Pepsi man punches out Coke man during delivery

[Bravo Zulu]

Pepsi man punches out Coke man during delivery
Friday, October 12, 2007
By Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pepsi has been trying to best Coke for years in the world-wide cola war, but Pepsi seems to have landed a blow in a hinterlands skirmish recently at a Wal-Mart in Indiana County.

An employee from each company was delivering products to the Wal-Mart on Oakland Avenue in White Township on Monday morning and "apparently bickering back and forth" as they worked, state police said. It's not clear exactly what the bickering was about, but as the Coke employee left the store, the Pepsi guy called him over to the side of the Wal-Mart.

There, police said, he "punched the victim three times in the face," breaking his nose and giving him a black eye.

Police did not identify the Pepsi man except to say he is a "known suspect." Troopers didn't say if charges have been filed, although they characterized the incident as a simple assault, a misdemeanor.

The Coke man, Robert Koscho, 48, of Ebensburg, said Coke told him he wasn't allowed to talk about the case.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07285/824948-100.stm?cmpid=MOSTEMAILEDBOX

[msongs]

1. when you're #2, you will do anything to get to #1...hmmmmm nt

[ccpup]

2. doesn't surprise me

if the Coke guy was caught "allowing" his product to bleed over into where the Pepsi guy's product was, it could certainly make for fisticuffs. Shelf face for product placement is paid for out the ol' whazoo and fought for and taken very, very seriously.

[aquart]

3. You can't make this stuff up.

[Bitwit1234]

4. They ought to pour the coke down the drain, never tasted such

icky sweet stuff.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. That's the same thing I saw about pepsi

guess it is all what you're used to.