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# Yes Men Spoof NYPD, McDonald’s with Stop-and-Frisk Video
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/yes-men-spoof-nypd-mcdonalds-with-stop-and-frisk-video/
- Published: 2012-03-06T21:52:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:19:18.000Z
- Description: Activists/artivists/culture jammers The Yes Men released an ingenious new parody this morning called “Three Strikes, You’re In!”
- Author: Jillian Steinhauer
- Tags: Opinion, McDonald's, NYPD, Yes Men, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

Activists/artivists/culture jammers The Yes Men released an ingenious new parody this morning. Called “Three Strikes, You’re In!” the spoof campaign announces a partnership between the NYPD and McDonald’s meant to reward law-abiding New Yorkers who put up with the police department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which, according to [recently released data](http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E6DC1F3CF936A25751C0A9649D8B63&scp=5&sq=%22stop+and+frisk%22&st=nyt&ref=hyperallergic.com), targeted a record 684,330 people in 2011, 87 percent of them black or Latino.

The deal? Anyone who gets stopped and frisked three times without incident can receive a FREE HAPPY MEAL!!! All you have to do is fill out a voucher with the officer’s badge number, as well as the date and location, of each stop and frisk. (I’m sure the officers would be very obliging.)

“Surprisingly, a large number of New Yorkers who were stopped and frisked turned out to be innocent,” says a faux McDonald’s spokesman in the hilarious video announcing the campaign.

Meanwhile, a real McDonald’s representative denied the existence of the program to [Colorlines.org](http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/03/three%5Fstrikes%5Fyoure%5Fin%5Fparody%5Fcampaign%5Fgives%5Fnypd%5Fstop-n-frisk%5Fvictims%5Fa%5Fhappy%5Fmeal.html?ref=hyperallergic.com). “Three Strikes, You’re In!” launched this morning with a complete [website](http://threestrikesyourein.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) where visitors could read about the campaign and obtain vouchers, but sadly, it’s already been taken down.

*Editor’s note: The video we originally posted was* [*deleted*](http://vimeo.com/35961733?ref=hyperallergic.com) *from Vimeo at 5:50pm EST today, but we discovered the same video on Daily Motion and posted that above.*