Tuesday, April 19, 2016
ODDLY ENOUGH
Minn. Burger King workers smash windows after prank call
COON RAPIDS, Minn.
A prank caller tricked workers at a Minnesota Burger King into smashing the windows of the restaurant to keep it from exploding, police said April 9, mirroring similar deceptions at Burger Kings and other fast-food restaurants in other states in recent months.
Police said employees at the restaurant in the Minneapolis suburb of Coon Rapids got the call April 8 from someone claiming to be with the fire department. The caller said the restaurant could explode, so they needed to relieve the pressure. The manager and other employees believed the caller and smashed all the windows on the ground floor.
“Officers arrived and found that the manager and employees of the Burger King were smashing out the windows,” Sgt. Rick Boone told the Star Tribune. “The manager explained they’d received a phone call from a male who identified himself as a fireman who said there were dangerous levels of gas in the building and they had to break out all the windows to keep the building from blowing up.”
Boone said there was no immediate cost estimate for the damage. The restaurant was boarded up, and investigators were trying to identify the caller.
Goat breaks free, goes on Starbucks run in California
ROHNERT PARK, Calif.
Police say a goat apparently needed a caffeine fix when it wandered into a Starbucks in Northern California.
Rohnert Park police Sgt. Rick Bates says dispatchers received several calls April 10 about a goat named Milly wandering around a strip mall on the city’s eastern edge.
Bates says employees who were opening the Starbucks tried to give Milly a banana, but she walked past them and began chewing on a box.
Bates took Milly into custody and brought her to the animal shelter – but not before snapping photos of her sniffing around the Starbucks and posting them on the police department’s Facebook page.
He says word spread to Milly’s owner, and she has made it home.
She didn’t travel far; her owner Alan Ergenbright says the 11-year-old pet goat lives just two doors down.
“When we heard, we thought she was a little crazy,” Ergenbright told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. “She’s a really happy and sweet goat. She’s also pretty curious.”
Rohnert Park is about 50 miles north of San Francisco.
Associated Press