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'Is This Hamburger Harmful?': Burger King Warns Against 911 Calls for Food Emergencies

The brand pokes fun at people making emergency calls with absurd complaints

'Is This Hamburger Harmful?': Burger King Warns Against 911 Calls For Food Emergencies — Receiving the wrong burger order shouldn't prompt a 911 call, the brand says.Burger King, David Buenos Aires

By Brittaney Kiefer

May 23, 2022

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Absurd 911 calls are regular fodder for online jokes or clickbait articles. A Google search brings up real, ridiculous situations that prompted emergency calls, such as, “a man called saying someone had vandalized his snowman” or “a stolen TV remote.”

Brittaney Kiefer

Brittaney is Adweek's European creativity editor.

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