It may be the ultimate game of 'chicken.' And those who played it lost their jobs.
Three young adult workers have been fired from an
Anderson, California Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, after a video of them was posted on one of their MySpace pages.
What did they do that caused so much offence? The girls are seen stripped to their underwear or bathing suits and taking a bath in the restaurant's backroom dishwashing sink.
The outlet had been closed for the night when the trio decided to stage their prank, and in a tradition that seems to have been growing over the past years, captured it on video and posted it on the Internet.
When word spread to the franchise's manager, he immediately sacked all three of them. The company maintains KFC has an excellent record on cleanliness and that the now ex-employees violated some very strict rules.
The woman who posted the offending video has since made her page private, but she did leave one poorly written public message for the media.
"Its a sad world when one has to stoop low enough to go through ones dirty laundry....one womans trash is anothers treasure! -Thanks alot for having good respect how can you live knowing the little bit of money you made was made hurting someone!"
It's not the first time this kind of bizarre incident has come to light. In August, an eccentric Burger King employee was fired after
taking a bubble bath in his franchise's sink in Ohio and then posting his work on YouTube.
But Timothy Tackett remained unapologetic about his actions. "It was something that I set out light-heated and funny," he explained. "Turned into bad."
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