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Coming soon to a demoncrat strong hold near you. Seriously it is a horrible commentary that in Detroit one pizza franchise will not deliver after dark

iamnothere 2012/08/18 10:47:48
DETROIT (Talk Radio 1270) Has it come to this? Yes it has, according to Joan McKenna, whose son Tim McKenna, 19, was shot while delivering pizza in Detroit.

In the wake of the shooting, a Jets Pizza franchise in Dearborn ruled it will no longer deliver to Detroit after dark. Before the shooting, they sent two drivers to every nighttime Detroit delivery, one of whom was armed, Joan McKenna said.

“They usually send somebody with a guy … who carries a gun,” she said. “Usually they have two go into Detroit after dark, if they have a delivery … One guy has a legal, he can carry a gun. That night, Timmy was the only one left, they had this one run to do, he said ‘yeah, I’ll do it.’ He’s a kid, he doesn’t think anything’s going to happen to him.”

Tim McKenna was shot in the ribs, and the bullet hit a lung, but he survived and plans to return in the fall to Adrian College, where he plays football. Pizza delivery was his summer job.

“He can’t play football right now, he’s on the team at Adrian, it’s really hard … It went right in the chest, this guy shot him right in the chest,” Joan McKenna said, adding, “It was a robbery, the guy wanted his money, he hit the gas and the guy went ‘pop pop’ and he was shot in the chest.”

Her son had about $35 on him, which is what the drivers carry, McKenna said.

“I had no idea he was in this kind of danger, I really didn’t,” McKenna said. She and her husband returned to the neighborhood to hand out fliers listing a reward for whoever turns in the shooter, but even in daylight they were too afraid they would get shot driving around, McKenna said.

“I realize this is a terrible situation, it is tragic, but some people say it’s racist, we’re eliminating Detroit, we’re sectioning Detroit off from the rest of the world,” Langton said during his show on Talk Radio 1270, adding, “Some people will say ‘ Why should we let the acts of one stupid gun person, make a whole policy that alienates a city?’”

But Joan McKenna thinks any claims of racism are hogwash.

“You want to talk about racism? This has nothing to do with color, it has to do with people who are not willing to get up, plug in the coffee maker, and go to work … Come on, get a job, we’re not talking race here,” Joan McKenna said.

The shooter has not been caught and the McKennas are agitating Detroit police to keep searching, worrying it’s “awful low on their priority list.” “I need help because it’s not going to happen with the police,” Joan McKenna said.

She said police told her: “We’ll never catch this guy, literally, that’s what they said.”

Langton said the shooter, whoever he is, should face attempted murder charges. “You shoot a gun, nearly point blank at somebody, that’s attempted murder,” Langton said.

“When you want a pizza, you live in Detroit, you want it delivered after dark, thank the guy who shot my son, thank that guy,” McKenna said.

John from Chesterfield called in and said, “This is not racist, this is a high probability risk assessment. I was in the military … If you’re going to go into Detroit after dark the risk assessment is you’re going to be robbed, shot or mugged … There are people in Detroit who don’t want to go out after dark either, it’s crazy, but that’s it.”

Ryan, a resident of southwest Detroit where the shooting happened, said he would “never let his wife outside after dark.” Would he go outside himself after dark? “Yeah, I would, but I’m armed,” Ryan said.

He added that many delivery companies in Detroit won’t go to addresses they don’t already know.

Mike, a U.S. Post Office manager, said he had a part-time carrier who moonlighted in that area as a pizza delivery man, and he was also attacked. “The guy jumped out of the bushes and basically attacked him, pulled out a gun … It’s very dangerous over there. I’m black, I’m from the city, but that’s the highest crime area I staffed. I can’t blame the pizza owner for doing that. He has to look at those employees every day.”
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  • mustangluver 2012/08/18 16:15:43
    mustangluver
    +3
    Actually Detroit is the second most dangerous town, I am from Jersey and Camden is the most dangerous city in the USA! There's no delivery of anything! The entire town is on welfare!!! There are others too like Trenton and Newark. I can assure you these towns are somewhere you don't want to visit. Cops don't even want to patrol or make arrests. Yes, they are dem run towns.

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  • Andrew 2012/08/20 03:13:30
    Andrew
    This is absurd.
  • iamnothere Andrew 2012/08/20 04:53:12
    iamnothere
    get a job delivering pizza in detroit and you well change your view especially if it is in that war zone .. gag
  • Don Leuty 2012/08/19 06:45:23
    Don Leuty
    +1
    I knew that I never should have taken that transfer to Detroit when I when into a service station/convenience store and saw this huge burly guy behind 2 inches of bullet proof glass. Did all my shopping in the suburbs after that.
  • retiredingeorgia 2012/08/19 03:46:35
    retiredingeorgia
    +1
    As long as the people in Detroit, and like cities, keep putting up with this, nothing will ever change. I only feel sorry for the victims, not the voters.
    I hope the young man that was shot will recover soon AND be able keep playing football.
    Get well soon Tim M.
    Get well
  • Stan Kapusta 2012/08/19 01:05:42
    Stan Kapusta
    +2
    I wouldn't go in a dangerous area without protection. I"d rather be called a racist and be alive than a PC corpse.
  • retired... Stan Ka... 2012/08/19 03:48:15
    retiredingeorgia
    +2
    These days, I don't even go to vote without protection.
  • iamnothere Stan Ka... 2012/08/20 04:54:10
    iamnothere
    it is just a place for people who liberal bent to live.. and die
  • Erok 2012/08/19 00:45:54
    Erok
    +2
    More people need to be arming themselves and once you start capping these thug low lifes and their population begins to decrease maybe things will change a little!
  • retired... Erok 2012/08/19 03:48:45 (edited)
  • jay 2012/08/18 21:01:24
    jay
    +1
    intresting.

