Taco Hell

(via Donna McGregor) Teaching kids about the importance of following the rules:

Seven security guards were dispatched to deal with an 11-year-old girl who had snapped a photo of a Taco Bell inside the food court of an Indiana shopping mall Friday night, insisting that she delete the photo.

But the girl, who was in tears because she thought she was going to jail, had already deleted the photo after the Taco Bell manager had threatened to sue her.

All she wanted was a photo to post on Facebook or Instagram or text to her friends or to do whatever an 11-year-old girl who is a big fan of Taco Bell would do with a photo that probably didn’t look any different from any other photo of any other Taco Bell in any other food court in any other state.

This is about as cookie-cutter as it gets.

When Nikki Massey, the girl’s mother, confronted the manager, she was told the following:

“No one is allowed to take picture. What they did is in violation of copyright. Taco Bell can and will sue you for taking a picture.”