Friday, May 16, 2008
 
When Corporate Training Fails
Brazen robber shot Overland store clerk:
    Overland Police Chief James Herron said a surveillance camera showed police what happened next:

    The robber pulled a small-caliber semiautomatic handgun and demanded money. The clerk did everthing right, Herron said. He obliged -- opening the cash register drawer and stepping back, just as management had taught him to do.

    But the robber fired anyway. He shot the clerk once in the shoulder, then reached into the register to grab the money. The robber then jumped onto the counter and tried to fire several more times, but the gun malfunctioned. He ran out the door and down the street. Two customers on the lot saw him. They found the clerk on the floor behind the counter and called police.
Fortunately, corporate training didn't include the advanced techniques, dying to prevent corporate liability for accidental employee-inflicted wounds during self-defense.

Similar story related at Books, Bikes, and Boomsticks. Perhaps a wave of similar incidents will change corporate policies in this regard, but I'm not hopeful that corporations will ever value their individual employees rights to life and self-defense over their own legal liabilities.

Also, memo to the city of Florissant and to all similar (soon to be simply "all") cities who lust for surveillance cameras to prevent crime: discounting the British example, wouldn't common sense indicate that cameras haven't eliminated bank robberies or gas station hold ups and won't particularly impact street crime?

Not, I suppose, if budget is on the line. A higher principle than anything stated by government officials.


- posted by Brian J. @ 6:16 AM
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