Friday, May 8, 2009

Domino's and Nasty Employee Recap

This story may sound familiar to the Burger King Bather. This post details what it takes to get famous nationwide and the roller coaster ride that follows. Two idiots names Kristy and Michael got bored one night a made some videos of them doing nasty things to customers' food and put the videos on YouTube. This story has been evolving from April 13 until May 6.

While Kristy narrates, you can see Michael do things like put pieces of cheese up his nose, wipe a sponge on his butt, and fart on some meat. Watch the videos here. (link opens new window.)

Within a few hours of the blog Consumerist posting the story, readers used detective work to figure out where the store was: Conover, North Carolina. The sluethy readers were given free Donino's for 1 year.

Once discovered, they were immediately fired. Kristy tried to quickly dodge legal bullets with this email apology to Domino's Vice President:

"I am sorry about all of this! It was all a prank and me nor Michael expected to have this much attention from the videos that were uploaded! No food was ever sent out to any customer. We would never put something like that on you tube if it were real!! It was fake and I wish that everyone knew that!!!! Michael never would do that to any customer, EVER!! I AM SOO SORRY! You see all the time of the pranks that people upload and the pranks need to seem real in order to get a laugh out of people but this prank was very very immature and I am sorry for the embarrassment that I have caused your company!"


The VP completely rejected the apology, calling it a lie. Arrest warrants were issued for their arrest and Domino's plans to sue the duo.

The store was shut down and sanitized.

The President then issued this YouTube video response:




Then the story was featured on Nightline. Watch the video here on Consumerist or here on ABC.

Now, Kristy can't get a job. [ABC News]

"Kristy Hammonds, 31, tells ABC News that she has become a local pariah and cannot find work to support her two children...

Hammonds, a registered sex offender who faces felony food tampering charges from the Domino's incident, says she has been turned down at several area fast food restaurants, including Taco Bell and McDonalds, when employers recognized her name and face.

She says her inability to find work has made it difficult to raise her two children, aged 4 [years] and 8 months, whom she conceived with the aid of a sperm donor. The baby, she said, has special needs."

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