What the Fuck is wrong with people in Kentucky?

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 12.02.2006, 11:20 PM

Nov. 30, 2006 — It was the shocking story — and unbelievable surveillance video — that riveted the nation. A young McDonald's employee humiliated, forced to strip and then to perform a sexual act in the back office, during her work day.
This horrifying ordeal changed one woman's life forever, and put one man on trial, accused of masterminding a bizarre and elaborate hoax. If convicted, David Stewart faced 15 years in prison on charges ranging from solicitation of sodomy, to impersonating a police officer.
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Louise Ogborn was always willing to take on extra shifts at McDonald's in Mount Washington, Ky. Ogborn's mother had health problems and had recently lost her job, so the 18-year-old did whatever she could to help make ends meet.

On April 9, 2004, Ogborn offered to work through the restaurant's evening rush, trying to be helpful and make a few extra dollars.

"I was just going to eat and then clock back in and help until somebody else came along that could help," she said.

But Ogborn couldn't have known that her noble gesture would turn into a terrifying ordeal that she says will haunt her for the rest of her life.

A Startling Accusation

Ogborn was called into assistant manager Donna Summers' cramped office and told that Summers was on the telephone with a police officer.

"She said, 'Here she is. This is the girl you described,'" said Ogborn. "She told me to shut the door."

Summers told Ogborn that the officer on the phone had their store manager on the other line and that he had described her and accused her of stealing a purse from a customer.

"I was like, 'Donna, I've never done anything wrong,'" Ogborn said. "I could never steal — I could never do anything like that. I don't have it in me."

But inside the back office, which had now become an "interrogation room," Ogborn's protests fell on deaf ears.

"She said, 'Well, they said it was a little girl that looked like you in a McDonald's uniform, so it had to be you.'"

It was Ogborn's word against the accusation of a man claiming to be a cop, and she was given a choice: submit to a search or be escorted to the police station.

Listening to 'the Voice'

Ogborn was told to empty her pockets and surrender her car keys and cell phone, which she did. Then the caller demanded that Summers have Ogborn remove her clothes — even her underwear — leaving her with just a small, dirty apron to cover her naked body.

Summers says she never second-guessed what she was being asked to do, as she firmly believed the person she was talking to was a police officer. Ogborn says she trusted her manager to do what was right.

Because it was a busy Friday night, Summers had to leave the office to check on the restaurant. The man on the phone demanded that another employee be left to watch Ogborn until the police arrived and Summers chose 27-year-old Jason Bradley.

"He [Bradley] takes the phone and they're telling him to have me do certain things and drop the apron," she said. "He wouldn't have any part of it."

Bradley walked out in disgust, leaving Summers with no one to watch Ogborn. Then the caller made an odd request, asking Summers to call her fiancé to have him watch the girl.

Summers says she did as she was told.

"I honestly thought he was a police officer and what I was doing was the right thing," Summers said. "I thought I was doing what I was supposed to be doing."
Surveillance video shows Ogborn broke down in tears.

Two Hours of Torment

Within 15 minutes, Summers' fiancé, Walter Nix, entered the office where Ogborn tugged at the small apron that barely covered her top and exposed her legs up to her buttocks.

Again, Summers says she didn't question the caller and completely trusted her fiancé to be left alone with the girl.

Ogborn says she wanted to run, but that it would have been too humiliating to run through the restaurant naked.

Nix, a 43-year-old exterminator, began following the caller's commands, ordering Ogborn to drop her apron, bend over and stand on a chair.

Then — as ridiculous as it sounds — he told her to do jumping jacks to shake loose anything she might be hiding. Ogborn says that was just the beginning of two more hours of torment.

The demands became more and more bizarre. When Ogborn says that when she failed to address Nix as "sir," the caller tells him to hit her violently on the buttocks over and over. At one point on the video, Ogborn was "spanked" for almost 10 full minutes.

"He told me I was asking too many questions, so he was told to hit me," she said. "I just said, 'Please don't do this.'"

By the end, red welts could be seen on the woman's body.

During it all, Summers periodically came back to the office, and each time, Nix threw the apron at Ogborn, telling her to stay quiet.

