How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions

This is fascinating and looking forward to digging into this behemoth of an article over the next few days.

 

Haha very fun read. Wow, is the only word that comes to mind at the moment.

 

This has to turn in to a movie, right?

 

Yeah, I was 10 minutes into it last night when I realized it was a bit of a commitment. Looking forward to taking some time and reading the whole shebang.

 

“I’d say… ‘do we need an attorney or do I need to call the home office’” Jacobson suggested, ‘or do I need to call Burger King?’”

^^^my favorite part

 

I kept thinking “why don’t i remember this being in the news?” and then the article answers that question near the end. The trial began on Sept 10, 2001

 

Scarlett Johansson is gonna portray him.

 

I will def read this later. I always assumed people never won these things but a girl I went to school with won 30k in the Safeway monopoly game and ngl I'm bitter af lol

 

I’d heard stories about this in passing prior to reading the article. Mostly just that an employee (I previously thought of McDonald’s directly) had rigged the game and was doling out prizes to his friends. This article/the real story is much more bizarre and interesting. I was also wondering why I had never heard the full story or why all of this wasn’t more common knowledge and then... oomph. Makes sense. When someone makes a movie out of this, that will be a heck of a final punchline right before they roll the credits.

 

Ok I just lost it at this was a McSting

 

This is wild! I grew up in the area around the "golden triangle". What a story.

 

This story blew my mind.

Waiting for the Scorsese / Leo movie. Lol

 

Also in so hard for a movie. This was a wild ride.

 

The Founder 2: Electric Boogaloo

 

Fantastic story. Could not stop reading it this past weekend. I always had a feeling this game was rigged.

 

Wow

 

great read

 

"Joe Maggard, a disgraced Ronald McDonald actor who was convicted of making harassing phone calls while posing as the clown."

like, what

 

And that's it! We get no more information about that other than the one quote! hahahaha

 

there is a universe inside that one sentence.

 

This is amazing!

 

There’s a whole another article waiting to be written about that as well

 

Sooooooooo many lines in this story deserve their own investigation and article, like this,

“ Baker recalled that one of the FBI’s top agents, known as the “human lie-detector,” interrogated him, and added that if the FBI had focused on surveilling terrorists and not McDonald’s winners, 9/11 might never have happened.”

That’s a wild line