Posted on 09/28/2010 6:41:42 AM PDT by fightinJAG
Police say a North Carolina pizza restaurant worker being herded toward a cooler pulled a gun and shot and killed two robbers.
Multiple media outlets reported today that police were searching for a third man who got away from an east Charlotte Pizza Hut restaurant.
Authorities say the robbers burst through the restaurant's front door late Monday as two workers were cleaning up in the back.
Investigators say the suspects ordered the two employees into a walk-in cooler, then started beating one of the men. The other employee pulled a handgun and opened fire.
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This took some good, or close-range, shooting. No hesitation. Either of those guys probably could easily overpower most everybody else.
"I see here you shot and killed a pair of dirtbags that were trying to rob your employer when you worked for Pizza Hut?"
"Uhh...yes, sir."
"Great! When can you start?"
I’ve been following your discussion about various crimes. I want to say how much worse the internet, and especially social networks, have made this situation. It never occurs to most people how easy it is for someone to stalk them from anywhere in the world or to find out where they are, who they work for, who their friends are, where their kids go to school, etc.
People never seem to think about “what happens if an evil person gets into my life?” — and there is no way to unwind all the avenues that allow a person who wants to make trouble for you, or threaten or frighten you, to do so.
We recently had friends whose mentally ill relation began to post death threats against them on Facebook, with the person’s “friends” jumping on the bandwagon and chiming in. The mob mentality became quite alarming. The police said since it was “only on Facebook,” they couldn’t do anything about it.
These friends, because of additional circumstances, are pretty scared that some wacko is going to get it in his head to carry out these threats. But even if they move, the internet will eventually allow this family member to find them, maybe find out who their friends are, etc. THERE IS NOWHERE TO HIDE if someone truly needs to. Even changing one’s identity, if it came to that, can’t change the “trail” left previously on the internet.
I think it’s very important to be very cautious with how much of yourself and your family you put online. NOTHING is 100% private.
You never know when a sick person, a criminal, a jilted lover, an ex-spouse or whoever might track you down or use your info nefariously.
Robbery suspects shot dead by east Charlotte Pizza Hut employee
I’m going to take the family to Pizza Hut this week to celebrate.
More on the shooting of the Pizza Hut robbers:
A pizza deliveryman who shot two would-be robbers to death in east Charlotte said Tuesday that he didn’t draw his concealed pistol until the last possible second, when he thought he would be killed.
Throughout the robbery attempt, as the men hit and pistol-whipped him inside a cooler at an east Charlotte Pizza Hut, the driver said he kept his right elbow pinned tightly against his body – holding a Glock 22 under his shirt and out of view.
He said he didn’t want to use the gun unless he was forced to. But as one of the men lifted his shirt, nearly exposing the gun, the deliveryman opened fire.
The two men killed – Gregory James Hardy and Dauntrae Wallace – were both 21-year-old convicted felons, one on probation and one awaiting trial on unrelated charges.
“I’d like to think that “Fired from Pizza Hut for killing two armed robbers” would be viewed by future prospective employers as a résumé enhancer. “
One would hope so.
It's a small offering, but I'll gladly give it.
The worker will get fired, we know since post #4, but do we know why? Because the robbers, if they were alive now, would remain among Pizza Hut’s potential customers, and would most certainly use some of their loot on Pizza Hut products. The money comes back to us, one way or another! (I don’t have an MBA, but I do think like one, don’t I?)
Not just Pizza Hut. How many companies have security for employees and/or allow them to carry on premises?
None. It’s ALWAYS better to deal with a dead employee than a dead criminal for a company.
Employers could take the right path, it’s not impossible. It just costs more.
Therefore it’s not done.
“What was the employer’s rationale for this policy, assuming the employee was c/c legally?”
$ comes before right.
“Employers could take the right path, it’s not impossible. It just costs more.”
Is this a conservative site?
Of course it costs more. A lot more since no insurance companies will cover a company that doesn’t toe the line. Businesses cannot operate without insurance.
Quit condemning the business just trying to survive and serve customers that will go next door for a cheaper price. Focus on the insurance companies, lawyers and sue happy culture we have.
The gun store I go to affords to stay open with employees carrying openly, in Texas which is legally only inside.
How can they manage that if it’s so unaffordable?
Conservative, imo, is allowing your employees to survive attacks even if it might cost you a bit more.
Line up the lawyers and so on against the wall, but defense of the individual comes first imo. The defense of the collective company is not conservative.
Also, in Texas, there are castle doctrine laws that defy civil lawsuits in good shot cases. There is literally no reason for business to ban it here.
Yet they do, almost entirely. Political nonsense.
Excellent! You definitely don’t let the scum take you into the cooler.
No charges have been filed against the armed employee.
Because its a gun store. Every gun store in Florida has armed employees.
Without insurance the companies wouldn’t even be there.
“Yet they do, almost entirely. Political nonsense.”
Sure its nonsense, take it up with the lawyers and insurance companies
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