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Beer Nazi
02-14-2003, 11:47 PM
9/11 Urban Legend Or Bud vs. Terrorists?

Copied from the Air Conditioning Contractors of America “Information Zone”
Volume 20 No. 02 February 2003

On September 11th, a Budweiser employee was making a delivery to a convenience store in a California town named McFarland. He knew of the tragedy that had occurred in New York when he entered the business to find two Arabs, who owned the business, whooping and hollering to show their approval and support of this treacherous attack. The Budweiser employee went to his truck, called his boss and told him of the very upsetting event.

He didn’t feel he could be in that store with those horrible people. His boss asked him, “Do you think you could go in there long enough to pull every Budweiser product and item our beverage company sells there? We’ll never deliver to them again.”

The employee walked in, proceeded to pull every single product his beverage company provided and left with an incredible grin on his face. He told never to bother to call for a delivery again. Budweiser happens to be the beer of choice for that community. Just letting you know how Kern County handled that situation.

And now the rest of he story: It seems that the Bud driver and the Pepsi man are neighbors. Bud called Pepsi and told him to pull all Pepsi products as well. That would include Frito Lay, etc. Furthermore, word spread and all vendors followed suite.

At last report, the store was closed indefinitely. God bless America!

mbritojr
02-15-2003, 07:33 PM
I dunno if that story is true, but I hope it is!

skar
02-18-2003, 09:25 PM
I for one hope the story isn't true. I hope no one in a small California town was cheering the attacks on 9/11.

The vast majority of Arab-Americans were as shocked and saddened by the events of 9/11 as the rest of us.

hnrblbrbrn
02-19-2003, 08:55 AM
I remember that story, but at work when I heard about the town was elsewhere.

JohnnyPebs
02-19-2003, 03:27 PM
Nope. It's an urban legend. Check it out here (http://www.snopes.com/rumors/bud.htm ). Snopes.com is great for debunking all sorts of urban legends.

Pebs

Glarus
02-20-2003, 02:58 AM
Indeed, this just reeks of patriotic/nationalistic BS.

Unfortunately, while this is untrue, what is true is that many Americans of Middle Eastern descent were terrorized and victimized here in the U.S after the attacks.

Beer Nazi
02-25-2003, 06:37 PM
Too true Glarus. Unfortunately many upstanding U.S. citizens of Middle Eastern descent were prayed upon by ignorant dipshits.

This story does seem to turn out to be urban legend.

I for one would hope that no U.S. citizen, Middle Eastern or otherwise would react like those in the story.

I would also be happy to believe that HAD the story been true, the result would have been the same.

beerbastard
03-03-2003, 04:51 PM
If this were true it would be theft. AB does not sell suds on consignment!