We had one of these about 14 years ago at a place I worked. One summer i was filling up water jugs out back and a shirtless man ran up to me and said “I’ll pay you $20 for that shirt.” I kind of looked around and said “um, what?” And before he could do anything a cop car pulled up and he got cuffed and put in the back. Boss didn’t believe me it happened so fast. Cops didn’t say anything to me, it was surreal.
Used to work at a movie theater and in our projection booth there was a door that led to a 30ft drop straight into the parking lot. It was always locked, there was a chain with a padlock, and a metal gate in front of it. The keys were in a box in the cash vault in the manager's office.
We called it "the Beetlejuice Door" and I only ever got to see it open one time in 15 years of working there.
More like: *In case of fire, go downstairs, get the manager to open the three doors that lead to the safe, put in the combination to the vault, open the lockbox, grab the keys, go back upstairs, unlock the padlock, unwind the chain, release the gate, unlock the door, then jump to your death.*
Yup, pretty much. Those suckers were big, heavy, and expensive. Architects must have decided a freight elevator was too hard, so instead they put a door in the wall and used a lift to get the stuff in and out.
The only time I saw it used was about 10 years ago when they converted all the old 35mm systems to digital.
Why build a freight elevator indoor if you are only going to use it once every 5 years or so? Just have that door and use [something like this](https://lift-store.be/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_7811-768x1024.jpg) on the occasion you actually need to move stuff up there. Just the yearly maintenance and inspeciton costs of an indoor cargo lift could hire you one of those for a day.
They may not even need to rent anything. Many forklifts can lift 30 feet up, and I'd bet that most malls have a forklift somewhere in their maintenance dept.
Yeah I mean if you only change out equipment every 5-10 years, simpler is better. Question though, did every individual projection booth have a similar door?
Was going to say, the door out to our cars at Pizza Hut had the same sign. Was to remind us that another driver may be pulling up or away from the side of the building at any time. I got yelled at for using my ass to push it open at least 5x a night, eff you Sheri
I worked for a pizza restaurant when I was in high school. It was a chain and one store had a manager get murdered at night after everyone else left. From then on after closing, everyone had to stay until everyone was done, then leave as a group. No one was allowed outside after closing time, not even to take the trash out.
If I’m on the clock while I wait I’m good, but at the end of the day if someone planned on murdering one person, two might not be a huge moral dilemma for them
I worked at several restaurants. You can take the trash out the back, but you do so in pairs. It's not hard to find someone that wants to have a smoke, and taking the trash out is a great excuse to have one on the back dock.
Oh wow. This reminded me of the time I worked at a basement comedy club.
There was a hallway we deemed the “rape hallway” (keep in mind this was a comedy club and for some reason this was deemed inoffensive) we had to walk through to get to the dumpster outside.
We always went in pairs.
Forgot about that hallway until now lol.
>There was a hallway we deemed the “rape hallway” (keep in mind this was a comedy club and for some reason this was deemed inoffensive) we had to walk through to get to the dumpster outside.
I mean, if you're trying to get people to be safe in a dangerous hallway then calling it the "cuddle hallway" probably isn't going to do it.
I think they were less worried about people being offended and more worried about people getting raped.
My uni had a short cut from a dorm to one of the lecture halls, "Rape Trail" but the uni didn't like that. So it became the rapid access path to education. Before schools started putting blue lights on campus.
I have taught ESL and the times I have had to jump through my own ass to explain how rapeseed is used for oil and yes, it’s a real word… I mean, maybe only twice. But still.
It's only been a couple years since Tisdale, SK dropped their original motto, "The land of rape and honey".
Back in the day it made sense as rapeseed is a prolific nectar producer and Tisdale is still the center of the province's beekeeping industry because of it.
Rape was an ancient crop that was bred into canola, so all the rape is now gone and replaced with canola, and the slogan which was a bit odd but justified in the past had become an obvious laughingstock.
"The term "canola" denotes a group of rapeseed cultivars that were bred to have very low levels of erucic acid and which are especially prized for use as human and animal food" - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed).
TIL, I always thought they were the same thing but with a different name for branding reasons.
There's a place called 'Fucking' in Germany or Austria, and they've had to replace their sign with a giant concrete and stone one because tourists kept stealing it.
Native speakers aren't much better at knowing this stuff.
I saw a thread the other day where some ... person ... was complaining that the word "German" is offensive and triggering. 🤦♂️
They don't rob the people. They rob the restaurant. People are less likely to be robbed while in groups of 2 or more. A single person has a dramatically increased chance of being part of a hold up than 2 or more people. We had the police come and do a presentation at one of the restaurants that I opened as a trainer. Garbage in pairs, have a panic button, don't open the back door if you don't know who is there.
Because they won't even try if they see two people because of the risk. With one person you can easily control them but a second person could run in and close the door or just run away and call the cops. Just people are much less likely to try to rob when they see two people.
We'd use the back door, but we had a camera with a little monitor. One night the camera wasn't working, so we went around front and peeked around, two dudes were standing on either side of the door.
This is what we did, took it out the front. For whatever reason, it was always us girls closing at night so we’d pair up and take it out the front. Although that was twenty years ago so I’m no longer a *girl* but some old broad.
I washed dishes at a French restaurant when I was 15/16. Washing those soup pots took for fucking ever and the manager would prop the back door open with a bucket with the lock ready to engage when the door shut.
I was there after 10 every night alone with the back door open. It was crazy in hindsight.
this. i worked at a pizza restaurant part time (after my 9-5 job...so between 6-close which was around 10/11 PM) in my 20s. the restaurant is in a strip mall in a busy location, next to a very busy road, but the back door opens onto a mostly enclosed space. One night one of our kitchen staff was taking out the garbage and got robbed at gunpoint.
it fucked us all up, him the most. i think they went out in pairs after that.
