Abandoned 27 years ago, "Burger King Baby" finds mother

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Abandoned 27 years ago, "Burger King Baby" finds mother

"Burger King Baby" Finds Mum After 27 Years

A woman abandoned as a baby in the bathroom of a Burger King restaurant has tracked down the mother who gave birth to her 27 years ago.

Katheryn Deprill said she met her biological mother for the first time on Monday in the office of a lawyer after her appeal on Facebook was successful.

Ms Deprill said she felt “pure joy” and it was like “looking in a mirror”.

The 27-year-old began her quest on March 2 by posting a photo of herself with a long appeal on the social media site.

She was pictured holding a sign saying: “Looking for my birth mother … She abandoned me in the Burger King bathroom only hours old, Allentown PA. Please help me find her by sharing my post.”

Ms Deprill quickly became known as the Burger King Baby after thousands of users reposted the picture and asked others to help in the search.

The image ended up being shared tens of thousands of times.

Ms Deprill was just hours old when she was abandoned, wrapped in a red sweater, in the bathroom of the fast-food restaurant in 1986.

She was raised by adoptive parents.

Now 27, she is a married mother of three – and said at the start of the appeal she had questions for her biological mother.

“Number one is, I would really like to say, ‘Thank you for not throwing me away, thank you for giving me the gift of life, and look what I’ve become,’” she told the AP news agency.

But she added that she wanted to know “what made her do it? Why did she feel that she shouldn’t leave me at a hospital? Was she going through a horrible time?”

She says she and her birth mum plan to have more meetings to get to know each other better.

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"Burger King Baby" Finds Mum After 27 Years

McDonald"s Employee Who Served Raw Burger To Cop Deserves Presidential Medal Of Freedom

Source: Lee Rogers, Blacklisted News

A New Hampshire police officer is complaining that a McDonald’s employee deliberately served him a raw burger causing him to get sick.  This McDonald’s employee not only deserves a promotion but should also be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  It actually isn’t very difficult to make this case.  There is little question that this person is much more deserving of receiving this award than a war criminal like Tony Blair who received the award several years ago.  At least this McDonald’s worker is protesting against a criminal entity that has been destroying freedom in America.   There will probably be a bunch of zombies reading this that will be outraged at even the thought of this but it is actually a serious suggestion.  Police officers are widely hated by a large number of people in America and they only have themselves to blame.  Police departments have morphed into uniformed criminal gangs that no longer protect and serve their communities but instead bully people around with their gun and badge. 

Let’s look at some of the facts that prove this to be the case.  There are now countless documented cases of police officers unjustly beating and even killing people.  Many of these cops have actually gotten away with these crimes due to their privileged position as a police officer.  Sometimes police departments have the nerve to charge the person they beat up with crimes like assault and battery.  Combine this with the continued militarization of police departments and this type of thing is only going to get progressively worse.    

When cops aren’t running around beating and killing people they are handing out record numbers of traffic tickets to people.  Many police departments have setup quota systems which require their cops to hand out a certain number of tickets within an allotted time frame.  These jackasses don’t even consider the fact that we are in the midst of an economic depression.  Instead, they continue to hand out ticket after ticket even though we are at a point where a lot of people can barely afford to buy basic necessities.  Make no mistake about it, speed limit laws and many of these other ridiculous traffic regulations are not meant to keep people safe but are instead used as another revenue source for government.  Anyone who willfully participates in enforcing such a system has less value as a human being than the feces that comes out of a pig’s ass.

On top of this, many cops act in a completely disrespectful manner towards other people.  It is almost as if they have some sort of inferiority complex so they have to make up for it by taking a job that allows them to bully people around.  It would be interesting to see how many of these so-called heroes have thwarted or solved real legitimate crimes.  That number on a percentage basis is probably extremely low because these tough guys view writing tickets as a more important task than paying attention to crimes that have real victims.

With all this said should it really be a mystery as to why people hate the police?  They enforce all sorts of ridiculous rules, regulations and laws most of which are totally victimless in nature.  Take for example all of the insanity surrounding the enforcement of drug laws in America.  Do we really need an army of these uniformed idiots running around looking for marijuana, cocaine and other substances?   It should be obvious that we do not.

Businesses around the country should begin refusing to provide service to any and all uniformed police officers until major attitude and policy adjustments occur.  Either that or do what the guy at McDonald’s did and serve them with an inferior product.  This will send a clear message to these criminals that people hate them.  The New Hampshire cop should actually be thankful the McDonald’s employee didn’t do worse to his cheeseburger.  The employee could have dropped a deuce on the hamburger patties if they were truly vindictive.

Make no mistake about it, police officers are not heroes and it is absolutely ridiculous that they are portrayed with such reverence by the corporate media.  Look at how they present stories in which a cop gets killed in the line of duty.  It is as if they want us to believe that their lives are more valuable than someone who isn’t a cop when in reality the opposite is true.  Anyone who decides to make a living as a police officer is less valuable than someone who earns a living by providing a legitimate service that people want.

Some say that not all cops are bad, but this is a misinformed view.  Anybody that willingly becomes a cop to help enforce a never ending list of unjust rules, regulations and laws is mostly as bad as anybody else on these forces.  Some might be worse than others, but that’s about all that can be argued.  The system is so far gone that cops who have any sort of conscience left should quit in protest and find real honest work.  Working as a police officer is dishonest because the profession has devolved into government sanctioned criminality.

