Posted on 05/24/2015 6:29:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
One LA employee just couldn't take it anymore
A disgruntled Glendale In-N-Out employee went for a true double-double against his former boss earlier this week, disabling the man’s car by putting sugar in the gas tank and hiding out with a few loaded guns in what police are calling an armed ambush.
NBC Los Angeles has some on-the-scene details of the emerging incident, which took place around 2 a.m. Monday morning. The alleged attacker, Eric Bloss, was a recent UC Berkeley college graduate whose former roommate says had become disillusioned with his work flipping burgers, and believed that his manager at the Glendale In-N-Out was reprimanding him unfairly.
And with all that pressure to perform, what with the new competing Shake Shack coming soon, it seems the work environment became too much for Bloss. At some point, the 23-year old hatched the self-styled revenge plot against his former manager.
The "imminent" attack, as described by police, was foiled when a passerby spotted Bloss tampering with a car in the parking lot (this was the cartoonishly villainous Phase One: Sugar In The Gas Tank step). That witness tipped off the right people, and Bloss was found not long after (Phase Two: Hide With Guns) waiting for the In-N-Out manager to head for his car after a long shift. Thankfully, the entire plot fell apart before anyone was hurt.
NBC Los Angeles says the suspect Eric Bloss, an Eagle Rock native, is currently being held on $250,000 bail in an LA County jail, where it’s hard to imagine the food is as good as In-N-Out's.
I still prefer Wendy’s to an In-N-Out burger.
My 2010 Honda Fit doesn’t have a locking gas cap.
I knew that gas would not stop a car from starting but still I looked at snopes for more details. Ironically the professor they choose for their proof works at Berkeley.
**Sugar doesn’t dissolve in gasoline, as a researcher at Berkeley confirmed in 1994. Forensics professor John Thornton labeled sucrose with radioactive carbon atoms and mixed it with gasoline, then spun the concoction in a centrifuge. After the undissolved particles were removed, the liquid’s radiation level was measured to determine how much sucrose had become part of the gasoline.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/autos/grace/sugar.asp#bkao0b1kcivWlTRp.99
Geology? Then he’s nuts, just nuts. Guaranteed.
You had one job, one job.
>>UC Berkeley graduate, flipping burgers.
>>Was his major “Ethnic studies” or _______?
Geology. https://cal.berkeley.edu/ericbloss
Actually, he is a geologist. However:
"He's had his degree for a year and he feels like college is a scam because he still hasn't found his career," Frisch said.
No surprise, with his attitude. Who'd want to hire a loose cannon for field work?
understood, indeed. (but not being able to handle a job is still a serious problem for anybody... and many of our schools nowadays just don’t prepare students for the job market...and I don’t mean just specialized skills I mean basic working/interpersonal/coping and responsibility skills common to almost all employment).
but anyway, I was just tossing that line in for discussion, I have no knowledge about the subject individual or what his problem(s) actually may be
thanks
Mmmm ... In-N-Out! I haven’t had dinner yet and there is one just down the road a piece.
In N Out Burger is to die for?
Oh the pressure, the pressure! So much pressure!
Sheesh!
You’d think that a news story from a respectable journalistic outlet such as LA Eater would have provided more details.
You know, what tools did he use to tamper with the car (a burger-flipping spatula?), what caliber was his firearm, what brand of sugar and how much was used, did he pour it from a box, a bag, or a bunch of tiny packets that he took from the restaurant, what was the make, model, year, and color of the boss’s car, was it actually disabled or not, etc.
Inquiring minds want to know, and all that...
Why? The work too challenging for a Berkeley grad?
Eater just repeats what it got from the Glendale PD public information officer. No journalistic investigation needed.
http://www.glendaleca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1277/16?backlist=%2F
Apparently he’d gone as far in life as his UC Berkeley degree was going to take him. Nothing left to do but “stick it to the man,” as his profs encouraged him daily for the entire eight years it took to earn his degree in African and Tranny Studies.
Wow, he’s got the eyes of a, I don’t know, serial-killer, or serial-burger-fipping geologist, or something...
Two things actually three things come to mind, if you don't want to be a college grad flippin hamburgers, you might want to do two things.
One pick a better school.
two pick a major that business folks are looking to hire.
Oh ya and number three, last but not least, work hard, party less, and get good grades.
I had always thought “take out” had a meaning unrelated to attempted murder when used in the fast food sense.
Go Bears
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