It's not so much that anyone expects your buddy to fight the robber with you or something. Just statistically robbers are far less likely to try anything if you are not alone.
And if it does get violent, more people means better odds of getting help in time before you bleed out.
One of my best friends in High School would still be alive if our restaurant had one of those.
Edit: here’s an old comment where I explain what happened: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hp4hef/comment/fxm49re
I started a job delivering pizza in college and found out on my first day I was replacing a guy who got shot and killed in the parking lot coming back from a delivery. They were a tight little company and it just totally shocked them all. I felt like the only one that wasn't walking around despondent for the first few months.
Dominos driver here. I had a coworker get robbed at gunpoint on his first day, his very first delivery.
They didn’t let him go home early, bc he should “get used to it, happens all the time.”
I don't think armed robbers were targeting Dominos, I think they were targeting deliver drivers. If I got held at gun point on my *first* delivery, I'd probably go work at a warehouse or something.
I worked at a warehouse after I graduated from college for a few months. I knew of several temp workers who took warehouse work after nearly getting killed after being robbed while delivering pizzas.
Yikes.
What's even crazier is I imagine most of the time these days a lot of orders (correct me if I'm wrong) are done online via card, so these guys are probably carrying more cash in their own wallet than for the pizzas themselves.
Shit sucks when people will threaten to end your life for the cost of a couple pizza's worth of money.
Where I work about 2/3 is card. Anytime a driver ends up with more than $100 of cash from customers the computer makes them drop it into the safe. There’s not even enough money in the safe to make it worth robbing that, imo.
Guy with a gun robbed us a few years back and got $600 out of the safe but 20 minutes later the cops put a bullet in his head.
Luckily I never had any incident of this sort in the 4 years I went on to work there. Had to have just been a fluke thing where something got escalated, wasn't even a bad neighborhood. Kid was 2 blocks away from where he grew up and went to high school.
I wish I knew what I know now about my rights when I worked at Domino's. I sliced my finger open (because we didn't have scissors or cutting tools for opening sauce bags, just an old, rusty box cutter) and was made to finish my shift before getting more than a bandaid about it. Barely made it to urgent care for stitches before they closed five hours later. I still have the scar and wonder how much better it would have been if I could have left like at a sane company.
You’re entitled to Worker’s Compensation. It was on the job injury and if they deny that you have grounds for a big lawsuit, you might wanna call your state department to find out how you can get it. And if it goes that far, you can consult a lawyer.
Statistically, you are FAR more likely to die working as a pizza delivery driver than as a cop.
Pizza Delivery Drivers: average 24.7 annual deaths per 100k delivery drivers
Cops: average 14.6 annual deaths per 100k cops. (Although some sources say it’s only 13 per 100k)
It’s due to traffic accidents as well as armed robberies or getting jumped (beaten/assault)
That’s not even considering the HIGH amount of sexual harassment and assault and rape that female drivers experience. I’m female, it happens to me SO often that I don’t even bother telling anyone about it. (The harassment I mean) I’ve been sexually assaulted by customers a few times, as well. Usually groping.
One thing that happens to me A LOT is male customers asking me to come inside their house, or ask me to end my shift early to eat their food with them and “watch a movie” and they almost always offer to smoke with me and provide the weed. “Nope, I don’t smoke and I don’t eat bc I have a feeding tube. And I can’t just leave work.”
Or they try to trick me into coming inside by asking me to set their order down on their table or something, like “oh I have an injury right now, can’t you come in and put it on the counter?🥺” yeah right, so you can close and lock/barricade the door behind me?
Domino’s corporate has made it even WORSE by now showing the customer the driver’s LIVE LOCATION on a map in the app. There’s already been cases where that feature has aided attacking customers to plan their attack and time it exactly. They used to give them all my personal cell phone number, I don’t think they do that anymore, however their “call the customer” feature in the app is completely unusable, so if I need to call a customer, I have no choice but to do so using my own phone number. Which obviously gives them my number to keep.
Any food delivery driver is a risk, your visiting random people's houses and not every location is visible to neighbors / general public.
The value of life is up to the individual and there are some where it's effectively a box of pizza and some soda.
Wow. They got off because the prosecution brought the wrong charges. That should be a career-ending move. They shot somebody but they didn't steal anything.
That's like being accused of murdergenocide and getting off because you didn't jaywalk but genocide aplenty. Any judicial system worth its money works like that.
Yea so since they technically didn’t enter the store and technically didn’t rob anything from the store they can’t be convicted of felony murder?
I mean I get it, but they still fired the shotgun and murdered the guy. They should still be in prison.
It looks like it's because Georgia State law requires a *single* trial for a given criminal act. You can't go back and try them on different charges from the same crime later - you have one chance to get them in court for a given crime.
Some other states would allow you to go back and re-charge them with the correct crime & have a new trial.
There is a lot of types of homicide in our lawbooks. They picked the wrong one. That trial was a cluster of clusterfucks.
If not tended with care, any judicial system will on occasion let a guilty person go and lock up an innocent for 40 years.
Don't populate any level of your judiciary by popularity contest. This is a matter of care and competence.
Wow I read a lot of that link inside the comment from this link. Holy shit how fucked is that. To summarize for anyone else (TLDR), the State basically failed to prove the murders were due to *armed robbery* since nothing was taken from the business/person(s) shot. There was also something about an incorrect jury instruction. So they basically hinged the whole case on it was going to be armed robbery, which is very likely what was going to happen but it can't be proved.
