Amazon delivery driver was in a residential area and yelling on their cell phone while throwing packages off the Amazon van.
From the Flat Rock Police Dept. Facebook Page:
Might be some damaged item claims coming!
AI written or poor journalism … “just into action”
AI written or poor journalism … “Amazon deputized” … sensationalism?
Both officers were later put on administrative leave because an Amazon bot marked them as pesticides.
Could be and I don’t doubt it, I got the same smell. However, we ran a local news website for about 12 years. The government releases at times are not well written. Thankfully, that is not what they do every day. As soon as I saw the generated cruiser with the logo my mind went with you. Our local department has had fun with their facebook page and press releases from time to time.
That said we are living through an Amazon TBA delivery problem that is hard to fathom. When I get done dealing with the latest Amazon Seller Fire Drill, I will try and take time to right about it here in a new thread.
If Amazon won’t help me make sure someone receives their order when it is mistakenly delivered to my address, why am I to believe this actually happened?
The officers may have delivered the packages themselves, but I guarantee that if they had called Amazon the response would be that they could “donate the contents or just throw them away” (what I was told when I asked about getting a package to the right person).
The story is true, that municipality doesn’t have a lot of crime compared to others in the area, so the officers were probably glad for a distraction and something different to do. My guess is they volunteered when they contacted Amazon.
I don’t know about the logo on the cruiser, I think Amazon does have magnetic signs for
contractor’s vehicles. Legal could have been involved there too as a liability concern.
I noticed the typo in the Facebook post, it could have been composed on an iPhone that spell checked the word wrong. I’m sure AI was involved in the wrong word choice - just vs jumped. That happens to me too often.
My theory is Amazon Legal was consulted about chain of custody of the packages.
Thinking about this, could have been to ally concern when the police cruiser pulled up to homes!
I suspect Amazon has a different response when the caller is law enforcement.
OTOH, Amazon Flex does have some employees who’ll go the extra mile/above and beyond, as recorded in this MSM article:
Amazon delivery driver untangles and salutes American flag at Kentucky home in Ring video
I’ll not gainsay the notion that many of us have become more self-absorbed, over the last ½-century or so, than was previously the norm - there’s too much available evidence to make a convincingly-compelling argument to the contrary, methinks - but the candles shining through darkness haven’t been extinguished, @ least not yet.
#TeachYourChildrenTRUTH
Perhaps Amazon could deputize officers Beggs, Porter, and McCardle for pool protection, to prevent this:
“It is approaching the pool, sir. Do I have permission to fire?”
“How close is it?”
“About ten feet, sir.”
“Permission granted”
I’m in the middle of an article in the latest Scientific American about drone delivery; focusing on a service that is different from what Amazon uses (a company that has been delivering medicine in Africa for nearly a decade).
One of the specific things that the drone (actually the delivery pod that is lowered from the drone) can detect is the difference between a “nice flat spot on the sidewalk” and “a nice flat spot in the swimming pool”.
I get the feeling that this system is a bit more advanced than what Amazon is using; maybe that’s why WalMart is supposedly going with them.
Detecting water ought to be easy with multi-wavelength LIDAR.
Heck, even prior to that, a scan of Google maps ought to be able to look for big bluish spots and produce a list of addresses likely to have a pool. A drone would have advance warning that the house probably has a pool.
As usual, someone at Amazon did not think things through. Sigh.
Sure.
But do you think Amazon is going to pay for a service that has this? It’s not like it’s cheap.
Since they normally take a picture of the delivery, good thing she wasn’t skinny dipping.
Maybe we can name her pool ‘Lake Amazon’.
It ought to be possible to have a standard marking for a ‘package delivery site’, much like the standard markings for parking places or helicopter landing pads.
Everyone knows what this is, right?
It is easily identified from the air, and everybody understands that it means ‘set the chopper down HERE’.
Homeowners could have the same thing, smaller, with a slightly different symbol.
That’s the 8th hole, par 3 right?
Yes, but you must do it from your own chopper. No golf carts allowed.
And decapitating the windso… err… flag with rotor blades is a two stroke penalty.