    This could be the future of the usa. Now let me think a minute.........What is the political party that controls everyiong? What is the race of most of the politicians? What is race of most of the people? Which city gets the largest amount of Michigan and U.S. dollars for public assistance, section 8, and so forth.

    Democrat
    BLack
    Blacks
    Detroit.
  • Oltom 2012/08/18 19:20:48
    Oltom
    +2
    This what happens when people let democrats run anything but their mouths!
  • Quazimoto 2012/08/18 19:20:21
    Quazimoto
    +1
    Democrats at work for the working man. I would love the see the police priority list.
  • SiliconSorcerer 2012/08/18 17:05:02
    SiliconSorcerer
    +2
    And yet they all vote Democratic = no change.
  • mustangluver 2012/08/18 16:15:43
    mustangluver
    +3
    Actually Detroit is the second most dangerous town, I am from Jersey and Camden is the most dangerous city in the USA! There's no delivery of anything! The entire town is on welfare!!! There are others too like Trenton and Newark. I can assure you these towns are somewhere you don't want to visit. Cops don't even want to patrol or make arrests. Yes, they are dem run towns.
  • Kat 2012/08/18 13:54:09 (edited)
    Kat
    +2
    It's a dangerous job, there are areas here they don't go at all.
  • iamnothere Kat 2012/08/18 15:30:00
    iamnothere
    +3
    carry $35 bucks and you are a target.. that is one hell of a commentary
  • Kat iamnothere 2012/08/18 15:34:29
    Kat
    +1
    We've had them killed here and they got $20.00 broad daylight, we've had murders here over a 50 cent gambling debt. Same areas they don't go.
  • iamnothere Kat 2012/08/18 15:36:04
    iamnothere
    +1
    just another reason I am careful about where I go while I travel thru Memphis.. I work there from time to time.. but avoid most of the city
  • Kat iamnothere 2012/08/18 15:38:41
    Kat
    +1
    Yeah, there are places I avoid..downtown whenever possible and a couple others.
  • iamnothere Kat 2012/08/18 15:40:03
    iamnothere
    +1
    going to collierville in a bit over a week.. tend to stay south.. hate that I have to go to inner area to get to the harbor freight. LOL
  • Kat iamnothere 2012/08/18 15:44:42
    Kat
    +1
    Yeah Summer is sort of bad in that area, I go there and have never had any problems a couple blocks east is worse.
  • iamnothere Kat 2012/08/18 15:46:37
    iamnothere
    +1
    Such is the nature of the city.. it is much like living in New orleans.. zebra.. .. a white and then black neighborhood.. which is fine.. it is just a few areas that make life interesting..
  • Kat iamnothere 2012/08/18 15:48:33
    Kat
    +1
    very true.
  • iamnothere Kat 2012/08/18 15:53:24
    iamnothere
    +2
    just a southern boy here.. LOL and I watch where i go
  • Bevos 2012/08/18 13:24:15 (edited)
    Bevos
    +1
    AAAAHHHH DETROIT! THe CESSPOOL of CRIME. I lived there for two yrs. and it was about five yrs.TOO long. A carload of teens drove by an Elementary School playground and riddled it with bullets. Five kids injured, two died. Fortunately, for my kids, we had just moved from that school District, and my kids were attending a different school.
    They put a new face on Detroit, about 25 yrs ago. They thought because so much of it looked like it was owned by a SLUMLORD, which a lot of it was, they thought if they cleaned it up and made it look prettier, people would not be so depressed and the crime rate would go down. Yeah right!! The Cops were mainly just TOO lazy to do their jobs and most of them were on the take! Their was a BIG investigation into them a couple of yrs after I left. Heads rolled, but I guess it was too deep. Because enough of them didn't get caught. THat's what you get when you have cops investigating their own. That was back in the 70s
  • iamnothere Bevos 2012/08/18 13:30:02
    iamnothere
    I have a friend who lives in Detroit.. I am always shocked.. she is a bright lady.. Progressive leanings.. and she seems totally ignorant of the world around her.. ( cannot get full time employment for years... )
  • Bevos iamnothere 2012/08/18 16:48:42 (edited)
    Bevos
    +1
    I feel for your friend, but she makes her choice. I have also been conversing with an old friend that lives in Mich. She has a mentally challenged adult child, whom she swears that Mr Romney wants to kill or leave her to live in the streets if anything happens to her, the Mother. I have tried to explain to her that it is owebama that wants to kill her AND her daughter off, "death panels", with his OWEBAMACARE, but she just starts screaming through her ems
  • hasher 2012/08/18 12:52:00
    hasher
    +2
    i dont live very far from detroit about an ahour away. and snyder has offered to help detroit but their dingbat liberal mayor has refused their help so detroit is getting what it deserves. and they wonder why theyre in the situation they are in. libs have been running that city for a long time and look wheres its gotten them
  • ed 2012/08/18 11:34:45
    ed
    +2
    I wish him a speedy recovery.
  • Dar 2012/08/18 10:50:13
    Dar
    +1
    A sad commentary on society.
  • iamnothere Dar 2012/08/18 11:20:09
    iamnothere
    +1
    notice just a passing comment that the dangerous areas.. Black on Black crime areas
  • Dar iamnothere 2012/08/18 11:51:28
    Dar
    +1
    Black on Black crime...a commentary in and of itself.
  • iamnothere Dar 2012/08/18 11:54:38
    iamnothere
    sadly this is oh to real.. every city where there are huge numbers of shootings.. I cannot think of a city where this is happening are both democrat controlled and in the black communities

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