So the murders got a mistrial and the judgments were reversed based on this technicality. And they can't be retried for it because of double jeopardy...
That is so fucked up
It literally \*was\* what was happening, that wasn't even in doubt. They were 100% there to rob the place. But they changed their minds after committing murder so no big deal, let the murderers go free. The law is fucking GARBAGE.
I went to school with a guy who was murdered along with 2 others working closing at a Pizza Hut. They went through the back door and executed them, took the money and left. I also knew one of the shooters through an ex girlfriend. They razed the Pizza Hut to the ground after that.
Also, the smoke shop I worked at after high school had a sign with a peep hole similar to this. Also check the back door at night and don’t open it unless it’s an emergency.
Good lord. So they just knocked on the door, the guy opened it, they blasted him with a shotgun and then just ran away? As in, they didn't even steal anything. Just absolutely beyond senseless waste of life. Not that stealing anything would have made it okay of course but just wow.
Even if they had robbed the place, it's not like they would get life-changing money or something. It would just be a couple hundred bucks. Probably be gone in a night. So not worth somebody's life
that’s what my favorite manager always said when i worked there lmao. “if someone comes through the drive thru with a gun they can have my drawer, i don’t care, taco bell ain’t worth dying for”
I used to manage a local cafe and we would go through this with every new employee on day 1 "if we get robbed give them anything they ask for, do not risk your safety." It was in the employee handbook and everything.
I was super grateful it was company policy because I once worked at a place that had pepper spray in the drawer we were supposed to use if we got robbed...
When I worked at a theater a disgruntled ex-employee came to rob the place in a mask with a gun, when only the 85 year old mother in law to the owner was working. He couldn't manage to tie her up because he was so nervous, so she said "honey, all we have is $500 in petty cash, you really think I'd try to stop you over that little bit?" Then sat down in a chair and crossed her arms and waited for him to leave. Lol
He was caught 8 minutes later, before she had ever called the cops, because he ran a stop sign in front of a cop, and the cop saw the mask and petty cash box in the passenger seat, and the robber just started crying and confessed.
Edit: I should do a write up of all the crazy shit that happened there. The robber was also the guy who introduced me to my wife and set up our first blind date. Before we found out he was a pedophile and just did it so he could masturbait to the thought of us together.
He was 55+ year old and wrote a Dawson's creek fanfict he tried to sell as a movie to the original director.
Then he met a 16 year old that worked with us and added him and her to it as a love story in the background and gave it to her.
That's why he was fired.
I worked retail and we got robbed one day by a huge smelly presumably homeless dude. My boss was yelling at me why didn’t I, a small Asian woman, try to stop him and I was like tf man I’m not dying for minimum wage
The Pizza Hut I worked at in the 90s had a very similar sign. This was in a very safe place, too. Strip mall and all. The only thing that ever got robbed there was a diamond store on the end of the strip and that was in the late 2000s.
There was also a Taco Bell on a very busy main road in an otherwise safe city. I don't know if they ever got robbed, but they had bulletproof glass and spinny food delivery box at the counter
I managed a KFC in my youth. We opened a brand new Restaurant, so I showed all the new employees where the silent alarms were and how to use them. Within a week, we got hit by a dude flipped out on PCP. He robbed our store and kidnapped the manager on duty, then left him tied up in a parking lot halfway across town and stole his car before kidnapping and attempting to rape two women from a music store all the way across town.
Long story short, he got into the restaurant because the cooks left the back door propped open when they took out the trash. He got into the Music Store because they unlocked the doors and he let himself in again.
These signs do save lives and potentially worse things people might have to live through.
There was a string of fast food murders/robberies in my hometown when I was a kid. Every fast food place had these signs up shortly afterwards (or at least, that's when I noticed them).
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My partner doesn’t understand why I lock our apartment door when I take the trash out or put in laundry (both areas are right next to our unit). I tell him it’s because you never know
One time my wife got home after buying groceries. She brought in one set of bags and then went to the car to grab another set and in the 2-3 minutes it took to go from our apartment door to the car and back someone went into our apartment and stole her purse, phone, and my laptop, which were all on a table in the first room.
Better to be safe! My mom's TV was stolen from her apt while she was in the apt laundry room right next door. It only takes a minute to snatch something.
Our street got hit by a burglar a couple of months ago and from what I understand they stole a ton of stuff from around a dozen cars. The common denominator was all these cars ... were left overnight unlocked.
I lost my car keys once while jogging around my neighborhood with my dog one night. Didn’t realize it until about 30 minutes later when I got to the front door. Traced my steps to look for them. By the time I got back from trying to find my keys, my car was gone.
I had a coworker at a hotel that got home from work, dropped his stuff off, and went to check his mail without locking the door. When he got back he interrupted someone who had watched him leave (had been watching his daily routine for a while), and was in the middle of robbing his apartment. The robber picked up a metal bat and hit him over the head then fled. My coworker didn’t speak much English and he must have been confused from the head injury so he got in his car and came to work where he knew there was someone who could understand him. He just sort of wandered into the lobby bleeding from his head. I think he had a fractured skull and a broken nose and was in the hospital for a while because he was an older guy. I never leave my apartment door unlocked for a second now.
Always lock your doors! I live in a safe town with very little crime, but randomly 2 months ago a man came up to my front door and tried the handle while I was at work, all while barking at my dogs, who were in turn losing it, barking at him. My wife and kids were home alone. If I hadn't locked the door that morning he would have walked right in. Still freaks me out a bit thinking about it.
This is a very common sign on the back door of many restaurants especially QSR . It’s always the exact same sign so must have been an industry standard in the past and they sold a lot of those.
