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Old 08-12-2011, 02:17 PM
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yeah, that is correct. employee victims at these flash mobs aint going to do ****, they cant.
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Originally Posted by sjmarcy
Aren't most stores, malls, convenience stores corporate owned? So, if a 7-11 is flash mobbed, that location is following corporate rules whether it is a franchise or corporate store.

Maybe I am wrong but I doubt corporate allows store folks to carry and brandish weapons. I think they'd immediately get fired if they pulled out a weapon during an armed robbery. At least they'd still be alive. They could make their statements to corporate and then be fired. LOL.
That sounds about right. I was mainly thinking of private owned/small business. In the case of corporate owned stores the protocol is to bend over and take it, I suppose, then try to recover via insurance. Nonetheless, it is ridiculous how someone can, with almost no punishment, take another's property so easily while leaving that person unable to do anything about it fearing other possible side effects...
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Originally Posted by Braineack
yeah, that is correct. employee victims at these flash mobs aint going to do ****, they cant.
I read a story about a pizza delivery dude who got fired from one of the big chains. He was making a delivery to section 8 land late at night. And he got jumped. After being shot at least once (more shots were fired, they missed) he retaliated. He pulled out a pistol he had on his person and shot back causing the thieves to run away and stop shooting at him.

So he goes to the emergency room, makes his police statements and then gets fired. I guess he must deliver to very dangerous areas and did not feel safe. So he had a weapon for his own protection. Which is against corporate policy. I guess the store found some other delivery person to work below minimum wage plus tips who would go there unarmed and carrying cash all the time.
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Originally Posted by sjmarcy
I read a story about a pizza delivery dude who got fired from one of the big chains. He was making a delivery to section 8 land late at night. And he got jumped. After being shot at least once (more shots were fired, they missed) he retaliated. He pulled out a pistol he had on his person and shot back causing the thieves to run away and stop shooting at him.

So he goes to the emergency room, makes his police statements and then gets fired. I guess he must deliver to very dangerous areas and did not feel safe. So he had a weapon for his own protection. Which is against corporate policy.
I am not sure if is the same story but did this happen in South Florida? I recall hearing a story along those lines.

Well here is another story for you. Completely unrelated to business, but just to show that no one is really out of reach of this bullshit. Recently, a local well known lawyer had someone break into his house to steal a waverunner. The burglar was shot dead and now he faces a HUGE civil suit for damages... Infuckingsane!
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Originally Posted by buffon01
I am not sure if is the same story but did this happen in South Florida? I recall hearing a story along those lines.

Well here is another story for you. Completely unrelated to business, but just to show that no one is really out of reach of this bullshit. Recently, a local well known lawyer had someone break into his house to steal a waverunner. The burglar was shot dead and now he faces a HUGE civil suit for damages... Infuckingsane!
I can't recall. It caught my attention and I remembered some of it because I was thinking that I would not want to have to venture into very rough areas alone carrying cash late at night to bring food to complete strangers you know nothing about. And then I read that those folks make below minimum wage and have to drive their own cars. Which have one of those big light up please-rob-me-I-have-cash-and-am-alone-and-unarmed signs they put on the roof to advertise the pizza store. I can't say I blame the guy for packing. And it's revolting that he then gets fired and therefore cannot qualify for unemployment.
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Originally Posted by sjmarcy
I can't recall. It caught my attention and I remembered some of it because I was thinking that I would not want to have to venture into very rough areas alone carrying cash late at night to bring food to complete strangers you know nothing about. And then I read that those folks make below minimum wage and have to drive their own cars. Which have one of those big light up please-rob-me-I-have-cash-and-am-alone-and-unarmed signs they put on the roof to advertise the pizza store. I can't say I blame the guy for packing. And it's revolting that he then gets fired and therefore cannot qualify for unemployment.
I think the way in which you do not qualify for unemployment benefits is if you resign/quit.
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Originally Posted by buffon01
I think the way in which you do not qualify for unemployment benefits is if you resign/quit.
Okay so in this instance the guy could be fired by corporate for carrying a gun illegally, yet collect unemployment? I really don't know much about gun laws.
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Originally Posted by sjmarcy
I read a story about a pizza delivery dude who got fired from one of the big chains. He was making a delivery to section 8 land late at night. And he got jumped. After being shot at least once (more shots were fired, they missed) he retaliated. He pulled out a pistol he had on his person and shot back causing the thieves to run away and stop shooting at him.

So he goes to the emergency room, makes his police statements and then gets fired. I guess he must deliver to very dangerous areas and did not feel safe. So he had a weapon for his own protection. Which is against corporate policy. I guess the store found some other delivery person to work below minimum wage plus tips who would go there unarmed and carrying cash all the time.

yep I've read that. Then this as well:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/fired...ry?id=13705438


he's a hero.
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Old 08-12-2011, 03:22 PM
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good read:

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This singular example of Progressive manipulation established, understood and accepted, one of the most damaging and manipulative tactics used by the Progressive Movement in our education system is the artificially elevated self-esteem of our children. Today, Progressives instill in our children an unearned sense of self-worth; a falsely elevated self-esteem. Teachers and group administrators have been deceived into believing that by manufacturing a faux pride usually reserved for the realization of an achieved success, they can advance the educational capabilities of the child. These useful, albeit in many cases well-meaning, “idiots,” as it were, have taken to eliminating the need to keep score at recreational sporting events, to awarding first prizes to everyone, to making sure “everyone is a winner,” etc.

