So it seems some guy got some bad drugs in Palmdale California. He stabbed an old man in McDonalds, then attacked the security guard, who killed him with a pistol.
It began when the suspect, described initially as a shirtless Latino man, crashed his car into into the wall of a Carl's Jr. restaurant, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He then got out and ran across the street to a nearby McDonald's, during which time he undressed completely.
Deputies said the man, now naked, entered the McDonald's and stabbed an 88-year-old man who was eating with his grandson.
As the suspect was coming out of the McDonald's, he was confronted by an armed security guard, the sheriff's department said. When he tried to assault the guard, the guard shot him at least once, hitting him in the upper torso, deputies said.
Both the suspect and the stabbed customer were taken to local hospitals. The suspect was pronounced dead, while the stabbing victim was listed in stable condition and was expected to survive, officials at the scene told CBS2.
The guard was unhurt.
Two things stand out here.
1) McDonald's has a fricking armed guard in Palmdale California. Are you kidding me? They have to have private security at the burger joint?!
2) McDonald's has an armed guard and a stark naked dude with a knife managed to get into the place, stab a guy and get out, before the armed guard got his shit together and did something about it.
What a shit hole. Way to go, California. Looks good on ya.
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Visit Palmdale sometime. You will likely discover in short order why there's private security at McDonalds.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the armed guard was eating a Big Mac on his lunch break from the bank?
ReplyDeleteYeah, the article didn't specify that it was a MCDONALD'S armed guard. Just that he was an armed guard who happened to be in the vicinity of that particular McDonald's
ReplyDeleteDifferent situation, but the armed guard performed better than the Broward County Sheriff's Deputy Scot Peterson.
ReplyDeleteI could only find one Mcdonalds and one Carl's Jr in Palmdale in maps, and they are nowhere near one another. Both are in strip malls so it may have been a Mall guard who shot him, not Specifically a Mcdonald's guard.
ReplyDelete"Visit Palmdale sometime."
ReplyDeleteNo thanks. I visited the "nice" parts of LA in the 1980s, they were fairly crappy back then compared to Toronto or Phoenix AZ. These days, clearly its Apocalypse Now.
This is less a critique of the McDonalds or the guard himself, I wasn't there and I don't know what went down. As usual the story itself is crap for details.
My critique is for the State of California and the City of Los Angeles, a place where fast-food joints clearly NEED armed guards. What the fuck are those people doing in government down there? Are you kidding me?
I lived in the Palmdale/Lancaster area 1997-2012. It used to be a laid-back, reasonably safe, and decent place to live, despite its generally run-down appearance (which the desert does to everything in short order). But last time I was down there, in 2014, I marveled to an acquaintance at how badly things had deteriorated: instead of the odd questionable type hanging out on the corner, there were gangs of obvious perps and crazies roaming the streets in broad daylight. I was told this situation arose when Los Angeles County was informed by the Feds that they had to do something about their overcrowded jails, and the something they chose to do was dump the worst miscreants in North L.A. County -- Lancaster having no police force of its own, but rather depending on a contract with the county Sheriff, this apparently seemed like a fair trade.
ReplyDeleteLocation of the report:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.5585396,-118.0848657,18z
This is actually a nice newer neighborhood, but it's not like there are walls keeping the aforementioned perps and crazies out.
It's not far from the blowing palms in this salient video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYNC8LCdoWw
That's why I remember Palmdale! The Skunk Works is there.
ReplyDeleteMaking this even more interesting. Palmdale, home of the tops in US military aviation research, has fricking armed guards at the McDonalds.
That's completely stupid.
I agree with the anonymous commenter who pointed out that nothing says the armed guard was posted at McDonald's. He could have been an armed guard from a nearby business, maybe a bank or something. Which would actually make far more sense of the timeline: "As the suspect was coming out of the McDonald's, he was confronted by an armed security guard..." If he was a security guard for McDonald's, he would have spotted the naked guy with a knife on his way in.
ReplyDeleteNo worries... the Skunk Works is surrounded by a concrete wall...
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