When authorities received frantic reports from panicked customers of a potential hostage situation, they sped to the restaurant to resolve it.
"The officers quickly determined this was a training exercise," St. Joseph Police Department commander Jim Connors recounts. "We forcefully got the message across that's not expected behavior."
Sonic did not return calls and e-mails seeking comment, so it's unclear whether the manager was following a corporate directive.
If this is a corporate directive (highly doubtful), working at Sonic just got a whole lot more exciting.
(Confidential to non-video game geeks: The pic is Street Fighter's Guile executing the "Sonic Boom" move).
Sonic Customers Bewildered by Fake Gunman [Slashfood]
(Photo: Stop Podcasting Yourself)
(Thanks, NORMLgirl!)
This is the type of training that should be announced even if you want for a security company. Otherwise, the training has a good chance of ending up legal action, damage, even death.
Just think of the ramifications of a person in the store with a legal conceal gun, taking actions which are covered under state and federal laws but result in a death.
Not very thought out and most likely not review by any lawyers.
]]>Re: mind bottling.
Just like it sounds.
]]>:)
Sorry about the nitpicking but I couldn't resist!
]]>Wow. Hopefully Stanley didn't have a heart attack during this one.
]]>@StanTheManDean: before the fire trucks had left? Oh man,,I would have liked to have been there for that one.
]]>@pecan 3.14159265: Nah,,I think his name was D.B. Cooper.
]]>Well, that's how he told the story to you anyway.
]]>Duh.
]]>Yeah, you can carry a concealed weapon in Missouri with a permit. As the national headquarters of Bass Pro Shops, you can bet that Missouri is a state that really loves it's guns.
]]>I don't believe the law excludes training exercises. The perpetrators are just as guilty as someone who was really going to rob the store and should be arrested.
]]>Deadly force allowed:
"(B) to prevent the other's imminent commission of aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery."
If you're at a Sonic and some guy pulls out a firearm and is pointing it at an employee's head, it is reasonable to believe that you are also in danger at that point.
]]>I think SteveDave meant "in advance".
]]>@hi: And, sadly, the shooter would be in jail...even in Texas...
]]>The money goes to pay for the church, the people who run the church, and sometimes towards community service programs. It does not go to God.
Are you serious?
/world falling apart
]]>we had a fire drill at the hospital where I worked 30+ years ago.
The fire dept was not amused. Neither were the patients.
The Asst Administrator who planned this little farkup was fired before the fire trucks had left the parking lot.
]]>@Trai_Dep: lol
]]>@Fist-oâ„¢: If an armed citizen was there Mr. robber would be dead. Defending yourself is not a crime.
]]>@pecan 3.14159265: An Office AND an Arrested Development reference in one post!... Consumerist just made my day. :)
]]>@GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked: How does one bottle a mind? And what is a boggled mind anyway? Andy Rooney wants to know.
]]>Oh yes, my bad. The meth lab rate that's twice as high here as in any other state. :P Gaaah!
]]>And of course the clerk is suing.....
]]>Wow. Just wow.
]]>@Fist-oâ„¢: The same thing went through my mind too...
]]>@ScubaSteveKzoo: "And this is what happens when you burn the tater tots!"
]]>"and that's what happens when you don't wash your hands after using the bathroom!"
]]>This pretend robber didn't go by the name of J. Walter Weatherman, did he?
]]>Didn't some church do this during services during collection time to scare people into not "robbing" God?
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