Disgusting Dominos Videos on YouTube Nets Duo Felony Charges

Posting content molesting food items may net you felony charges, like it did for a disgusting duo from North Carolina. The Chicago Tribune reports that two Dominos Pizza workers from the Conover, North Carolina area have been charged with tampering with food. The now infamous YouTube Dominos videos feature a 32-year-old man named Michael Setzer who was shot on video by 31-year-old Kristy Hammonds passing gas on salami meant for a sandwich and using mozzarella cheese for the same sandwich that had been shoved up his nose. Dominos was having none of this bad publicity from the stomach turning Dominos videos and fired the two once the location was traced. Both face charges for distributing prohibited goods.

Burger King sink bathing incident similar to disgusting Dominos videos

While the cheese up the nose, gas passing video was just one of the more disgusting Dominos videos posted by the duo, there are other fast food employees who were not-so-smart in deciding to upload their fast food shenanigans to social media sites. Back in August, 2008, as Source Heather Adams reported, 25-year-old Timothy Tackett bathed in a sink at a Burger King restaurant and then uploaded the video to his MySpace page. Burger King, like Dominos, was not amused and publicly stated that the sink in question had been sanitized. Timothy Tackett and several other employees were fired over the incident.

Family wins $40,000 award in Taco Bell urination case

MSNBC reported last year that a police officer and his family won a lawsuit against Taco Bell that alleged that a fast food worker there contaminated their food with urine and spit in 2005. The family's two sons became ill after eating the food and the youngest child had to be hospitalized. The wayward employee, Casey Diedrich, did have to pay a $100 fine for his misconduct.

Disturbing trend with fast food workers and food contamination?

When you think about juvenile food shenanigans, you think about teenagers perpetrating such behavior. However, it appears that it is the adult crowd of fast food workers that the public should fear most. Michael Setzer and Kristy Hammonds, the dynamic duo featured in the disgusting Dominos videos, are over 30. The Burger King sink guy was 25. Though I could not find an age associated with the Taco Bell case, I can only assume that that fast food worker was not a minor, since his name was released to the media. The next time I pull up to a drive thru window, I know I will be relieved to see a pimply faced teenager handing me my order.

Sources:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-dominos-youtube,0,619901.story
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/953809/video_depicts_burger_king_employee.html?cat=8
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/08/mr-unstable-los.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25680569/