Nude in the News
A Huntington woman told police that an unknown man forcibly removed her from
her vehicle in the 1000 block of 12th Avenue about 1:45 a.m. Sunday. Her age
was not provided within the report.
The man then reportedly took the woman to the side of a house, stripped her
clothing and took photographs.
A 27-year-old Lehighton man already in county prison for violating a
restraining order when he scattered nude pictures of his estranged wife at her
job several weeks ago was charged Monday with doing the same thing at a Lehigh
Township day care center a few days later, police said.
Peter John Snyder II, formerly of of 182 Dowbush Road, allegedly distributed
nude photos of his wife to people at the Teddy Bear Day Care, 4623 Lehigh
Drive, on Oct. 7, 9 and 10, police said.
Police said Snyder wrote his estranged wife's name on the back of the photos
along with her cell phone number and her grandmother's number.
Snyder is in Northampton County Prison after he was arrested for placing about
18 nude pictures of his wife in the parking lot at 2124 Avenue C in Bethlehem
on Oct. 4, police said.
He was arraigned before District Judge William Zaun of Cherryville and charged
with two counts each of harassment and stalking. His bail was raised by
$22,000.
Restaurant Shift Turns Into Nightmare
An Extra Shift at McDonald's Becomes a Terrifying Interrogation
Nov. 10, 2005 ? - Louise Ogborn was always willing to take on extra shifts at
McDonald's in Mount Washington, Ky. Ogborn's mother had health problems and had
recently lost her job, so the 18-year-old did whatever she could to help make
ends meet.
On April 9, 2004, Ogborn offered to work through the restaurant's evening rush,
trying to be helpful and make a few extra dollars.
"I was just going to eat and then clock back in and help until somebody else
came along that could help," she said.
But Ogborn couldn't have known that her noble gesture would turn into a
terrifying ordeal that she says will haunt her for the rest of her life.
A Startling Accusation
Ogborn was called into assistant manager Donna Summers' cramped office and told
that Summers was on the telephone with a police officer.
"She said, 'Here she is. This is the girl you described,'" said Ogborn. "She
told me to shut the door."
Summers told Ogborn that the officer on the phone had their store manager on
the other line and that he had described her and accused her of stealing a
purse from a customer.
"I was like, 'Donna, I've never done anything wrong,'" Ogborn said. "I could
never steal -- I could never do anything like that. I don't have it in me."
But inside the back office, which had now become an "interrogation room,"
Ogborn's protests fell on deaf ears.
"She said, 'Well, they said it was a little girl that looked like you in a
McDonald's uniform, so it had to be you.'"
It was Ogborn's word against the accusation of a man claiming to be a cop, and
she was given a choice: submit to a search or be escorted to the police
station.
Listening to 'the Voice'
Ogborn was told to empty her pockets and surrender her car keys and cell phone,
which she did. Then the caller demanded that Summers have Ogborn remove her
clothes -- even her underwear -- leaving her with just a small, dirty apron to
cover her naked body.
Summers says she never second-guessed what she was being asked to do, as she
firmly believed the person she was talking to was a police officer. Ogborn says
she trusted her manager to do what was right.
Because it was a busy Friday night, Summers had to leave the office to check on
the restaurant. The man on the phone demanded that another employee be left to
watch Ogborn until the police arrived and Summers chose 27-year-old Jason
Bradley.
"He [Bradley] takes the phone and they're telling him to have me do certain
things and drop the apron," she said. "He wouldn't have any part of it."
Bradley walked out in disgust, leaving Summers with no one to watch Ogborn.
Then the caller made an odd request, asking Summers to call her fiancé to have
him watch the girl.
Summers says she did as she was told.
"I honestly thought he was a police officer and what I was doing was the right
thing," said Summers. "I thought I was doing what I was supposed to be doing."
Surveillance video shows Ogborn broke down in tears.
Two Hours of Torment
Within fifteen minutes, Summers' fiancé, Walter Nix, entered the office where
Ogborn tugged at the small apron that barely covered her top and exposed her
legs up to her buttocks.
