October 23, 2009
It has been a tough month for restaurants in the Dakotas as they battle costly pranks. In Bismarck, ND, a KFC suffered $2,500 in damage after a prank caller convinced an assistant manager to set off the fire suppression system. The caller informed the manager that the system had been shut off by the central computer and warned that police and fire would be called unless the system was reset. The manager obediently pulled the pin on the system and the resulting mess caused the KFC to be closed until a proper clean up was made. A similar call was placed to a McDonald’s in Pierre, SD but the prank was not successful.
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May 4, 2009
It was a quiet morning at St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck, North Dakota-until Nicholas Krush drove his pickup truck through the emergency room admitting area. Krush, charged with driving under the influence of prescription pills, narrowly missed emergency room employee Julie Arnegard and the crash sent smoke and dust into the hospital. No injuries or deaths were reported and the emergency room resumed operations a short time after the crash.
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