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[rodentraiser]

When I was cashiering at 7-11, we had an ATM in the store. The guys were loading it with money one day and one of my customers got his feelers hurt. I guess he leaned over to look at the money on his way in and the guard very deliberately raised his gun at the guy. "All I did was look!" was what he told me. Well, don't look next time. They take their job seriously.

I worked grave at that 7-11 and the cops would just sit across the street sometimes and watch the store for a bit. One customer sped into the parking lot and backed in in a getaway position and then came running into the store. He just wanted to beat the deadline for getting beer, but that cop across the street was in the store in a nanosecond. As I recall, that customer complained, too, but hey, when you rip into the parking lot, back up to the door, and run into the store, what do you think is going to happen?

I always did like what one cop said, though. "When we get a call to a 7-11, we never know who the victim is going to be, the cashier or the customer." In my case it was probably true. I kept a bat behind the counter and I let the local hooligans know it.

 

[caseydog]

I kept a bat behind the counter and I let the local hooligans know it.

I'd go with a .357 Magnum, and the hooligans wouldn't know about it unless they found themselves staring down the wrong end of the barrel.

CD

 

[dragnlaw]

I gots me one of those!

 

[taxlady]

I gots me one of those!

A bat or a .357 Magnum?

 

[caseydog]

A bat or a .357 Magnum?

I have one of each.

CD

 

[dragnlaw]

I have one of each.

CD

So do I. Although I think the bat is in my belfry.

 

[GinnyPNW]

Ginny, my ex was in his patrol car, slowly driving around behind the shopping centre. Two armed men burst through a door right on top of him. He thought, "This is it. I'm dead"
turned out they were detectives from the city chasing a bank robber. They'd gotten a tip and were staking out the bank. My ex was not a happy camper, never having been warned about them.
Quite a few cops will not enter a bank in their uniforms on personal business. Only on a call.

Before I started my own business, there was a time when I worked in downtown L.A. I remember one day when the plant manager could be heard all over the building yelling, "Get down, he's got a gun!" Turns out it was the guard from USC, he had chased a rapist from the campus all the way to our plant...and he was hiding in the pallets of printed materials.

Then there were the winter days. One did not want to work late. We had to get to our cars before the sun started to go down. They were building the subway and that caused the rodents to wander the streets...and these rodents were the size of medium-size dogs! I remember one morning, one of the girls came in screaming that there was a rat on her desk! That same plant manager jumped up on his desk and said, "well, don't bring it in here!" LOL...he was a character, God rest his soul.

And now you know some of the reasons I started my own business! L.A. was a great place to grow up...it changed a lot over the years!

 

[taxlady]

I have one of each.

CD

Not surprised.

So do I. Although I think the bat is in my belfry.

Surprised.

 

[rodentraiser]

I'd go with a .357 Magnum, and the hooligans wouldn't know about it unless they found themselves staring down the wrong end of the barrel.

CD

Unfortunately, Southland Corporation wouldn't allow us to bring weapons into the store.

We'd resort to other things. One of my friends said they used to always work two people on a shift at 7-11. One to mind the store and the other to chase the shoplifters down.

I had some guys once come into the store and a couple tried to chat me up so a third could grab all the sandwiches and run. I went after him after locking the store on the other ones from the outside, then called the cops from the pay phone right there.

Cops arrived and found the thief still waiting in his car for his friends, who were still locked in the store. The thief was going to get a warning but got so smart-mouthed with the cops, they took him to jail.

 

[caseydog]

Unfortunately, Southland Corporation wouldn't allow us to bring weapons into the store.

We'd resort to other things. One of my friends said they used to always work two people on a shift at 7-11. One to mind the store and the other to chase the shoplifters down.

I had some guys once come into the store and a couple tried to chat me up so a third could grab all the sandwiches and run. I went after him after locking the store on the other ones from the outside, then called the cops from the pay phone right there.

Cops arrived and found the thief still waiting in his car for his friends, who were still locked in the store. The thief was going to get a warning but got so smart-mouthed with the cops, they took him to jail.

Firearm laws here in Texas are different from those in other States, for better and for worse. If a 7-eleven worker here keeps a hidden handgun with them, they may be in violation of 7-Eleven rules, but as long as they obey the laws of self-defense, they may lose their job, but won't get arrested. There are very clear legal definitions of what self-defense means.

Firearms are way too easy to buy here in Texas, but you need to know what you cn and can't do with that firearm. If you step over the line, such as shooting somebody through your closed and locked door, you face prosecution, as you should. The self-defense rule means that you had no other choice In Texas. That is not true in some States like Florida, where all you need is to feel afraid for your safety.

I hope I am never put in a position where I have to decide whether to shoot someone or not, but I know the laws, and understand the difference between genuine self defense, and playing Rambo.

CD

 

[rodentraiser]

My brother was so upset with me for NOT having a gun when I was living in my truck. But that was in California at the time and let's face it, if you're living in a vehicle, a gun is probably not affordable. Anyway, I would never buy a weapon without taking a multitude of lessons so I'd know how to handle it beyond point and shoot.

As it was, I was working for 7-11 at the time and the small towns cops all knew me and although I parked up in the hills on my friends' horse pasture, when I needed to sleep in the parking lot behind Safeway, they would always keep an eye on me. I don't recall them rousting any of the people in the vehicles parked behind Safeway who were all homeless. I know not all cops are like that - the ones in Santa Cruz certainly weren't that compassionate - but I do support the cops because of that.

 

[caseydog]

My brother was so upset with me for NOT having a gun when I was living in my truck. But that was in California at the time and let's face it, if you're living in a vehicle, a gun is probably not affordable. Anyway, I would never buy a weapon without taking a multitude of lessons so I'd know how to handle it beyond point and shoot.

I completely understand. In my case, I grew up around guns, with a very responsible father. I got my first rifle at age 12 (an age appropriate .22 bolt action--one step above a BB gun), and was hunting by age 15. By the time I was an adult, I was shooting competitively.

I had to take driver's eduction and pass a driver's test to legally drive a car. None of that is required here in Texas to own a firearm. That makes no sense to me.

To keep this from turning political, I can only recommend that anyone contemplating buying a firearm take the time to learn the laws, and learn how to safely own and use one. Honestly, would you buy a car, jump behind the wheel, and start driving without knowing the laws of the road, and how to drive a car?

CD