Fast Food Nation

More fallout from the Fort Myers, Fla., "McSting" operation. "We don't allow anybody even behind the counter," says Samir Homsi, owner of the McDonald's franchise that allowed an undercover cop to work the drive-thru window, Doggy-style. "Sometimes our assistants, they do crazy things and they think because police are involved everything is kosher." Not to go too easy on Fort Myers' finest, but it looks like the confusioin came from the franchise, not the cops, who apparently thought they had permission to operate on private property. Side note: The franchise owner's surname "Homsi" means a person from the town of Homs in Syria. In the popular Lebanese genre of dumb Syrian jokes, the butt of the joke is usually a person from Homs. Maybe it was inevitable that he'd get hoodwinked by his employees.