Did He Do The Right Thing???
What would you do if you were in a grocery store, you turned into an aisle, and you saw a man beating his pregnant girlfriend? Would you run for help? How long would that take? Would it be too late by the time security arrived?
Ryan Young
worked at the meat counter of a Safeway supermarket. Reports say that
when Ryan saw a customer push and kick his pregnant girlfriend last
month, Ryan stepped in to stop the beating.
According to the press, Ryan's actions earned him praise from his local police chief, but not from his employer. Instead of treating Ryan like a hero, Safeway claimed Ryan should have called security and suspended him without pay while it investigates the "altercation." Pending the results of that investigation, Ryan could be fired for good.
Ryan says
one reason he felt so compelled to intervene is that he's an expectant
dad himself -- his wife is 5 months pregnant. "We're expecting a child,"
Ryan says. "I've been suspended for just about a month now without pay
for doing something I feel was right, that police said was right."
Indeed, local Police Chief Ron Langford told reporters, "In my mind, in this case Ryan did the right thing."
The police
have already turned over security footage of the incident to prosecutors
so that the man who beat his girlfriend can be charged, yet Ryan has
been suspended for almost a month with no income.
DID RYAN DO THE RIGHT THING... WAS SAFEWAY RIGHT TO SUSPEND HIM??






















And yes, he did the right thing.
Its my understanding that they have some real strange "laws"......
They have some real loonie tunes out there.... they have CARB, the California Air Resource Board that goes around trying to write tickets on truck drivers who are idling to stay warm in the winter or cool in the summer....even when the temps are dangerous....but the CARB cop's car is nice and warm or cool....
Lots of other wacko nonsense....too much to list, but a friend of mine who just retired and left there...after selling his business...said that probably in 5 years all that will be left in CA is welfare queens and the filthy rich...
Hollywood is slowly leaving as well....
I wonder how the boss would've felt if someone was beating on his wife, pregnant or not...
But the pacifist, politically correct, morons that run things think everyone should just sit there and let someone beat the crap out of them or someone else until the police manage to get there. I guess Safeway would be happier if the guy beat his pregnant girlfriend until her or the baby were seriously hurt or dead.
But here's another side of the coin...depending on the state you live in....if you were the business owner and that situation erupted and she or the baby was killed or injured....you would be in a world of hurt...and charged with culpable negligence which sets you up for a lawsuit.
Man, there are times when you gotta do what you gotta do. No-one says you have to jump in and kick the guys butt, its about stopping the violence then and there.
Putting my nose in someone else's business? Not really....any damn fool that beats a woman in a public place is inviting intervention from anyone in the immediate vicinity.
Yep, call the cops when seconds count...they are only minutes away.
It has nothing to do with being paid to do it....its about doing whats RIGHT!
You go into truckstops...like Flying J's, TA's Petro's and even some Love's are fair sized...if a guy is beating a pregnant woman in a truckstop restaurant, are you just going to keep eating or back him down?
By the way...just retired after 18 yrs...yankin' a hazmat tanker all over North America.... CDL-A endorsed XT
I wonder what one of their exec's would say to their employees if their pregnant wife, daughter, aunt, sister, or niece got beat up and the employees all said.... Hey dude, we didn't get involved, cuz like the employee handbook says no way man, and you fired that other dude who helped that pregnant lady....and I need this crappy job!