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McDonald"s Employee Who Served Raw Burger To Cop Deserves Presidential Medal Of Freedom

Why I"m on strike today: I can"t support myself on $7.85 at Burger King | Willietta Dukes

I know what it feels like to be afraid that your children will go to bed hungry, your heat will be turned off or you’ll be evicted

I’ve worked at fast-food restaurants in North Carolina for the past 15 years. I’ve spent more hours at Church’s Chicken, McDonald’s and now Burger King than I can remember. I work hard – I never miss a shift and always arrive on time. But today, I’m going on strike.

I make $ 7.85 at Burger King as a guest ambassador and team leader, where I train new employees on restaurant regulations and perform the manager’s duties in their absence. Before Burger King, I worked at Church’s for 12 years, starting at $ 6.30 and ending at just a little more than $ 8 an hour.

I’ve never walked off a job before. I don’t consider myself an activist, and I’ve never been involved with politics. I’m a mother with two sons, and like any mom knows, raising two teenage boys is tough. Raising them as a single mother, on less than $ 8 an hour, is nearly impossible, though.

My boys, Tramaine and Russell Jr are now 20 and 21 years old. When they were in middle and high school, I had to work two fast-food jobs to make ends meet. Most days, I would put them on the bus at 6:30am before working a 9 to 4 shift at one restaurant, then a 5-close shift at another. If I had a day off, I was at their schools, checking in with their teachers and making sure they were keeping up with their education. I wanted them, when they were grown-up, to not have to work two jobs.

My hours, like many of my coworkers, were cut this year, and I now work only 25 to 28 hours each week. I can’t afford to pay my bills working part time and making $ 7.85, and last month, I lost my house. Now, I go back and forth between staying with Russell Jr and Tramaine. I never imagined my life would be like this at this point. I successfully raised two boys, and now I’m forced to live out of their spare bedrooms. That’s why I’m on strike today.

About a month and a half ago, I saw a Facebook page for NC Raise UP, which encouraged fast-food workers in North Carolina to join with others around the country who are striking. Today, I am joining workers in 40 cities who are taking collective action for a $ 15 wage and the right to form a union without retaliation.

Most of the workers I’ve met on social media are just like me – mothers and fathers who wonder if they will ever get what they deserve, if they’ll ever escape from poverty. We are walking off our jobs because we don’t know how we are going to survive on these jobs. We’re on strike because we can’t afford not to strike.

Burger King says they can’t pay employees like me higher wages because it would force them out of business. Yet last year it made $ 117m in profits and its CEO took home $ 6.47m. It would take me 634 years to earn that much.

I’ve worked in fast-food for 15 years, and I can’t even afford my own rent payments. We just want fairness and to be able to provide for our families. No one who works every day should be forced to be homeless.

As a guest ambassador, my job is to keep customers happy, greeting them at the door, checking in with them at their tables and picking up their trash. I’m good at what I do. Customers have come in and have wanted to give me $ 25 gift certificates as a way of saying thank you. If only Burger King rewarded hard work in the same way.

I’m on strike today for the first time in my life, and surprisingly, I don’t feel afraid. Like so many fast-food workers across this country, I know what it feels like to be truly afraid – afraid of having your children go to bed hungry, or having your heat turned off in February, or being evicted from your home. Today is not scary. Today is empowering.

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Burger King takes down Twitter account after hack attack

Burger King’s Twitter account shows hacking activity before the account was suspended by Twitter in this screen grab taken on February 18, 2013.

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Burger King takes down Twitter account after hack attack

Burger King Twitter account "hacked"

18 February 2013 Last updated at 15:54 ET

Burger King’s account has now been suspended

US fast-food company Burger King has said its Twitter account may have been hacked, after its profile picture was changed to a McDonalds logo.

The background picture on the account showed Fish McBites and some posts contained racial slurs, obscenities and references to drugs.

The firm says it asked Twitter to suspend the account and @BurgerKing has not posted since 13:15 EST (18:15 GMT).

Burger King says it will post an apology on its Facebook page.

The account tweeted that the company had been sold to rival hamburger chain McDonalds.

“We just got sold to McDonalds! Look for McDonalds in a hood near you,” one post read.

It also posted messages such as: “If I catch you at a Wendys, we’re fightin!”

The tweets stopped after a little more than an hour.

Meanwhile, McDonalds tweeted in response to the apparent hack: “We empathize with our @BurgerKing counterparts. Rest assured, we had nothing to do with the hacking.”

It is not known who might be responsible for the breach.

The development comes in the wake of a scandal across at least 12 European countries, in which it emerged that some products labelled as beef contained horsemeat.

Burger King has said it has cut ties with some of its suppliers as a precaution, in the wake of the scandal.

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Burger King Twitter account "hacked"

Burger King"s Twitter account hacked

A screen grab of the Burger King Twitter page after it was apparently hacked. Source: Supplied

IT APPEARS that Burger King’s Twitter account has been hacked.

Starting just after 4am AEDT, the fast-foot company’s Twitter picture was changed to a McDonald’s logo, and the account tweeted that it had been sold to rival McDonald’s.

In the following hour, some posts from the account contained racial epithets, references to drug use and obscenities. The account has also tweeted: “if I catch you at a wendys, we’re fightin!”

Videos and photos making fun of the fast food giant flooded the feed for the next hour.

“We caught one of our employees in the bathroom doing this….” one of the tweets said, with a photo of a man injecting a syringe into his arm.

McDonald’s copped the brunt of the blame, with the company putting out a Tweet to assure customers they were not behind the hack.  

Burger King Worldwide Inc. spokesman Bryson Thornton said the company reached out to Twitter administrators to suspend the account. The account has not posted since about 5.15am AEDT.

The Miami company plans to post a statement on Facebook later today to apologise, especially for the offensive posts. It hopes to have the account back up soon.

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Burger King"s Twitter account hacked