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As anyone should know here I am not given to forwarding stuff, which are usually chain stuff and bogus.

This is not something I have been asked to forward, it was something in the US I stumbled across, but there is a theoretical danger of copy-cats.

The danger affects anyone who works in the fast food industry, and here is the link to an article and the full video of a news report about this incident

Another article about this case

Basicaly a hoax caller passed himself off as a police officer and got an assisatant manager to strip search a female employee who was falsely accused of theft, and then while the employee was naked, left her with her fiance who on the instructions of the hoaxer, sexually assaulted her.

This hoax had been hitting a number of establisments in the US.

I have no evidence that this ever hit the UK, but as a victim once of an attempted hoax, should this occur is to try and ring back the agency ever making such a call, which is what I did in 2001.

Maybe my previous experience is why this case affected me so much when I read it.

PS as a former Cyber Devil's Advocate to McDonalds UK, I have brought this case to their attention and am awaiting their response.

Is anyone out there knowledgable of employment law in the UK, could an employer have the authority to conduct a strip search.