Would you like fries with that strip search? (via metafilter) – A McDonald’s manager has been accused of unlawfully strip searching two teen-age employees. He says he was following orders from someone he thought was a police detective on the phone.

The girls have testified that they also thought the man giving directions over the phone was a detective, though authorities said the call to the restaurant was not from a police detective.

What an idiot: if he really believed the “detective” on the other end, he deserves to be convicted for stupidity! Why the hell would a police officer call up a civilian and instruct them to perform a strip-search? Why not ask to have the people detained until an officer could be on the scene? Duh…