Sonic manager stages robbery during lunch

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A manager at a Sonic in Missouri (no, not the person shown here) decided to "train" his staffers on how to handle a potentially violent situation by staging a mugging where an actor held a realistic toy gun to an employee's head. Thing is, he decided to do this at the height of the lunch hour, causing frantic customers to call police and report a hostage situation. Once the police arrived, they figured out what was happening, and "forcefully got the message across that's not expected behavior."

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