Delivery Driver held hostage by Zimmerman wannabe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The guy was in a gated community and they wanted to know who gave him the code. Seems reasonable if giving out the code is against the HOA rules. They wanted to know who in the community decided they were above the rules, it has nothing to do with the driver himself.

A good idea would be to find out who had the package delivered and not commit the tort of false imprisonment.

+1. The driver should have backed up and run over this stupid prick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you need a code to get in and out? Some communities will let you out without a code, my Mom's community does this.. We don't know if the customer met him at the gate to let him in.

We’d know if he would have said so. Instead he wanted to be a "victim"

You need help.

[Anonymous]

Dude delivery drivers call from the gate and get buzzed in. You don’t need to give out a code.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The guy was in a gated community and they wanted to know who gave him the code. Seems reasonable if giving out the code is against the HOA rules. They wanted to know who in the community decided they were above the rules, it has nothing to do with the driver himself.

You just made all of that up out of your butt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The guy was in a gated community and they wanted to know who gave him the code. Seems reasonable if giving out the code is against the HOA rules. They wanted to know who in the community decided they were above the rules, it has nothing to do with the driver himself.

A good idea would be to find out who had the package delivered and not commit the tort of false imprisonment.

Read the article. They asked who he delivered to, he refused to say. They were wrong for blocking him in, but "I delivered to 1234 x street" and it would have been over.

The driver did the right thing and not give that information to those strangers for all he knows they don’t live there either, let me find out my neighbor down the street is harassing the FedEx dude to get my address and then going to come up and question me about my deliveries, that’s your a**.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The guy was in a gated community and they wanted to know who gave him the code. Seems reasonable if giving out the code is against the HOA rules. They wanted to know who in the community decided they were above the rules, it has nothing to do with the driver himself.

A good idea would be to find out who had the package delivered and not commit the tort of false imprisonment.

Read the article. They asked who he delivered to, he refused to say. They were wrong for blocking him in, but "I delivered to 1234 x street" and it would have been over.

The driver did the right thing and not give that information to those strangers for all he knows they don’t live there either, let me find out my neighbor down the street is harassing the FedEx dude to get my address and then going to come up and question me about my deliveries, that’s your a**.

First off, those people had no right to question or block him. He had no obligation to disclose the address that he was delivering to.

If he did disclose, he would be violating the delivery client's privacy and potentially endangering them. How could he know whether they live there or not? If they had ill intentions or not? For all he knew, they could be dangerous criminals.

[Anonymous]

The HOA people can be crazy. I was yelled at by an HOA member in my not-gated community park, saying that he does not know me which means I am trespassing.

[Anonymous]

Rural whites are going nuts and people wonder why no one wants to move to the middle of nowhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The HOA people can be crazy. I was yelled at by an HOA member in my not-gated community park, saying that he does not know me which means I am trespassing.

And are you a person of color, perchance? Or somehow "different"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The HOA people can be crazy. I was yelled at by an HOA member in my not-gated community park, saying that he does not know me which means I am trespassing.

And are you a person of color, perchance? Or somehow "different"?

I look Hispanic, but I am not. I am just saying for some of these folks they feel very empowered to do whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The guy was in a gated community and they wanted to know who gave him the code. Seems reasonable if giving out the code is against the HOA rules. They wanted to know who in the community decided they were above the rules, it has nothing to do with the driver himself.

A good idea would be to find out who had the package delivered and not commit the tort of false imprisonment.

Read the article. They asked who he delivered to, he refused to say. They were wrong for blocking him in, but "I delivered to 1234 x street" and it would have been over.

How is his responsibility?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you need a code to get in and out? Some communities will let you out without a code, my Mom's community does this.. We don't know if the customer met him at the gate to let him in.

We’d know if he would have said so. Instead he wanted to be a "victim"

Please. How is he a victim? Victim shaming much? Too many people think they are above the law because of the color of their skin. The HOA guy had no business blocking him in. With everything going on in this crazy world, I would’ve gone live too or called the cops immediately myself. This is NOT okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Considering it’s a white dude harassing a black delivery driver, I think this is more than just “who gave you the code”.

Well, only if you attribute everything to racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering it’s a white dude harassing a black delivery driver, I think this is more than just “who gave you the code”.

Well, only if you attribute everything to racism.

You don’t have to attribute everything to racism to see the problem here. Its clearly a race/class issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering it’s a white dude harassing a black delivery driver, I think this is more than just “who gave you the code”.

Well, only if you attribute everything to racism.

I watched the whole video and the driver never mentioned race. Only the news reporters did. The driver responded pretty perfectly. Even decided not to drive around him and ruin the grass because he “didn’t want to me a bad situation worse”. When he did yell back or cuss back at his hostage takers, he said to his bosses that he probably could have not yelled back, but he was having a tough week.

He is under no responsibility to violate his customer’s privacy by disclosing where he delivered what and to whom. These men did not identify themselves with any sort of authority (HOA ID, law enforcement badge, bylaws stating that delivery drivers are to be held captive at the whim of the Board, etc).