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Reason and Negotiation.

POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Friday, January 25, 2013 23:43
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:02 PM

FREMDFIRMA



There's one from my bag o tricks, there...

Papa John’s Worker Talks Would-Be Robber Into Taking Just Pizza & Wings So He Could Feed His Family
http://consumerist.com/2013/01/23/papa-johns-worker-talks-would-be-rob
ber-into-taking-just-pizza-wings-so-he-could-feed-his-family
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According to the AP, during the robbery attempt at a Papa John’s in Helena, the suspect suddenly began crying. Rather than take that opportunity to smack the guy in the noggin with a pizza pan, the restaurant clerk began talking to him.

The robbery suspect confessed that he was just stealing the money to help support his wife and kids. So the clerk offered to make him a pizza and chicken wings, on the house.

“I’d say the clerk was pretty astute,” a Helena police rep tells the AP. “I mean, he knows how to talk to this person. Kind of commiserated with him a little. Talked to him about it and you know actually changed his mind about robbing the place. That was pretty good.”


Again, reason and negotiation ARE a viable form of self-defense, and from a cynical aspect the free PR here didn't hurt none either.

Me, I woulda slipped a job application in there too, just in case.
There's folks who do stuff from malice, sure, but a lotta folk do things in desperation, and sometimes you can turn that around for them by removing the cause of said desperation - something we OUGHT be looking into on a larger social level.

-Frem

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:10 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


Might be worth trying if the situation is right, but having a Plan B would seem like a good idea.


"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:31 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Any bets on how long before that worker is fired?

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:28 AM

BYTEMITE


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Though the police have no idea what exactly they would charge the man with, they would like to locate him so that he doesn’t repeat himself.


This is one of those scenarios where they'll make up something to charge the guy with if they can find him. Resisting arrest probably.

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:30 AM

BYTEMITE


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Any bets on how long before that worker is fired?


A week, long enough for people to forget.

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:29 AM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


Caring about people is what makes the difference.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Friday, January 25, 2013 11:43 PM

SHINYGOODGUY


Amen to that, my friend.

There are folks who are hurting bad, who are in need of a hand up. Whoever that worker is used the old noggin, good on him.


SGG

Quote:

Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

There's one from my bag o tricks, there...

Papa John’s Worker Talks Would-Be Robber Into Taking Just Pizza & Wings So He Could Feed His Family
http://consumerist.com/2013/01/23/papa-johns-worker-talks-would-be-rob
ber-into-taking-just-pizza-wings-so-he-could-feed-his-family
/
Quote:

According to the AP, during the robbery attempt at a Papa John’s in Helena, the suspect suddenly began crying. Rather than take that opportunity to smack the guy in the noggin with a pizza pan, the restaurant clerk began talking to him.

The robbery suspect confessed that he was just stealing the money to help support his wife and kids. So the clerk offered to make him a pizza and chicken wings, on the house.

“I’d say the clerk was pretty astute,” a Helena police rep tells the AP. “I mean, he knows how to talk to this person. Kind of commiserated with him a little. Talked to him about it and you know actually changed his mind about robbing the place. That was pretty good.”


Again, reason and negotiation ARE a viable form of self-defense, and from a cynical aspect the free PR here didn't hurt none either.

Me, I woulda slipped a job application in there too, just in case.
There's folks who do stuff from malice, sure, but a lotta folk do things in desperation, and sometimes you can turn that around for them by removing the cause of said desperation - something we OUGHT be looking into on a larger social level.

-Frem


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