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urban.derelict

2011-12-31 09:33:43 AM

Can i get fries with that?

notmtwain

2011-12-31 09:50:53 AM

When the worker walked outside with his own weapon, police say one of the men pointed a weapon at him and he was shot and killed.

Winner for "unclear use of pronoun" award.

what_now

2011-12-31 02:02:24 PM

fark you, Wendy's. I ate there once, got food poisoning. Didn't eat there again for YEARS and then when I did, I got hit by a car a few hours later.

Wendy's can suck it.

gilgigamesh

2011-12-31 02:16:00 PM

what_now: fark you, Wendy's. I ate there once, got food poisoning. Didn't eat there again for YEARS and then when I did, I got hit by a car a few hours later.

Wendy's can suck it.

Well, on the bright side you didn't get shot like this guy.

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2011-12-31 03:42:19 PM

gilgigamesh: what_now: fark you, Wendy's. I ate there once, got food poisoning. Didn't eat there again for YEARS and then when I did, I got hit by a car a few hours later.

Wendy's can suck it.

Well, on the bright side you didn't get shot like this guy.

Always look in the bright side of life.

Lord Huggington

2011-12-31 03:42:46 PM

what_now: fark you, Wendy's. I ate there once, got food poisoning. Didn't eat there again for YEARS and then when I did, I got hit by a car a few hours later.

Wendy's can suck it.

I think at this point I'd rather get hit by a car then actually eat at wendy's.

MoronLessOff

2011-12-31 03:47:53 PM

All he wanted was a Frosty, instead he got iced.

MoronLessOff

2011-12-31 03:48:51 PM

I'm sure that once they ketchup with the suspect, they'll grill him about the incident.

Teen Wolf Blitzer

2011-12-31 03:48:56 PM

Kalashinator

2011-12-31 03:52:13 PM

RIP BOOKER T

SoCalSurfer

2011-12-31 03:53:52 PM

The article makes it sound like the worker was killed

In other news, this headline rocks

bohica

2011-12-31 03:56:54 PM

skinink

2011-12-31 03:59:08 PM

what_now: fark you, Wendy's. I ate there once, got food poisoning. Didn't eat there again for YEARS and then when I did, I got hit by a car a few hours later.

Wendy's can suck it.

I guess the the brain damage from the car accident would make you blame Wendy's for being hit in the first place.

robodog

2011-12-31 04:00:33 PM

Lord Huggington: what_now: fark you, Wendy's. I ate there once, got food poisoning. Didn't eat there again for YEARS and then when I did, I got hit by a car a few hours later.

Wendy's can suck it.

I think at this point I'd rather get hit by a car then actually eat at wendy's.

Brocolli and cheese baked potatoe with extra brocolli and a small chilli, about the most healthy thing you can get at a fast food place (sulfite treated salads give me digestive problems so they are a no go, and with the massive pile of dressing most people put on them are worse for you).

Snargi

2011-12-31 04:03:19 PM

This article is a prime example of what happens when a writer posts his own story directly to the web instead of running it past a copy editor first.

I can't wait for the followup story though. Employee fired by Wendy's for violating company policy.

bump

2011-12-31 04:03:54 PM

Guaranteed this guy loses his fast food job for packing on the job - especially since the shooting happened after the robbers had actually left the building, so there's no "self defense" angle here at al

That's what I was thinking... since he persued the robber AFTER the confrontation was over (instead of locking the doors and calling 911) I have every confidence that he'll catch hell for this, loose his job, get sued by the 'victim's family', etc.

Personally, I love Wendys (their chili used to be great, but is now just broken-burger soup) - their new fries are good and nothing beats a cube to fill yer belly... Course, then again - I love Arby's too so YMMV...

blackhonda

2011-12-31 04:07:16 PM

Wendys just past Burger King as the number 2 fast food behind McDonalds, Hater gotta hate, but a large portion of the unwashed masses like them. That would include me as far as their fries go.

david1963

2011-12-31 04:09:22 PM

I wouldn't die over a few bucks in a corporate till, nor would I kill to defend it. That's not to say I'd give away the store's money at the drop of a hat, just that it's the store's money -- not mine.