"I begged her every time she came in the room," Ogborn said. "'Get me out of here. Please get me out of here."

Ogborn says she even asked the assistant manager to call the police, but each time, she says, Summers told her, "No, we're still waiting for the cop."

Summers denies Ogborn ever asked her to call the police or that the girl pleaded with her.

Ogborn says that after more than three hours of dehumanizing treatment, Nix — again on the instructions of the caller — forced Ogborn to perform a sexual act.

The caller then told Nix to hand the phone back to Summers and instructed her to bring in someone else.

This time, she had Thomas Simms, a 58-year-old maintenance man who worked at the restaurant, get on the phone with the caller, but Simms refused to comply with the caller's strange demands.

"Tom told me, 'This man is asking … for her to drop her apron so I can see her without the apron,'" she recalled. "And I said, 'Do what?'"

Summers frantically called her manager, Lisa Siddons, who the caller claimed had been on the other line all along. But when Siddons answered her phone, she said she'd been sleeping.

It was then that Summers realized, she'd been had.

Police Arrive

When Mount Washington Police Detective Buddy Stump arrived at the restaurant, he had Nix arrested and began the process of trying to figure out who the caller was.

"The first thing I thought about was … this has got to be somebody on a pay phone," he said. "Maybe over [at] Winn Dixie and they're getting their jollies off at watching all the action and the police roll in."

But thanks to an Internet search by his chief of police, Stump discovered that calls like this have been going on for more than 10 years. Ogborn, it turns out, was only the latest in a long line of victims.

After a McDonald's employee used the "*69" feature to get a telephone number for the caller, Stump learned the call had been made from a supermarket pay phone —

noisemachine · 12.02.2006, 11:29 PM

I remember reading about this about a year ago. Leave it to the maintenance man to be the only semi-inteligent person there. I guess you can't expect much more from a manager at McDonald's (no offense to any McDonald's employees out there).

Maybe its just Kentucky people. If so, I hope to God I never live there.

h8kurdt · 12.03.2006, 06:13 AM

Yeah I remember this too. The woman is just as much a retard for believing it was the police on the phone.

RdTv · 12.03.2006, 09:00 AM

When I read this I thought, only in the armpits of America (the rural or country areas of Kentucky) could something like this happen.

The only decent places in Kentucky are the cities and the two to visist are Louisville and Lexington. A lot of good bands are from both these places, so there is generally speaking a decent music scene. Aside from that, most of the country is polluted with trailor parks, rednecks and beat up pick up trucks, although if you find a secluded spot, it is fun to go camping or hiking in the fall, just bring a large knife or gun.

atari 2600 · 12.03.2006, 09:38 AM

Good topic.

It was a rebroadcast, but I watched it. The calls were being received by fast food restaurants all over the country and strip seaches were performed all over the place, so, to be fair, it wasn't just Kentucky.

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Originally Posted by SuchFriends

But thanks to an Internet search by his chief of police, Stump discovered that calls like this have been going on for more than 10 years. Ogborn, it turns out, was only the latest in a long line of victims.

The latter half of the program centered around a follow-up that showed the trial and subsequent acquittal in Kentucky (who extradited the defendant) of the prison security guard guy in Panama City, FL that was certainly the culprit. One of the phone cards was found in his home along with other suspicious materials; there was somewhat inconclusive video evidence from store surveillance cameras of him buying the cards used. What is of note as well is that since the trial, no more fast food restaurants have gotten the criminal calls.

Danny Himself · 12.03.2006, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Danny Himself

The world is retarded.

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Пятхъдесят Шест · 12.03.2006, 02:50 PM

Can we through Kansas into the mix too?

I've just returned from Kansas City, Kansas where I was staying for the Big 12 Championship game in Kansas City, Missouri. Anyway, we ate at a Waffle House, and right next door was Pricillas Adult Book Store. The inside was visible from the Waffle House window. Whats that all about? And! It was VERY busy.

luxinterior · 12.03.2006, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Yeah I remember this too. The woman is just as much a retard for believing it was the police on the phone.

That's terrible, to blame her. It's no different than saying that it was the woman's fault she was raped because she was wearing "revealing clothing" or something equally stupid.

