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I'm from KY and remember when this happened

posted 11 years ago by diabetesman88
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Now I have never met these people and have never been to Mount Washington but I remember when this actually happened. I was 15 and it was all over the local news and everyone was talking about it before it caught national attention. Everyone in my school was talking about it and I actually took a psychology elective and for a class we debated and discussed it. My basic opinion about it was why would the manager think that a cop would ask a citizen to do this. No cop would do that obviously. And that the manager felt slightly more important and special because she was helping a cop. The movie to me kinda hinted at it because she develops this weird relationship with the caller and she makes it seem like she is stopping a serial killer. I mean, even if she did steal how much would she have stolen exactly? Is she going to go as far as to stick something like 20 or 50 dollars up her vag? It made me shout to the screen: What are you doing!?

Anyway when this movie came out and everyone had trouble believing it, it brought back so many memories of watching the news and my dad constantly yelling at the tv and calling the manager and her fiance a "D U M B A S S!". It also makes me ashamed because of course it happens in KY and makes us all look like dumb rednecks. And I think it is great that a movie is creating this much debate and discussion. Not a lot of movies do that now a days. Sorry if this is rambling but just wanted to give you a perspective for someone who was around the area.

[–] jimbofinesse 11 years ago

Thanks for your post. I appreciate reading a local perspective..

When I saw this movie I had not heard of the actual incidents. As fiction I would have dismissed this movie outright because it seem highly unlikely, but knowing that it really happened makes it fascinating.

I spent my share of time in fast food. Some managers are intelligent but fast food doesn't attract top talent overall so some really dim bulbs like the manager in this case certainly do attain their little bit of power. They're the kind of people that excel at following every little company policy but have no internal filter to question when those rules are not appropriate. That personality type is the best example of a "tool". An unthinking corporate tool.

I have to wonder about the accused girl too though. It's amazing that she didn't simply pitch a fit and force her way out of the office at some point. It appears that although she was a teenager she still had the gullibility of a little kid.

I can understand why you and your father were shouting at your television. Don't feel too bad though. I'm from the north but I never thought this was a case of stupid southerners, just stupid people. We've got our share of them up here too.

[–] diabetesman88 11 years ago

I never worked in fast food but I have worked in supermarkets and the managers there are generally okay. But I did laugh at your "tool" comment.

People in KY's general opinion of the girl was more sympathetic. Some wondered why she didn't just leave but she was a teenager and some friends described her as very trusting.

I figured there were dumb northerners but people still do stereotype people from the South and when things like this happen it just confirms it to them. But we at least got someone like Jennifer Lawrence representing KY now!

[–] Screen_Queen 10 years ago

I've got to say this thread is probably the most reasonable and intelligent one I've read on here, so thank you.

And I completely agree with these comments:

My basic opinion about it was why would the manager think that a cop would ask a citizen to do this. No cop would do that obviously. And that the manager felt slightly more important and special because she was helping a cop. The movie to me kinda hinted at it because she develops this weird relationship with the caller and she makes it seem like she is stopping a serial killer. I mean, even if she did steal how much would she have stolen exactly? Is she going to go as far as to stick something like 20 or 50 dollars up her vag.

Some managers are intelligent but fast food doesn't attract top talent overall so some really dim bulbs like the manager in this case certainly do attain their little bit of power. They're the kind of people that excel at following every little company policy but have no internal filter to question when those rules are not appropriate. That personality type is the best example of a "tool". An unthinking corporate tool.

One major red flag for me was why would anyone go to such lengths to hide money, however much she could have possibly hid up there. Why would she rather be humiliated so badly than to admit she stole the money? She wouldn't, unless she was telling the truth about not taking the money. It was just mind blowing to me how much the manager fell for it, and I do recognise that the movie tried to downplay the stupidity of the situation by, exactly as you said, having her develop this disturbing "please/satisfy" relationship with the "Officer." And that comes from what jimbofinesse calls the "tool" type of person, who blindly follows rules to a tee just to please their superiors. She just refused to see what was wrong - even when it seemed wrong to her - because she was so intent on following orders and pleasing the one giving them to her. It's really disturbing to think something like this could and actually did happen, and so easily too.

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It's gonna leave its mark somewhere.