Deliver Pizzas, But Don't Protect Yourself

I’ve never delivered pizzas, but if I did, I would definitely carry a handgun.  Not to protect the pizzas, but to protect myself.  I guess I wouldn’t be working for Pizza Hut if that was the case.

"A pizza deliveryman won’t face charges for fatally shooting a would-be robber several times when he was approached in a high-crime area, but his employer, Pizza Hut, has fired him for violating a company policy against carrying firearms."

At least some former Pizza Hut customers understand.

""I hope those of you in the media will realize the incredible unfairness of a huge company telling its employees – in essence – they must agree to die for the company rather than use legal reasonable means to defend themselves,” Rick Whitham, an Indianapolis attorney, told WND. He says he saw Pizza Hut’s action as “clear discrimination against those who choose to lawfully exercise a legal, heavily regulated right.”

Whitham wrote to the company: “I don’t spend my money with businesses that openly discriminate against people such as myself who understand that the police have no affirmative duty to protect any particular citizen and that no company is worth dying for – particularly yours."

“Pizza man saved by gun, but fired for packin’ heat."

Posted by on 06/02 at 02:12 AM

  1. Okay this story always sounds really outrageous. I actually used to work at a Papa Johns. During the time I worked there a delivery driver at the local Pizza Hut was fired after an attempted robbery. The story was similar, but it didn’t make either the local or national news because the driver never actually fired the gun. All he did was hold it up after some kids with knives demanded that he give them his money. He held up the gun and didn’t even point it at them, he just said “I don’t think so” and they ran off. Later he reported the incident to his employers and when he explained how he foiled the robbery by simply holding up the gun, he was fired. This of course became a hot topic of discussion amongst the delivery drivers and pizza delivery employees in Athens. What I discovered by through discussing the subject with my own managers is that all of the major pizza delivery companies prohibit drivers carrying firearms. Pizza Hut, Dominoes, Papa Johns, and many others actually take it a step further and prohibit the carrying of weapons of any kind while on the clock. At Papa Johns this includes Mace, and Pepper Spray. My manager told me that this was for “insurance reasons.” I was skeptical of this point because the drivers must cover their own car insurance, but apparently the stores and by extension the drivers are insured for damages caused by robberies and attempted robberies.

    Ultimately though it’s not about individual companies having a problem with firearms. It’s about insurance policies and the moral hazards that come along with them…

    You know this is really interesting now that I’ve written all this in your comments box… I should have made this a blog. Oh well. ;)

    Posted by Rainbough Phillips  on  06/02  at  09:32 PM

  2. On second thought I think I will blog on this, there are too many people out there “protesting Pizza Hut,” which I think is silly since pretty much all of the major pizza delivery chains have the same policy. Yes, the policy sucks but it’s not much different from companies like Mcdonald’s not allowing drive thru employees to carry weapons and requiring them to cooperate with robbers. I worked for them too.

    Posted by Rainbough Phillips  on  06/02  at  11:00 PM

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