Police: Delivery Driver Runs Over Groceries Of Elderly Couple Who Had Pro-Police Sign In Their Yard

[Dial H For Hero]

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/12/14/instacart-driver-runs-over-groceries-blaine-pro-police-sign/

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — An Instacart delivery driver allegedly ran over an elderly couple’s groceries due to a pro-police sign in their yard, according to police.

Blaine police say they responded on Dec. 6 to a call from the couple who reported that they had placed a grocery order from a local Cub Foods and requested delivery via the Instacart delivery service.

The couple said once they received notification that the driver was outside the house, they decided to meet the driver there due to the amount of snow in their driveway.

According to the police, when the couple opened the front door, the driver yelled back at them to check the inside of their Christmas wreath hanging from the door.

The couple said they watched as the delivery person drove back and forth in the driveway. After the delivery driver left, the couple said they found that their groceries had been run over. The couple also found the receipt from the grocery order with a message saying “Instacart doesn’t pay employees, sry find another slave. F— the racist police pigs.”

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[MichMan]

1. Hope she gets convicted and goes to jail

[Dial H For Hero]

2. I just found a follow up story that indicates she's likely to be charged.

[wellst0nev0ter]

5. Yeah, no, she's been punished enough

Let's not try to hit every nail with the jail hammer.

[jimfields33]

9. Punished enough? How?

She needs 5 years in jail to think about the ways she destroyed those older couple’s lives.

[panader0]

11. Well, their groceries anyway.

[iemanja]

12. five years is excessive

More like 3 months or a fine. She didn't destroy their lives. She destroyed their groceries.

[jimfields33]

15. Oh yeah. Lol.

I guess she didn’t run them over. I need new glasses. Thanks for the corrected reality of the situation.

[ret5hd]

18. Don't worry, it's just that old lawman comin' out.

[Bongo Prophet]

36. It would take a pretty bad lawman to jump to such extreme judgment without checking their reading

Straight to "5 years for that lady to think about what she's done" type rhetoric.
I mean, it says "groceries" in the title, in the link, in the body of the story, AND in the video.

It may be that the alleged victim's version of events happened just the way police described it.
It's also possible it happened differently.

That same 'lawman' mentioned Jessie Mollett as a comparison when someone questioned the story, but a better analogy would be any of the MANY faked attacks on police or private property where the 'victims' faked a note on a coffee cup, painted anti-trump or anti-cop slogans on a car or wall...

And they keep saying the groceries were run over several times by the delivery driver, but the photo has tire tracks beneath the groceries, and no groceries appear to be run over even once. More like they were torn apart and tossed on top.



AND this "old couple" have gotten at least $3400 so far. I wonder if they're hoping it goes viral?

[ret5hd]

37. You can take the lawman off the beat...

but you can't take the "beat-'em!" out of the lawman.

[BlackSkimmer]

28. Yeah, a stiff fine would be a fitting punishment.

If jail, then a only very short stay. She obviously has some anger issues so I hope they mandate some counseling of some sort.

[wellst0nev0ter]

13. She lost her job, for one

And running over groceries does not deserve a prison sentence, unless you're Black.

[jimfields33]

16. I know I read the article wrong. I thought she ran them over.

My fault as I didn’t read it correctly.

[ExciteBike66]

26. I thought your comment was hilarious sarcasm! ;)

[BradAllison]

39. I dunno

Some DUers are getting pretty authoritarian as of late.

[cinematicdiversions]

33. Mental Health evaluation at the very least.

Serious anger issues.

[XanaDUer2]

3. Nutso nt

[electric_blue68]

4. I just finished my post on mixed feelings about cops...but geeeeebz you don't do stuff like this...

That's really nasty.

[Caliman73]

6. If you cannot deal with the views of the public, do not work with the public.

I have to work with people with whose views I am diametrically opposed. Sometimes I leave a meeting or get off a call and have to debrief. The profession in which I chose to be, makes it likely that I will have to work with, to serve, people whose ideas I cannot stomach.

That person who ran over the couple's groceries, does no one any good doing something stupid like that.

[Torchlight]

7. Seems a most terrible statistical aberration

My guess is that most voters who don't perceive the police as a sacred cow would let others enjoy their own groceries.

