Posted on 05/18/2004 7:54:28 AM PDT by Samwise
I know Domino's has a policy that forbids employees from carrying guns while on the job, or having one in the vehicle. No doubt Pizza Hut has a similar policy.
Reminds me of a pizza robbery gone bad in the Pittsburgh Northside area some ten years ago. Two pizza delivery guys were working in pairs because it was such a bad (urban) stinkhole. They were robbed, one shot and killed, the other, bleeding, dragged himself down the street several blocks to the General Mail Facility (big postal processing plant that's open all night.) Security officers found him and helped save his life. This happened late at night, and they were still cleaning up the blood from the street the next morning.
I smell a lawsuit.
A lawsuit was filed by the family of the victim who tried to rob a pizza driver...
I know a guy who was fired from a mid priced chain restaurant for the same thing. Perp came in the backdoor at closing time and demanded the night's cash at gunpoint. My friend told him it was in the drawer, reached in for it and pulled out a pistol and shot the perp in the face. The bullet went in his mouth, took out some teeth and came out his cheek. He dropped the gun and they subdued him.
Cops all praised my friend for defending himself.
The Restaurant fired him the next day.
Well, as facts are still being sorted out, (and I don't know what the laws are there for carrying a weapon), what person is going to go through legal steps to carry a gun and then obtain a gun with SN filed off? A SN filed off often tells me it's liked to a crime...
In other news - "The people arriving to drop off weapons drive through a series of cones up to the Indianapolis Police Department officers, handing over the guns without ever leaving their cars. Around the other side they meet with HCGV volunteers, who provide them with $20, a coupon for Domino"s Pizza and educational information."
http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2002/10/02/one_gun_makes_a_difference.html
Indiana is fairly reasonable with their CCW permits, and I've seen "shady" cases go in favor of the lawful gun owner who shoots the perp. This case sounds a bit strange...He took the gun away, then fired 15 times?
Sounds like a hate crime to me. I have a guess as to race of shooter and shootee.
I was robbed in what was a total setup. The delivery address turned out to be a two story, 4 unit apt. building. The stairs to the top 2 apts. were in the middle of the building. Of course the apt. my delivery was to was on the second story. I knocked and no one answered, kncoked again and then I heard footsteps and and at the bottom of the stairs was a guy with a bandana masking his face pointing a shotgun at me. He told me to throw my wallet which had all the collections from previous pizza deliveries. I complied since I had no where to run(two locked apt.s on both sides and the robber blocking the entrance). After I complied the robber told me that he was going move from the entrance and that I should run. Which I did.
Luckily I had the keys to my car and the robber would have taken the car also. I ran. This neighborhood had seen some bad times but was being gentrified a bit since it's close proximity to downtown Columbus and the houses were mostly turn of century and were built well.
I started going door to door, knocking to see if I could use a phone(this was before mass cell phone availibilty) to call the police. Finally a house purchased by a newlywed couple answered. I told them what just happened and used the phone and the police were there in about 15 minutes.
Well the rest of the story is that I made my police report and, I quit being a pizza deliverer and about a month later they caught the guy when an undercover cop got the robber disguised as a Domino's deliveryman.
My opinion is that the pizza deliverer should be cut a break. It was the robber who started the crime and he got his just consequences, IMO.
I can't blame the delivery man for carrying...He was delivering at a less-than-ideal part of town.
The article implies that without stating it. But when was the last time the media distorted a story? The order in which the shooting and taking the gun is key to the story, but it just says "and" instead of "then".
We've found something we agree upon !
Try it sometime. You can empty even a revolver with a long heavy trigger real fast. If it is a semiauto with a light, short trigger, the perp won't even have time to hit the ground.
That said, most people who find themselves in this situation stand there pulling the trigger on an empty gun for several seconds before they realize it is all over. The adrenaline shock messes up your perception of time.
If the pizza were really hot, the old pie-in-the face routine would be funny.
Good point. Actually when I heard about this on the radio this morning, nothing was said about him taking the gun from the perp...Only that no charges were expected to be filed.
What happened to the pizza!?!
When was the last time your pizza arrived "really hot"?
stupid on pizza huts part. if they wanted to get rid of him they should transfer him to a different store every night. Because they are going to catch hell from us for saying " Yes you can deliver our pizzas for us but you can not defend yourself....." That little message is going to cost them Millions.
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