Blind Obedience

This story sounds unreal, but it's quite real. Louise Ogborn, a McDonald's employee, was accused of stealing by a person claiming to be a police officer. The police had phoned Ogborn's manager, and had the manager, Summers, secure Ogborn in her office. What followed is just bizarre and Summers says, "I honestly thought he was a police officer and what I was doing was the right thing. I thought I was doing what I was supposed to be doing."

The voice on the phone, claiming to be the police, tells Summers to make Ogborn strip naked. The voice on the phone then tells Summers to get her 43-year-old fiancé, Nix, to come in the office. Summers leaves the office. Nix proceeds to do what the voice on the phone tells him to do, and sexually abuse the Ogborn, for three hours, as Ogborn begs both Nix and Summers to stop and call the police. The entire abuse is captured on the security camera mounted in the office.

Summers claims she was following orders from a cop. A case of blind obedience to authority? Apparently, this isn't the first time this has happened. It has happened many times. A person calls, claiming to be the police, and convinces a manager type to abuse a young girl in their employ. Are people so fucking stupid that they obey horrible instructions from a voice claiming to be an authority figure? Or do they secretly enjoy what they're doing and are just as guilty? I believe the answer is yes to both.

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