"Lazy UPS guy" Next Viral Sensation?

Call it "extreme ground shipping," or "Lazy UPS Guy" if you're tracking YouTube.

"I was sitting right there playing XBOX, and I see a big brown thing pass by," said John Torres, who may have seen the next viral sensation live from his Gainesville home.

"He probably wasn't thinking or just lazy like the video says," he said.

The video, uploaded on January 14 and already has close to 600 views, shows a UPS driver heading North along 34th Street, driving on the sidewalk- directly through a school zone.

"It's a very mobile area, we see bicycles and pedestrians all the time," said Sgt. Joe Raulerson with the Gainesville Police Department.

If an officer witnessed the delivery, the driver would have been hit with a $154 citation, and three points on his license.

The UPS public relations team released this statement to TV20:

"'Thanks so much for calling this to our attention.
What is depicted on this video is in no way condoned by UPS. We don't tolerate any violation of UPS safe driving practices and will take corrective action, including termination, for anyone who isn't following our safe driving standards. The location is not clearly apparent, so we're investigating this video further. We value the unique trust the public places in UPS for the highest safety standards on the roadways.' Susan Rosenberg | UPS Public Relations Manager."

"Right when they get out of school, that's pretty much when UPS comes around," said Torres, who is happy no one was hurt but doesn't think "lazy UPS guy" should be fired.

"Maybe put him back in packaging," he said.

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[OB3S3DONK3Y]

next viral sensation?? dont think so this was on the news and the original still only has 2,300 views lmao FAIL.

[phcoppage23]

Shum: ever parked In a handicap? Parked in a fire zone? All the same. All illegal. A sidewalk would not be my first choice either butI can't believe you don't get offended that someone would think a ups driver is lazy.

[shumirules1]

@phcoppage23 Been driving for 16 years, never have found a need or a want to drive on a sidwalk.

[goalie5hole]

People drive this all day, everyday. And now UPS does it, it's news???

[aejo16]

He only drove by two houses. A friend of mine knows this man personally, he is a brad new father and lost his JOB because some jerk college student thought it would be funny to send it to TV20 and the reporters at TV20 have nothing better to do than air crap stories like this. Come on, people, what's news and what's not these days? How about focus on something important instead of trying to get an innocent man fired?

[SwampOfGators]

wasn't*, sorry posting mobile.

[SwampOfGators]

I just do not see what the big deal is. he's going 10 miles an hour tops. you have a better chance of hitting a kid in that area shooting across the streetgoing theposted speed limit. the fact that he list his job over this is ridiculous. yes, what he did was wrong, but it was THAT big of a deal. a traffic citation and suspension its all he should have gotten at most.

[phcoppage23]

Shum: if you read my earlier messages I said I didn't agree with what he did. It's that they called him LAZY. You know as well as I do a UPS driver isn't lazy, maybe not smart, but definitely not lazy.

[phcoppage23]

Shum: you must be in management then, or have never drove. I work in a center of 30 drivers and every one of them would say they made questionable driving techniques at one point or another.

[Scottie0706]

Can you say dumb?