Pizza Guy incident: Pizza delivery leads to robbery attempt

A delivery driver for Boss’s; Pizza and Chicken was delivering an order in the 400 block of North Lake Avenue just after 3 a.m. when he was approached by a man with a gun who demanded cash, police spokesman Sean Kooistra said.

The driver handed over his money, two pizzas and his cell phone, but the robber dropped his handgun, Kooistra said. The driver picked it up and began to beat the robber as two other men jumped out from the bushes.

Not exactly sure what it means by “began to beat the robber” but good on the pizza guy for reacting quickly to a miscue by the bad guy.

Police: Witness to iPhone theft shoots at suspects, faces own arrest

Gresham police say Witter, 48, was in an AT&T store at 533 Northwest Division Street in Gresham when two men stole multiple iPhones. Witter witnessed the theft and, instead of waiting for police, he took off after the men, firing at their getaway car.

He told police he intended to “shoot out the tires,” but it is unclear where the rounds ended up, though police said he fired in a direct line with the Gresham City Hall Max station and the adjacent Park & Ride.

This is crazy.

I thought all those guns meant crime would be through the roof. The way crime is covered in the news you’d sure think it was.

But according to the FBI:

Preliminary figures indicate that, as a whole, law enforcement agencies throughout the Nation reported a decrease of 5.5 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for 2009 when compared with figures reported for 2008. The violent crime category includes murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The number of property crimes in the United States in 2009 decreased 4.9 percent when compared with data from 2008. Property crimes include burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. Arson is also a property crime, but data for arson are not included in property crime totals. Figures for 2009 indicate that arson decreased 10.4 percent when compared to 2008 figures.

This is terrible, terrible news for the Bradys and other gun control groups.

It must be sad needing bad things to happen so that you can get what you want. Rather than being glad violent crime is down, you have to worry about spinning the news so that you’re still relevant.

Pizza Driver, Would-Be Robbers Exchange Gunfire

Indianapolis:

Two would-be robbers and a pizza delivery driver exchanged gunfire early Thursday morning after the men tried to rob the worker, police said…One of the men fired a shot at the driver, but missed. The driver also had a gun and fired back. Indianapolis police said they don’t think either suspect was struck, but the men haven’t been found.

Refreshingly:

The owner of the pizza shop said that he started having all his drivers carry guns while on deliveries about two years ago.

A sign that reads, “Warning, We Don’t Dial 911″ is posted inside the business.

“It’s a visual deterrent. Sometimes people are armed, sometimes they’re not. You just never know what you are going to run into,” said owner Darrell Kreitzer. “If you want to run in here and try something stupid, you don’t know what you’re going to get.”

The shop in question is Aunt Polly’s Pizza.

Surprising that no one hit if it all took place on a porch.

Via The Armed Citizen: Man attempts to rob pizza delivery man

A would be robber got more than he bargained for when he tried to hold up a pizza delivery driver. As FOX10 News reporter Renee Dials explains, the robber found himself looking down the barrel of the intended victim’s gun.

It was an ambush and the robber had a shotgun on the delivery driver.

Instead of panicking, Dean did something the robber wasn’t expecting.

“I dropped my pizza bag when I drew my weapon and that got his attention. He glanced to the side, and when he glanced, I just drew my weapon, and he ran off, almost instantaneously,” he explained.

This write-up on the story indicates that Dean works for Hungry Howies and his store does not have a policy forbidding drivers from carrying weapons. Does anyone know if that’s a company-wide policy?

Lawmakers: Military could quell Chicago violence

CHICAGO — Two Illinois lawmakers say violence has become so rampant in Chicago that the National Guard must be called in to help.

Chicago Democratic Reps. John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford made a public plea to Gov. Pat Quinn on Sunday to deploy troops.

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I don’t understand why they just don’t ban guns. Every other city that has banned guns has seen seen dramatic drops in violent crimes. Chicago’s insane rules allowing citizens to carry firearms is to blame for all of these gun deaths.

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You’ve got to be pretty dense in the head to think calling for the National Guard is the thing to do here.

Ninth member arrested; attorney general says they intended to ‘levy war’

This is NOT why Murdoc hasn’t been posting much lately.

I don’t know much about this situation. It sounds fairly extreme, but then the story’s going to be told that way in the press no matter what the facts are.

The Armed Citizen:

A liquor store clerk shot and killed one of two armed, masked men who tried to rob the shop on Tully Road late Friday night, Modesto police said today.

Police arrived at the Super Liquors store in the 1600 block of Tully Road to find one of the robbery suspects with gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital and died later in the night. This evening, police identified him as Kyle Johnson, 20, of Modesto.

A second suspected robber fled the scene after struggling with a second clerk, police said. They said this evening that the suspect, a 17-year-old boy, had been arrested and will be booked into Juvenile Hall on charges of homicide and attempted robbery.

Pentagon gunman sought ‘truth’ about 9/11

Wacko. From California. With guns.

Heh:

Now, I’ve been to innumerable “Truther” rallies over the last 8 years, and can say with some confidence that about 98% of folks who think 9/11 was a hoax are left-wingers, or at the very least fit in very comfortably in the left-wing milieu, since the impetus behind Truthism is to undermine the basis for Bush’s “War on Terror,” an impetus which is also a cornerstone of modern Leftist thought as well.

So far, however, I’ve noticed a deafening quietude on the left-leaning blogs about this guy’s affiliations and belief systems. Those brave enough to troll leftist comments sections have noted mumblings therein that the guy was probably a secret “teabagger,” despite all evidence to the contrary.

Officials hail math teacher as a hero for preventing ‘a more tragic event’

Good on math teacher David Benke for putting a stop to a guy who ‘has problems.’