Talk about your public relations nightmare…
Just started my daily sweep through the Newseum when I spotted this and nearly fell out of my chair laughing.
It’s the page-one centerpiece story in today’s Long Beach Press-Telegram:
“What? ‘Greasy goo?‘ We have no ‘greasy goo’ around here!”
The grease storage tank at the McDonald’s in Long Beach backed up Friday, coating the parking lot in slippery grease. Oblivious to potential danger — and to potential environmental repercussions — pulled out hoses to push the grease out into the street.
The Press-Telegram’s Tracy Manzer reports:
Cars were swerving and people were slipping as they tried to dodge the rancid goo, but no one was injured, authorities at the site said Friday morning.
Long Beach Firefighters and Police were called to the restaurant, at 640 Long Beach Blvd., shortly after 9 a.m. and arrived to find the roughly 5 to 10 gallon spill had spread out across part of the parking lot and into the road, running south down to the intersection at Sixth Street.
The restaurant manager refused comment and directed reporters to corporate headquarters. Which, of course, didn’t comment either. Because it’s really too late, at 11 a.m. Friday morning, for the folks at McDonald’s headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill., to return calls.
That headline! Those hazmat suits! What a P.R. disaster!
Here’s a video from the Press-Telegram:
Here’s a look at the entire front:
Read the Press-Telegram’s story about the hazardous spill here.
July 19th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
HA HA HA HA!!
There’s our first ad: “Dear residents of Hamden, eat at Griff’s Chicken Shack and we vow not to fill the streets with rancid goo. … I’m Scott Griffin and I approved this message.”
July 21st, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Oh man, I hate McDonalds and that just makes it worse.