McDonalds hoax - The Art of the Prank

McPrank: 4 Utah teens cited for McDonald’s rap
by Elizabeth White
1010WINS
October 29, 2009

Salt Lake City (AP) — A rap by four teenagers at a McDonald’s has gotten them a bad rap in one Utah city. The teens were cited by American Fork police earlier this week for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald’s drive-through.

The teens said they were imitating a popular video on YouTube. They rapped their order, which begins with, “I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce …” once quickly before repeating it more slowly.

[Here’s the McDonald’s Rap video on which they based their prank]:

Spenser Dauwalder said employees at the restaurant told him and his friends they were holding up the line and needed to order or leave.

The 18-year-old said nobody was in line. He and his three 17-year-old friends left without buying anything.

American Fork Police Sgt. Gregg Ludlow says a manager wrote down the car’s license plate number and called police. The teens were later cited by officers at a high school parking lot outside a volleyball match. Continue reading “McDonald’s Rappers Get a Bad Rap”

Prankster David Thorne behind McDonald’s hoax
by Andrew Ramadge
News.com.au
October 14, 2009

0,,7063996,00-200 A FAKE memo claiming McDonald’s stores deliberately rip off customers has been revealed to be the work of the same prankster behind an infamous email about a seven-legged spider.

The document, mocked-up with an official McDonald’s Australia letterhead and signed by fictitious managing director “Robert Trugabe”, outlines a secret plan to save money by leaving items out of drive-through orders.

“If the girls leave one item out of every second or third order, this adds up to several thousand dollars per week revenue,” it says.

“We need to work out if there is a way of making this a procedure without making it documented.”

The memo became a viral hit, making its way to email boxes and consumer blogs around the world and prompting an official response from the fast food company.

The front page of McDonald’s Australia’s website currently features a customer alert denouncing the fake memo as an “email scam”. Continue reading “McDonald’s Hoax Hoaxer Revealed”