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There weren't any butchers or bakers or candlestick makers bathing at the Burger King in Xenia, Ohio.

Just a 25-year-old aspiring musician who thought fans would get a kick out of watching him take a bath in the restaurant's kitchen sink.

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“This is August 7, this is my birthday and I’m taking a bath in the sink at Burger King,” the bathing employee, identified as Mr.UNST@BL3, aka Timothy Tackett, says in video footage that was posted online.


Tackett's employers, not to mention local sanitarians, weren't so happy with the four-minute clip. (FYI: The video includes some rough language.)

The Gazette says health officials learned about the "Burger King bather" early Monday morning.

"My first thought was oh my God," Mark McDonnell, the Greene County health commissioner, tells WDTN-TV. He sent inspectors to look for violations at the restaurant. "Any bacteria on his skin could have been deposited giving people food poisoning," McDonnell explains to WHIO-TV.

The fast-food chain fired everyone who appeared in the video.

"We have sanitized the sink and have disposed of all other kitchen tools and utensils that were used during the incident," Burger King spokeswoman Denise Wilson says in a statement to WDTN-TV. "We have also taken appropriate corrective action on the employees that were involved in this video."

Tackett tells WHIO-TV they spent more than an hour cleaning the sink. "It's not as nasty as it looks like," he tells WHIO-TV. "I would eat at the Xenia Burger King," he adds.