MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Another fast food restaurant has fallen victim to a hoax that left several windows smashed by an employee.

According to the CBS affiliate in Indianapolis, a Jack in the Box employee there received a telephone call from someone claiming to be a public safety official.

The "official" then told the employee on the other end of the line that there was a gas leak, and that the employee should take the fire extinguisher and break a window to let the gas out.

Only later did the employee realize that it had been a hoax.

Last Friday, a similar scam was perpetuated on a Burger King restaurant on Northdale Boulevard in Coon Rapids, Minnesota.

The caller in that case claimed to be with the fire department, and said that they were detecting "dangerous levels" of gas and, if the windows weren't broken, the restaurant would explode.

Similar pranks have also targeted restaurants across the country like Burger King, Wendy's and Jack in the Box in Arizona, California and Oklahoma.

The damage at the Oklahoma Burger King cost that restaurant about $10,000.

Police have advised employees that, if they get a call like this, they should walk out of the building and call 911. Coon Rapids Police say they would never tell businesses to damage their own property, and they should assume any calls like this are pranks.