Again, Summers says she didn't question the caller and completely trusted her
fiancé to be left alone with the girl.
Ogborn says she wanted to run, but that it would have been too humiliating to
run through the restaurant naked.
Nix, a 43-year-old exterminator, began following the caller's commands,
ordering Ogborn to drop her apron, bend over and stand on a chair.
Then -- as ridiculous as it sounds -- he told her to do jumping jacks to shake
loose anything she might be hiding. Ogborn says that was just the beginning of
two more hours of torment.
The demands became more and more bizarre. When Ogborn says that when she failed
to address Nix as "sir," the caller tells him to hit her violently on the
buttocks over and over. At one point on the video, Ogborn was "spanked" for
almost 10 full minutes.
"He told me I was asking too many questions, so he was told to hit me," she
said. "I just said, 'Please don't do this.'"
By the end, red welts could be seen on the woman's body.
During it all, Summers periodically came back to the office, and each time, Nix
threw the apron at Ogborn, telling her to stay quiet.
"I begged her every time she came in the room," Ogborn said. "'Get me out of
here. Please get me out of here."
Ogborn says she even asked the assistant manager to call the police, but each
time, she says, Summers told her, "No, we're still waiting for the cop."
Summers denies Ogborn ever asked her to call the police or that the girl
pleaded with her.
Ogborn says that after more than three hours of dehumanizing treatment, Nix --
again on the instructions of the caller -- forced Ogborn to perform a sexual
act.
The caller then told Nix to hand the phone back to Summers and instructed her
to bring in someone else.
This time, she had Thomas Simms, a 58-year-old maintenance man who worked at
the restaurant, get on the phone with the caller, but Simms refused to comply
with the caller's strange demands.
"Tom told me, 'This man is asking ? for her to drop her apron so I can see her
without the apron,' " she recalled. "And I said, 'Do what?!' "
Summers frantically called her manager, Lisa Siddons, who the caller claimed
had been on the other line all along. But when Siddons answered her phone, she
said she'd been sleeping.
It was then that Summers realized, she'd been had.
Police Arrive
When Mount Washington Police Detective Buddy Stump arrived at the restaurant,
he had Nix arrested and began the process of trying to figure out who the
caller was.
"The first thing I thought about was ? this has got to be somebody on a pay
phone," he said. "Maybe over [at] Winn Dixie and they're getting their jollies
off at watching all the action and the police roll in."
But thanks to an Internet search by his chief of police, Stump discovered that
calls like this have been going on for more than 10 years. Ogborn, it turns
out, was only the latest in a long line of victims.
After a McDonald's employee used the "*69" feature to get a telephone number
for the caller, Stump learned the call had been made from a supermarket pay
phone -- in Panama City, Fla.
Stump discovered that the call was made with an AT&T calling card and, upon
learning that the biggest seller of those cards in Panama City is Wal-Mart, he
contacted local police for help.
A Decade of Calls
It turned out that the Panama City Police Department had received several calls
about investigations in multiple states for similar incidents. By early 2004,
there had been more than 70 cases of hoax phone calls to fast food restaurants,
dating as far back as 1994.
At a McDonald's in Hinesville, Ga., a caller convinced a 55-year-old janitor to
do a cavity search of a 19-year-old cashier, while in Fargo, N.D., a manager at
a local Burger King strip-searched a 17-year-old female employee.
In Phoenix, a caller had a Taco Bell manager pick out a customer and then
strip-search her. And police in Massachusetts had been looking for a man who
called three Wendy's restaurants near Boston in a single day.
Stump was put in touch with Vic Flaherty, a detective in West Bridgewater,
Mass., investigating the Wendy's calls.
Flaherty told Stump he had traced the card's purchase to the exact time the
caller bought it, but as luck would have it, the security cameras were pointed
toward the front doors -- not the registers -- and didn't capture the sale.
Update, 2006/06 - There was a story in the news since then about a guy who was caught doing this. He may have been responsible for a long, long string of these incidents. And - see what happens when you don't teach your children to question authority?
