Convenience Store Clerk Fired After Using Gun to Halt Robbery

[Mark 1911]

Store clerk in Rutland, VT uses a gun to thwart a robbery attempt and is fired for his good deed. Article notes he is a Marine Corps Viet Nam vet. Never bring a knife to a gun fight.

Store Clerk 'Suspended' From Job After Using Gun to Halt Robbery

 

[88GT]

Well, he's still alive.

 

[M67]

Good for him, if they fire him for that then he doesn't need to work there.

Hard telling if the robber would have stabbed him after he handed over the register just because he was there.

 

[Mark 1911]

Well, he's still alive.

Happily so, that is the main thing. The fact that he also saved his employer some monetary loss, I suppose that doesn't matter. Where's the gratitude?? The employer should be ashamed. I though Vermont was supposedly more gun friendly than this.

Good for him, if they fire him for that then he doesn't need to work there.

Hard telling if the robber would have stabbed him after he handed over the register just because he was there.

I would bet there are plenty of other folks who would be more than happy to have an employee like this on their crew. I wish I could shake his hand.

 

[deltaecho]

You regrettably find a lot of this thing, especially in corporate chains of any kind of business. Some grocery stores and other retailers will, for example, train their employees to simply report shoplifting and never attempt to stop it. As I understand it, they're worried about being sued (!!!) for the employee's action. Strange.

 

[robh]

I would bet there are plenty of other folks who would be more than happy to have an employee like this on their crew. I wish I could shake his hand.

i sure hope so

 

[jkaetz]

Policies like this are born from our litigious society. The businesses and other entities that ban guns and otherwise expect their employees to lay down and roll over for armed criminals are simply protecting their own hides from lawsuits. It's far cheaper for them to claim a small loss on their taxes than to pay out a lawsuit to a customer who was hit by a round fired by an employee. They care nothing for the people they employ. Until that changes, we will continue to see employees fired for protecting themselves.

 

[SERparacord]

Awful young Nam vet.

 

[xM3RC1L3SS1x]

I hope he doesn't go back in a fit of rage and rob them.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I'd be giving that guy a reward. But anymore, policies are there to be enforced -- exceptions and mitigating circumstances be damned.

 

[nipprdog]

Misleading thread title.

 

[9mmfan]

I worked a lot of nights at the convenience store I worked at when I lived in Ft Wayne. This was in the late 1980's and never had any trouble but if I were to do that kind of work now you can bet your **s I would be carrying.

 

[yote hunter]

I think everyone with visites that place should just stop spending there hard earned money there in support of that fellow... God bless him and good job. Its just to bad the the robber didn't give him a reason to kill him, then there would be just one less robber out there...

 

[88GT]

I think everyone with visites that place should just stop spending there hard earned money there in support of that fellow... God bless him and good job. Its just to bad the the robber didn't give him a reason to kill him, then there would be just one less robber out there...

He did. At least in Indiana.

 

[Mark 1911]

Misleading thread title.

How so?

The title states exactly what happened.

 

[Mark 1911]

Awful young Nam vet.

Yes, that crossed my mind too, but I think he's old enough, just barely. Would have been 19 when Saigon fell 4/30/75 so its possible. No?

 

[2A_Tom]

Awful young Nam vet.

I'll turn 58 on Saturday, volunteered to go in 73 at 17 but I was too late. 58 year old could have just made it to the fight, or could have been graves registration through 77.

 

[2A_Tom]

There, their, they're don't cry.

 

[PMPORTER]

The Lady that lives a few doors down was fired from Speedway right after getting robbed at gunpoint. They put these women in these stores (that get robbed once a month around here, 2 clerks have been killed) at night alone, pay them next to nothing and when they get robbed they can't fire them quick enuff. If they get shot oh well we will just put another person in that same position and tell them they can not defend their life !!! I know just go work somewhere else and all that good stuff, but lets face it some of the clerks have limited education and or other reasons they work these jobs. They should have the right to defend themselves period in my opinion !!

 

[halfmileharry]

Well, he's still alive.

What about the next clerk? Now that the story is all around the 'effin bad guy can come back without fear of another gun wielding clerk. I wouldn't want the job at all.