Video: UPS driver throws box, urinates against Texas house

[TexasTowelie]

HOUSTON (AP) — A UPS driver has been fired after a Houston homeowner posted security video that shows the delivery man throwing a parcel over a gate and urinating against a house.

UPS officials apologized to homeowner Ben Lucas for the Jan. 8 incident.

Lucas said Tuesday that he checked his surveillance video after finding that the parcel was broken open and some of the items inside damaged, including ammunition and a gun-cleaning device.

The video shows the delivery man hurling the package over a gate, then unzipping his pants and relieving himself on the property.

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[itsrobert]

1. There is no excuse

for UPS treating their temp seasonal employees poorly. They run them to death while dangling a full-time job. For example, no time for bathroom breaks. In housing areas there a few places to relieve yourself, so it requires the driver to go out of his/her route taking 30 minutes to take a bathroom break that normally only takes a couple minutes. Two time to the bathroom in 8 hours, is 1 hour for 4 minutes of urinating. The employee has to make up the time in delivering faster.

[redwitch]

2. There is no excuse for what the UPS man did.

Throwing someone's parcel hard enough to damage the contents and urinating against a house is bad behavior. He will be looking for a different job I think.

[itsrobert]

4. There is a cause and effect

You seem more concerned about material things, than your fellow human being. Seems to be he was feeling the pressure of the production standard set by his employer. He didn't handle it well I do admit. But let's not pretend the employer does not put unrealistic production time on people like him and bears no responsibility. You think he enjoyed the predicament he was in?

[redwitch]

7. No. Just don't like the idea of people urinating on other people's homes. nt

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. Yeah, we all really want USPS taken over by "the brown".

[Ilsa]

5. This is why the USPS should NEVER be taken over

by Brown or FedEx. Service becomes crap because employees hate their jobs.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. So friggin fired.