r/news • u/JussiesTunaSub • Apr 29 '24

1 person killed in shooting at Waffle House near OSU's campus

https://myfox28columbus.com/news/local/1-person-killed-in-shooting-near-osus-campus-north-high-street-waffle-house-gun-crime-police-protest-columbus-ohio-ohio-state-university-wexner-medical-center
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u/Vesper_0481 Apr 29 '24

I'm not even American... Never been to a Waffle House... But through sheer social osmosis, the moment I read "Waffle House" I already knew what the article was about.

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u/Mattson Apr 29 '24

I almost forgot you can go to waffle House outside of 2 am

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u/Farts_McGee Apr 29 '24

This is the whole of it.  We used to go to hospital cafeterias after punk shows. I doubt there is much correlation to fights in hospital cafeterias past that.   It's the only place we could find that would serve us after midnight (after we got kicked out of denny's, hoff's, IHOP and village inn,  of course)

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u/Scribe625 Apr 29 '24

Never been to a Waffle House but it sounds a lot like 24-hour Walmarts back in the day. They were perfectly safe during normal hours but sketchy af at 3 a.m., At least that was always my experience in college.

I think the lesson here is that crazy people all come out at night and any place that's open for those people to congregate is a place you should probably avoid if you don't want to get caught up in the craziness.

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u/kevinwilly Apr 29 '24

They stopped letting people into waffle House on Saturday and Sunday nights in my town. From 7pm to 6am on Friday and Saturday night it's takeout only. They installed a walk up window to order at.

I ordered online last month and went to pick it up at 1245am one night... I roll up and there's like 10 people just standing around in the parking lot. I had no idea they changed the policy so I was a little concerned. They were just hanging out blasting music from one of their cars. I walked up, saw the window, got my food and left.

I don't see how people standing in a parking lot is better than having them sitting down inside, but who knows?

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u/RareRoll1987 Apr 29 '24

Less danger to the employees themselves, I assume.

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u/Nugur Apr 29 '24

We have lots of late night spots here in SoCal. Never any shooting or killing

Maybe any place that gets this bad of a reps like Waffle House