Crash pad shot up in MEM

[MikeD]

FedEx pilot hit. Marine fighter pilot who fought on the ground in the Battle of Fallujah in ‘04, only to get shot in MEM….hoping for fast recovery for you

FedEx pilot shot in Memphis while sleeping at crash pad

Action News 5 confirmed that a FedEx pilot was shot in the middle of the night while asleep in bed.

www.actionnews5.com

 

[derg]

Not good. WTF.

 

[mightynimbus]

I'm surprised Joyce Peterson did not also look at their mail

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

Memphis has always been a festering crime hellhole, but it seems to be getting even worse.

 

[BravoHotel]

That is tragic news.

 

[EIR]

This is terrible. I wondering if the house was targeted or a random act of violence.

 

[Murdoughnut]

Memphis has always been a festering crime hellhole, but it seems to be getting even worse.

The Atlantic did a great piece on Memphis crime a few months before the recent police incident. Same author did a follow-up too.

Here's the original one ... The Murders in Memphis Aren’t Stopping

 

[Brian29]

This is terrible. I wondering if the house was targeted or a random act of violence.

Scuttlebutt is it was a gang shooting that targeted the wrong house. That crash pad is in a pretty rough part of town, as I understand it.

 

[Brian29]

Memphis has always been a festering crime hellhole, but it seems to be getting even worse.

It is truly the worst place I’ve ver had to spend time at in my life, thank god for getting based in ANC. The driving alone is something to behold. Its a near death experience every time you get on one of the highways or more trafficked off-highway routes.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

It is truly the worst place I’ve ver had to spend time at in my life, thank god for getting based in ANC. The driving alone is something to behold. Its a near death experience every time you get on one of the highways or more trafficked off-highway routes.

Twenty years ago when I was there it was already bad, but you could at least escape it even as a poor person in places like Southaven that weren’t that far away. Now I understand that even that far out it’s pretty bad.

 

[SeanD]

I've been robbed twice in my life. Once, when I lived in Richmond late at night, and once in broad day light visiting Graceland (total dump) in MEM.

 

[Murdoughnut]

I wonder what, if anything, FedEx does in the community development space around Memphis. Because at some point you suffer the consequences of having a headquarters in a place nobody wants to live in.

 

[Brian29]

Twenty years ago when I was there it was already bad, but you could at least escape it even as a poor person in places like Southaven that weren’t that far away. Now I understand that even that far out it’s pretty bad.

Tis’ unfortunately. You gotta get all the way out to Collierville to really get away from it. Germantown wasn’t bad either, which is where I stayed during training but it was certainly right on the edge. Again, it was the driving that nearly killed me on a daily basis. No escape from that

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

Memphis has always been a festering crime hellhole, but it seems to be getting even worse.

Yeah, a former Pinnacle management guy was shot and killed there a few years back.

 

[Murdoughnut]

Yeah, a former Pinnacle management guy was shot and killed there a few years back.

Not just a management guy, former CEO. At the time he was CEO of the Memphis Chamber of Commerce.

Remembering Phil Trenary

memphischamber.com

 

[Inverted]

FedEx pilots make way too much money to need to have a crash pad in a garbage part of an already terrible city...

 

[zmiller4]

FedEx pilots make way too much money to need to have a crash pad in a garbage part of an already terrible city...

You’d think.

But the number of senior AA and UAL pilots who would stay at the “Quality” Inn O’Hare instead of the 4 Points to save $10 a night showed exactly how cheap some of them can be.

I mean I did it because I was making 10% their pay but man that place was gross.

 

[Inverted]

You’d think.

But the number of senior AA and UAL pilots who would stay at the “Quality” Inn O’Hare instead of the 4 Points to save $10 a night showed exactly how cheap some of them can be.

I mean I did it because I was making 10% their pay but man that place was gross.

And flying with those pilots is usually miserable because they hate their lives and job…

 

[SeanD]

You’d think.

But the number of senior AA and UAL pilots who would stay at the “Quality” Inn O’Hare instead of the 4 Points to save $10 a night showed exactly how cheap some of them can be.

I mean I did it because I was making 10% their pay but man that place was gross.

Hey now. I didn't mind staying at that QI back during the SureJet 'One List' days. The bar was open until 3am. Those rooms were like freezers in the winter though.

 

[Old Pete]

Yeah, a former Pinnacle management guy was shot and killed there a few years back.

Maybe he didn't do enough in the " community development space around Memphis "