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I've written before about our no overnight parking policy and how around midnight I go to every sleeper van, RV, semi, etc. and ask them to leave. Now, we do have a 24 hour super 'guess what' but they cannot give anyone permission to sleep here as they rent from us and their influence ends at their sidewalk.
I saw a familiar van. I recognized it as being an elderly SC that I'd had to ask to leave about 2-months ago. He gave me a hard time then, and this time he doubled his efforts! His entire argument hinges on the fact that he shops at the store, which makes him a customer, thus it's his RIGHT to sleep in the parking lot! No, the guy isn't homeless either. He's just an old fart that feels that gives him the right to do whatever he wants.
So I kept knocking on the van, trying to wake him, yelled, shone my flashlight, nothing was working. 5-min later I decided to call the ambulance; not much I could do as I was not going to try and enter the vehicle. Finally I shook the van and THAT woke him up! I tried to ask him if he was ok, but the second he rolled his window down he began yelling how I keep harassing him and waking him up! I finally got a word in edge-wise and told him that I'd called an ambulance because I couldn't wake him. I began going off on me more! Oh, I was still on the phone with 911 at that point; they heard it all. I reminded him how he was not allowed to sleep here, and he blew a gasket! Pretty much said for me to call whoever I wanted because he wasn't moving! So, 911 changed from an ambulance to an officer to get this guy off our property.
The Officers showed up and SC is full of righteous fury about how 'this lady' is the only person who harasses him, that he's been bothered by me before and has had enough of it, that I don't show him 'respect,' that he has every right to sleep wherever he wants because HE IS A CUSTOMER!!! and that he'll be calling his lawyer. The Officers pretty much just humored him (it calmed him down anyway), but told him our policies are our policies and that he'll have to talk to a manager about them. They finally got him to leave. They agreed with me that he was a dick.
So, according to the SC, trying to get someone medical attention, calling them 'sir' and doing your job is disrespectful. I REALLY hope he calls my manager to complain, because there's a nice long report for her to refer to
I saw a familiar van. I recognized it as being an elderly SC that I'd had to ask to leave about 2-months ago. He gave me a hard time then, and this time he doubled his efforts! His entire argument hinges on the fact that he shops at the store, which makes him a customer, thus it's his RIGHT to sleep in the parking lot! No, the guy isn't homeless either. He's just an old fart that feels that gives him the right to do whatever he wants.
So I kept knocking on the van, trying to wake him, yelled, shone my flashlight, nothing was working. 5-min later I decided to call the ambulance; not much I could do as I was not going to try and enter the vehicle. Finally I shook the van and THAT woke him up! I tried to ask him if he was ok, but the second he rolled his window down he began yelling how I keep harassing him and waking him up! I finally got a word in edge-wise and told him that I'd called an ambulance because I couldn't wake him. I began going off on me more! Oh, I was still on the phone with 911 at that point; they heard it all. I reminded him how he was not allowed to sleep here, and he blew a gasket! Pretty much said for me to call whoever I wanted because he wasn't moving! So, 911 changed from an ambulance to an officer to get this guy off our property.
The Officers showed up and SC is full of righteous fury about how 'this lady' is the only person who harasses him, that he's been bothered by me before and has had enough of it, that I don't show him 'respect,' that he has every right to sleep wherever he wants because HE IS A CUSTOMER!!! and that he'll be calling his lawyer. The Officers pretty much just humored him (it calmed him down anyway), but told him our policies are our policies and that he'll have to talk to a manager about them. They finally got him to leave. They agreed with me that he was a dick.
So, according to the SC, trying to get someone medical attention, calling them 'sir' and doing your job is disrespectful. I REALLY hope he calls my manager to complain, because there's a nice long report for her to refer to
Not that I'd know anything about that
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