Today’s Theme: Workplace Robberies
The best part about this robbery comes at the end. It reads like a Kevin Smith film:
Suspect: “Give it to me, all of it. C’mon, c’mon, hurry.”
Victim: “Whatever, dude.”
Washington appears to be plagued by robberies in fact. This one involves a board spiked with nails and a decidedly less mellow clerk.
Meanwhile, in Dallas, the weapon of choice was a sword. Why do they always want cigarettes? The conclusion here is that smoking leads you to rob places.
As a woman I am strongly against the “she was asking for it” defense. However, when a lone woman delivery driver agrees to venture out after midnight in response to a suspicious call… It’s kind of expected that she will get beaten and robbed by a gang of teens. On the other hand she sounds kind of bad-ass going right back to work and refusing medical treatment.
Meanwhile, if you as a fired employee are going to go back to your former workplace and rob it, make sure your mask’s eyeholes are small enough to actually disguise who you are.
And just to make you feel better about humanity, here’s an exact-opposite-of-robbery story: A store owner returns the quarter of a million dollars (in cash!) that he found on the street, that turned out to most likely be from an armored truck.
June 9th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Sometimes the delivery driver doesn’t get to agree whether or not to go on a delivery. In this case the manager should have gone with his gut and turned down the delivery. They need to keep up with the local police blotter. Hopefully, this area will get red-lined. No deliveries for you!
June 9th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Do you think robberies are a sign of the recession?
June 9th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Toonhead–sounds like in this case the manager offered to decline… but either way, frankly, a job is not worth my life. And I’m pretty sure I would probably win the lawsuit, too.
Ms T–I am definitely reading a lot more about robberies these days. And a lot of them are certainly economically motivated. I read a couple of them where the robber apologized and seemed to be just a regular middle class person. It’s really sad.