But then I'm weird.

juhis

2011-12-31 04:09:37 PM

bohica: Guaranteed this guy loses his fast food job for packing on the job - especially since the shooting happened after the robbers had actually left the building, so there's no "self defense" angle here at all.

Not that icing a robber who would probably just as likely done the same to you is a bad thing...

you know the robber couldve been shot inside the store and stumbled outside before collapsing and ultimately dying

JesusJuice

2011-12-31 04:09:49 PM

bump: Guaranteed this guy loses his fast food job for packing on the job - especially since the shooting happened after the robbers had actually left the building, so there's no "self defense" angle here at al

That's what I was thinking... since he persued the robber AFTER the confrontation was over (instead of locking the doors and calling 911) I have every confidence that he'll catch hell for this, loose his job, get sued by the 'victim's family', etc.

Personally, I love Wendys (their chili used to be great, but is now just broken-burger soup) - their new fries are good and nothing beats a cube to fill yer belly... Course, then again - I love Arby's too so YMMV...

Yeah, this guy will be lucky to avoid prosecution let alone keep his job.

Still, kudos to him for killing the asshole.

gbv23

2011-12-31 04:12:18 PM

Journalist only slightly more literate than story participants. Still Wendy's sounds good right now.

rhiannon

2011-12-31 04:17:14 PM

Huh. When the article said the worker walked outside I thought it meant outside the office, not the store. Now my opinion on this has changed.

JonnyBGoode

2011-12-31 04:18:55 PM

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and grease. And a side of our new natural-cut fries.

/Stay Frosty, and alert.

Spoon over Marin

2011-12-31 04:20:26 PM

Are we going to need a GEORGIA tag?

rhiannon

2011-12-31 04:20:55 PM

And yet the last sentence says the second robber ran from the restaurant. I give up trying to figure this out, got too many beer to drink.

BarbadoSlim

2011-12-31 04:21:47 PM

Headline success.

/Wendy's sucks.

Whatthefark

2011-12-31 04:24:10 PM

Is this the cashier?

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Don't Troll Me Bro!

2011-12-31 04:25:36 PM

I've worked in fast food, dine-in restaurants, and retail as a teen and college student. One thing I was grilled on at every job orientation was that you don't try to fight with a robber. You just give them the money and let them leave. Don't do anything to provoke them into doing something stupid. Your safety and the safety of your customers is not worth a few dollars that insurance is going to reimburse anyway.

Even if this shooting happened inside the restaurant this guy would lose his job for doing something you are specifically told to NEVER do. Since he followed the robbers outside with a gun in hand he will have a very hard time claiming self defense. The robbery was over and the suspects were leaving, so he was no longer in danger. The family of the deceased robber will probably sue him and I would not be surprised if criminal charges are brought against him. Farking idiot.

KrispyKritter

2011-12-31 04:27:09 PM

bump: Guaranteed this guy loses his fast food job for packing on the job - especially since the shooting happened after the robbers had actually left the building, so there's no "self defense" angle here at al

That's what I was thinking... since he persued the robber AFTER the confrontation was over (instead of locking the doors and calling 911) I have every confidence that he'll catch hell for this, loose his job, get sued by the 'victim's family', etc.

Personally, I love Wendys (their chili used to be great, but is now just broken-burger soup) - their new fries are good and nothing beats a cube to fill yer belly... Course, then again - I love Arby's too so YMMV...

my sympathy for you is more than i can express. life is short, it's okay to eat from a plate in a restaurant.

JonnyBGoode

2011-12-31 04:27:26 PM

rhiannon: And yet the last sentence says the second robber ran from the restaurant. I give up trying to figure this out, got too many beer to drink.

The cashier shot Twice and Jim Fell.

jjorsett

2011-12-31 04:27:27 PM

what_now: fark you, Wendy's. I ate there once, got food poisoning. Didn't eat there again for YEARS and then when I did, I got hit by a car a few hours later.

Wendy's can suck it.

Was the food poisoning a few days later?

sandbar67

2011-12-31 04:27:55 PM

bohica: Guaranteed this guy loses his fast food job for packing on the job - especially since the shooting happened after the robbers had actually left the building, so there's no "self defense" angle here at all..

