A Dallas-area pizza parlor employee forced an elderly customer to undress and beat him with a pipe after he tried to pay for his $17.60 meal with someone else’s credit card. According to the police report, the worker did it because he was “sick and tired of this type of thing happening at his business.”
“He was hitting this old man repeatedly and basically he made him remove his clothes to where he was just completely naked,” a witness told the Dallas Morning News. “The guy grabbed his genitalia and curled up in a ball and he was moaning.” The employee then took him out back and start wailing on him with a pipe.
The customer was arrested for credit card abuse. Police didn’t arrest the employee because they said the abrasions and bruises didn’t warrant it, but they did refer the case to the Crimes Against Persons Division.
Fair Park-area restaurant employee makes theft suspect undress, beats him [Dallas Morning News] (Thanks to Brandon Savage!)
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Did the police contact the owner of the credit card to see if they gave permission to use the card? You would think that the police could also question witnesses about the beating. I would think the owner could be charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment, battery and assault. Also forcing the guy to remove his clothes should be some form of sex crime.
The owner said the card was stolen and to please beat the man with his pants down while others watch
Let’s look at the list here – Colorado style:
Business owner:
Felony assault (no battery in Colorado) with “at-risk adult” enhancement to the charges
Felony menacing with a dangerous weapon (the pipe) with “at-risk adult” enhancement to the charges
False imprisonment
Kidnapping (since he forced the victim to move to another location)
– sexual assault would be hard to prove – the motive does not appear to be sexual in nature.
Victim:
Using the credit card of another person: if stolen, illegal use of a financial device – if used with permission of the card owner, perfectly legal and no charges.
If it were me, and given the facts above, the business owner’s bony butt would have been in handcuffs in about 10 seconds. If the card came up stolen or used without authorization, he goes to the hospital then to jail.
Disclaimer – we don’t know the entire story here… the article was very short on facts. Not surprising though…
Next headline will be…
“Nice reporter decided to loan her credit card to 10 homeless people as an experiment”
3 buy only food.
5 buy food and liquer
4 return the card
2 get stripped naked and beaten with a pipe.
6 are never seen again
What! Didn’t arrest the employee?????????????
WTF!
The employee wasn’t arrested for making someone get naked in public & beating them with a pipe. That makes me feel completely ill. And so begins my boycott of the city of Dallas.
Anybody want to bet that the homeless person was black or hispanic? I doubt the police would care if a black/hispanic person got beaten with a pipe.
Hold on, it doesn’t say anything about them joining in.
The ‘elderly’ man was hispanic. Reading comprehension FTW
wow, social, legal, moral (thats the tip of the iceberg!) fails all in one incident
aint America great
This is truly the most disturbing thing I have read in a long time.
I call bullshit on this story
There is evidently much more to the story.
According to some there, the man was loud and verbally abusive, refused to leave after being told to, and pulled out a knife on the pizza worker. The ‘pipe’ was evidently a broom handle.
Obviously things got out of hand from there.
Hate to be the guy calling race/playing amateur detective, but the story said the elderly man’s name is Hermilo Aguilar, so that might have something to do with the employee not getting arrested.
Guess where the cops get free pizza’s.
(I used to work for a pizza joint that gave free pizzas to the cops)
The employee could have just refused to hand over the food to the customer.