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In-N-Out Burger Flipper Disables Car, Attempts to Murder Boss in Parking Lot
Eater ^ | May 22, 2015 | Farley Elliott

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.


TOPICS: Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: crime
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To: ThomasThomas
then spun the concoction in a centrifuge.

Centrifuges separate, they don't blend. Methinks the prof isn't very smart. Or he thinks that we aren't.

41 posted on 05/24/2015 7:12:56 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: nickcarraway

Wonder what his beef was?


42 posted on 05/24/2015 7:15:44 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: nickcarraway

Seemed to relish in the plan, though it was...dicey...


43 posted on 05/24/2015 7:16:06 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Zeppo
You’d think that a news story from a respectable journalistic outlet

Now you've stressed this 'writer'. Better make sure you have a locking gas cap.

44 posted on 05/24/2015 7:16:13 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Vesparado
According to the Telegraph, his major was geology!

If his major was geology, we haven't begun to hear the real story.

45 posted on 05/24/2015 7:16:13 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: nickcarraway

couldn’t cut the mustard?


46 posted on 05/24/2015 7:16:23 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: nickcarraway

Too stoopet to get all up in his grill and shake some sense into him?


47 posted on 05/24/2015 7:17:14 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Zeppo

With a screwdriver.


48 posted on 05/24/2015 7:17:34 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ J.R.R. Tolkien)
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To: nickcarraway

Guy was Soda Jerk....


49 posted on 05/24/2015 7:17:48 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: smokingfrog

He looks meaner than most of the Waco bikers.


50 posted on 05/24/2015 7:17:53 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: null and void
Shoulda been possible to find a job in a STEM field.

I was a chemistry major. We had a saying in the department: Chemists with a "C" average will find jobs, just not in chemistry."

So perhaps the geologist here might have had a grade point average problem.

51 posted on 05/24/2015 7:18:52 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Leaning Right

Good point.


52 posted on 05/24/2015 7:21:50 PM PDT by null and void (In a world where lies and propaganda masquerade freely as truth, communication is everything.)
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To: nickcarraway

” The alleged attacker, Eric Bloss, was a recent UC Berkeley college graduate”

He just couldn’t wait for the $15 minimum wage, I guess.


53 posted on 05/24/2015 7:22:13 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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To: latina4dubya

“good on the passerby who took action... love In-n-Out!”

OUTSTANDING food there. They’re in Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin...but they seem to be treating my home town (Houston) like the plague.


54 posted on 05/24/2015 7:23:23 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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To: Zeppo

Nobody looks their best in a mug shot...


55 posted on 05/24/2015 7:24:39 PM PDT by null and void (In a world where lies and propaganda masquerade freely as truth, communication is everything.)
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To: nickcarraway

Pretty glib reporting of a guy who seemed prepared to gun down his boss over nothing.


56 posted on 05/24/2015 7:30:00 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

You forgot 1; never vote for a Democrat.


57 posted on 05/24/2015 7:33:34 PM PDT by semaj (.People get ready, Jesus is coming!)
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To: null and void
Geology major Eh....plenty of jobs fracking....best is Wire Line Operator...6 figures after training.....12 hour shifts at the computer reading the geo strata charts and guiding the drill bit.

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58 posted on 05/24/2015 7:33:57 PM PDT by spokeshave
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To: nickcarraway

College genius needs to quickly check out the ability of gasoline to dissolve sugar, the modern electronic fuel injection systems, the effectiveness of modern fuel filters and realize that his future as a criminal car thief is VERY limited.


59 posted on 05/24/2015 7:37:28 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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To: Zeppo
My car is a 2013 and has a compression release door. No handles from inside. I just push on the door and it opens. Very similar to glass doors on older stereo cabinets.
60 posted on 05/24/2015 7:39:11 PM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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