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Pizza Hut Delivery Man Demoted After Defending Himself Against Attackers
Freedom Outpost ^ | December 29, 2012 | Tim Brown

Posted on 12/29/2012 4:56:15 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Sam Swicegood, a Pizza Hut delivery man in Maryland fought off a group of attackers as he was attempting to deliver pizzas, and what happens? Pizza Hut gave him a demotion.

According to Swicegood, he was sucker punched, which caused his glasses to “fly off.” He then dropped the pizzas he was carrying and began to swing a small piece of a tent pole he had at his attackers, while covering his face. “It’s a little fiberglass road I had up my sleeve not thinking I would actually have to use it but more or less having a little comfort up my sleeve,” recalled Sam.

Swicegood faced five attackers and said those odds “is just not a good situation to be in.”

He said, “I thought I was about to die.”

The attackers fled without his money or his pizzas. However, Fox News Insider says that Pizza Hut cut his hours and his pay for violating their “no weapons policy.”

The local Fox affiliate in Baltimore reported, “During the days that followed Pizza Hut made Sam a cook, slashing his hours and salary. Sam had violated Pizza Hut’s weapon policy which states that a driver cannot be armed.”

Swicegood is college student simply trying to make ends meet delivering pizzas. He said, “I was making about 11 or 12 dollars in tips,” which helped pay for college.

Sam said,

“I’m not saying we should arm all delivery drivers, but I’m saying that punishing delivery drivers for defending themselves as they’re being attacked is unjust.”

It is unjust.

In November, one of Sam’s co-workers was held at gunpoint and robbed in the same area that Swicegood was attacked. So far 3 of the 5 individuals that attacked Swicegood have been arrest. They are all juveniles.

Not that I’m a fan of Pizza Hut, but I’ll take my business elsewhere when I’m purchasing pizzas from now on until they make this right. After all, Sam and people like him are performing a job for them and in these cases they are doing it by putting their lives on the line, literally. This is just one more area where if the company wants to exercise the right to disarm their employees they should be able to also be sued if the employee is attacked for the company’s failure to provide adequate protection. Otherwise, allow people to exercise their Second Amendment rights.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; baltimore; demotion; glenburnie; pc; pizzahut; rkba; samswicegood; selfdefense
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1 posted on 12/29/2012 4:56:20 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; cindy-true-supporter; ...

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


2 posted on 12/29/2012 4:57:18 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Merry Christmas!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

In America, and especially liberal MD, “no good deed goes unpunished,” and now so does self-defense.


3 posted on 12/29/2012 5:00:31 PM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How do you get demoted from pizza delivery? What the h311 is below that?


4 posted on 12/29/2012 5:00:57 PM PST by crosshairs (They are only assault weapons in the hands of tyrannical governments and criminals. Ban both.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

WARNING PIZZA HUT driver wannabes.

Drive for a company that values YOUR life!


5 posted on 12/29/2012 5:01:59 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer. FREEDOM OR FREE STUFF- YOU GET ONE CHOICE, CHOOSE WISELY)
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To: crosshairs

Pizza eater.....


6 posted on 12/29/2012 5:02:22 PM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: crosshairs

my question also


7 posted on 12/29/2012 5:03:53 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (the mature Christian is almost impossible to offend)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Yeah, but he got the greatest promotion of all...to continued living.


8 posted on 12/29/2012 5:04:00 PM PST by moovova
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To: crosshairs

I was thinking the same thing. How do you demote a pizza delivery man? Make him deliver on foot?


9 posted on 12/29/2012 5:05:21 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

For all those who have been asking: “Pizza Hut made Sam a cook.” Less pay and loses tip income, apparently.


10 posted on 12/29/2012 5:09:54 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Fiberglass road” road?


11 posted on 12/29/2012 5:09:54 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“If the company wants to exercise the right to disarm their employees they should be able to also be sued if the employee is attacked for the company’s failure to provide adequate protection”

Yes, this policy probably came from one of their Effing lawyers who wouldn’t even eat their product, but makes a good buck designing “rules” that “protect” the company at the expense of it’s employees.


13 posted on 12/29/2012 5:12:32 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’ll bet there are a lot of muggers that are glad to know about Pizza Hut’s no weapons policy.


14 posted on 12/29/2012 5:14:49 PM PST by oldbrowser (They are marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Obviously, the company doesn’t want to be involved in a law suit if one of their employees injures an attacker. So they let the poor delivery man open for attack.


15 posted on 12/29/2012 5:16:33 PM PST by kitkat
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To: vette6387

Odds are employees have signed documents, recognizing that the company cannot protect them, so if a driver ends up seriously harmed, they cannot look at the company for compensation.


16 posted on 12/29/2012 5:34:53 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: MotorCityBuck

probably a livestock sorting stick. 4-5 ft long beefy and
has a nice heft.


17 posted on 12/29/2012 5:38:31 PM PST by RitchieAprile (the obstreperous gentleman..)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Like liberals, pizza hut could care less if their drivers get murdered. They’ll just hire someone else.

A driver’s widow and children or an injured driver should sue them for a purposefully designed, deadly working enviornment. States should make laws against employers denying drivers’ second amendment right to self defense.

A policy of no self defense is a policy of death.


18 posted on 12/29/2012 5:44:28 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I saw him on the news. His story is a bit weak as he tells it.

There are two sides to every story and his lacks credibility.


19 posted on 12/29/2012 5:50:11 PM PST by tired&retired
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To: crosshairs

“How do you get demoted from pizza delivery?”

My first thought too.


20 posted on 12/29/2012 5:50:22 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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