WEBVTT - How to ruin a holiday party 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.000 I've never been invited to a energy and it's not 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:05.439 for lack of try. 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.680 Gamsay media charge lash. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.360 Rory. Have you ever overdone it at a holiday party? 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.040 I mean too many Dixie cups of glog? 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.000 I mean I feel like I've probably overdone it at 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.479 any party. It doesn't have to be holiday themed nor related. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.840 But uh, yeah, for sure, I've definitely gone a little 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:38.640 too deep if we're talking about the sauce. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.199 Has anyone ever made you uncomfortable, like by grabbing you 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:42.960 under the mistletoe? No? 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.519 No, people avoid me because I've by then, I've already 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:48.720 by then I've gone a little too big, so they 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:49.199 avoid me. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.000 There's just something about company Christmas parties that makes people 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.320 go loco. Entire Reddit threads are dedicated to party nightmares, 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.840 and today we have two stories of people who partied 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:03.920 so had the police, and in one case, the Chinese 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.480 government had to swoop in. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:07.959 What oh, I already love this. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:20.679 Let's get festive but safely after the break. Hello, and 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.959 welcome back to crime lest the podcast that celebrates the 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:28.360 amazing creativity of the world's dumbest criminals and sometimes serves 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.000 as an arbiter for proper behavior. At company functions. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.200 I'm Joshine and I am Rory Scofel, here to celebrate 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.640 these numb skull idiots with you. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.080 It's holiday season, Rory. Can you feel it in the air. 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.319 I do actually feel it in the year, but it's 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.720 hard to interpret because holiday season starts in like late 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.960 September now, so you don't There will be a time 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.400 before you and I leave this earth, Josh where Christmas 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:58.880 does become year round. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.440 It is true. It's like Halloween starts in the middle 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.080 of summer, and as soon as they put away the 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:07.840 candy that Christmas trees come out right. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:12.959 Thanksgiving is really becoming an afterthought wedged between two major 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.120 money makers. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:15.520 Attending any holiday parties you. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.840 Think, I hope so, I hope I get the invite. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.480 I would hate to find out that I'm a little 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:27.080 too much again, I'd hate to get confirmation that I 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.200 am indeed too much. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.680 Well, I'd like to consider today's stories as cautionary tales 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.840 about what happens when you do overdo it at a 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:34.680 holiday functions. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:35.840 Yes, lest you. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.840 Ruin Christmas or worse, get hr the police or possibly 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.840 the Chinese government involved. So let's start with an important 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.400 question that may seem a little bit random. What's your 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:47.800 go to Taco Bell order? Great question. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.800 Haven't been at Taco Bell in a super long time, 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:56.440 but I think I always did the the crunchy gordita. Yeah, 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.480 I think that's what I did. Yeah. Can I I 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.040 know this is sidestepping where you're trying to go right now, 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.520 but can I just say everything at Taco Bell, while 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:10.600 we all know is not great for you, is very delicious. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.120 And I've always wondered why Mexican restaurants don't pick a 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.000 couple things off the Taco Bell menu that are clearly 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:22.520 not even authentically Mexican and just make the fresh version 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.840 of that. I feel like that would crush. That's all 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.320 I want to say. That's my pitch to the Sharks. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:27.960 There you go. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.400 I completely agree. Well, I asked you that because that's 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.000 the scene of the crime for our first story of 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:35.520 holiday party is gone awry. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.040 Nice setting. Here we go. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:41.320 In twenty twenty two, a woman named Alana Betiam was 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.640 working as a cashier at a Taco Bell in San Pedro, California, 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.200 which is near Long Beach, Okay. She'd work there less 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.040 than a year, and she was invited to the location's 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.640 holiday party. I mean, the first holiday party at your 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.120 new workplace is an important milestone professionally. I think helps 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.840 build camaraderie with your co workers during a stressful time 0:03:57.840 --> 0:03:59.520 of year and shows you can hang right. 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:01.400 Just want to double check. So you're talking about a 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.360 holiday party at with the Taco bell crew. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:05.400 Yep, that is correct. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.119 I honest, I feel like a jerk for not even 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.600 realizing that all places of employment would probably have a 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:11.400 holiday party. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:12.520 Right. