Ninny alert!
And...ahem...I'm the ninny.
I wrote a review/recap of tonight's "Law & Order: SVU" starring Robin Williams -- and just to restate, said it was silly, overheated and about as plausible as me hitching a ride on a spaceship to Mars (or something along those lines.)
I was and am, by the way, absolutely correct in my assessment.
However, I also said, who would ever believe a story about someone calling a fast-food restaurant manager and then telling him to strip-search an employee -- and that the manager would then comply!?!? Robin Willliams stars as this wack-job who does just such a thing and is finally nabbed by that intrepid duo, Olivia Benson and Elliott Stabler. But Williams' Merritt Rook wins his case in court, and then...
I'm getting ahead of myself.
The fact of the matter: It did happen. There was such a case, and "SVU," per its wont, based tonight's episode (at least the strip search part) on it. (Thanks to intrepid readers, Dan Timmerman of Huntington and Mike Petrucelli of South Bend, Ind., for telling me.)
The fast-food case -- with some differences, but basically the general idea is the same -- was covered widely by some of the big TV mags, and here's a quick link to "20/20" to get you up to speed.
Sorry, "SVU."