Which isn't true at all, since the article clearly states the robber turned and pointed a weapon at him.

Personally, I think that if someone robs you at gunpoint, you should be able to chase them down and shoot them in the back as many times as you want. Then you should be allowed to go after the idiot mom that raised an armed thug and shoot her too.

JonnyBGoode

2011-12-31 04:30:55 PM

Worker loses his job in 3... 2... 1...

Le Geno Vert

2011-12-31 04:35:35 PM

Spoon over Marin: Are we going to need a GEORGIA tag?

we have needed one for so long now... but I think Pennsylvania actually leads the race if another state gets a tag.

jjorsett

2011-12-31 04:37:49 PM

MoronLessOff: All he wanted was a Frosty, instead he got iced.

StanTheMan

2011-12-31 04:38:55 PM

david1963: I wouldn't die over a few bucks in a corporate till, nor would I kill to defend it. That's not to say I'd give away the store's money at the drop of a hat, just that it's the store's money -- not mine.

But then I'm weird.

The problem with this logic is that you assume the robbers won't kill you no matter what, even if you are completely compliant. Go Google that fark Tookie Williams, who murdered a 26-yr-old father of two.

/Rot in hell, farkhead scum Tookie
/My grandma lived 2 miles from that 7/11.
/Grandpa owned a 7/11 in San Diego, and used to pack all the time, and thwarted several robbery attempts, and word got out, nobody farked with him.

cmb53208

2011-12-31 04:39:06 PM

Spoon over Marin: Are we going to need a GEORGIA tag?

Uh-uh, you have to wait for a Wisconsin tag first.

barefoot in the head

2011-12-31 04:50:08 PM

I think the guy just saw his chance to kill someone and said "yeah".

/insane tag

Aeonite

2011-12-31 04:53:46 PM

Time Traveler

2011-12-31 04:54:46 PM

In 1955 when I was in college I worked as am armed security guard. I was just out of the army & well qualified. One of my jobs was to go to a red neck bar at 15 before closing & see that closing was not a problem. One night I pulled up in the lot and saw a guy run out the front door with a paper bag & a shot gun. I just sat in the car for a couple of minutes then went in. I had been shooting people for $99 a month in 1953 - decided I was not going to shot someone for $1.50 per hour. As a civilian it was not worth the paperwork!!

Torok

2011-12-31 05:08:01 PM

StanTheMan: david1963: I wouldn't die over a few bucks in a corporate till, nor would I kill to defend it. That's not to say I'd give away the store's money at the drop of a hat, just that it's the store's money -- not mine.

But then I'm weird.

The problem with this logic is that you assume the robbers won't kill you no matter what, even if you are completely compliant. Go Google that fark Tookie Williams, who murdered a 26-yr-old father of two.

/Rot in hell, farkhead scum Tookie
/My grandma lived 2 miles from that 7/11.
/Grandpa owned a 7/11 in San Diego, and used to pack all the time, and thwarted several robbery attempts, and word got out, nobody farked with him.

The logic of not fighting back is that you are less likely to be injured or killed if you comply with the robbers demands. I don't know why you think there is an assumption "the robbers won't kill you no matter what, even if you are completely compliant". I doubt any one thinks that way so I have no idea where you are getting that from. Obviously fighting back is appropriate in a variety of scenarios but more often than not it will just make things worse. There is an augment to be made that robbers will become more brazen and bold if they know people will not fight back but most people value life over property so not fighting back is considered the best choice.

Trance750

2011-12-31 05:11:56 PM

Wait until some family member files a multi-million dollar lawsuit, using the death as grounds for a quick payday

ieldanth

2011-12-31 05:14:05 PM

We shall fight round the Moons of Nibia, and round the Antares Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before we give up!

offacue

2011-12-31 05:16:06 PM

Don't Troll Me Bro!: One thing I was grilled on at every job orientation was that you don't try to fight with a robber. You just give them the money and let them leave. Don't do anything to provoke them into doing something stupid. Your safety and the safety of your customers is not worth a few dollars that insurance is going to reimburse anyway.

That's what they used to say about hijackers too.