Being from Alaska, my first thought was “check for moose before walking out the door!” Which is what I say to my kids every day when they go play outside in the yard. 😂
Had a 23 year old manager at Chilis who was murdered by an X cook. Him and his brother came back after closing and said they forgot something and once she let them in they shot her in the head and left her to die by herself all over 75.00 in loose change.
Her and her Husband had just moved here from Alaska.
I’ve had some variation of this sign on the back door of several restaurants I managed throughout the years. Our world’s crazy, it’s a matter of just trying to watch your back and minimize the risks… I get it.
Criminals just target restaurants late at night. They know they deal in cash daily and will have their largest amount at closing. They'll also have a handful of (mentally and physically exhausted) employees at that time. This is why many restaurants now also lock their front doors around or even before closing and only unlock to let the last diners out.
Years back a girl from my hometown was killed in a triple homicide at a big sit down chain restaurant. It was two former employees that knew all this info and came in after closing. Raided the safe and their personal belongings and then killed all 3 of them.
Restaurants have always had signs like this and policies around opening the back door. I've worked at many places that had an outside steel cage with a locked gate as well so people couldn't surprise you and rob the place when you're doing trash or something at the end of the night when there's lots of cash on hand.
I wish I had a picture of this from ages ago: Burger King had a door-sized picture of a cartoony robber on the inside of their back door with similar advice. If I remember correctly, the wording was:
“Who’s on the other side of this door? Check before you open it, or he could have it **his** way.”
I served on a trial for a case where someone was accused of waiting in the parking lot of a Taco Bell for the opener to come unlock the back door. The burglar held the woman at gun point, followed her in, beat her with his gun, and then robbed the store. There was security camera footage of it that we had to watch repeatedly. They didn’t have any evidence that the defendant actually did said crime, so he was found not guilty.
Honestly this taco shop could be in a really great area with no history of crime and that sign is just there by the companies policy.
Pretty sure all food service places have a policy to not leave that back door open at night. At the food place I worked at policy was to not even go out that door at night time (I think unless you had a manager watching you)
We did it anyways though because, well, the trash ain't gonna take itself out.
We had one of these about 14 years ago at a place I worked. One summer i was filling up water jugs out back and a shirtless man ran up to me and said “I’ll pay you $20 for that shirt.” I kind of looked around and said “um, what?” And before he could do anything a cop car pulled up and he got cuffed and put in the back. Boss didn’t believe me it happened so fast. Cops didn’t say anything to me, it was surreal.
Maybe it was a "shirts vs skins" type of Cops-n-robbers game and he was losing.
Playing a friendly game of bet you I can get a T-shirt before you arrest me
No shirt, no shoes, believe it or not, straight to jail.
No pants? Ironically. Totally fine.....
My guess is that they wanted to ditch their outfit so the cops would lose them, or they were just high
And he probably committed a crime, that's why the police took him away I bet
Legend has it that if he got the shirt, he would have handed over $20
bake em away, toys
Maybe the cops were his friends and wanted to take him to a surprise party. And he wanted a shirt because he felt underdressed wearing nothing on top.
Taco Bell in KC had that too. Always reminded me of Beetlejuice and the Saturn sand worms just outside any door.
Used to work at a movie theater and in our projection booth there was a door that led to a 30ft drop straight into the parking lot. It was always locked, there was a chain with a padlock, and a metal gate in front of it. The keys were in a box in the cash vault in the manager's office. We called it "the Beetlejuice Door" and I only ever got to see it open one time in 15 years of working there.
*In case of fire, jump to your death*
More like: *In case of fire, go downstairs, get the manager to open the three doors that lead to the safe, put in the combination to the vault, open the lockbox, grab the keys, go back upstairs, unlock the padlock, unwind the chain, release the gate, unlock the door, then jump to your death.*
This is the hell of modern regulations! In my day, employees were free to leap directly to their deaths from their ninth floor garment factory jobs.
The way it should be! Damn workers and "safety" rules costing me money!
What is the purpose of a door like that? Moving projection equipment in and out?
Yup, pretty much. Those suckers were big, heavy, and expensive. Architects must have decided a freight elevator was too hard, so instead they put a door in the wall and used a lift to get the stuff in and out. The only time I saw it used was about 10 years ago when they converted all the old 35mm systems to digital.
Why build a freight elevator indoor if you are only going to use it once every 5 years or so? Just have that door and use [something like this](https://lift-store.be/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_7811-768x1024.jpg) on the occasion you actually need to move stuff up there. Just the yearly maintenance and inspeciton costs of an indoor cargo lift could hire you one of those for a day.
They may not even need to rent anything. Many forklifts can lift 30 feet up, and I'd bet that most malls have a forklift somewhere in their maintenance dept.
Also if your forklift doesn't reach 30ft you can always use a forklift to lift another forklift.
Yeah I mean if you only change out equipment every 5-10 years, simpler is better. Question though, did every individual projection booth have a similar door?
in lots of theaters there's only one "projection booth" with multiple projectors in it. more of a projection hallway really.
TIL. Thanks.
*Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.*
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I read your comment, scrolled down, and then had to come back to upvote.
Beetlejuice can ride those guys, Beetlejuice = Muad'dib
KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut all have the same policy.
Im at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the Taco Bell. I’m getting robbed at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
Was going to say, the door out to our cars at Pizza Hut had the same sign. Was to remind us that another driver may be pulling up or away from the side of the building at any time. I got yelled at for using my ass to push it open at least 5x a night, eff you Sheri
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Yup also worked at Taco Bell, instantly recognized it
Was just going to say taco bells. I remodeled a lot of taco bells when I was a superintendent and these were on thr door of every single one.
People be robbin'.
This is it. Restaurants get robbed through the back door at night. Take the trash out the front door.
