Red Baron pizza worker goes viral after an impassioned video confrontation

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA pretend ten-dollar theft at a Michigan Meijer just turned into a fundraiser over five hundred thousand dollars, TribLive reports, from about fourteen thousand five hundred donations.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA prankster pretends to take ten dollars from a man stocking frozen Red Baron pizzas, and he'd like us to call that a community engagement initiative.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFreeze it there. The prankster walks past, says he took twenty instead of ten, and I bet the worker's face is the turning point. That's the whole game right there.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOr the turning point is the prankster's generosity. He did all this for the exposure.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHe did not. CBS Detroit says the goal is now seven hundred thousand dollars.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFinal score: ten out of ten for the worker, zero for the stunt.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSeven hundred thousand off a fake ten. I assume his pitch deck says, quote, theft-free revenue growth.