decklin
Regular Member
Yesterday at about 1350 I was at the Pick Quick in Auburn. While waiting for my food this guy collects his order and goes out to his red Chevy pickup. It was a work truck, like a 2500 or 3500.
A gold Explorer being driven by another male pulls up behind him and the passenger door opens. A blonde female jumps out and runs over to one of the garbage cans with a bag of trash. She left her door open.
While she is doing this the Chevy begins to backup toward the Explorer. Never even checks his mirrors.
Explorer, seeing the impending collision puts his vehicle in reverse and backs out of the way.
Chevy sees the Explorer backing up, stops and waits for the vehicle to move then continues backing out of the space.
The two vehicles are facing each other.
The Explorer begins to move forward to clear the area. Chevy gets impatient and hits the gas then slams on the brakes. This causes the Explorer to hesitate.
The Explorer then drives by the Chevy and both vehicles stop. I see the Chevy driver crack open his door and lean out while looking back at the Explorer.
At this time my food is ready. I turn to the counter to grab my food then glance over my shoulder to see Chevy is out of his vehicle with something T-shaped and metal about a foot and a half long and he is running at the Explorer. The Explorer floors it and gets out of there.
I look at the kids behind the counter and tell them to call the cops. I look back outside to see Chevy getting back in his truck.
The kids look at me and go, "Huh?"
I yell at them, "Call the cops now!"
I then run outside with two employees behind me. I try to get the license plate number but all I can see is it is a Washington plate. I run around the other side of the building to try again but the truck is gone.
I go back inside with the employees and tell them again to call the cops. They say ok and disapear around the counter.
I ask the cashier if the guy payed cash or credit. I tell her his receipt is number 84. (He got his food right before me)
She checks and sure enough he used a card. His name is right on the receipt. At this point the manager is standing right next to her.
I tell him to make sure and give that to the cops when they show up. He says sure.
I go sit down and begin eating my lunch. I finished my fries and am thinking that I haven't heard anybody call the cops and there seems to be a severe lack of activity behind the counter.
I go back up to the counter and ask if they called the police. The manager looks at me and says with a puzzled expression, "No."
I say, "Why the hell not?"
He tells me, "Well, nothing actually happened. If the cops show up I'll give them the receipt but other than that there is nothing I can do."
I look him right in the eye, "Are you kidding me! A crime just happened in your parking lot! Two people just got chased out of here with a weapon and are probably getting beat to death right now because you didn't call the police!"
I pull out my cell phone and dial 911. Meanwhile, other customers are looking up from their personal bubbles and saying, "Wait. What happened?"
Apparently out of the ten people there I was the only one that saw anything.
I tell 911 what happened. A couple minutes after I hang up the Auburn Dispatch calls me for a confirmation of the description. When I do the dispatcher says, "Oh, good! Yeah they picked him up down the street. The police are interviewing the victims now."
After we got off the phone I went back up to the counter to tell the supervisor what happened. Again he tries to say he didn't see anything and there was nothing he could do.
I cut him off and said," The next time a customer tells you to call the cops, twice, then runs out the door and a truck is screaming out of the lot, call the police!"
He tries to say that it happened so fast.
I tell him when something does happen it is almost always fast. But when someone looks directly at you and says call the cops then just do it. Don't argue about it.
Then he asks me if my food was ok.
I nodded and left.
From the time Chevy left his vehicle to when he got back in seemed to be less than 10-12 seconds. It's hard to say.
It was so frustrating that this guy told me he was calling and never did. It is frustrating that a grown man seemed to have no comprehension of the consequences for not calling the police. It is equally frustrating that the average citizen seems to have no SA.
I do not know if Chevy succeeded in attacking Explorer but he sure scared the hell out of them!
Afterwards I realized I should have been the one to call 911 in the first place. That would have been interesting trying to juggle a cell phone and keeping my H&K from popping out of the open top holster I had on under my jacket all while running. I normally wear SERPAs with all my guns but occasionally I wear something else.