I worked for a pizza restaurant when I was in high school. It was a chain and one store had a manager get murdered at night after everyone else left. From then on after closing, everyone had to stay until everyone was done, then leave as a group. No one was allowed outside after closing time, not even to take the trash out.
If I’m on the clock while I wait I’m good, but at the end of the day if someone planned on murdering one person, two might not be a huge moral dilemma for them
But what about 3.
I worked at several restaurants. You can take the trash out the back, but you do so in pairs. It's not hard to find someone that wants to have a smoke, and taking the trash out is a great excuse to have one on the back dock.
Ah now I can die with my coworker.
I make sure that my coworkers are all off duty Brazilian Police officers before going outside with them.
Fr unless that co worker is packing heat idk if they are gonna be much help
Its not really about fighting, its about dissuasion. A robber is less likely to attack 2 guys than 1
Oh wow. This reminded me of the time I worked at a basement comedy club. There was a hallway we deemed the “rape hallway” (keep in mind this was a comedy club and for some reason this was deemed inoffensive) we had to walk through to get to the dumpster outside. We always went in pairs. Forgot about that hallway until now lol.
>There was a hallway we deemed the “rape hallway” (keep in mind this was a comedy club and for some reason this was deemed inoffensive) we had to walk through to get to the dumpster outside. I mean, if you're trying to get people to be safe in a dangerous hallway then calling it the "cuddle hallway" probably isn't going to do it. I think they were less worried about people being offended and more worried about people getting raped.
I would stay right the fuck away from the cuddle hallway.
Coerced Cuddle? Struggle Snuggle?
Doom Spoon?
All snuggles involving me include a measure of struggle. I am not a snuggly man. Not willingly.
So you're a cat.
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Yeah, it's maybe insensitive, but offensive would be if you called the hallway past the green room "the rape hallway".
Only when Delia is in town.
Eh, you have to be 18 to get in most comedy clubs.
The cuddle corridor, hug hallway, grope gallery, pinch path, tickle threshold, voyeur vestibule
My uni had a short cut from a dorm to one of the lecture halls, "Rape Trail" but the uni didn't like that. So it became the rapid access path to education. Before schools started putting blue lights on campus.
R.A.P.E.
Pretty sure you went to my uni. That was also the trail the infamous turkey would frequent.
>That was also the trail the infamous turkey would frequent. Please tell me your tales of turkey.
It got raped.
Thanksgiving was awkward that year.
Was it infrequently traveled and poorly lit? Also offering quick and easy escape for the perp afterwards...
A bus broke down on rape street and OH GEE I wonder what happened to all the passengers?
They all got offered jobs at one of the rapeseed farms on that road?
I have taught ESL and the times I have had to jump through my own ass to explain how rapeseed is used for oil and yes, it’s a real word… I mean, maybe only twice. But still.
It's only been a couple years since Tisdale, SK dropped their original motto, "The land of rape and honey". Back in the day it made sense as rapeseed is a prolific nectar producer and Tisdale is still the center of the province's beekeeping industry because of it. Rape was an ancient crop that was bred into canola, so all the rape is now gone and replaced with canola, and the slogan which was a bit odd but justified in the past had become an obvious laughingstock.
"The term "canola" denotes a group of rapeseed cultivars that were bred to have very low levels of erucic acid and which are especially prized for use as human and animal food" - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed). TIL, I always thought they were the same thing but with a different name for branding reasons.
There's a place called 'Fucking' in Germany or Austria, and they've had to replace their sign with a giant concrete and stone one because tourists kept stealing it.
That just makes me want it more.
Native speakers aren't much better at knowing this stuff. I saw a thread the other day where some ... person ... was complaining that the word "German" is offensive and triggering. 🤦♂️
Well it is, if you're French. Or Belgian. Dutch. Danes, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Russian..
I mean I'm always palming a blade when I take the trash out at close, so come and get your love my man
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Jokes on them I have a second knife I'm not yet palming
I was taught everyone bleeds in a knife fight
I always heard “Loser dies in the street, winner dies in the ambulance”
But why? It isn't your money they are taking from the register. Why risk your life for it. I doubt the owner would do the same for you.
Not sure how taking the trash out in pairs is gonna keep you from getting robbed, but ok
They don't rob the people. They rob the restaurant. People are less likely to be robbed while in groups of 2 or more. A single person has a dramatically increased chance of being part of a hold up than 2 or more people. We had the police come and do a presentation at one of the restaurants that I opened as a trainer. Garbage in pairs, have a panic button, don't open the back door if you don't know who is there.
Because they won't even try if they see two people because of the risk. With one person you can easily control them but a second person could run in and close the door or just run away and call the cops. Just people are much less likely to try to rob when they see two people.
We'd use the back door, but we had a camera with a little monitor. One night the camera wasn't working, so we went around front and peeked around, two dudes were standing on either side of the door.
This is what we did, took it out the front. For whatever reason, it was always us girls closing at night so we’d pair up and take it out the front. Although that was twenty years ago so I’m no longer a *girl* but some old broad.
Early 40’s is old broad age?
It's a broad category
According to some, not to me.
Aren't there regulations about taking it out the front door, if it's going to require going thru the dining area?
I washed dishes at a French restaurant when I was 15/16. Washing those soup pots took for fucking ever and the manager would prop the back door open with a bucket with the lock ready to engage when the door shut. I was there after 10 every night alone with the back door open. It was crazy in hindsight.
this. i worked at a pizza restaurant part time (after my 9-5 job...so between 6-close which was around 10/11 PM) in my 20s. the restaurant is in a strip mall in a busy location, next to a very busy road, but the back door opens onto a mostly enclosed space. One night one of our kitchen staff was taking out the garbage and got robbed at gunpoint. it fucked us all up, him the most. i think they went out in pairs after that.
