Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Whata-Mess at a Whataburger Store in Albuquerque

One of our police sources just shared a hilarious story from the night beat in Albuquerque. Local cops responded to a call at the 24-hour Whataburger on Carlisle, near Walmart, just after 11pm on Monday night.

When they got to the store all the windows had been broken out and they found two men, who they later identified as employees, standing outside in nothing but their underwear.

Police asked the men what was happening. The men told them this incredible tale.

The employees said they had received a phone call from their "corporate office" asking them to test a fire suppression system in the back where hamburgers are cooked. After pulling the chain, a yellow powder flooded through pipes. The men told the "corporate office" what had happened and the person on the other end of the line instructed them to quickly leave the building, strip to their underwear, and break all the store's windows, apparently to ventilate the building.

Police sensed something was amiss. They called the store's general manager and were told that the company had sent emails to employees warning them of the prank call. These two didn't get the message.

We are still trying to determine how many stores have been suckered by the pranksters across the country.

Note to new night manager: Check your email daily, or you might get caught with your pants down.

UPDATE: Uh oh, I'm treading gently here. I just got an email from a "Mr. Jones." He claims:
The guys who broke the windows are from the chat messenger "BEYLUXE MESSENGER" im [I'm] here everyday lisening [listening] to them do pranks ... they do fire alarms , sprinklers , windows they are the ones who made 3 KFC girls get naked and pee on each other, btw it was 2 Whataburgers [Whataburger's] yesturday [yesterday] 1 guy broke 12 windows and on another location 1 guy broke 1 window.
Day after Update:
Apparently last night some hotel guests received prank calls. The caller's suggested hotel guests break their windows by telling them that there was a GHOST on the property.

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5 comments:

Rob said...

Albuquerque if full of idiots. I assumed as much. I know some who reside there and it makes me laugh. All you have to do is watch the news to see some of the 'darwin award' candidates..

Anonymous said...

PEOPLE THERE IS NO WAY THIS ALL IS GOING ON I THINK MAYBE THERE IS SOEMTHING IN THE WATER AND FOOD REMBER PEOPLE DO LOOSE THERE MIND AND DO CRAZY THINGS NO ONE DID THIS THE PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THESE PLACES GO POSTAL BECAUSE OF ALL THE STRESS I HAVE HEARD OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS SHOOTING PEOPLE WITH A NAIL GUNS SO JUST SO YA KNOW SOME PEOPLE DO GO NUTS

Anonymous said...

Wow... it spelled "construction" correctly...

Anonymous said...

PrankNET

A M I R said...

Same posse. not a ghost. A ghost leak...obviously to test peoples stupidity. Te ghost leak has worked. that is, windows were broken because of ghosts.