Texas Gun Group’S Protest Sends Restaurant Employees Fleeing For Freezer As Cops Respond

[Purveyor]

A demonstration by a pro-gun group in Ft. Worth, TX sent restaurant employees at a Jack in the Box location fleeing into the freezer as police responded to the scene thinking a robbery was in progress.

According to Dallas-Ft. Worth’s NBC Channel 5, Open Carry Texas protesters are irate that police treated them like criminals for staging a heavily armed protest without notifying authorities and without visible signs stating the purpose of the demonstration.

Sgt. Ray Bush of the Ft. Worth Police Department told Channel 5 that officers received a call Thursday night from employees of the restaurant who thought that the large group of heavily armed white men had come to rob them.

“They locked themselves inside a freezer for protection out of fear the rifle-carrying men would rob them,” Bush said via email. “The demonstration had no signage that would have alerted anyone to their real purpose, and to our knowledge they did not attempt to contact anyone in the Fort Worth Police Department to advise us prior to the demonstration.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/03/texas-gun-groups-protest-sends-restaurant-employees-fleeing-for-freezer-as-cops-respond/

[Warpy]

1. Fuckers were looking for a fight

Kudos to the manager who herded everybody into that freezer.

Pulling a stunt like this one should get their guns taken away from them until they grow up.

[stone space]

2. These gun fettishist assholes don't give a flying fuck how cold it is in the freezer.

What if folks had found themselves locked in the freezer, and had not been able to get out?

Do the gun fetishists care about anybody other than themselves?

[SwankyXomb]

7. Just their gunz.

[Kang Colby]

24. No one locked themselves in a freezer...

this is just another lie from Big Gun Control. Should it surprise anyone that the same group of people who condone petty theft also lie?

http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2014/05/10/open-carry-texas-helps-debunk-story-that-terrified-jack-in-the-box-employees-locked-themselves-in-freezer/

[awoke_in_2003]

28. Safety releases

have been standard on walk in freezer doors for decades.

[rrneck]

3. Rec for posting in the right place. nt

[Half-Century Man]

4. Awwww, they were mad cause nobody could tell that they were the potential heroes

if things had gone bad.
The ignorant sheeple can't tell the difference between a posse of heroes in waiting and an armed mob bent on destruction.
Perhaps some distinctive apparel, something shiny and easily seen at a glance.

A tin foil hat sounds about right.

[hack89]

5. Fucking idiots. Nt

[gejohnston]

6. someone needs to teach them a class on how to

protest without doing the cause more harm than good.

[Duckhunter935]

8. Those idiots

Make it harder on responsible firearms owners.

[gejohnston]

10. True, but I wonder what their rational is?

I mean do they seriously think that it "in your face" is actually a good idea to legalize open carry? The appropriateness of OC in an urban area is a different issue, which I generally think it isn't.

People are threatened, sometimes irrationally sometimes not, by anything out of the ordinary. A bunch of guys standing around in a parking lot with no signs or any indication of why they are there would freak most city folks out. When I was a kid, there was a guy who open carried on his motorcycle when he went to the range. The way Wyoming's CCW laws were at the time, that was the only legal way to carry it since a saddle bag or a pack would be the same as under the car seat or glove box. When he stopped for gas, he fueled his bike, paid for it and left without anyone freaking.

[Duckhunter935]

12. I think they just get a rush

and want some fame, they do not even care if it really is just hurting the cause they supposedly are for. They got exactly what they wanted, a reaction and publicity.

[gejohnston]

17. I remember the last time these guys pulled some stunt

someone here, I can't remember who, and I pondered if it was stupidity or agent provocateur (I'm kind of cynical, but I don't give Bloomberg that much credit). Either way, it does for their cause about what this pic does for "gun free zones"

[Kang Colby]

22. I agree but...this story is a complete fabrication.

No police were called from the store, no one hid in the freezer. If you are interested, see post 19 for details. This incident was a fairy tale that has since been debunked.

[Kang Colby]

23. Maybe so, but this story was made up almost entirely. n/t

[SFangel]

9. A "large group of heavily armed white men"

decided to rob a Jack in the Box???? Each rifle they carried was probably worth more than the daily take of that joint. Also, a "large group of heavily armed white men" and, by the way "rifle-carrying men" intent on robbery were just apprehended by the cops without an incident? I should be a journalist, apparently it doesn't take much to become one.

[arcane1]

11. "“The demonstration had no signage that would have alerted anyone to their real purpose"

The employees acted wisely. Only a fool would have done otherwise.

[SFangel]

14. fine, let's follow logic here, employees of a Jack in the Box see a large group of heavily armed

men, who they think are there to cause harm, but for some reason are not doing harm because they must think that their rifles are useless against curly fries and therefore don't advance, call the police and hide in a fridge.
Good thing the police response time is not like in some rural areas, or else the poor souls would have died from hypothermia.

[Logical]

15. Really? 2 posts defending the idiotic gun protesters? Enjoy your short stay! nt

[SFangel]

16. I will, thank you.

[stone space]

18. As if the ammosexuals would even care about the deaths of their victims.

Good thing the police response time is not like in some rural areas, or else the poor souls would have died from hypothermia.

To them, it's a big joke.

Scaring people is fun.

[Kang Colby]

20. It's a good thing this story is a complete fabrication. n/t

[Kang Colby]

21. That didn't happen. See post #19. n/t

[Eleanors38]

13. Dumb demonstration with some peculiarly comic relief.

[Kang Colby]

19. Folks, this never happened.

This story is a lie concocted by the social media department of Bloomberg's Moms group.

If anyone ever posts an article painting guns or gun owners in an unfavorable light, it needs to be fact checked. This story is two years old, was originally printed in the NYT, and the NYT issued a retraction.

No one hid in the freezer, no one called the police from the store. Those are the facts. http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2014/05/10/open-carry-texas-helps-debunk-story-that-terrified-jack-in-the-box-employees-locked-themselves-in-freezer/

If people in Texas see a firearm, they are not likely to call the police OR use it as an excuse to steal. Gun control advocates are never honest. Remember that.

[flamin lib]

29. Hmmm, I've got stories published by NBC, Forbes, Dallas Morning News, CBS,

Dallas Eatery and Texas Monthly.

You've got a statement from Texas Open Carry.

Okay, you win

[Kang Colby]

30. A lie gets half way around the world before the truth gets out of bed.

An earlier version of this post included information from Sgt. Ray Bush of the Forth Worth Police Department, who wrote in an email last week that the employees at the Jack in the Box where Open Carry Texas staged a demonstration “locked themselves inside a freezer for protection out of fear the rifle-carrying men would rob them.” However, Brian Luscomb, vice president of corporate communications for Jack in the Box, told the New York Times this evening, “Our employees told us that they did not hide in the freezer.” We have amended the post to reflect this new information.

http://nocera.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/the-gun-report-may-9-2014/?_r=0

Why do the facts never seem to support the anti-rights side of the debate?

[friendly_iconoclast]

31. Don't expect a reply- that lot tends to scarper when inconvenient truths are revealed...

[Eleanors38]

25. 2+ year-old story even the. NYT had to "re-edit." tRumpism has infected the controllers.

[EdwardBernays]

26. The staff

should sue for emotional harm...

god knows if I had to serve vigilante types on a daily basis I'd demand hazard pay... actually, what's my life worth? More than any fast food joint pays... so once again it's the poor that get screwed over... people that can't afford to walk away from a job that puts their life in danger... sad sad sad

[awoke_in_2003]

27. These fuckers showed up at a Home Depot

a mile from my house last year. I do not know how one of these fools hasn't got shot yet. There are a lot of other people packing.