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Ogborn says she wanted to run, but that it would have been too humiliating to run through the restaurant naked. Nix, a 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. During it all, Summers periodically came back to the office, and each time, Nix threw the apron at Ogborn, telling her to stay quiet. 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. 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 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.

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. 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. 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.

It turned out that the Panama City Police Department had received several calls about investigations in multiple states for similar incidents. At a McDonald's in Hinesville, Ga. 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.

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. The detectives caught a break when they say they discovered the calling card used in the Kentucky incident was purchased at a different Wal-Mart than the one in the Massachusetts case.

This time, the cameras in the store were trained on the cash registers. We don't know who that is. When detectives go back to the first surveillance tape to try and match up the face, they say they believe it is the same man and notice something else — he's wearing a uniform.

The warden identified the man in the video as one of his prison guards — year-old David Stewart. According to police, a search of Stewart's trailer revealed guns, police paraphernalia and training manuals. Police also discovered that Stewart had attended a local police academy and even volunteered as a deputy with a small police department in western Florida.

Stewart was extradited to Kentucky and charged with solicitation of sodomy and impersonating a police officer, and pleaded not guilty. Clinical psychologist Jeff Gardere says the caller's actions were likely a way to feed a God-like complex by manipulating his victims emotionally, physically and sexually. Master of None. Get your Sequester Survival Gear! Prank Calls and Strip Searches. The caller managed to convince a year-old female manager to strip-search a year-old male cook in the women's restroom at the Sonic and to perform an oral sex act on the cook under the threat of arrest if she did not cooperate.

The caller then persuaded the cook to conduct a strip search of the manager. At at another restaurant : Two employees at a Bismarck restaurant took off their clothes in May when a prank caller, who claimed he was the district manager, ordered them to comply with a strip search. In , three Bismarck fast-food restaurants received similar calls and two employees stripped down to their underwear as a result.

Deputy Police Chief Dennis Bullinger denies the policy: According to Bullinger, the police department doesn't conduct strip searches over the phone under any circumstance.

According to him , if you believe it. BOSTON -- Investigators say someone posing as the police called several local fast food restaurants telling managers they must strip search their employees -- and they did. Box-store corporations have created an underclass within our culture. An underclass might be good for corporate profits, but it breeds long-term social instability. Ask the French if you disagree. Do these abusive people really know what they are doing?

Or are they just following blind instinct to control and dominate their partners? Abusers know. Since their entire world revolves around themselves, they distort everything into a false picture of the world. They deceive the people they are abusing, and they also deceive themselves. They are driven by their own self-centered loves and desires, which are evil because they are all about power and pleasure for themselves at the expense of others.

Healthy self-love is balanced with love and respect for others. Whereas love draws truth to itself, evil draws falsity to itself. Evil desires thrive on deception and a false picture of the world. The minds of people who are driven by evil are infected with falsity, so that even though they are acting with evil intent, they deceive themselves into thinking that they are righteous, and that what they are doing is right and good.

This makes them even more dangerous. Their self-deception makes it extremely difficult for any real change in their character to take place. In order to truly change, they would have to make a fundamental change in their loves and desires, from self-centered to caring for others. But in order to see and admit that such change is necessary, they would have to pierce through layers and layers of falsity and self-deception, which they have fastened onto themselves like evil armor to protect and justify their underlying selfishness.

Until they have pierced their own illusions, they cannot even see the evil in their hearts that needs to be changed. Although they theoretically could pierce their own falsity and self-deception and change their evil hearts, for people who have settled into a long-established pattern of abusiveness this is so unlikely to happen that for all practical purposes their victims can simply assume that the abuser will never change.

For the victims, the only real solution is to get away from those who are abusing them. And the counselors did take satisfaction in those few men that they were able to influence toward real reform. For the rest, the best they could hope for was that the abusers would back off from the worst forms of violence, and ratchet their abuse back a step or two. The fact remains that if these abusive people truly wanted to change, they could change. Their self-deception is willful.

Now we get to the hardest part. Domestic abusers, the person or people who made the strip search prank calls. These are just two examples of people who engage in evil actions out of their own internal motivation.

There are many others. What about the people who carried out the orders of the prank caller? What about other people who do evil things because some authority figure ordered them to? What about the two employees who refused to participate? I mean that deep in our psyche, each one of us has evil and destructive motives and desires mixed in with our good and constructive motives.

We are not good by default. We are good when we choose to express the good parts of ourselves rather than the evils part of ourselves. What does this mean for those who carry out wrong and destructive actions under orders from an authority figure? The uncomfortable fact is that even if someone is ordering us to do something, we are still responsible for our own evil and destructive actions.

In the case of the strip search prank calls, the courts have held that those who carried out the illegal actions must still be held legally accountable for what they did even though they believed at the time that a police officer was ordering them to do it.

Depending on the severity of their offenses, they have received fines, probation, or jail time. Because when we follow an illegal and destructive order, we ourselves become a participant in the illegal and destructive act. When we are ordered to do something that we know or feel is wrong, we have a choice to make. We can either follow the order or we can refuse to follow it. We are, after all, human beings, not robots. Assuming we are fully functional adults, we are able to make moral choices and determine our own actions, regardless of what someone else tells us to do.

If we do carry out an illegal or destructive order, both our motivation and our thinking mind must assent to it. We must convince ourselves that it is the right thing to do. And we must have some desire or motive to carry it out. Unfortunately, deception can work on our minds, and draw out the evil that is hidden within each one of us. This is what is happening when people harm others because some authority figure has told them to.

And the self-deception we then engage in allows the evil hidden in our own hearts to come out and express itself. Does this mean that people who carry out evil orders are themselves evil? Not necessarily. As I said before, all of us have evil motives and desires mixed in with our good motives. Most of the time, most of us manage to overrule the evil within us, and express the good instead.

Sometimes, though, the marriage of convenience between the evil in us and the deception that covers for it gets the better of us, and we do things that neither we nor anyone else would ever have believed we were capable of.

Are we still responsible for those actions? Yes we are. The conclusion is not that we humans are inevitably and unalterably evil. Rather, it is that we are all capable of great evil if the evil within us, and the self-deception that is its lover and partner, are not psychologically and spiritually chained up and imprisoned so that they do not come out in our words and actions. Lee Woofenden is an ordained minister, writer, editor, translator, and teacher. He enjoys taking spiritual insights from the Bible and the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg and putting them into plain English as guides for everyday life.

Very interesting post. Is it possible that the programming all the way through childhood to conform to authority figures means that most of us simply cannot override it when told do something awful? Some more food for thought and thanks for you article. Thanks for your thoughtful response. Yes, during childhood we are trained to obey in school and at home. The original victim, Louise Ogborn, gave this as her main reason for submitting to the strip search. I wish this were taught by parents. It is certainly not going to be taught in our largely secular, state-run schools.

I talk about responsibility in childhood vs. Is Life Fair? Thanks for stopping by, and for your comment. The more clearly we understand the true nature of evil and its lover, falsity, the better armed we will be to overcome it. Thanks Lee this was well said and very painful to read as it brings up my own past bulling practices. And yes we can change with the Lords help, of which I am an example of a work in progress.