Torok

2011-12-31 05:21:54 PM

offacue: Don't Troll Me Bro!: One thing I was grilled on at every job orientation was that you don't try to fight with a robber. You just give them the money and let them leave. Don't do anything to provoke them into doing something stupid. Your safety and the safety of your customers is not worth a few dollars that insurance is going to reimburse anyway.

That's what they used to say about hijackers too.

That's true but I'm puzzled as to what that has to do with the article.

Le Geno Vert

2011-12-31 05:22:46 PM

I'm pretty sure every major chain of any size has a version of the "hand it over and don't interfere" policy for insurance and liability reasons... I wonder how that works in states or cities that allow full carry open or concealed? Even if you don't use your gun to stop the robbery and you let em go - then you peek your head outside to see if they're gone and the dumbasses are still there and one of them points his gun at you - now it's not the robbery anymore, it's personal defense. I'm pretty certain at that point you can say you're allowed to either respond to the threat or if, if you judge it imminent, eliminate it.

Mock26

2011-12-31 05:39:53 PM

bohica: Guaranteed this guy loses his fast food job for packing on the job - especially since the shooting happened after the robbers had actually left the building, so there's no "self defense" angle here at all.

Not that icing a robber who would probably just as likely done the same to you is a bad thing...

It is Georgia. He will probably be praised by his boss and it is probably legally classified as self defense.

Mock26

2011-12-31 05:41:58 PM

Don't Troll Me Bro!: I've worked in fast food, dine-in restaurants, and retail as a teen and college student. One thing I was grilled on at every job orientation was that you don't try to fight with a robber. You just give them the money and let them leave. Don't do anything to provoke them into doing something stupid. Your safety and the safety of your customers is not worth a few dollars that insurance is going to reimburse anyway.

Even if this shooting happened inside the restaurant this guy would lose his job for doing something you are specifically told to NEVER do. Since he followed the robbers outside with a gun in hand he will have a very hard time claiming self defense. The robbery was over and the suspects were leaving, so he was no longer in danger. The family of the deceased robber will probably sue him and I would not be surprised if criminal charges are brought against him. Farking idiot.

No customers in the store and it sounds like he was the only one working there so no one else was put in danger.

Henry Holland

2011-12-31 05:45:17 PM

Approves of subby's headline:
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KrispyKritter: life is short, it's okay to eat from a plate in a restaurant.

I did the fast food / restaurant worker thing in college, it's funny how you assume a sit-down place is automatically superior to fast-food. Places like Appleby's and TGIF and the like are just fast food with an extra $5 tacked on to each person's meal to pay for the waitstaff and busboys, it's as loaded with stuff ending in -phate as a Big Mac is. Of course, if by "eat from a plate in a restaurant", you mean paying $142 for a steak, some fancy mashed potatoes, some veggies, a few beers and small slice of cake like I did last week (i.e. fine dining), there's no comparison to going to get the salad with crispy chicken at McDonald's.

Mock26

2011-12-31 05:45:42 PM

Torok: StanTheMan: david1963: I wouldn't die over a few bucks in a corporate till, nor would I kill to defend it. That's not to say I'd give away the store's money at the drop of a hat, just that it's the store's money -- not mine.

But then I'm weird.

The problem with this logic is that you assume the robbers won't kill you no matter what, even if you are completely compliant. Go Google that fark Tookie Williams, who murdered a 26-yr-old father of two.

/Rot in hell, farkhead scum Tookie
/My grandma lived 2 miles from that 7/11.
/Grandpa owned a 7/11 in San Diego, and used to pack all the time, and thwarted several robbery attempts, and word got out, nobody farked with him.

The logic of not fighting back is that you are less likely to be injured or killed if you comply with the robbers demands. I don't know why you think there is an assumption "the robbers won't kill you no matter what, even if you are completely compliant". I doubt any one thinks that way so I have no idea where you are getting that from. Obviously fighting back is appropriate in a variety of scenarios but more often than not it will just make things worse. There is an augment to be made that robbers will become more brazen and bold if they know people will not fight back but most people value life over property so not fighting back is considered the best choice.

People should fight back every single time, even if it is over an empty wallet or a book. So long as people simply give in to the demands of robbers they will continue to get away with it. I would much rather die fighting to defend myself and my possession then to give in to some worthless piece of shiat.

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