uggworek@sunybcs.UUCP (Donald Gworek) (04/12/85)
The vote over to SAVE or RETIRE "Big Boy" (as in the mascot of the Shoney's/ Bob's/Kip's/TJ's/Elby's Big Boy Restaurants) brought back memories of this article I saw awhile back (reprinted without permission from the 'Orlando Sentinel'): _____________________________________________________________________ | | | "Statue Kidnappers Ask For McRansom" | | ================================== | | | | KISSIMMEE (April 26, 1983) -- An organization calling itself the | | NPLO (No Pickles Lettuce Onions) is claiming responsiblity for | | kidnapping Officer Mac, an $800 fiberglass statue stolen from a | | McDonald's restaurant. | | If the ransom demands are not met, "we will force Officer Mac | | to work as a short-order cook at Burger King," according to a | | handwritten note delivered Monday to The Orlando Sentinel bureau | | by an unidentifed blond teen-ager. | | The ransom note was accompanied by a picture of Officer Mac | | blindfolded. The NPLO is demanding 40 billion Big Macs, 40 | | billion-plus-one french fries ("Officer Mac is hungry") and pub- | | lic recognition of the NPLO by Allen Rooks, assistant manager of | | the restaurant. | | If the 40 billion Big Macs contained "a pigion (sic) of pick- | | les, a leaf of lettuce or an ounce of onions, Officer Mac will be | | flame broiled." | | McDonald's officials reported Officer Mac's kidnapping April 20 | | from the restaurant at 719 W. Vine St. The statue was bolted to | | the ground. | | A McDonald's spokesman said the ransom demand "obviously could | | not be met" but pleaded with the kidnappers not to harm Officer | | Mac. | | "Please don't kill him. Please bring him back. We love him," | | said Steve Leroy from McDonald's headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill. | | Leroy added that the company may be willing to negotiate with | | the NPLO and not press criminal charges if Officer Mac is | | released. | | About a year ago a Ronald McDonald statue was kidnapped from a | | McDonald's restaurant in Pittsburgh, Leroy said. The culprits | | threatened to melt him down into ashtrays and give them to com- | | peting restaurants, if ransom demands were not met. Ronald was | | returned after police saw him riding in the back of a car driven | | by the kidnappers. | | Kissimmee police requested a copy of the ransom note but were | | having a hard time researching the case. "My secretary was | | laughing so hard, she couldn't give me the report," said Detec- | | tive Doug Parsons. | --------------------------------------------------------------------- About a week later, Officer Mac was found *wandering around* someone's backyard, and was back at his post (watching the drive-thru menu), by the end of the day. If Big Boy is fired by Shoney's/Bob's/et al what will he do for a living??? Will he be able to work at a competing restaurant??? Or will he have to become a bartendar??? I can just see him moving to San Francisco, getting a job at a *one of those* bars, and slaving to the sounds of Bronski Beat in full leather regalia. -- Don Gworek oo \ \/ "You're the one they talk about 'round town. Run away, Smalltown Boy, run away. Shoney's will never understand."
dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) (04/21/85)
I remember hearing a story once of a brick that was thrown through the
front window of a McDonald's, with a note attached saying "you deserve a
brick today".
--
Dana S. Nau, Computer Science Dept., U. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
ARPA: dsn@maryland CSNet: dsn@umcp-cs
UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!dsn Phone: (301) 454-7932