Crime & Safety

Pranksters Apply New Twist to 'Coning'

Subjects took "coning," the so-called prank of purchasing an ice cream cone in a fast food drive-thru and grabbing the cone from the restaurant employee by the ice cream instead of the cone, to a new level.

An employee at , 5040 S. 76th Street, reported a tan van with several subjects drove through the restaurant’s drive-thru backwards and “coned” the employee at 10:40 p.m. May 12, according to the Greenfield Police Department incident log.

“Coning”, , is the act of purchasing an ice cream cone in a fast food drive-thru and grabbing the cone from the restaurant employee by the ice cream instead of the cone.

The act of driving backwards through the drive-thru is apparently another twist to the popular prank.

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Back in August 2011, employees at , 4550 S. 108th Street, experienced a number of incidents involving at employees or the restaurant.


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