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Interesting police action All workers at a fast food restaurant in Pakistan were arrested on the weekend as they refused to give police officers for free burgers. Burger joint Johnny & Jugnu in the eastern city of Lahore said in a statement on Facebook that a group of police officers visited store late last week asking for free food, "which is a common practice for them." When their request was refused, the statement said: "the police officers threatened our managers and then left, only to return the next day to further harass and pressurize our teams on ground with baseless arguments." On Friday, all 19 staff members and managers at the restaurant were rounded up and held by police for almost seven hours overnight, the statement alleged. Restaurant staff were forced to leave their kitchen and customers unattended, "with our fryers still running," while police claimed they had refused to entertain a "request from a very high profile special guest,