Comments on: Sausage, Mushroom and Extra Ammo, Please.

By: Emory K.

Emory K. — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:50:50 +0000

@ drivebyposter: This is a common and well-known crime – The robber calls for a pizza delivery to an unoccopied house that he has no connection to, then ambushes the deliveryman outside. Thus, the deliveryman here was not concerned about anything inside the house, but rather he quite reasonably suspected that the house being empty meant somebody outside had set him up.

This is why some pizza-delivery restaurants require that you give them a land-line call-back number that they can check against the given street address and then call to confirm the order, and why they sometimes won’t accept delivery orders from cell-phone calls.

I don’t agree with him shooting at a fleeing man who no longer posed a threat, and I can understand why a pizza chain might have a policy against deliverymen packing heat. But when a delivery person finds himself delivering to an unoccupied house, that, legitimately, is a Bad Feeling.

By: Drivebyposter

Drivebyposter — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:59:57 +0000

“Hmm no one seems to be home. I better get my gun and…”

What was his thought process? Did he plan to do a door breach and a room clearing?

The robbery sounds like something he made up to justify firing the gun.

By: New England Bob

New England Bob — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:13:33 +0000

Once again, the animated video added so much to the words.

My solution: get rid of all the handguns.

By: jon

jon — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:09:07 +0000

sorry, I was going to post a reply, but I’m too dumbstruck by the previous poster

By: N. Nescio

N. Nescio — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:15:16 +0000

I’m all for self-defense as a basic human right and the right to keep and bear arms, but once the robber fled that man had no call firing shots at him. While the driver did the right thing by keeping the weapon in his locked trunk instead of on his person he went too far in his use of force.

Getting robbed is extraordinarily stressful, and I can understand his reaction, especially when the alternative would have been to let somebody rob him at gunpoint, and do as they wished with his life.