Is it legal to kill customers?

[HoreTore]

Is it? If not, then it should be. At least let it be legal to torture them for a while.

Here's the deal:

I worked the night shift at a gas station today. Around 2 or so in the night, a (quite drunk)guy comes in and asks for a hot dog. He gets it, then he go's to the accessory stand(which is not behind the counter, the costumers always add it themselves) and puts on some ketchup and leaves. A few minutes after, he comes back, mad. He holds out his hot dog, points at it and screams at me: "THERE'S KETCHUP ON MY HOT DOG!!! I HATE KETCHUP!!! I DEMAND A NEW ONE!!". Not really knowing whether I should laugh, cry or get mad, I ask him why he put ketchup on it if he doesn't like it, that he'll have to pay if he wants a new one, and that there isn't any left of the kind he got, so he'll have to get another kind if he wants a new one. I doubt he really listened to me, as he simply continued yelling the same phrases while I was talking. Then he suddenly stopped, and threw the hot dog over the counter at the floor beside me(leaving a bloody mess of ketchup) and ran off. I'm actually quite impressed that I was able to keep calm, it was probably because there were 10-15 others there waiting for their food so I really didn't care about much else than getting rid of the idiot... If he had hit me the case would have been different of course, I would've probably locked him up and called the cops...

So, would it be legal to whack the idiot?

[CountArach]

So, would it be legal to whack the idiot?
Are you aiming at Eugenics?

[HoreTore]

Are you aiming at Eugenics?

It wasn't supposed to be very serious....

[Crazed Rabbit]

You could always get an airsoft gun and pepper annoying/aggressive drunks to 'encourage' them to exit.
:beam:

CR

[Beirut]

Me and a buddy spend a few months cleaning up about twenty-five acres of land for a Rich Shmuck (his official nickname) who's property got whacked by a a mini-tornado or downdraft or something. Countless hundreds of trees down or hanging. One day the guy with the horse pulling out the logs tells the caretaker that he has no logs to pull because me and my buddy haven't been working hard enough. Caretaker phones Rich Shmuck (who's away on vacation) and Rich Shmuck tells caretaker to blast us for being lazy.

So the caretaker blast us us, we eat it, then me and my buddy, fuming, go about counting the 100+ logs lying on the forest floor we had cut that were ready to be taken out by the horse guy. Rich Shmuck returns a few days later and we take him into the woods and show him the 100+ logs we counted that were ready to go. His response...

"Well, if you hadn't wasted so much time counting the logs you could have been busy cutting more trees."


:tnt:


It might not be legal to kill customers, but it should be. Especially the rich ones. (I like the torture part.)

[KukriKhan]

Ahhh memories. The 2 a.m. "drunk shift", where the best and brightest can be observed in the wild, in their natural habitat.:dizzy2:

The folks who have it worst with that crowd are waiters, waitresses and cooks at all-night diners. On the other hand, sometimes the tips are very good (after a drunken patron barfs his breakfast all over the table, and/or generally makes a fool of himself & his party, he'll/they'll often wa-a-ay over-tip to compensate).

[The_Mark]

Argh! Grammar Nazi explosion! :tnt:

I worked the night shift at a gas station today. Around 2 or so in the night, a (quite drunk)guy comes in and asks for a hot dog. He gets it, then he go's to the accessory stand
:wall:

It's GOES, not "go's", which means "something of a go", possessive, whatever go might mean in the syntax. :whip:




... er, move along. :sweatdrop:

[Husar]

I like you Mark.:2thumbsup: :sweatdrop:

And uh, nice stories, had I found a job already I might have added one, so far I'm still searching...:creep:

[FactionHeir]

Hmmm in HoreTore's case, if he had been hit, could he strike back and argue it was in self-defense?

[Ironside]

Hmmm in HoreTore's case, if he had been hit, could he strike back and argue it was in self-defense?

Not unless you're going to run with that it's a part of a general aggressive behavoir, unless even I would throw back those hot-dogs sober. :laugh4: they need to be quite hard in that case
Cloth ruined by the ketchup on the other hand...

[HoreTore]

Argh! Grammar Nazi explosion! :tnt:

:wall:

It's GOES, not "go's", which means "something of a go", possessive, whatever go might mean in the syntax. :whip:

Haha, I actually noticed the typo just after I posted it, but I was too tired to care enough to fix it....

And now it won't ever be fixed!!


Hmmm in HoreTore's case, if he had been hit, could he strike back and argue it was in self-defense?

Nah. He would have to be ready to hit me for me to legally strike him. However, if he had hit me with the hot dog, I would definitely have called the cops... Might no be enough for assault though, but it'll be more than enough for public disturbance. And they're actually quite happy to arrest and fine idiots causing trouble at 2 in the night...

[CountArach]

It wasn't supposed to be very serious....
I know, just messing around.

lol, Beirut, that seriously made me laugh.

[Geoffrey S]

Whack the idiot? What about socialist ideals HoreTore? Shouldn't he be getting social benefits or re-education or something (although admittedly, a solid thump is educational in its own right!)? ~;)

[Watchman]

Nonono, re-education is what Communists do. Be careful with the names, both can get kinda ornery if you get them wrong. East side, west side y'now ?

[HoreTore]

Nono. I could give him re-education, I see nothing wrong with that. I just don't have the forced labour camp or torture(don't worry, I'll find a hotter name than "gulag") up and running yet, so for the time being, he'll have to be content with whacking.

[macsen rufus]

Oh please please please can we conclude it is legal..... PLEEEEEZE :laugh4:

I've got a loooong list of illiterate, ungrateful, whining, selfish, know-it-alls in my little black book. Some of them make 'Mr Chuck HotDog' look like the soul of consideration. If I can't kill them, I'll just have to console myself with knowing where they live and their email addresses... ~D

[caravel]

In my job I get them every day. In one classic case I informed the customer that the "printer doesn't lie" (the menu map printout that shows what the printer has done in it's lifetime and the state of the consumables). His response was "SO I AM LYING THEN!!!??". I wanted to say "well yes" but had to bite my tongue.

:bow:

[macsen rufus]

... but had to bite my tongue.

Why? Is this where I'm going wrong? :oops:

So how did you resolve it? Actually, I think I would ask if there was 'any chance someone else could have used it' unbeknown to the customer....

We had a customer of "doubtful evidential veracity" who claimed an item arrived broken because the driver dropped it out of the van. The "little old man" was struggling because it was too big for him. The "little old man" in question is 23 years old. Now, why don't I believe them?