On 14Dec05, last night, in Gallup, New Mexico which is a two hour drive from where I live, a Papa John's pizza driver was delivering an order to a gas station. He barely got out of the car when he was punched from behind and then recieved a vicious blow to his left eye. Four male subjects driving a black fire bird proceeded to beat the living snot out of him, steal his money, his car, and the pizzas. The car was found earlier today I don't remember where.
Later that night I saw the pictures of him on the news, his eye looked worse than any other black eye I have ever seen before.
I myself deliver pizzas for Dominos and I keep my Glock 31 and a Taurus Titanium TI .38special in the car when I go out on runs. I can't carry them on my person in uniform so the Glock stays in the folds of a blanket on the passenger seat and the Taurus goes in my jacket pocket if I feel the delivery is in a dangerous area. Otherwise it goes in with the Glock. I would rather carry it in my jacket against company policy, rather than die for some pizzas. Now unlike the guy in Gallup, when I go to gas station deliveries, I don't get out of the car until i'm sure the surroundings are safe and until I have a good look at the people I am meeting. If I had been in his position, following my routine of things might have enabled me to see the attack before it was too late. And since there were four bad guys to the one good guy, disparity of force would have certainly been an acceptable justification to employ deadly force. The issue is had I done that, I would have been fired immediately after the incident for having a gun while working for Domino's.
One, does anyone else see anything wrong with that? And two, what buisness is it of Domino's or Papa John's what we carry in our cars? In New Mexico, your car is an extension of your home, and therefore you can carry anything you want in it in any fashion. Yet I would still be fired just the same.
Just venting my fear and frustration over this incident.
Later that night I saw the pictures of him on the news, his eye looked worse than any other black eye I have ever seen before.
I myself deliver pizzas for Dominos and I keep my Glock 31 and a Taurus Titanium TI .38special in the car when I go out on runs. I can't carry them on my person in uniform so the Glock stays in the folds of a blanket on the passenger seat and the Taurus goes in my jacket pocket if I feel the delivery is in a dangerous area. Otherwise it goes in with the Glock. I would rather carry it in my jacket against company policy, rather than die for some pizzas. Now unlike the guy in Gallup, when I go to gas station deliveries, I don't get out of the car until i'm sure the surroundings are safe and until I have a good look at the people I am meeting. If I had been in his position, following my routine of things might have enabled me to see the attack before it was too late. And since there were four bad guys to the one good guy, disparity of force would have certainly been an acceptable justification to employ deadly force. The issue is had I done that, I would have been fired immediately after the incident for having a gun while working for Domino's.
One, does anyone else see anything wrong with that? And two, what buisness is it of Domino's or Papa John's what we carry in our cars? In New Mexico, your car is an extension of your home, and therefore you can carry anything you want in it in any fashion. Yet I would still be fired just the same.
Just venting my fear and frustration over this incident.