It's like you're saying that the police could never be responsible for any wrong-doing, when this has been proven again and again not to be true.

It's not the girl's fault at all, asshole.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 12.05.2006, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by luxinterior

That's terrible, to blame her. It's no different than saying that it was the woman's fault she was raped because she was wearing "revealing clothing" or something equally stupid.

It's like you're saying that the police could never be responsible for any wrong-doing, when this has been proven again and again not to be true.

It's not the girl's fault at all, asshole.

anyone who believes that manager actually thought it was a cop on the line is more fucking retarded then the entire South to begin with. That bitch knew whats up, she just took advantage of the situation to humiliate that girl. My opinion, the dude calling from Florida didn't even believe it was all going down, he probably thought that the people in Kentucky were just "playing along" so to speak. I'm sure that even HE couldn't believe that he could get a 16 year old girl raped over the phone.

12.02.2006, 11:20 PM	#1
SuchFriendsAreDangerous invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: fucking Los Angeles Posts: 14,801	Nov. 30, 2006 — It was the shocking story — and unbelievable surveillance video — that riveted the nation. A young McDonald's employee humiliated, forced to strip and then to perform a sexual act in the back office, during her work day. This horrifying ordeal changed one woman's life forever, and put one man on trial, accused of masterminding a bizarre and elaborate hoax. If convicted, David Stewart faced 15 years in prison on charges ranging from solicitation of sodomy, to impersonating a police officer. Watch "20/20" Friday at 10 p.m. ET Louise Ogborn was always willing to take on extra shifts at McDonald's in Mount Washington, Ky. Ogborn's mother had health problems and had recently lost her job, so the 18-year-old did whatever she could to help make ends meet. On April 9, 2004, Ogborn offered to work through the restaurant's evening rush, trying to be helpful and make a few extra dollars. "I was just going to eat and then clock back in and help until somebody else came along that could help," she said. But Ogborn couldn't have known that her noble gesture would turn into a terrifying ordeal that she says will haunt her for the rest of her life. A Startling Accusation Ogborn was called into assistant manager Donna Summers' cramped office and told that Summers was on the telephone with a police officer. "She said, 'Here she is. This is the girl you described,'" said Ogborn. "She told me to shut the door." Summers told Ogborn that the officer on the phone had their store manager on the other line and that he had described her and accused her of stealing a purse from a customer. "I was like, 'Donna, I've never done anything wrong,'" Ogborn said. "I could never steal — I could never do anything like that. I don't have it in me." But inside the back office, which had now become an "interrogation room," Ogborn's protests fell on deaf ears. "She said, 'Well, they said it was a little girl that looked like you in a McDonald's uniform, so it had to be you.'" It was Ogborn's word against the accusation of a man claiming to be a cop, and she was given a choice: submit to a search or be escorted to the police station. Listening to 'the Voice' Ogborn was told to empty her pockets and surrender her car keys and cell phone, which she did. Then the caller demanded that Summers have Ogborn remove her clothes — even her underwear — leaving her with just a small, dirty apron to cover her naked body. Summers says she never second-guessed what she was being asked to do, as she firmly believed the person she was talking to was a police officer. Ogborn says she trusted her manager to do what was right. Because it was a busy Friday night, Summers had to leave the office to check on the restaurant. The man on the phone demanded that another employee be left to watch Ogborn until the police arrived and Summers chose 27-year-old Jason Bradley. "He [Bradley] takes the phone and they're telling him to have me do certain things and drop the apron," she said. "He wouldn't have any part of it." Bradley walked out in disgust, leaving Summers with no one to watch Ogborn. Then the caller made an odd request, asking Summers to call her fiancé to have him watch the girl. Summers says she did as she was told. "I honestly thought he was a police officer and what I was doing was the right thing," Summers said. "I thought I was doing what I was supposed to be doing." Surveillance video shows Ogborn broke down in tears. Two Hours of Torment Within 15 minutes, Summers' fiancé, Walter Nix, entered the office where Ogborn tugged at the small apron that barely covered her top and exposed her legs up to her buttocks. Again, Summers says she didn't question the caller and completely trusted her fiancé to be left alone with the girl. Ogborn says she wanted to run, but