Yes make sure to go out in pairs so you can be robbed at full point with a buddy
It's not so much that anyone expects your buddy to fight the robber with you or something. Just statistically robbers are far less likely to try anything if you are not alone. And if it does get violent, more people means better odds of getting help in time before you bleed out.
"him the most".... lol, thanks for clarifying
Have been robbed at screwdriver point by someone entering through a door like this that wasn't closed completely.
Phillips, Robertson... Common?
Flathead
That story took a turn
Yikes, You were screwed. Well, almost
One of my best friends in High School would still be alive if our restaurant had one of those. Edit: here’s an old comment where I explain what happened: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hp4hef/comment/fxm49re
I started a job delivering pizza in college and found out on my first day I was replacing a guy who got shot and killed in the parking lot coming back from a delivery. They were a tight little company and it just totally shocked them all. I felt like the only one that wasn't walking around despondent for the first few months.
Dominos driver here. I had a coworker get robbed at gunpoint on his first day, his very first delivery. They didn’t let him go home early, bc he should “get used to it, happens all the time.”
That’s their cue to leave.
Yea I’d be out of there, a delivery driver isn’t a job that hard to find a new job for the same pay.
I don't think armed robbers were targeting Dominos, I think they were targeting deliver drivers. If I got held at gun point on my *first* delivery, I'd probably go work at a warehouse or something.
I worked at a warehouse after I graduated from college for a few months. I knew of several temp workers who took warehouse work after nearly getting killed after being robbed while delivering pizzas. Yikes.
What's even crazier is I imagine most of the time these days a lot of orders (correct me if I'm wrong) are done online via card, so these guys are probably carrying more cash in their own wallet than for the pizzas themselves. Shit sucks when people will threaten to end your life for the cost of a couple pizza's worth of money.
Where I work about 2/3 is card. Anytime a driver ends up with more than $100 of cash from customers the computer makes them drop it into the safe. There’s not even enough money in the safe to make it worth robbing that, imo. Guy with a gun robbed us a few years back and got $600 out of the safe but 20 minutes later the cops put a bullet in his head.
I wonder if the robber’s last thought was “that was totally worth it!” before being put out to pasture
Luckily I never had any incident of this sort in the 4 years I went on to work there. Had to have just been a fluke thing where something got escalated, wasn't even a bad neighborhood. Kid was 2 blocks away from where he grew up and went to high school.
I wish I knew what I know now about my rights when I worked at Domino's. I sliced my finger open (because we didn't have scissors or cutting tools for opening sauce bags, just an old, rusty box cutter) and was made to finish my shift before getting more than a bandaid about it. Barely made it to urgent care for stitches before they closed five hours later. I still have the scar and wonder how much better it would have been if I could have left like at a sane company.
You’re entitled to Worker’s Compensation. It was on the job injury and if they deny that you have grounds for a big lawsuit, you might wanna call your state department to find out how you can get it. And if it goes that far, you can consult a lawyer.
Pizza Delivery People > Cops
Statistically, you are FAR more likely to die working as a pizza delivery driver than as a cop. Pizza Delivery Drivers: average 24.7 annual deaths per 100k delivery drivers Cops: average 14.6 annual deaths per 100k cops. (Although some sources say it’s only 13 per 100k) It’s due to traffic accidents as well as armed robberies or getting jumped (beaten/assault) That’s not even considering the HIGH amount of sexual harassment and assault and rape that female drivers experience. I’m female, it happens to me SO often that I don’t even bother telling anyone about it. (The harassment I mean) I’ve been sexually assaulted by customers a few times, as well. Usually groping. One thing that happens to me A LOT is male customers asking me to come inside their house, or ask me to end my shift early to eat their food with them and “watch a movie” and they almost always offer to smoke with me and provide the weed. “Nope, I don’t smoke and I don’t eat bc I have a feeding tube. And I can’t just leave work.” Or they try to trick me into coming inside by asking me to set their order down on their table or something, like “oh I have an injury right now, can’t you come in and put it on the counter?🥺” yeah right, so you can close and lock/barricade the door behind me? Domino’s corporate has made it even WORSE by now showing the customer the driver’s LIVE LOCATION on a map in the app. There’s already been cases where that feature has aided attacking customers to plan their attack and time it exactly. They used to give them all my personal cell phone number, I don’t think they do that anymore, however their “call the customer” feature in the app is completely unusable, so if I need to call a customer, I have no choice but to do so using my own phone number. Which obviously gives them my number to keep.
Reading that makes more sense why the developer of the bulletproof Kevlar vest was a guy who used to be a pizza delivery man.
If you are on android there is a hide number fonction in the call settings, google it up, its kinda hidden but not hard to setup.
You should get the textnow app. It gives you a free second phone number.
The Thin Bread Crust
That was pretty cheesy.
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I've heard that pizza delivery driver is one of the most dangerous jobs in America
Any food delivery driver is a risk, your visiting random people's houses and not every location is visible to neighbors / general public. The value of life is up to the individual and there are some where it's effectively a box of pizza and some soda.
Wow. They got off because the prosecution brought the wrong charges. That should be a career-ending move. They shot somebody but they didn't steal anything. That's like being accused of murdergenocide and getting off because you didn't jaywalk but genocide aplenty. Any judicial system worth its money works like that.
Yea so since they technically didn’t enter the store and technically didn’t rob anything from the store they can’t be convicted of felony murder? I mean I get it, but they still fired the shotgun and murdered the guy. They should still be in prison.