Looking forward to your thoughts.
A gold Explorer being driven by another male pulls up behind him and the passenger door opens. A blonde female jumps out and runs over to one of the garbage cans with a bag of trash. She left her door open.
While she is doing this the Chevy begins to backup toward the Explorer. Never even checks his mirrors.
Explorer, seeing the impending collision puts his vehicle in reverse and backs out of the way.
Chevy sees the Explorer backing up, stops and waits for the vehicle to move then continues backing out of the space.
The two vehicles are facing each other.
The Explorer begins to move forward to clear the area. Chevy gets impatient and hits the gas then slams on the brakes. This causes the Explorer to hesitate.
The Explorer then drives by the Chevy and both vehicles stop. I see the Chevy driver crack open his door and lean out while looking back at the Explorer.
At this time my food is ready. I turn to the counter to grab my food then glance over my shoulder to see Chevy is out of his vehicle with something T-shaped and metal about a foot and a half long and he is running at the Explorer. The Explorer floors it and gets out of there.
I look at the kids behind the counter and tell them to call the cops. I look back outside to see Chevy getting back in his truck.
The kids look at me and go, "Huh?"
I yell at them, "Call the cops now!"
I then run outside with two employees behind me. I try to get the license plate number but all I can see is it is a Washington plate. I run around the other side of the building to try again but the truck is gone.
I go back inside with the employees and tell them again to call the cops. They say ok and disapear around the counter.
I ask the cashier if the guy payed cash or credit. I tell her his receipt is number 84. (He got his food right before me)
She checks and sure enough he used a card. His name is right on the receipt. At this point the manager is standing right next to her.
I tell him to make sure and give that to the cops when they show up. He says sure.
I go sit down and begin eating my lunch. I finished my fries and am thinking that I haven't heard anybody call the cops and there seems to be a severe lack of activity behind the counter.
I go back up to the counter and ask if they called the police. The manager looks at me and says with a puzzled expression, "No."
I say, "Why the hell not?"
He tells me, "Well, nothing actually happened. If the cops show up I'll give them the receipt but other than that there is nothing I can do."
I look him right in the eye, "Are you kidding me! A crime just happened in your parking lot! Two people just got chased out of here with a weapon and are probably getting beat to death right now because you didn't call the police!"
I pull out my cell phone and dial 911. Meanwhile, other customers are looking up from their personal bubbles and saying, "Wait. What happened?"
Apparently out of the ten people there I was the only one that saw anything.
I tell 911 what happened. A couple minutes after I hang up the Auburn Dispatch calls me for a confirmation of the description. When I do the dispatcher says, "Oh, good! Yeah they picked him up down the street. The police are interviewing the victims now."
After we got off the phone I went back up to the counter to tell the supervisor what happened. Again he tries to say he didn't see anything and there was nothing he could do.
I cut him off and said," The next time a customer tells you to call the cops, twice, then runs out the door and a truck is screaming out of the lot, call the police!"
He tries to say that it happened so fast.
I tell him when something does happen it is almost always fast. But when someone looks directly at you and says call the cops then just do it. Don't argue about it.
Then he asks me if my food was ok.
I nodded and left.
From the time Chevy left his vehicle to when he got back in seemed to be less than 10-12 seconds. It's hard to say.
It was so frustrating that this guy told me he was calling and never did. It is frustrating that a grown man seemed to have no comprehension of the consequences for not calling the police. It is equally frustrating that the average citizen seems to have no SA.
I do not know if Chevy succeeded in attacking Explorer but he sure scared the hell out of them!
Afterwards I realized I should have been the one to call 911 in the first place. That would have been interesting trying to juggle a cell phone and keeping my H&K from popping out of the open top holster I had on under my jacket all while running. I normally wear SERPAs with all my guns but occasionally I wear something else.
Looking forward to your thoughts.