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We all know that we want to be nice and polite to the person who is serving your food in a restaurant, because you never know what he or she will do to your food behind closed doors to get back at you. I shudder at the thought. However, in Philadelphia, you might want to be nice to the fast-food worker behind the counter, or else you might walk away with a 3rd degree hot oil burn. Yikes.

A customer in the fast food chain Checkers in Philadelphia said her "skin was cooking" when a 17-year-old employee threw hot oil on her. The employee had first dumped soda on the customer, and while the customer complained to the manager, the employee returned with a cup of hot oil and threw it on her through the pick-up window.

The employee has been fired and charged with aggravated and simple assault and reckless endangerment.