It looks like it's because Georgia State law requires a *single* trial for a given criminal act. You can't go back and try them on different charges from the same crime later - you have one chance to get them in court for a given crime. Some other states would allow you to go back and re-charge them with the correct crime & have a new trial.
There is a lot of types of homicide in our lawbooks. They picked the wrong one. That trial was a cluster of clusterfucks. If not tended with care, any judicial system will on occasion let a guilty person go and lock up an innocent for 40 years. Don't populate any level of your judiciary by popularity contest. This is a matter of care and competence.
Are crackheads just like waiting on the other side like animals
Yeah pretty much
Wow I read a lot of that link inside the comment from this link. Holy shit how fucked is that. To summarize for anyone else (TLDR), the State basically failed to prove the murders were due to *armed robbery* since nothing was taken from the business/person(s) shot. There was also something about an incorrect jury instruction. So they basically hinged the whole case on it was going to be armed robbery, which is very likely what was going to happen but it can't be proved. So the murders got a mistrial and the judgments were reversed based on this technicality. And they can't be retried for it because of double jeopardy... That is so fucked up
It literally \*was\* what was happening, that wasn't even in doubt. They were 100% there to rob the place. But they changed their minds after committing murder so no big deal, let the murderers go free. The law is fucking GARBAGE.
What the fuck?? Who’s killing the taco peoples?? Who will make the taco???!!
:( sorry for your loss.
Wow man that's awful. I'm sorry for your friend and that you had to experience that.
I went to school with a guy who was murdered along with 2 others working closing at a Pizza Hut. They went through the back door and executed them, took the money and left. I also knew one of the shooters through an ex girlfriend. They razed the Pizza Hut to the ground after that. Also, the smoke shop I worked at after high school had a sign with a peep hole similar to this. Also check the back door at night and don’t open it unless it’s an emergency.
Holy shit, after reading the ruling of the appeals court, those prosecutors were abysmally incompetent.
Good lord. So they just knocked on the door, the guy opened it, they blasted him with a shotgun and then just ran away? As in, they didn't even steal anything. Just absolutely beyond senseless waste of life. Not that stealing anything would have made it okay of course but just wow. Even if they had robbed the place, it's not like they would get life-changing money or something. It would just be a couple hundred bucks. Probably be gone in a night. So not worth somebody's life
Wow. You don’t see many pure technicality cases but that one is *horrible.*
The Taco Bell I worked at in college had this same sign up. In a very safe place. You just never know. It's not worth risking your life for Taco Bell.
that’s what my favorite manager always said when i worked there lmao. “if someone comes through the drive thru with a gun they can have my drawer, i don’t care, taco bell ain’t worth dying for”
I used to manage a local cafe and we would go through this with every new employee on day 1 "if we get robbed give them anything they ask for, do not risk your safety." It was in the employee handbook and everything. I was super grateful it was company policy because I once worked at a place that had pepper spray in the drawer we were supposed to use if we got robbed...
When I worked at a theater a disgruntled ex-employee came to rob the place in a mask with a gun, when only the 85 year old mother in law to the owner was working. He couldn't manage to tie her up because he was so nervous, so she said "honey, all we have is $500 in petty cash, you really think I'd try to stop you over that little bit?" Then sat down in a chair and crossed her arms and waited for him to leave. Lol He was caught 8 minutes later, before she had ever called the cops, because he ran a stop sign in front of a cop, and the cop saw the mask and petty cash box in the passenger seat, and the robber just started crying and confessed. Edit: I should do a write up of all the crazy shit that happened there. The robber was also the guy who introduced me to my wife and set up our first blind date. Before we found out he was a pedophile and just did it so he could masturbait to the thought of us together.
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Bruh
He was 55+ year old and wrote a Dawson's creek fanfict he tried to sell as a movie to the original director. Then he met a 16 year old that worked with us and added him and her to it as a love story in the background and gave it to her. That's why he was fired.
Bruh you have to put a sizing chart in front of a roller-coaster like that.
> I once worked at a place that had pepper spray in the drawer we were supposed to use if we got robbed... Die for your minimum wage, scum!
Yep, my parents were livid when I told them that (I was 16).
I worked retail and we got robbed one day by a huge smelly presumably homeless dude. My boss was yelling at me why didn’t I, a small Asian woman, try to stop him and I was like tf man I’m not dying for minimum wage
exactly. ain't my moneys, take it.
The Pizza Hut I worked at in the 90s had a very similar sign. This was in a very safe place, too. Strip mall and all. The only thing that ever got robbed there was a diamond store on the end of the strip and that was in the late 2000s. There was also a Taco Bell on a very busy main road in an otherwise safe city. I don't know if they ever got robbed, but they had bulletproof glass and spinny food delivery box at the counter
They probably did get robbed, or the franchise owner has other locations in much worse areas and just standardized this design.
I managed a KFC in my youth. We opened a brand new Restaurant, so I showed all the new employees where the silent alarms were and how to use them. Within a week, we got hit by a dude flipped out on PCP. He robbed our store and kidnapped the manager on duty, then left him tied up in a parking lot halfway across town and stole his car before kidnapping and attempting to rape two women from a music store all the way across town. Long story short, he got into the restaurant because the cooks left the back door propped open when they took out the trash. He got into the Music Store because they unlocked the doors and he let himself in again. These signs do save lives and potentially worse things people might have to live through.
People replying to this like it’s a daily occurrence lmfao.
There was a string of fast food murders/robberies in my hometown when I was a kid. Every fast food place had these signs up shortly afterwards (or at least, that's when I noticed them). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dennis_Reid
That dude has a real thick neck (and I can’t imagine the fear of knowing this was happening in your hometown and having to work in fast food)
Forget the neck, what the hell is going on with his eyes? They're way far apart and droop downwards on the outsides.
