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Cleveland area Amazon driver shoots and kills armed carjacker

Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 9:33 am
by M-Quigley
Notice in the links the title of the stories, and how WHIO uses the word "accused" when describing the Amazon driver. :(

https://www.cleveland19.com/2024/05/04/ ... cleveland/

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local ... ad979f06d4

https://www.whio.com/news/local/alleged ... IHLMTPLTM/

The carjacker was able to get into the SUV and attempt to drive away, then wrecked it, causing a lot of damage. It appears to be that it might be a vehicle actually owned by the driver, instead of the larger Amazon delivery vans I occasionally see in my 'hood. Since Amazon will fire drivers who carry, even if they are defending themselves instead of the vehicle, if I worked for them (highly unlikely) I definitely would not use a vehicle that I personally own. Amazon wants me to give up their vehicle, fine. They can even have a (fake) wallet and a cellphone (one of the 2 or 3g ones with no service that are now worthless)

Re: Cleveland area Amazon driver shoots and kills armed carjacker

Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 5:01 pm
by kcclark
Amazon Flex people use their own vehicles. The Amazon vans you see delivering packages are leased. The driver may be the one leasing it or someone leases a number of them and employs the people driving them. Amazon does micromanage via an app the driver carries. Amazon insists you deliver X packages in Y minutes. If you figure out how to deliver X packages in less than Y minutes consistently, Amazon will start requiring you to deliver X+Z packages in Y minutes. City drivers do well. Country drivers are not fans of the system.

Re: Cleveland area Amazon driver shoots and kills armed carjacker

Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 10:38 am
by pk47
Some people wonder why I generally stay south of 480 ... certain levels of risk drop considerably south of that line.

Re: Cleveland area Amazon driver shoots and kills armed carjacker

Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 10:43 am
by pirateguy191
I didn't know Amazon delivered bullets.