After the many shootings/confrontations at Quik Trip convenience stores, I am thinking of buying gas and snacks elsewhere. There are too many creepy-crawlers out at night at these stores to suit me.
If I go to Quik-Trip to buy gas, I now do it in the mornings when the bad people are asleep. I don't know what Quik-Trip could do about this, but if they don't get a security guard at these stores, I know I for one will start buying somewhere else.
Quote from: OwenParkPhil on September 11, 2012, 03:26:30 PM
After the many shootings/confrontations at Quik Trip convenience stores, I am thinking of buying gas and snacks elsewhere. There are too many creepy-crawlers out at night at these stores to suit me.
If I go to Quik-Trip to buy gas, I now do it in the mornings when the bad people are asleep. I don't know what Quik-Trip could do about this, but if they don't get a security guard at these stores, I know I for one will start buying somewhere else.
Where have you found a safer place?
Quote from: OwenParkPhil on September 11, 2012, 03:26:30 PM
After the many shootings/confrontations at Quik Trip convenience stores, I am thinking of buying gas and snacks elsewhere. There are too many creepy-crawlers out at night at these stores to suit me.
If I go to Quik-Trip to buy gas, I now do it in the mornings when the bad people are asleep. I don't know what Quik-Trip could do about this, but if they don't get a security guard at these stores, I know I for one will start buying somewhere else.
If I go to QT now to get anything, I'm carrying.
Is Sears safe? They got robbed in broad daylight yesterday.
Edited to add: Does anybody know if they ever found the cross dresser that was fleeing the scene? ;)
Quote from: OwenParkPhil on September 11, 2012, 03:26:30 PM
After the many shootings/confrontations at Quik Trip convenience stores, I am thinking of buying gas and snacks elsewhere. There are too many creepy-crawlers out at night at these stores to suit me.
If I go to Quik-Trip to buy gas, I now do it in the mornings when the bad people are asleep. I don't know what Quik-Trip could do about this, but if they don't get a security guard at these stores, I know I for one will start buying somewhere else.
QT is typically the best lit of any convenience store and many security measures. They can't help asshats pulling onto their property and shooting others any more than Reasor's or a church.
Keep in mind, the incident at 71st & Riverside appears to be a road rage incident.
Im not a very good judge of safety. I hang around a courthouse all day with criminals and people accused of crimea...
Seriously though, what is the incident to quiktrip ratio? There are more qts than anything else, so...
There will be a new CVS at 91st and Yale in front of Whole Foods. Competition for the criminal element across the street at QT. ;)
QT, unlike any other store, always has a manager or assistant manager working in the store 24/7. Police are in and out of there all day and night. I am often out in the wee hours of the night and I would have no problem counting out cash in the parking lot of any of them. Most "incidents at QT" had absolutely nothing to do with QT. Could have been any parking lot.
Quote from: Townsend on September 11, 2012, 03:32:11 PM
Where have you found a safer place?
Neighbor's driveway?
As safe as they can possibly be for what they are.
Other places are safer as a result of QT's practices leading the way in the convenience store market.
There does come a problem after a certain time of night when QT is basically the only place to go to in town, so people up to no good will find themselves there.
Just stay out in the open where you can be seen, which is pretty easy to do at QT, as they design it that way. Not a lot of dark corners and crevasses.
Quote from: Conan71 on September 11, 2012, 04:14:58 PM
QT is typically the best lit of any convenience store and many security measures. They can't help asshats pulling onto their property and shooting others any more than Reasor's or a church.
...or the front entrance of a Best Buy in broad daylight.
Each QT has a yellow sign that says "safe place." Who are we to argue?
I consider them daylight only.
QuoteKeep in mind, the incident at 71st & Riverside appears to be a road rage incident.
Which is just south of one of the worst areas in Tulsa. I've seen people walk up to the soda stacked outside, grab 2 or 3 and calmly walk away.
Quote from: bmuscotty on September 14, 2012, 06:38:44 PM
Which is just south of one of the worst areas in Tulsa. I've seen people walk up to the soda stacked outside, grab 2 or 3 and calmly walk away.
They quit stacking the Coke outside up here around a year ago now. At least once a week I'd walk up to the stack, grab three 12 packs, and calmly walk away. ;)
Quote from: Joey on September 14, 2012, 12:26:50 PM
Each QT has a yellow sign that says "safe place." Who are we to argue?
Don't get me started on that safe place crap.
Quote from: custosnox on September 15, 2012, 11:45:21 AM
Don't get me started on that safe place crap.
...so with a cop inside QT, a thief pulls up and breaks out the window of the car parked next to the police cruiser and burglarizes it.
All those bright lights helped get nice clear pictures on the video, though.
http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Brazen-burglar-breaks-into-car-parked-by-TPD/krBZHy7SuEmFysmeJRv32g.cspx
One of the kids was robbed at one at 51st and Mingo back in the spring while filling up at gas pump. 5:45 in afternoon.
Wish I was with him - would have been a different sequence of events.
When Riverwalk Crossing had an increase in problems that overflowed to the Quiktrip across the bridge, crime carried over to that particular QT, especially around 1-2am when all the clubs and bars would close. I remember when the Riverwalk Crossing parking lot was saturated with TCSO during the late night hours...not sure if it still is. Anyways, QT didn't want to deal with all of the crime that carried over to them so they barricaded the entrances around 1-2am and turned off all of their lot lights for about an hour. After that hour, the barricades would go away and they would return to business as usual. Anyways, with that said, the main thing I do when I'm at a QT is take my keys with me...a mistake that you'll find at least one person doing.