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Waffle House employee killed after customer becomes irate, police say

Waffle House employee killed after customer becomes irate, police say | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/us/waffle-house-employee-killed-after-customer-becomes-irate-police-say/index.html

Authorities are still searching for the man who shot and killed a Waffle House employee Friday night.

Waffle House employee killed after customer becomes irate, police say | CNN

The customer became “agitated and verbally abusive” toward employees at a Waffle House in Laurinburg, North Carolina, on Friday night, according to a police statement posted on Facebook.

After the customer was given his food, he started walking toward his car, before turning around and firing two shots, police said.

27 comments

InEnduringGrowStrong

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You have to be a special kind of asshole to shoot at someone who just made you waffles.

tal

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I'd guess at least some chance of drugs being involved.

I was just in a restaurant where some presumably meth head got a sandwich. Kept talking to the air, doing circuits around the place, couldn't sit still for a minute, was getting himself agitated talking to the air.

I remember watching Donut Operator -- an ex-cop who used to be on a SWAT team and who does commentary on a bunch of YouTube videos. He's said a number of times that the people that he least liked having to deal with when working as an officer were the meth addicts. Really unpredictable, could wind up becoming violent after acting normal a moment earlier.

jordanlund

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Chances are, the kid who got shot wasn't even the cook...

SnotFlickerman

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That's like... Waffle House's main clientele.

GBU_28

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Ever been to a waffle house after midnight? It's a special energy

BigMacHole

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The ONLY way this could have been Prevented LITERALLY was if the Employee SHOT the Person before they could Shoot them! That's LITERALLY the Only way we could have Prevented this Tragedy! LITERALLY!

WoahWoah

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If you think gun control is far away now, we're SUPER far away from much if any regulation on pistols. Everyone tends to focus on the scary black rifles, because they're associated with the bigger mass shootings, and bigger mass shootings are often indiscriminate, so it scares middle- and upper-middle class white people and white women in general. This is generally born out in polling demographics around "banning assault rifles."

Handguns are the overwhelming murder weapon of choice in gun murders in the US, as in this case. Meanwhile the scary rifles are used in about 3% of gun murders.

Yet people will regularly and plausibly talk about banning "assault rifles" but the idea of banning handguns isn't ever mentioned. Not that it matters much, the US has pretty clearly decided to make guns more protected than than women's bodies or children's lives.

It would take a) a president willing, b) a shift in public opinion, c) a dramatic recomposition of the supreme court, d) multiple court cases, and e) possibly an amendment to the constitution, at this point, to actually get some national gun control in the US. So, I guess it just is what it is.

And what it is is hella fucked.

SupraMario

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Those scary black rifles, are less than 1% of murders. It's around ~100 deaths a year with them via homicide. All rifles combined are around 2.5-3k a year. Handguns make up like 95% all gun deaths in the USA.

Thought I'd add in some numbers for you, but you're %100 correct.

SnotFlickerman

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Thank you, finally someone else recognizes this.

Long guns can at least be used in war and for sport hunting.

Pistols are basically built to kill other humans, and that's all they're actually fucking good for. They might use pistols in shooting competitions, but as for actually being a useful type of gun they are not.

They're shit unless at close range and they're way too easy to hide.

Everyone else is scared of AR-15s, I'm scared of all the fucking glocks, 1911s, compact walthers, mac 9s, or whatever the fuck else.

WoahWoah

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I live in a state with very loose gun laws and a high percentage of gun ownership, and I started learning how to identify where people "print" on their bodies and identifying people concealed carrying. Then I started googling random stickers I would see on cars in front of me at drive thrus or just walking around.

I was honestly shocked at how many people are, or are likely, carrying a pistol. And how many people advertise it with their choice of clothes, brands, bumper stickers, etc. Once you start seeing it, it's everywhere.

The most obvious ones are the ones that basically buy all the "grey man" clothes. They scream "I'M ARMED, LOOK AT ALL THE ALMOST NORMAL LOOKING, NON-DESCRIPT TACTICAL CLOTHING I'M WEARING." 🤣

Like sure, dude, you're just a guy with a beard and an over-curled hat brim that "happens" to like wearing a fanny pack with your cargo shorts.

I was at Target buying bar soap and they sell a "tactical" shower caddy where you can put your manly, camo loofah and your body beating beast bar soap. At Target! I'll tell you what, a camo loofah ain't communicating what they think it is lol

Samvega

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The right to own guns is clearly more important than the right to be alive. At least, until the lives of politicians or their financial backers are threatened.

WoahWoah

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A group of politicians were shot up at their baseball game, an Arizona politician was shot in the head, there were two assassination attempts on Trunp in two months. Elon travels around with a 20- person security team. Meta spent ~45 million last year on Mark Zuckerberg's security. So, I think even your pessimistic description is inaccurate.

FlyingSquid

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Man, Waffle House patrons have gone way downhill from when they were just harassing people for reading books.

TransplantedSconie

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Imagine ruining what little peice of shit life you had over a dude taking too long to make fucking waffles.

superkret

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not to mention that dude's life

pyrflie

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How is this news? It's a Waffle House in the south. I feel like an actual eldritch horror could come in eat five customers and their server and another server would come out to say "That'll be 18.50, would you like a side of hashbrowns with it sweetee?"

indomara

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Lol. My first instinct was to downvote you, but I have to admit this was funny and plays on the long held belief that a waffle house at night is in a different dimension.

ms_lane

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"It's the employees fault they're dead, they shouldn't have dared work at Waffle House'

pyrflie

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SnotFlickerman

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Waffle House unfortunately always lives up to its bad reputation.

Crazy shit is almost always going down in a bad way in a Waffle House.

walden

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Waffle House is great, though?

ravhall

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I’ve always enjoyed my time at Waffle House. Also, I’ve always been drunk at Waffle House, so maybe my memory does not reflect reality.

chemical_cutthroat

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I've been sober plenty of times at 6am on long car rides up the east coast. Waffle House is fucking great.

stoly

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Their food is very good and at a low price.

Ensign_Crab

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Karens everywhere suddenly get inspired.

Zexks

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This is why the death penalty should continue to exist. This fuckstick killed someone over a fucking waffle. There’s over 8 billion people on this planet now we’ll survive just fine without this piece of shit.

circuitfarmer

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The primary argument against the death penalty are the sheer number of people who were executed in spite of later being found innocent.

Just because it doesn't apply in this particular case doesn't mean anything needs to change.

The legal system does not have 100% accuracy.

TheRealKuni

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I’d prefer the government not have the right to kill its citizens.