No more Pizza Hut pizza for me!

[benburke]

Here is my web site email to Pizza Hut.

Email to Pizza Hut via their web site

April 21, 2008


You've lost my business forever! One of the most dangerous jobs in America is delivering pizza, and you have the nerve to fire a guy for carrying a gun for self defense. I hope he sues you for violating his 2nd amendment rights. It's liberal responses like yours that has caused crime to increase in areas where law abiding citizens are prohibited from carrying a firearm. Why can't you realize that criminals don't obey the laws? If James Spiers of Des Moines, Iowa did not have a gun to protect himself, he may have been killed! And you fired the guy? Pizza Hut has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that you are a heartless, greedy, and ignorant corporation. I would like to know what value you will place on your employees' lives in the future. You really do have the best pizza, but I'll never buy another one. Please respond to: benburke@bellsouth.net

Iowa Senator to Stop Buying Pizza Hut if It Fires Delivery Man Who Shot Robber

An Iowa state senator has vowed to stop buying Pizza Hut products if the chain fires a Des Moines delivery man who shot a teen who tried to rob him last week.

Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale, told other lawmakers that he supports the delivery man, James William Spiers, according to a report in the Des Moines Register.

"I think what he did was the right thing," Zaun said Tuesday. "If I was in a situation to protect my family, protect myself, to continue being a father, I would’ve done the same thing."

The chain has suspended Spiers pending an investigation, the Register reports.

"We have policy against carrying weapons," Vonnie Walbert, vice president of human resources at Pizza Hut's corporate offices in Dallas told the paper for a March 28 story. "We prohibit employees from carrying guns because we believe that that is the safest for everybody."

But Zaun thinks Spiers, who had a permit to carry the concealed weapon, was well within his rights when he fired the shots March 27, so Zaun is "going to be watching Pizza Hut."

Kenneth Jimmerson, 19, who was hit with three bullets, called 911 for medical help and subsequently was arrested on a charge of first-degree robbery.

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