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.360 Well's fair, you might feel so corporate. 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.080 Oh it's a chain restaurant, right, Like how they're not 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:18.680 good because it's open twenty four hours? 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.919 Right, twenty four hours? When do they have time to party? 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:26.040 I guess holiday parties just feel so like white collar corporate. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.640 But you know what, You're right, Josh, You're right. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.599 Well, Alana was about to find out that she indeed 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.520 could not hang. Oh, so her manager, a woman named 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.040 Lydia Rouiz and I'd name her because she later shows 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.760 up in court documents, invites the whole staff to this 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.040 party to truly live mos and encourage everyone to bring 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:48.920 food for a pot luck buffet. You have no idea 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:50.599 where this is going, so you're in for a real treat. 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.840 I just like that, you said, live Moss, So like man, 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.480 he's applying it. He really does love tacout. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.560 Alana believed it was a corporate approved event, seeing that 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.760 they were using the actual restaurant as the venue, and 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.720 she invited her sister and her sister's partner. So on 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.600 December eighteenth, Lana and her guests arrive at Taco Bell. 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.920 She brings guacamoli for the potluck classic. I'm assuming they 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:12.239 had plenty of chips on hand. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.120 You think you would assume that? 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.280 Yeah, And just side note, I don't know that I 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.160 would bring Mexican food to the Taco Bell Christmas party. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.080 I might go a little bit crazy and bring I 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:24.799 don't know, Italian. 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.600 Food, maybe a pizza. I was thinking Italian too. I'd big, 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.360 I bring like a Pepperoni pizza. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:33.279 So this is our scene, Alana, her sister, her sister's partner, 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.240 and a big old bowl of guac rolling up to 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.680 Taco Bell for a party that's about to give a 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.440 whole new meaning to the current corporate slogan. Do you 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.160 know what that is? No think outside the buns? 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:45.920 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:53.039 Okay, So first, this was great the suspense, Josh. The 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.600 first thing they noticed is that the windows are all 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.960 covered in wrapping paper, which, okay, not that weird. It's 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.320 a Christmas party. Let's just wrap the whole restaurant. But 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.320 when they get inside, Alana notices that the security cameras 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.440 are also wrapped in wrapping papers. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:05.839 Smart. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:07.919 I guess that is pretty I mean, even if nothing 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:09.920 untoward is going to happen, that's smart. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:10.080 Right. 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:11.400 You don't want someone to get an HRVI. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.320 You do know any big brother watching you? Not at 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:14.680 a Christmas party? Come on? 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.840 According to court documents, yes, that's where this is going. 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.440 Lydia provided the booth for the party. She sounds like 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.440 a good manager. She just wants everyone to have a 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:23.239 baja blast. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.279 I'm team Lydia. So far, so far, so far, so good. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.120 Right. Yeah, So Alana spends most of the party socializing 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.000 with their coworkers outside the restaurant. This being California, the 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.400 nights are mild, there's plenty of space in the parking lot. 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.520 Can I interrupt with a question? H yeah, of course 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.760 you do. You already know how many people are at 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.760 this party? And if not, what are you picturing? But 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.480 maybe you do already know, I actually. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.120 Don't know the number, and I feel like a bad 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:50.479 journalist for not doing. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.760 No, I don't maybe it's not even given. But for 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.600 some reason, I'm finding funny. It funnier in my head 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.720 because I'm picturing that it's like seven people. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.760 Yeah, right, because how many people are working at a 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.440 taco belt and given time, it's like three. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.880 Right, I don't know what a staff would be, but 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.640 I'm definitely way under and I'm even and I mean guests, 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.440 I mean outsiders have been brought in. 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.120 Yeah, I'm with you. I'm picturing, yeah, you know, you 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.040 got a couple, yeah, on the high side, right, because 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.360 you think twenty two three shifts, they each have two 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.280 or three people three shifts. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.800 And also everyone brought one to two people. All right. 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.440 Well, I don't know the number, but I think i'm 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.920 guessing it's not We're not talking hundreds of people that 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:35.160 would be a taco bell. So she's hanging out in 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.600 the parking lot. Around midnight, she decides to pop back 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.800 inside see how things are going, and this is when 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.640 things take a turn rory. Yes, because when she opened 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.400 the door, she did not see her fellow employees giggling 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:50.040 over the glock bowle. She saw her coworker Jonathan having 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.760 sex with his wife in front of everyone. Huh, and 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.360 his wife was kissing Taco Belt manager Lydia, as well 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:01.720 as another coworker named Adriana. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, so 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.960 lapping paper on the security cameras makes more sense now, right, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.920 I mean yeah, yes, Already wondering like, so did people 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.000 know in advance? This is where it was headed? Like, 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.080 didn't feel like they needed to tell Alana? 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.840 I have so many like why, yeah, literally, what you 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.240 just said? If you know that's gonna be the theme 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:27.160 of the party, do you you don't double check with everyone? Hey? 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:27.880 You cool with this? 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.280 Just bring some bring something for the poplock roar. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:36.040 Also also, so far what you've said about the sexual 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:41.360 interaction wildly legal. Yes, no need to do this, and 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.760 Taco Bell no need to So after what I'm assuming with. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.720 Some very uncomfortable eye contact, Alana runs outside. She has 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.280 quote shocked, disgusted, and outraged, according to court documents, which 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.240 is ironic because that's how I felt when they took 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:55.480 Mexican pizza off the menu. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.560 Yeah. I used to get Mexican pizza and every single 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.199 time was disappointed because I thought, I don't know. I 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.840 guess I just wanted more of a pizza type vibe 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:06.160 to it. 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.559 Yep. Well, Alana's outside, she shocked, she's disgusted. A short 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.600 time later, Jonathan emerges after making sweet love to his 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.199 wife and the boss and his coworker. Yeah, which made 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.200 Alana think it was safe to go back inside and 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:19.800 rescue her guacamole bul. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.160 Oh god, Oh she cares about the guak bowl. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.440 Yeah, I might have left it at this stage. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.800 Hey what a Yeah, I don't think I'm sticking around. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:29.800 I don't think I want that back. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.959 Yeah, exactly. Well wait till you hear our next twist rory. 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:35.880 So what do you think she walked in on this time? 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:40.080 I mean, I feel like sex is still it's sex 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:44.240 or drugs. I think it's still sex. I think just 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:49.200 because Jonathan is tapped out doesn't mean everybody's ready to leave. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.960 Well, Alana, when she goes back in, she spots her 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.440 manager and Adriana, But now they're not having sex. They're barfing. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.680 One is bent over a trash can and the other 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.800 was puking into the guacamole bowl. Okay, yeah, so they 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.480 maybe got a little bit out of hand. They drank 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.000 too much, the sex maybe got a little vigorous, and 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.000 they got the spins. I'm not sure what happened. Ye, 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:11.840 we're now barfing. 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.319 Well, Jonathan needed some are too, he understood what was 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:14.760 going on. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.760 Luckily, Alanna's able to de escalate the situation, probably by 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.200 running away, which is what I would have done. Yeah, 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.200 and honestly probably what I would have done the first 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.200 time I walked in and realized my company party was 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:24.920 a weird orgy. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.559 Yeah, I if I walked in and saw it was 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.520 a weird orgy, I think I'm probably grabbing the guac 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.880 bul right then, you know what I mean, Like, let's 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.440 get the guak bul home safe. 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.520 And your sister and her partner like, so are Yeah? 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.640 Where were they? Were? They just in there like y'all 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.200 have weird parties. Your company's crazy? 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.679 I mean the sister's partner. Yeah, I must have been like. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.600 Uh, what is what we wish? 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:53.800 You? 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.520 And Mary christ It just constantly trying to get caroling 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.240 going while the sex is happening. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.000 So you may be wondering at this point, Josh, this 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.880 story is gross and uncomfortable, but the show is called crimeless, 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.920 and I'm still not sure any crimes have been committed. 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:14.480 Yeah, I don't think so. Well, I don't know on 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.640 company grounds, but I don't know. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.640 Hang in there, buddy, because two days after the party, 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.960 Alana files a complaint with the HR department. I can 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.800 only imagine the HR manager's reaction when this email comes in. Yeah, 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.400 and tako about corporate Yeah, I wonder what happened at 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:29.760 the San Pedro party. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.760 Oh well, let's just check the cameras. Well, there's them 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.680 wrapping them, so we can't see anything, all right, Okay, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.880 so that's sign one something happened. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.400 Probably just someone getting a little handsy. Let's see, oh dear. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.440 Yeah, yeah, well I guess they wouldn't have any footage, right, 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:47.800 they would have their own idea. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:48.600 It's all hearsay. 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:49.520 Yeah, it's all hearsay. 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.720 So an investigation into the incident was launched. Lydia, Adriana, 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.480 and Jonathan were all subsequently fired, which feels I think appropriate. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:01.240 But on December twenty second, Alana starts getting threats from 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:06.400 her coworkers. One text reads you've been running your mouth 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.400 for the longest, so run them hands, bitch, which I 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.199 don't totally understand. If I'm being honest, but it's a 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:12.240 little menacing. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.160 So run them hands. Huh. 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:15.840 It's a mystery. 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.079 I don't know. I don't know what that means. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.679 Another coworker called her names like a hoe and a slut, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.079 which feels ironic. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:25.160 She was not, actually, there's a little bit of hypocrisy 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:25.640 in there. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:30.240 Exactly, and threatened her family members. Someone even smashed her 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.360 car window in Okay. So, okay, now we have crimes 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.720 yep against property. I believe these are threats. Alana files 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.200 a police report about the broken window, reports the threats 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.040 to Taco Bell management, but instead of punishing the employees 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:44.800 who have been threatening her, they transferred her to a 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:45.320 new location. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.920 Oh very Catholic church of them got it so. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.960 On Christmas Eve twenty twenty two, Alana, who just wanted 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.959 her new coworkers to like her guacamole, quit her job, 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.440 citing significant stress and anxiety from a hostile work environment. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.800 About a year later, she filed a wrongful termination lawsuit 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.559 against the company that owned that location. In her complaint, 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.479 she alleged that she has suffered actual, consequential and incidental 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.800 financial losses and that her quote constructive termination violated anti 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.080 discrimination laws. I guess that means because they moved her 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:16.359 to a new location instead. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.360 Of yes, I like this, I like what. I like 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.439 the justice that's being sought after. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:25.760 But Taco about corporate issues a particularly mild statement about this. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.840 It said, while we don't own or manage this location, 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.360 the franchisee who owns and operates the restaurant has shared 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.199 that they take these claims very seriously, so lawyered. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:35.800 Huh. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.679 After a few years in the court system, the case 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.920 is dismissed at Alana's request. My guess is she just 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.040 ready to move on with her life, Yeah, because these 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.760 things can take a long time in court. Or maybe 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.199 by then she'd reconsider her views on party threesomes. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.480 Yeah, and now she's like, you know what, why didn't 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:50.160 I jump in? 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.040 Yeah? Once? 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.800 Why didn't I see what's going on closer? 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.520 I'm also happy to report that, at least according to 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.079 a Google review posted six months ago, that lady of 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.720 the manager's back managing at that Taco bell Yes. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:04.240 Yes, and how do I know that? 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.520 Because some dude named Frank gave her customer service one star, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.760 claiming that she has sideburns tattooed on her face and 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.400 that she lets kids smoke inside the restaurant. 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.880 Maybe this is a fun taco but maybe maybe I'm 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.840 back to team Lydia. Is that what it was? 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.360 What was the team Lydia? 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.359 Maybe I'm back to team Lydia. I mean tattooed sideburns, 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.560 get out of my face. That's great. I like this. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.080 It's not just people smoke. She lets kids smoking. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.280 She's like, hey, guys, have fun. This is Taco Bell 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:44.440 Live moth. Are we thinking outside the bun yet? King's 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:45.520 not gonna let you do this. 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.320 Oh Frank, if he's Taco Bell Walls could talk. 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.360 Yeah, imagine what Frank is experiencing when he's like, what, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:56.960 what the fuck is just seeing kids smoking? What the 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:57.800 fuck is this? 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.240 But he looks up that location, it's like, oh dear, and. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.920 Lydia's like, what can I get you? What do you want? 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.440 We have sex club here on Thursdays and definitely Christmas. 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.360 We've got a special on seven Lighter Brutos and sex 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.359 Night on Thursday. Yeah. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:17.800 I think like she should go back at Christmas and 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.360 just be like, do they still have these parties? Just 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.000 like walk in like I knew it. You guys are 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:24.600 back to the same fucking thing. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:26.640 Yeah, I mean I bet the next time you see 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.680 a Taco Bell with the windows covered in rapping paper, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:29.280 you're gonna stop. 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.560 You're gonna know, You're gonna know. That's the sign I've 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.720 I was on a show called Physical and we filmed 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.400 near this Taco Bell in San Pedro. Oh really, that's right? 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:39.080 Did you eat there? 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.480 So I'm I'm well aware of these locations, and uh 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.560 now I know that I was never invited to, uh partake. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:47.560 I'm not gonna ask you if you've ever been invited 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:48.240 to an orgy. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.360 I've never been invited to an orgy. You don't even 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:51.800 have to. I'll just divulge that. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.440 Yeah, you're still young man, plenty of time. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.080 Hey, And it's not for lack of try. I have 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.560 made it very clear I want to be in and 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:01.360 no one cares. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.440 After the break, a different story about a holiday party 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.760 gone awry, featuring a Phillies fan who had won too 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:19.000 many cocktails and sparked an international incident. Yes, hello, and 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.920 welcome back to Crime List, the only podcast brave enough 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.200 to tell the truth about holiday parties. That's right, Rory, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.360 now that you've heard the truth. A story about a 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.520 Taco Bell party that turned into an orgy. You may 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.160 be thinking things couldn't possibly get worse for America's holiday gatherings. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.280 God, I hope so, I hope it gets worse. 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.000 Yeah, because for at least one guy in Delaware, it's 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:42.440 definitely not true. Probably a lot of guys in Delaware, 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.200 and we just know about this one guy. Allow me 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.160 to introduce you to Michael Rohana, a then twenty four 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.960 year old shoe salesman from Bear, Delaware, who drove into 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.920 Philly in December of twenty seventeen to attend an ugly 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.000 sweater party at the famous Franklin Institute Museum. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:16:59.560 Okay, ever been there? I have? 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.920 Not great museum Okay. In fact, it's one of America's 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.280 most acclaimed science museums, named for that og Philly legend, 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.160 Ben Franklin. Benjamin got it. Perhaps you've heard of him, 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.040 Benny boy A Benny boy Yep. But on this night 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.879 in twenty seventeen, the museum is hosting a science after 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.639 hours holiday party that Michael and his pals decide to 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.359 hit up. So I guess it's open to the public. 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.920 You probably pay ten bucks to show up party in 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:24.520 the museum? 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:24.720 Cool? 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:26.920 Yeah, it seems fun. I would do that me too. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.320 I don't know if they pregamed or just had too 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.960 many cups of the spiked punch, But around nine pm 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.600 Michael makes one of the most consequential bad decisions of 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:36.320 his young life. 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:41.719 Nine pm is so on the early side, but that 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.840 is not the hour that something like this happens. 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.240 Okay, drove out from Delaware Hot Look into party. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.639 He drank on the way. He had him drinks on 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:49.960 the way. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:51.840 They tailgated outside the Franklin too. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:52.800 That's exactly right. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.200 Michael slips off and ducks under a rope that divides 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.520 the section of the museum open for the party from 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.840 its closed exhibits. And where does he end up? In 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.640 the middle of an exhibit of ten almost priceless terracotta 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.000 warriors from the legendary collection of eight thousand clay soldiers 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.479 buried by China's first emperor and discovered back in nineteen 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:12.040 seventy four. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.560 Oh, okay, I was wondering how we were gonna tie 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.720 these worlds together, and here we go. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.880 Do you know these warriors? I do, Yeah, that's pretty cool. 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.080 Apparently some peasants were digging a well and chang Xi 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.600 Province and just stumbled upon them. They're all like literally 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:28.080 built to be buried with his emperor. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.479 Yeah, can you imagine stumbling into that and being like, 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:32.920 what the fuck? 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:33.359 That? 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.040 Would you never you would never be able to lose 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.320 that initial reaction to oh my god, what is this? 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.760 From like part of one to a whole one to 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.480 eight thousand of them been going there unending serious swagg 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.680 that emperor had had that commission to be buried with 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.280 him when he died. He's like, I need eight thousand 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.480 warriors to be sculpted from clay. 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.639