Whassup?

[Nic Name]

And to think ... this ... all started with a bunch of real-life pals from Philadelphia.

"(In advertising) The right cast is as important as the right message," says Paul Tilley, group creative director at DDB Chicago. "You need somebody to bring it to life."

DDB has learned the lesson well. The agency cast a bunch of real-life pals from Philadelphia rather than actors in a Budweiser campaign. The result was the hit "Whassup?!" campaign.

[Nic Name]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A fast-food worker accused of killing two colleagues and wounding a third was high on an illegal drug that someone slipped into his drink without his knowledge, his lawyer said.

Braheem Nichols, 22, believes one of the victims slipped some form of Ecstasy into his drink while they were working Dec. 10 at a KFC/Taco Bell in suburban Malvern, attorney Charles Peruto Jr. said.


Is this guy here in the Cellar?

I've been wondering where sycamore's been all day...

[Undertoad]

Hey I used to eat at that place... for five months when I worked in the area. I didn't want to eat there but the cow-orkers made me. If I would have known that a worker would possibly be all high on X and stuff and attack and wound and kill me, I wouldn't have gone. But hey, that's true of all fast food innit?

Isn't X supposed to make you love everyone?

Yes, I don't generally enjoy dining at restaurants where I fear the staff may kill me. "Don't eat where you are likely to be murdered" is probably a good rule of thumb.

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by Undertoad
Isn't X supposed to make you love everyone?

No, X is supposed to let you write GUI apps for UNIX. :-)

There's certainly *something* up with this dude. I wouldn't be surprised at *any* story that the defense offers, if Peruto is defending him

For background:

MALVERN ? December 11, 2001 ?

Police in Chester County are searching for a man they say took his restaurant co-workers into the woods to see his gun, then opened fire on them, killing two of them and wounding a third.

Authorities say 22-year-old Braheem Nichols was carrying a semiautomatic pistol beneath his uniform when he arrived for his shift yesterday at the KFC/Taco Bell restaurant in the Great Valley Center in East Whiteland Township. His co-workers saw the weapon and asked Nichols to show it to them.

Shooting survivor Brian Crow told reporter Matt O'Donnell of WPVI-TV's Action News that Nichols fired one shot in the ground to show off the weapon, then inexplicably turned the semiautomatic on his friends. He says they never did anything to provoke Nichols ? in fact, they were all good friends.

Nineteen-year-old Crow said when Nichols stopped firing, he heard him say, "I'm sorry," and "Don't tell the police."

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He stole a car and fled...now they caught him. I don't think "somebody musta dosed me, I dunno what happened" is going to cut it.

HA!

"Don't tell the police."

Good call, idiot.

[ladysycamore]

Originally posted by Undertoad
Hey I used to eat at that place... for five months when I worked in the area. I didn't want to eat there but the cow-orkers made me. If I would have known that a worker would possibly be all high on X and stuff and attack and wound and kill me, I wouldn't have gone. But hey, that's true of all fast food innit?

Isn't X supposed to make you love everyone?

Yeah, that's what *I* thought too. Glad to know that the people that I knew who DID take that stuff was feeling too good to think about killing others. :p

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by dhamsaic
Good call, idiot.

Well...Taco Bell employees aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, in my experience.

This guy carried a handgun concealed, most likely without a licence, let it be *seen* at work (where if the manager had seen it he would have been fired on the spot), and then took the first opportunity to show it off to his friends. If he lived in South Philly, and worked in Malvern, this was probably his first opportunity to shoot the handgun without cops crawling up his ass immediately. I doubt it occurred to him that he could take it to a *range* to show it off or practice..and if he was working at a Taco Bell he probably couldn't afford a range--or a gun that wasn't stolen, for that matter. We'll probably find out he had the gun less than a day or two.

He fired it into the ground (risking a ricochet in some random direction; a buried rock could make the bullet go *anywhere*)...and then begins blowing his buds away. We call this "poor impulse control".

I think the story about dosing his drink is total BS, concocted by his attorney to manufacture some "reasonable doubt", since it's 'way too late to prove anything forensically. If I found out a coworker was illegally armed, my first thought would not be: "Hey, let's get him high and go out in the woods!".

Of course, *they* were Taco Bell employees too...

"Drop the chalupa and come out with your hands up..."