78: Chapter 78 Ergency Situation 78: Chapter 78 Ergency Situation Under the blessing of force, the order on the streets suddenly beca well-organized and friendly, with the holess lining up for als, and nobody thinking about cutting the line or bullying others.
Sieg stood there like a sculpture, with a gaze as piercing as a laser, holding a gun like War God himself.
It made Allen Zhang feel quite inferior.
The two-hour al service quickly ca to an end, yet Allen Zhang dared not relax.
He pulled out his phone, compared it against the photos and portraits, and observed the lined-up Blacks one by one, quickly spotting one in the back of the queue who seed ntally unwell.
Sieg also noticed sothing was off and approached to ask, “Is that him?
The ntally ill person?”
“It should be him.
He looks pretty much the sa as the picture, just changed his clothes—everything else matches,” Allen Zhang confird with the photo.
“What do we do now?
Call the police?” Sieg asked hesitantly, “Doesn’t he carry a lethal weapon on him?”
“It takes so ti to call the police, and right now we’re essentially the district officers!
Let’s act after the other holess have received their als and left, when there are fewer people around.
You keep an eye on him here, make sure he doesn’t leave your sight, I’ll go report this,” Allen Zhang made a plan and imdiately turned around to report to Rena and the shelter manager Cooper.
“Ok,” Sieg nodded, continuing to supervise the holess lining up for their als without changing his expression.
Allen Zhang returned to the shelter where Rena, manager Cooper, and other staff were discussing sothing, with Cooper angrily complaining into his phone.
It seed to be a problem with the goods transportation?
“What happened?” Allen Zhang approached Rena and quietly asked.
“Why did you co in?
Weren’t you managing the order outside?” Rena was a bit surprised.
“I ca to report an issue, but what’s going on here?
Why have the al distributions stopped?” Allen Zhang noticed the staff in charge of serving als had also stopped, but there were still holess people waiting outside.
Rena said with so difficulty, “There’s so bad news.
The truck fleet transporting the supplies slipped on the highway and collided with other semi-trailers and private cars, resulting in an accident with 2 dead and 3 injured.
There might not be any relief coming in today.”
“The worse news is, we’ve run out of mashed potatoes and chicken fillets, and it seems we don’t have enough relief als,” Rena fretted.
“This is indeed not good news,” Allen Zhang also imdiately realized the gravity of the situation.
There were a lot of people outside still waiting to be fed, and many were also waiting on the streets to receive warm clothing, pants, and shoes to be distributed.
If, after all the queuing, they find out they’ve been fooled, they’re sure to get upset.
“The other shelters are facing the sa problem.
Our manager is trying to resolve this, attempting to urgently contact other community charity organizations to see if we can urgently divert so supplies over.”
“More importantly, the mayor has urgently convened a press conference and stated that the issues with electricity and water supply will be solved as soon as possible.
Every departnt is responsible for this, and the mayor also demands that each shelter must provide als and clothes to the holess on ti, and cannot close for no reason.
If we can’t quickly pacify the holess and maintain public order, the managers and staff of the shelter might need to be replaced tomorrow,” Rena said sowhat helplessly.
“He’s smart, isn’t he?
Just a word in front of the dia, and the people below have to run around till they’re out of breath,” Allen Zhang scoffed.
Now that the shelter ran out of supplies, the only thing left to do was to close.
But by doing so, the upper echelons would bla them, and manager Cooper definitely couldn’t withstand the pressure.
The pressure was on the employees and security personnel.
Such bad luck.
However, this had nothing to do with Allen Zhang.
What did it have to do with him?
He was just a part-tir.
Allen Zhang suddenly realized that being a temporary worker had its benefits.
At least there was no need to act by looking at others’ faces—just work if you want to and, when it’s done, just pat your butt and leave.
“Hanberger, why are you here?
Is there sothing going on?” Supervisor Cooper, agitated and flustered, hung up the phone and saw that the staff was still chatting privately.
His face looked rather unpleasant as he walked over and asked Allen Zhang.
“There was a bit of an unexpected incident, Mr.
Supervisor.
A ntal patient is queuing up for als in line,” Allen Zhang responded.
“Then chase him away!
Call the Los Angeles ntal hospital and have them co over to take him away.
We’re facing a bigger problem right now!” Cooper was a bit irritated, everyone visible to the naked eye seed worn out.
But Allen Zhang didn’t show any sympathy for him and directly said, “As far as I know, that ntal patient is no ordinary person.
He carries deadly weapons on him and last night stabbed two holess people, currently wanted by the police.
If we can’t handle this, he will definitely hurt other holess people, causing a larger scale riot, so I wanted to consult your thoughts.”
Cooper was shocked to hear this, “What?
A wanted criminal?
How could such a dangerous individual co here?
Is he here for food or does he have other intents?”
It could well turn into a fatality.
“Supervisor, we don’t have extra food to give him,” Rena said imdiately, looking at the supervisor’s panicked appearance.
Cooper’s expression was serious, “Then notify the police, Rena, quickly dial 911!”
Rena imdiately did so, taking out her cell phone and reporting the matter to 911 at the Southern Branch, bringing bad news to Cooper after hanging up.
“It may take the police officers about twenty minutes to co here, the Southern police departnt is seriously understaffed right now, most are in the Sixth District, where many ntal patients, lunatics, and gang mbers need to be arrested, they simply don’t have the ti to manage this minor issue.
The police also said if officers don’t arrive in ti, let our security personnel handle the problem themselves.”
This might be the slowest police response in Los Angeles history.
Officers dispatched from other branches to the Southern don’t have that level of initiative, after all, it isn’t their own jurisdiction, cross-district action is also restrained, and neither the Police Chief nor the head of the departnt are their own people.
“Is this a minor issue?
This is a huge deal!
Damn these police officers!
What are they doing squabbling internally at a ti like this!!
We are their own people!
Why won’t they co to help?
Instead, they go to solve problems for ordinary taxpayers?”
Cooper was numbed, cursing loudly at the police departnt.
Allen Zhang stood by, watching Supervisor’s ltdown, “So?
What do we do now?
Can you give us a clear instruction, Mr.
Supervisor?”
Should anything go wrong in the process, and soone doesn’t control their strength, we, the temps, won’t take the bla, the most we’ll be is laid off.
Earning only a bit over two hundred US dollars a day, why would I risk my life.
I need a raise!
Cooper cald down and thought soberly.
He suddenly realized that this situation wasn’t actually too terrible.
And very quickly made his decision and strategy, “Get ready to take action!
Hanberger, notify Sieg, the two of you coordinate well, and be sure to stop that ntal patient before a disturbance breaks out!
Even if you injure or kill him, it doesn’t matter!
I will apply to halt the public welfare relief activities on the grounds that an employee was injured, disperse those holess people, and report the matter to the higher-ups to apply for workers’ compensation for you.”
Cooper’s eyes shone, “Yes!
Just like that!
We have all been frightened and can’t continue working!!
This way we can avoid a riot due to insufficient relief and also gain the consideration of the higher departnts, and earn a sum for workers’ compensation, including paid leave.”
“…”
Allen Zhang and Rena exchanged glances.
What a thinker, considering the shrewdness of his thought.
Always finding a loophole.
Not putting himself or the higher-ups in a tough spot, and even securing benefits for the employees.
No wonder he can be a leader!
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