Gamestop Employee Shot During Robbery

[idrathernot]

I don't know if GameStop has a corporate policy for "violence prevention" that precludes employees from being armed. I'd wager that they do. Anyway, a clerk was shot in the leg Monday over a Nintendo Wii, some games, and petty cash in Florida.

The best part of the article:

Given that the GameStop employee had fully cooperated with the robber, local authorities have yet to find a motive for the shooting other than that the gunman simply felt like it. "From what we know so far, there doesn't appear to be a struggle and it's preliminary, but it looks like the suspect got what he wanted and had no reason to shoot, but he did anyway," said Lt. Eddie Appleby of the Orange County Sherrif's Office.

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Oh yea, I linked the article from a gaming publication rather than a news outlet as it's more likely to raise every bodies blood pressure that reviews the comments. Don't lose all faith in the younger generation though, I'm only 23.

[Beiruty]

Yeah, good corporate policy.

Oh BTW, why all security cameras have so low video quality, basically they are useless.

[mctowalot]

I think the shooter hit up, left, down, left arrow by mistake. He was trying to get the all weapons cheat.
(If you don't get it ask a kid.)

[Dragonfighter]

Do we know what the policy is at Gamestop? I'd be curious to know. I enjoy shopping there because of the level of knowledge typical amongst the employees, but they (by and large) strike me as the type that wouldn't go armed if you gave them <i>cart blanche</i>.

[Kythas]

I'm a consultant and did a large project at Gamestop corporate headquarters in Grapevine. They do, indeed, have a corporate no-gun policy. In fact, they have a 30.06 sign at the corporate office. It's technically non-compliant, as the English portion references "Section 30.6" and the Spanish references "Seccion 30.03", but the intent is easy enough to see.


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The funniest thing about the place is this sign that I took a picture of in the bathroom. It seems a very large person sat on the toilet one day and the toilet broke under them. Gamestop had to put these signs up on the door to the toilet stalls after that. Yes, he sued the company.



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[UpTheIrons]

I think the shooter hit up, left, down, left arrow by mistake. He was trying to get the all weapons cheat.
(If you don't get it ask a kid.)

Wouldn't that be up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, select, start?

[rm9792]

I think the shooter hit up, left, down, left arrow by mistake. He was trying to get the all weapons cheat.
(If you don't get it ask a kid.)

Wouldn't that be up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, select, start?

That gets you the chainsaw, your version isnt patched to 1.21a.

[C-dub]

I'm a consultant and did a large project at Gamestop corporate headquarters in Grapevine. They do, indeed, have a corporate no-gun policy. In fact, they have a 30.06 sign at the corporate office. It's technically non-compliant, as the English portion references "Section 30.6" and the Spanish references "Seccion 30.03", but the intent is easy enough to see.

That's funny. I wonder how that happened. Is is one of those where the characters are stuck on glass?

[Kythas]

I'm a consultant and did a large project at Gamestop corporate headquarters in Grapevine. They do, indeed, have a corporate no-gun policy. In fact, they have a 30.06 sign at the corporate office. It's technically non-compliant, as the English portion references "Section 30.6" and the Spanish references "Seccion 30.03", but the intent is easy enough to see.

That's funny. I wonder how that happened. Is is one of those where the characters are stuck on glass?

No, it's a big blue metal sign with white letters that are all about 1.5 inches tall.

[Beiruty]

You know I did it for my boy, he deserves to have wii. The shooting was for me!

[KD5NRH]

the English portion references "Section 30.6" and the Spanish references "Seccion 30.03"

I guess the Spanish part uses metric sections.

[Sewer_Ice]

Had to mention, the Gamestop in Southlake (off Davis and 1709) has been robbed MULTIPLE times. When I was in high school I worked at the CiCi's next to it, it was robbed twice in 3 months, only thing they did was add a security guard. Security guard was about 5'2" 140 lbs... worthless.
They jump across the counter, and tear open the "locked" drawers and just grab what they want, then run.

[USA1]

I take my son to GameStop occasionally.
Whenever we're there, I'm always on high alert after hearing of so many getting hit.