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Papa John's Delivery Guy Calls Cops on Marijuana-Smoking Customer
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by NowPublic Staff | October 4, 2011 at 02:47 pm
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Frederick Smith: Papa John's Snitch Sparks Police Harassment
When Aurora, Colorado resident Frederick Smith called Papa John's Pizza for a delivery, he wasn't expecting to get a visit from the police.
Frederick Smith, a medical marijuana patient, had been smoking pot just before the pizza guy showed up. The delivery guy was quite the concerned citizen, and called the police due to the presence of Smith's nine-year-old daughter. (Follow-up question: did he see the daughter? How did he know she was home?)
The police showed up, determined that Smith had done nothing wrong, and left. Smith said that he was not smoking weed in front of his kid.
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The link above includes a pop legal analysis, saying that Smith can't sue Papa John's over this, since the delivery guy was acting on his own, but this is a teaching moment all the same.
Look, if you run a pizza shop, don't let your delivery drivers get in the habit of calling the cops on stoners. That will put you out of business very quickly, as you'll have no customers left.
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at 19:39 on October 17th, 2011
This has to be a frequent delivery in order to have so much information about this house. Maybe this person should be checked out for burglary or pedifile? Do your job and deliver the pizza go back to school and pick a career major!
at 21:13 on October 17th, 2011
So it's hard to tell if this employee was a 30ish flunkee from Nancy Reagan's "just say no" generation, or a 16+ y/o drinking the "if you see something, tell someone" koolaid- the same filthy stuff that the DEA used to keep Congress from cutting their budget in 2002 in favor of DHS by filing a report declaring recreational drug users to be "narco-terrorists" because they drew tenuous connections between use and the money eventually making its way to nefarious hands overseas.
If we wanted to go that route we could easily connect the fuel this delivery boy's car uses straight to someone in Bin Laden's Saudi family, couldn't we?
On one hand Papa John's position defending this is expected, with all the "Dudley do rights" in post Columbine, post 9/11 "keep us safe" America. On the other it does say to Americans sick of losing their freedoms, "you can't trust us to think of the customer first when you open your door to our employees".
Their business is really going to take a hit for a while on this and it should. However what worries me is that inevitably some of these drivers are going to be in the wrong side of town making deliveries and some crack head or heroin junkie is going to be all the more empowered by the lit up sign on the car to hold these guys up- we all know how snitches get treated in prison.
That's not even the worst of it. When they start screaming for help, think anyone's going to run out and help, let alone let them inside for safety? Most of the other drivers surely have more common sense than this clown who probably couldn't get a prom date and spent most of his formative years as an outcast, like most tattle-tales, who start trouble for the rest when they aren't included. They don't deserve the repercussions from his actions.