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When we understand the tactics used by the Progressives to affect a generation of those who they can enslave to entitlement, we can more clearly see just how much damage they have already done.

As British new media columnist John Phelan points out in addressing the riots engulfing the streets of Britain:

“There was always the danger that people on the left would seek to use this unrest as a vehicle for their own pet causes. Ken Livingstone proved again just what an irrelevant lump of 80’s nostalgia he is by blaming, not the current government, but that of Margaret Thatcher. Others have consulted their A-level sociology textbooks and pinned the blame on the rioting youths’ ‘disenfranchisement’ or ‘deprivation.’

“None of this third rate Marxist rubbish holds up if you leave the lecture hall and come face to face with the rioters. It is almost impossible to think of a way these people are disenfranchised. Each and every one of them has the franchise. When they reach 18 they will have the right to vote. They may choose not to use it, but that’s up to them.

“Neither did the rioters I saw look particularly deprived. The closest things they have to uniforms are Franklin & Marshall jumpers, which retail for about £60 each. Most of them were filming their rampages on iPhones which can retail at over £400.

“The poverty these kids have is moral, not financial. Many of them come from broken families which derive most of their support from the state. Neither they, nor their parents, have ever had to face consequences or take responsibility in their lives. If a girl gets pregnant the state pays. If they’d rather pose about like a gangster than get a job, the state pays. And if they commit a crime state punishment is often a joke. So, they behave as they please.”
In one instance a British rioter, admittedly drinking wine at “half nine in the morning” was quoted as saying, “…that’s what it’s all about, showing the police we can do what we want.” Another youthful looter bragged, “We’re getting our taxes back.”

From Birmingham, UK, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Santiago, Chile, the scene plays out the same. Progressives have succeeded in creating a “Dependent Class” out of a generation of intellectually manufactured narcissists, all in the name of “social justice”; all under the wicked institution of social engineering; all at the hand of Socialism. Today, that “Dependent Class” is angry because the utopian promises made by glad-handing Progressive politicians and elitists to create an all providing nanny state has failed at the weight of the cost of those promises…and the world pays the price.

The unrest in the West is not racially motivated. It is not a battle between the “haves” and the “have nots.” It is the result of a reckless experiment in social engineering executed by the power-hungry that used our children as guinea pigs. What we are witnessing is the natural result of a failed Progressive ideology and the intellectual destruction of a generation. What we are witnessing is the result of a true crime against humanity.

Sadly, no court in the world will hold the Progressive monsters accountable for their crimes…because, my friends, Progressives own the courts.
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Originally Posted by Braineack
yep I've read that. Then this as well:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/fired...ry?id=13705438


he's a hero.
Exactly, perfect example.

One of my buddies up north is a FFL. He says it is better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. I mean…the guy got fired from Walgreens, but at least he is alive along with the others in the store.

I guess Walgreens feels that had the employee shot and injured a robber that they could then be sued hence the economics dictate putting their employees at risk rather than the bad guys.

Think about this…if you are at HOME…and masked strangers enter at 4:30 AM with ill intent…you can shoot to kill (if I understand correctly) and you are a hero. If the same thing happens at work you are fired and likely effectively "banned" from similar employment due to the "incident". I mean a competing "Big-Pharmacy" store like CVS which is probably across the street is not going to hire this man.
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Originally Posted by Braineack
They better hurry up and fire the employee who tackled that looter.

The looter might sue the store into which he was trying to gain entry.

I guess he can do that even if the tackler did not work there.

Gotta protect the evil.

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He looked like Teddy Bruschi on that one lol. Don't mess with American businesses.
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Originally Posted by buffon01
Recently, a local well known lawyer had someone break into his house to steal a waverunner. The burglar was shot dead and now he faces a HUGE civil suit for damages... Infuckingsane!
I would like to follow this story to see its outcome. Can you link me to a story or the victim's name (the lawyer)?
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Originally Posted by Scrappy Jack
I would like to follow this story to see its outcome. Can you link me to a story or the victim's name (the lawyer)?
Isn't that the one where the lawyer's teenage son did the shooting?
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Originally Posted by Scrappy Jack
I would like to follow this story to see its outcome. Can you link me to a story or the victim's name (the lawyer)?
Jeffrey Davis.

Originally Posted by sjmarcy
Isn't that the one where the lawyer's teenage son did the shooting?
Correct.
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you said NA motherfuck
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Originally Posted by pusha
you said NA motherfuck
It's an obvious abbreviation, moronic dick-suck.
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