[PurgedVoter]

8. This one is very interesting

Not to say it didn't happen this way, but I would like to see a handwriting comparison and more information.

The message is so over the top that it feels like on of the Manson Family messages written on the wall. This may be real, but it has all the marks of a right winger wanting to start some hate. We have seen this sort of thing before. Considering that this is about eight miles from where George Floyd was murdered, I will hold my opinion till there is evidence.

[jimfields33]

10. You think this is a jussie smollett situation?

Interesting.

[BlackSkimmer]

29. You know... I have to admit that was my first thought, but then it was just too bizarre.

Well, so was the Smollett thing I guess lol.

But anyway, sounds like they caught her…I guess the groceries arriving, the receipt, the note, her hollering to check the wreath all lined up.

[Amishman]

38. fabrication is my first thought every time one of these 'notes on a receipt' things pops up

So many have turned out to be fake, I assume they are probably not real until more is known.

[jimfields33]

42. I get that and agree many end up crap stories.

[BradAllison]

40. I like to call it a Nancy Mace situation. n/m

[MichMan]

17. You think the elderly couple ran over their own groceries....

fabricated a note, and made the whole thing up ?

[ret5hd]

19. You think racists get nicer as they age?

Not sayin’ that’s what happened at all (in fact I’m pretty sure it’s as described in the OP)

…BUT, what does them being elderly have to do with it? I know plenty of elderly fuck-heads.

[Act_of_Reparation]

22. I think Occam was onto something with that razor of his.

[Raine]

23. Apparently since the groceries had to be delivered they either don't have a car or

don't drive so running over their own groceries wouldn't be easy 🤔 the note could be a different story.

[BradAllison]

41. No one would think a young woman would scratch her own face either.

[kcr]

30. I'm with you. I don't buy it n/t

[MarineCombatEngineer]

34. Based on what?

[kcr]

43. If you believe everything you hear

More power to you, I guess.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

44. Did I say I believe everything I hear?

All I asked what you're basing you statement on.

[kcr]

45. You seem to wonder why anyone would simply disbelieve an unlikely story

For one thing, the groceries don't look run over. They're sitting on top of the tire marks and look torn apart rather than crushed. Hower, I didn't believe it even before I saw that picture. The whole thing reeks.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

46. Thanks.

That's all I was inquiring about, you gave your reasons, which are legitimate.

[obamanut2012]

35. same

[Sympthsical]

47. I imagine they compared tire tread

The pics on the site show them stamped pretty clearly in the snow. Pretty simple to know if the old couple did that.

Definitely one of the weirder instacart experiences I've heard. Yesterday, a classmate of mine had Door Dash delivered to him in class. I thought that was pretty hilarious.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

48. Something like this?

[Sympthsical]

49. LOL, yep

Except it was a big bag of McDonald's. At least the professor seemed amused. End of the semester, so all the give a flips had left the building.

[janterry]

14. geez

that sign isn't anything. It just says thank you to the local police dept.

I'm glad she has been fired.

[hedda_foil]

21. Instacart's policy is to redo an order that isn't delivered properly.

I had an order that never arrived despite the shopper's insistence that he had left it at the door. They had another shopper buy everything again without charge and deliver it within two hours.

Turned out they had delivered it to a house a block away and across the street. Nextdoor is occasionally useful.

[XRubicon]

24. Rittenhouse got his day in court

So did Chavin.

I'll hold judgement until more than the couples account is known.


Edit to add, this story sounds like a 1990's right wing chain email.

[PTWB]

25. Yikes.

I always question the wisdom of folks who order food delivery while displaying partisan political signs outside. Figure that about half the people delivering the food will have different beliefs. Seems like folks who do that most really enjoy the taste of spit (or worse).

[cinematicdiversions]

31. Anyone who tampers with food based on a political sign in someones yard

Has to be a bit of a mental patient.

I am not saying there are not individuals like that out there but I doubt they are in anyway common.

[prodigitalson]

27. Maybe she can plead to the lesser crime of

trying to overthrow the government

[ck4829]

32. What a maroon. If only this person threatened election workers, the police wouldn't care

Funny how that got them to move like greased lightning though.