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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 09:15 AM
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Dominos workers burn down rival Papa John's Pizza to try to get more customers


Dominos workers burn down rival Papa John's Pizza to try to get more customers

By Meghan Keneally
Last updated at 2:51 PM on 30th October 2011



Arrested: Sean Everett Davidson (right) and Bryan David Sullivan (left) both work at Dominos and are charged for burning down a Papa John's Pizza


The competition for the most customers got hotter than a pizza oven when two managers of a Florida Dominos were arrested for arson when they burnt down a neighbouring Papa John's Pizza.

Sean Everett Davidson, 23, and Bryan David Sullivan, 22, were arrested in connection to an October 20 fire that left a Papa John's Pizza in ashes.

The fire at the Lake City Papa John's in northern Florida was reported around 3am and when the blaze was 'gutted' according to police officials.

There were no reported injuries from the fire. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055321/Dominos-workers-burn-rival-Papa-Johns-Pizza-try-customers.html#ixzz1cMvBAsXV
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 09:17 AM
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1. Hey that's just good ole' American capitalism!
They simply express what makes our country great, competition!
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 09:26 AM
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4. It's like something out of Deadwood. n/t
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 06:03 PM
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16. +1
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 09:26 AM
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5. Free markets, free enterprise. Ayn Rand would approve.
If memory serves, Howard Roark dynamited his building in the name of uninhibited capitalism in The Fountainhead.
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 10:00 AM
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11. yep, a couple of young go-getters
:thumbsup:

:sarcasm:
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 09:20 AM
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2. Why can't they just smoke pot in the walk-in refrigerator, like a normal pizza employee? nt
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 09:27 AM
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6. DUzy!
lol
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 09:23 AM
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3. This has to be one of the most
idiotic acts I have seen recently. No mention of the owner of the shop? A couple of store managers only? wow...I hope they enjoy prison food for a while. I doubt they will be making any more pizza anytime soon.
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 09:31 AM
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7. Exploited Workers Destroying the Work Place of Other Exploited Workers
Reminiscent of poor and working class men fighting to preserve the Southern Slave Confederacy.
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Mudoria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 09:49 AM
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8. Exploited?
Someone forced them to work there?
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 10:51 AM
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12. Yes. The Poor Economy Did.
If you've ever been to Florida, you would know that there are not many decent jobs down there, and if you don't work, you're going to suffer.
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 10:26 PM
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21. Corporate pressure on managers is actually pretty extreme.
You bet that behind the 'official condemnation' of Domino's, they're wishing they had a thousand managers like these guys.

They just wish they were smarter.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 09:52 AM
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9. Government regulations on arson are ruining this country.
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 09:55 AM
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10. Yeah, how do you expect us to level the playing field if we can't...
...level the playing field? :)
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 05:37 PM
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13. Funny. nt
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 10:39 PM
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24. LOVE IT -- !!!
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 05:41 PM
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14. That's as ridiculous as saying Cheney helped start a war to get his Halliburton pals money.
Oh, wait.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 05:47 PM
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15. Capitalism
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 06:11 PM
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17. When, instead, they should be working on their recipe.
Their pizzas taste like cardboard, have the texture of cardboard, and are always soggy to boot. Not to mention their "subs." The bread is as hard as bricks and the toppings look and taste like they were swept off the floor after rotting there all week. You could build a house out of those buns and have it pass for a brick home. Of course, actual bricks would end up being cheaper, but not nearly as hard.

Instead of burning down rival pizza joints, they should work on their recipe for the pizzas and either learn how to make subs or stop it altogether.
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Populist_Prole Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 06:22 PM
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18. Yeah really, chain pizza is chain pizza: They all suck
Must be a small town in "flyover country". Any town with "real" ( mom & pop ) pizza would render the surviving chain enterprise with the corner on a diminishing market.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 10:39 PM
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23. Claim used to be that there was NOTHING REAL in Domino's pizza ....
think that became so widely believed that they had to start to provide

some actual food in the pizza????
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 07:01 PM
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19. Didn't know it was such a rough trade.
Sounds like something out of Boardwalk Empire or the Sopranos.
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 10:22 PM
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20. Heh. Few understand the seedy underworld of take-out pizza.

The tapping of lines and deceptive signage to intercept and take cash deliveries...

The sabotage of rival delivery vehicles...

And you don't even want to know what they do with the bodies.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-11 10:37 PM
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22. Dollar bill is everything -- meanwhile, Italian restraurant in our town burned down....
Edited on Mon Oct-31-11 10:37 PM by defendandprotect
decades old family business -- which also did huge pizza business --

and they just happened to burn down as they went into providing

DELIVERY service!!

hmmmmmm.............


And there is a Domino's in our town -- bleech -- !!
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