Waffle House employee killed after customer becomes irate, police say
Waffle House employee killed after customer becomes irate, police say
Authorities are still searching for the man who shot and killed a Waffle House employee Friday night.
The customer became “agitated and verbally abusive” toward employees at a Waffle House in Laurinburg, North Carolina, on Friday night, according to a police statement posted on Facebook.
After the customer was given his food, he started walking toward his car, before turning around and firing two shots, police said.
You have to be a special kind of asshole to shoot at someone who just made you waffles.
84I'd guess at least some chance of drugs being involved.
I was just in a restaurant where some presumably meth head got a sandwich. Kept talking to the air, doing circuits around the place, couldn't sit still for a minute, was getting himself agitated talking to the air.
I remember watching Donut Operator -- an ex-cop who used to be on a SWAT team and who does commentary on a bunch of YouTube videos. He's said a number of times that the people that he least liked having to deal with when working as an officer were the meth addicts. Really unpredictable, could wind up becoming violent after acting normal a moment earlier.
21Chances are, the kid who got shot wasn't even the cook...
8That's like... Waffle House's main clientele.
4Ever been to a waffle house after midnight? It's a special energy
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The ONLY way this could have been Prevented LITERALLY was if the Employee SHOT the Person before they could Shoot them! That's LITERALLY the Only way we could have Prevented this Tragedy! LITERALLY!
39If you think gun control is far away now, we're SUPER far away from much if any regulation on pistols. Everyone tends to focus on the scary black rifles, because they're associated with the bigger mass shootings, and bigger mass shootings are often indiscriminate, so it scares middle- and upper-middle class white people and white women in general. This is generally born out in polling demographics around "banning assault rifles."
Handguns are the overwhelming murder weapon of choice in gun murders in the US, as in this case. Meanwhile the scary rifles are used in about 3% of gun murders.
Yet people will regularly and plausibly talk about banning "assault rifles" but the idea of banning handguns isn't ever mentioned. Not that it matters much, the US has pretty clearly decided to make guns more protected than than women's bodies or children's lives.
It would take a) a president willing, b) a shift in public opinion, c) a dramatic recomposition of the supreme court, d) multiple court cases, and e) possibly an amendment to the constitution, at this point, to actually get some national gun control in the US. So, I guess it just is what it is.
And what it is is hella fucked.
15Those scary black rifles, are less than 1% of murders. It's around ~100 deaths a year with them via homicide. All rifles combined are around 2.5-3k a year. Handguns make up like 95% all gun deaths in the USA.
Thought I'd add in some numbers for you, but you're %100 correct.
6Thank you, finally someone else recognizes this.
Long guns can at least be used in war and for sport hunting.
Pistols are basically built to kill other humans, and that's all they're actually fucking good for. They might use pistols in shooting competitions, but as for actually being a useful type of gun they are not.
They're shit unless at close range and they're way too easy to hide.
Everyone else is scared of AR-15s, I'm scared of all the fucking glocks, 1911s, compact walthers, mac 9s, or whatever the fuck else.
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Man, Waffle House patrons have gone way downhill from when they were just harassing people for reading books.
11Imagine ruining what little peice of shit life you had over a dude taking too long to make fucking waffles.
19not to mention that dude's life
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How is this news? It's a Waffle House in the south. I feel like an actual eldritch horror could come in eat five customers and their server and another server would come out to say "That'll be 18.50, would you like a side of hashbrowns with it sweetee?"
12Lol. My first instinct was to downvote you, but I have to admit this was funny and plays on the long held belief that a waffle house at night is in a different dimension.
9"It's the employees fault they're dead, they shouldn't have dared work at Waffle House'
0The house is an indicator for a reason. You don't work there if anyone else will have you. They are the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the barrel. Shootings in a Waffle House are common. They aren't news. A Waffle House is a legitimate version of a crack den. Open 24/7, employs anyone, shit happens. If NC wasn't ready for this they shouldn't have let the location open. That it did is an economic indicator for the region.
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Waffle House unfortunately always lives up to its bad reputation.
Crazy shit is almost always going down in a bad way in a Waffle House.
-7Karens everywhere suddenly get inspired.
-4This is why the death penalty should continue to exist. This fuckstick killed someone over a fucking waffle. There’s over 8 billion people on this planet now we’ll survive just fine without this piece of shit.
-28The primary argument against the death penalty are the sheer number of people who were executed in spite of later being found innocent.
Just because it doesn't apply in this particular case doesn't mean anything needs to change.
The legal system does not have 100% accuracy.
31I’d prefer the government not have the right to kill its citizens.
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