Taking a Zamboni to BK Gets You Fired

A Zamboni only goes about 5 miles per hour. That is with the pedal to the metal. And if you take it off-rink and to the local BurgerKing for a Flame-Broiled Whopper? Yeah, you get the pink slip.

From the AP here:

BOISE, Idaho – Two employees of the city’s ice skating rink have been fired for making a midnight fast-food run in a pair of Zambonis. An anonymous tipster reported seeing the two big ice-resurfacing machines chug through a Burger King drive-through and return to the rink around 12:30 a.m. on Nov. 10. The squat, rubber-tired vehicles, which have a top speed of about 5 mph, drove 1 1/2 miles in all.

The Zamboni operators, both temporary city employees whose names and ages were not released by Parks and Recreation Department, had to negotiate at least one intersection with a traffic light on their late-night creep from Idaho Ice World.

“They were fired immediately,” said Parks Department Director Jim Hall.