to me having phone sex (Lynn, Jim) hahahahaha! Used to use the police scanner and got everyone in the neighbor on it! Best part about it, I had the little freak Marshall wantabe's phone number too, so I would listen to him talk, then beep in on him, hang up, and keep doing it, hahah, he was pissed and kept telling the person on the phone that the phone must be dying or the truckers are interferring with it!!!!

 

[lilcountriegal]

My daughter was born in July of 2000. She was asleep in her crib and I was in my bedroom getting ready for bed. I heard her crying over the baby monitor, got up and went to check, and she was sleeping peacefully. I went back to bed, heard her again, again got up, again she was sleeping. I did this about three or four times before I finally got her out of the crib and took her into my room to sleep with me.

Apparently, my monitor was picking up my neighbors infant (who was born a month after my daughter).