Pizza deliveryman won't be charged

[WilderBill]

Glad to hear that common sense trumped company policy.
I'd guess that emptying his magazine might be 'more force than is necessary to stop the threat'. I'd also guess that if I truley were in fear of losing my life, I's do the same thing.

It reminds me of a story I heard about a guy that was on trial for assault.
He was at a resturant with his family when some *$$ started making fun of his retarded daughter, so he decked the guy.
After hearing the details the judge says "OK, I understand why you hit him and knocked him to the floor, but why did you kick him when he was down?"
The defendant calmly replied "Because I did want him to get back up".

 

[Mr. Mysterious]

The guy probably isn't out of the clear yet...I'm sure there is a wrongful death lawyer out there bending the criminals families' ear.

Oh yeah...I ordered Papa Johns last night.

 

[Mulliga]

Are other pizza delivery companies anti-gun? Makes no sense to boycott one and not the others.

I usually find local pizza parlors to deliver better product anyway.

 

[kwelz]

Umm Guys.. Papa Johns has an even worse policy. No firearms, no knives, no fireworks can even be in a car used for Delivery. Plus around here they perform random inspections of drivers cars before and after they do their deliveries.

 

[Matthew Courtney]

I was fired by Dominos Pizza in 1991 after using a firearm to defend some of my minority employees from skinheads who were upset that I had taken down a "David Duke for Governor" sign that was blocking my copy sign. The police ruled my actions justifiable.

Dominos searches driver's cars and possession of any weapon results in immediate termination.

 

[13xx]

I am a manager of pizza hut and I agree with you and think our policy sucks but pizza hut is practicing the age old tradition of CYA. if we allowed any of our driver to carry (which I personally believe in concealed is concealed and what you don’t tell me I don’t know about) we would have drivers (most of which are younger and more than half are too young to own handguns anyway) more than likely pulling guns or worse shooting someone that was not a threat. My store delivers to a couple high crime areas and I would not and do not blame any of my drivers who carry, and I in fact sometime break our weapons policy myself. If a driver pulls a gun or shoots someone who didn’t deserve it pizza hut would have a huge lawsuit that they would not win on their hands. we also warn all of our drivers that we go to those areas before they even take a delivery, we also tell all of them to go buy a c-cell mag-light because yet they cant have weapons our policy and training manuals state for them to carry flashlights. Also most drivers are oblivious to their surroundings, if you notice people hanging around or no lights on or really tall grass/old newspapers stuff like that, don’t get out of your car. And if your gonna carry I support you, better to get fired than to get dead.

we dont search our drivers cars for any reason (but we can if we want too)

And boycotting does nothing. One region (about 50 stores on average) does over 30million in sales a quarter and takes in about 15 million in profit. pizza hut alone has about 20 regions

also pizza hut is not owed by Pepsi anymore we were bought out in 1998 by tricon global restaurant which a couple years ago turned in to YUM brands which owns pizza hut taco bell KFC long johns and A&W rootbeer.

And we have garlic sauce now too

 

[Waitone]

Just one more piece of evidence that we as a society are in greater fear of tort terrorists than we are of garden variety thugs, goons and terrorists.

 

[UnknownSailor]

Regarding the money aspect of driving:

The pay was actually quite respectable, at the time. $4.55 an hour, plus $.50 a pizza, plus tips. I worked weekends, and normally came home with ~$20 a night.

And I carried a 3-D cell maglight, for spotting those hard to see street addresses.

 

[13xx]

we pay ours 5.25 to start (some are up to 6-7 due to be there forever) plus .50 per run plus their tips, most make around 50 a night and up to 100 a night durings the busy season.

pizza driving is a great job if your willing to abuse your car and accept the risks.