"It's a scam dubbed the "strip-search hoax," and it works like this: a man calls a fast food restaurant, pretending to be a police officer or restaurant corporate official. The caller convinces a restaurant manager that an employee -- invariably female -- is implicated in some criminal wrongdoing, such as theft or drug possession. Per the caller's instructions, the manager has the employee searched, in a progressively invasive fashion."
On Feb. 2, 2003, at the Hinesville, Georgia McDonald's it went way too far and resulted in a 55 year old male employee performing a 30 minute body cavity search on a 19 year old female employee. It also resulted in a court case.
Apparently there were over 60 such incidents and they all came from one guy in Panama City, FL. Details are here in a really amazing article. Apparently people trust authority too much.
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