that it would have been too humiliating to run through the restaurant naked. Nix, a 43-year-old exterminator, began following the caller's commands, ordering Ogborn to drop her apron, bend over and stand on a chair. Then — as ridiculous as it sounds — he told her to do jumping jacks to shake loose anything she might be hiding. Ogborn says that was just the beginning of two more hours of torment. The demands became more and more bizarre. When Ogborn says that when she failed to address Nix as "sir," the caller tells him to hit her violently on the buttocks over and over. At one point on the video, Ogborn was "spanked" for almost 10 full minutes. "He told me I was asking too many questions, so he was told to hit me," she said. "I just said, 'Please don't do this.'" By the end, red welts could be seen on the woman's body. During it all, Summers periodically came back to the office, and each time, Nix threw the apron at Ogborn, telling her to stay quiet. "I begged her every time she came in the room," Ogborn said. "'Get me out of here. Please get me out of here." Ogborn says she even asked the assistant manager to call the police, but each time, she says, Summers told her, "No, we're still waiting for the cop." Summers denies Ogborn ever asked her to call the police or that the girl pleaded with her. Ogborn says that after more than three hours of dehumanizing treatment, Nix — again on the instructions of the caller — forced Ogborn to perform a sexual act. The caller then told Nix to hand the phone back to Summers and instructed her to bring in someone else. This time, she had Thomas Simms, a 58-year-old maintenance man who worked at the restaurant, get on the phone with the caller, but Simms refused to comply with the caller's strange demands. "Tom told me, 'This man is asking … for her to drop her apron so I can see her without the apron,'" she recalled. "And I said, 'Do what?'" Summers frantically called her manager, Lisa Siddons, who the caller claimed had been on the other line all along. But when Siddons answered her phone, she said she'd been sleeping. It was then that Summers realized, she'd been had. Police Arrive When Mount Washington Police Detective Buddy Stump arrived at the restaurant, he had Nix arrested and began the process of trying to figure out who the caller was. "The first thing I thought about was … this has got to be somebody on a pay phone," he said. "Maybe over [at] Winn Dixie and they're getting their jollies off at watching all the action and the police roll in." But thanks to an Internet search by his chief of police, Stump discovered that calls like this have been going on for more than 10 years. Ogborn, it turns out, was only the latest in a long line of victims. After a McDonald's employee used the "*69" feature to get a telephone number for the caller, Stump learned the call had been made from a supermarket pay phone — __________________ Today Rap music is the Lakers
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12.02.2006, 11:29 PM	#2
noisemachine 100% Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 651	I remember reading about this about a year ago. Leave it to the maintenance man to be the only semi-inteligent person there. I guess you can't expect much more from a manager at McDonald's (no offense to any McDonald's employees out there). Maybe its just Kentucky people. If so, I hope to God I never live there. __________________ The best radio station ever: http://www.kcsb.org/?page_id=9
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12.03.2006, 06:13 AM	#3
h8kurdt invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In Mulder's Basement room Posts: 5,459	Yeah I remember this too. The woman is just as much a retard for believing it was the police on the phone. __________________ Down with this sort of thing.
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12.03.2006, 09:00 AM	#4
RdTv invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lexington,KY USA Posts: 2,512	When I read this I thought, only in the armpits of America (the rural or country areas of Kentucky) could something like this happen. The only decent places in Kentucky are the cities and the two to visist are Louisville and Lexington. A lot of good bands are from both these places, so there is generally speaking a decent music scene. Aside from that, most of the country is polluted with trailor parks, rednecks and beat up pick up trucks, although if you find a secluded spot, it is fun to go camping or hiking in the fall, just bring a large knife or gun.
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Пятхъдесят Шест invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Omaha, Nebraska, USA Posts: 3,063	Can we through Kansas into the mix too? I've just returned from Kansas City, Kansas where I was staying for the Big 12 Championship game in Kansas City, Missouri. Anyway, we ate at a Waffle House, and right next door was Pricillas Adult Book Store. The inside was visible from the Waffle House window. Whats that all about? And! It was VERY busy.
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