BY BOB MIMS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

For a Roosevelt teenager, it started out as a banner day. It was her 18th birthday, the first hour of the first day on her first job.

Then, she says, came a bogus accusation of theft and a subsequent two-hour nightmare. Her U.S. District Court lawsuit claims the teen was strip-searched, forced into prurient poses and ordered to jog in place, naked, in front of two managers at the eastern Utah town's McDonald's Restaurant.

"It is amazing, it is outrageous. It is hard to believe this happened, but it is a real case," the woman's Salt Lake City attorney, Robert H. Wilde, said Thursday.

The suit contends the woman's ordeal began when someone, identifying himself as a McDonald's district manager, called the Roosevelt restaurant to report a little girl's coin purse had been stolen and the plaintiff was a suspect.

During the next two hours, two managers on duty at the time -- one male, one female -- purportedly followed the caller's instructions to at first "pat search" the woman, then search her car and then strip-search her.

The suit contends that while the strip-search was conducted in an office, the space was open to the sight of other employees and even to people passing by the restaurant's drive-up window.

The coin purse was never found, and the caller was later determined to have been perpetrating a hoax -- one allegedly similar to calls to other McDonald's restaurants prompting managers to search female employees,
the suit states.

The woman, humiliated, quit her job immediately after the incident, Wilde said.

"This wacko [the caller] is still out there somewhere," he said. "It's not like the industry is not aware of this kind of thing."
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---> Earlier post: Teen sues Burger King because of strip search

ELLE France has a strange and virulent article this week against the last videoclip from Death In Vegas, "Hands Around My Throat".

Starring model-actress Emmanuelle Seigner, the wife of director Roman Polanski, the clip shows a young woman fantasizing that she picks up a gigolo lover in a seeedy area of Paris (under the peripherique bridge of Bercy, in the 12th), then have him strangling her a bit till she comes.

Thought the strangulation act is off camera - in fact, the most erotic scenes are the scene of Seigner caressing herself in her bourgeois living room when thinking about it - ELLE claims a lot of sexual accidental deaths has taken place since MTV Europe has began showing the clip late at night. According to Elle, Paris youth is now heavily into stragulation practice.

Now, I live in Paris, I'm surrounded by parisian teenagers and although they talk about sex a lot, I've never heard of any strangulation wave. Sounds to me as a hobby for older folks. I also read a lot of newspapers, probably more than ELLE's news editor, and I haven't read about any accidental death of this kind since the clip was first aired, September 9.

So could it be the sudden interest of ELLE in strangulation practices condemnation is in fact connected to the publication in Vogue France, ELLE's arch-rival, of a wonderful portfolio by Mario Testino & Carine Roitfeld starring - you guessed it - Emmanuelle Seigner?

No scans of the ed yet (Seigner is photographed sweating in a very sexy way in a parisian gym), but the clip, directed by Richard Fearless, is online at continorooms.com (click on "Film Festival" after the opening sequence).