Four teenagers in American Fork, Utah were recently cited by police for being disorderly in public after they rapped their order at a McDonald’s drive-thru window. Could this be the next Footloose? (Or, more accurately, the next next Footloose?) I think it could be. Follow me a second: The four boys were under the thrall of all those endless YouTube videos, both homemade and professional, of people rapping orders at various fast-food drive-thru windows. So they performed their own little rap and what happens? The not-at-all-charmed worker called the cops, saying she felt her “safety” was at risk, and the boys were later tracked down at a high-school volleyball game and issued a citation.
As soon as I read this story, I thought it had all the makings of a gangbusters teen movie. Instead of a small town where people aren’t allowed to dance though, what about a small-town where kids aren’t allowed to rap? And then some super-cool kid from the big city hits town and shows everyone how rapping’s not so bad— it’s just another form of self-expression and a really creative way to order a Big Mac. I’d watch it, would you?
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I can barely get drive thru employees to not botch my order when I speak slowly and clearly into that always-busted microphone. If these kids can actually rap clearly, they should get an extra prize in their happy meal.
Obviously calling the cops on them is WAY too much. These are not exactly criminal masterminds. I mean, after they commited their “crime” they decided to hide out in a high school volleyball game.
Seems appropriate that American Fork is located about a minute down the road from Lehi, Utah, where the original Footloose was filmed.
Ha! I live about 20 minutes away from American Fork, and am pretty amused by this story. It’s ridiculous that such an innoucuous thing would be taken so far.
The Footloose comparisons are particularly apt, considering that Footloose was actually filmed in and around the American Fork area.
She felt unsafe because they rapped their order?
Ahh the big city life in Utah.
I’m sure that those Utah gangs are super-scary. Rapping at the drive-through, attending volleyball games…what’s next? Holding group homework sessions?
OK, so the official statement is that the worker felt threatened by their behavior, not rapping their order. She says that they continued to rap after being told to leave, cursed, and disrupted business. They say that they were the only ones in the drive-through and deny cursing. Personally, I would have laughed at the rap, then told them that if they wanted their orders filled correctly they’d have to speak them.
This sounded absolutely ridiculous to me at first, but then I saw it was in Utah. Now it makes perfect sense.
No, I wouldn’t watch the movie, cuz I really don’t like rap. However, this story sounds like someone overreacted…a lot.
Footloose was actually mostly filmed about 20 minutes south of American Fork, in Payson, Utah. The high school is Payson High and most of the filming takes place in that town. However, the dance at the end is in Lehi.
ridiculous as if the cops even bothered to track them down to give them a citation i’m glad to see are tax dollars are being well spent. i’m sure they could have spent their time on something a lot more important
haha. this made my day. seriously they should say why the lady felt threatened instead of putting something like “oh it wasn’t because they rapped”. yeah right. if she doesn’t come out and say why, people will think it’s because they rapped. i’m glad one of the teens is fighting the charge because the commercial shouldn’t show someone rapping their order if it’s apparently not okay. but i don’t get what footloose has to do with it. is it because of ren trying to make dancing legal instead of a crime? maybe.
There is no room in today’s media soaked (“enriched”) society for childish pranks. With the level of paranoia we are at after the last regime and the lack of proper manners that a government run liberal society has imparted to our current and upcoming generation, we see the results splashed across our evening news and newspapers.
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I live in AF Utah and find it pretty amusing. We must maintain order. It first starts with rapping, then leads to threatening, then to assault. It is statistically proven that rapping leads to violence. These employees were simply protecting their rights and property, and making our quaint little city safe. Thank you for your courage McDonald’s employees. I personally would have locked down the restaurant and waited for the police to come. Such bravery on the part of the manager to walk outside. Did you see the picture of these teenage thugs? One even had his baseball cap on backwards. Frightening! There should be an award for such bravery!
Truthfully, I think the most condemning part of this story is that these young men were so bored in AF that they prepared a McD’s rap, delivered it, and then followed it up with a Vball game.
The citation was probably a great occurrence for them because at least it will give them a good story for the future and provided some excitement to the VBall game. Who watches VBall anyway? oh also… if you couldn’t read through my sarcasm, my previous comment about rapping leading to violence was a joke.
that is @#$%^& ridiculous