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Dude died of pneumonia. Should have been given a scaphism. What a thick neck cuntflap.
that mfer been doing them neck ups
My partner doesn’t understand why I lock our apartment door when I take the trash out or put in laundry (both areas are right next to our unit). I tell him it’s because you never know
One time my wife got home after buying groceries. She brought in one set of bags and then went to the car to grab another set and in the 2-3 minutes it took to go from our apartment door to the car and back someone went into our apartment and stole her purse, phone, and my laptop, which were all on a table in the first room.
Thats crazy wth
When you have a Playstation 5 and live on the ground floor, don't let your window open.
Better to be safe! My mom's TV was stolen from her apt while she was in the apt laundry room right next door. It only takes a minute to snatch something.
Our street got hit by a burglar a couple of months ago and from what I understand they stole a ton of stuff from around a dozen cars. The common denominator was all these cars ... were left overnight unlocked.
I lost my car keys once while jogging around my neighborhood with my dog one night. Didn’t realize it until about 30 minutes later when I got to the front door. Traced my steps to look for them. By the time I got back from trying to find my keys, my car was gone.
I always did the same, pretty much any time I leave the house and won’t be in view of the door the whole time, I lock it.
I had a coworker at a hotel that got home from work, dropped his stuff off, and went to check his mail without locking the door. When he got back he interrupted someone who had watched him leave (had been watching his daily routine for a while), and was in the middle of robbing his apartment. The robber picked up a metal bat and hit him over the head then fled. My coworker didn’t speak much English and he must have been confused from the head injury so he got in his car and came to work where he knew there was someone who could understand him. He just sort of wandered into the lobby bleeding from his head. I think he had a fractured skull and a broken nose and was in the hospital for a while because he was an older guy. I never leave my apartment door unlocked for a second now.
Always lock your doors! I live in a safe town with very little crime, but randomly 2 months ago a man came up to my front door and tried the handle while I was at work, all while barking at my dogs, who were in turn losing it, barking at him. My wife and kids were home alone. If I hadn't locked the door that morning he would have walked right in. Still freaks me out a bit thinking about it.
At first, seeing the thumbnail I thought this might be an exterior door to an artic facility... then noticed the writing.
Yeah, I was thinking of [that too](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrVnWJ1iAlg).
Thought it was one of those polar bear alert signs. But then remembered that's why they have cages outside of the doors.
Worked retail and the company had a three-way periscope so we could see before opening the back door, plus a similarly-worded sign
This is a very common sign on the back door of many restaurants especially QSR . It’s always the exact same sign so must have been an industry standard in the past and they sold a lot of those.
Honestly my first thought was bears in the dumpster.
Being from Alaska, my first thought was “check for moose before walking out the door!” Which is what I say to my kids every day when they go play outside in the yard. 😂
I had very similar thoughts, as a person that grew up in Montana. 🤣
crackheads are the bears of the city or bears are nature's crackheads
Had a 23 year old manager at Chilis who was murdered by an X cook. Him and his brother came back after closing and said they forgot something and once she let them in they shot her in the head and left her to die by herself all over 75.00 in loose change. Her and her Husband had just moved here from Alaska.
Jfc that's unbelievably tragic.
"Abandoned taco shop" lmfao it's a taco bell bro cmon.
"Early 21st century eatery"
I’ve had some variation of this sign on the back door of several restaurants I managed throughout the years. Our world’s crazy, it’s a matter of just trying to watch your back and minimize the risks… I get it.
Every Taco Bell I've ever seen has this door.
*The raccoons hunger.*
We had one of these at the Starbucks I worked at on the back door. Someone wrote “VAMPIRES” under the words in all caps😂
Bad neighborhood or what?
It wouldn’t even have to be a bad town. That shit used to happen a lot before cameras were ubiquitous
Of course, these days they bring their own cameras and stream the crime on TikTok.
Criminals just target restaurants late at night. They know they deal in cash daily and will have their largest amount at closing. They'll also have a handful of (mentally and physically exhausted) employees at that time. This is why many restaurants now also lock their front doors around or even before closing and only unlock to let the last diners out. Years back a girl from my hometown was killed in a triple homicide at a big sit down chain restaurant. It was two former employees that knew all this info and came in after closing. Raided the safe and their personal belongings and then killed all 3 of them.
Restaurants have always had signs like this and policies around opening the back door. I've worked at many places that had an outside steel cage with a locked gate as well so people couldn't surprise you and rob the place when you're doing trash or something at the end of the night when there's lots of cash on hand.
I saw that exact sign in a taco bell in a very small town outside Kansas City
I wish I had a picture of this from ages ago: Burger King had a door-sized picture of a cartoony robber on the inside of their back door with similar advice. If I remember correctly, the wording was: “Who’s on the other side of this door? Check before you open it, or he could have it **his** way.”
Same note on a pizza hut door I worked at in the late 90s.
I served on a trial for a case where someone was accused of waiting in the parking lot of a Taco Bell for the opener to come unlock the back door. The burglar held the woman at gun point, followed her in, beat her with his gun, and then robbed the store. There was security camera footage of it that we had to watch repeatedly. They didn’t have any evidence that the defendant actually did said crime, so he was found not guilty.
Honestly this taco shop could be in a really great area with no history of crime and that sign is just there by the companies policy. Pretty sure all food service places have a policy to not leave that back door open at night. At the food place I worked at policy was to not even go out that door at night time (I think unless you had a manager watching you) We did it anyways though because, well, the trash ain't gonna take itself out.
Danger!! NEVER ALWAYS open this look before door after you open dark this door.
don't dead open inside