Utah mine owner founded company on advice of squirrel

[kurth]

Promises Made, Promises Broken
Exposing the Real Robert Murray

Ask most of the miners working at the Maple Creek or Powhatan No. 6 mines to tell you owner/operator Robert Murray's squirrel story and you're in for a treat.

The way Murray tells it, he had just been let go in 1987 as CEO of North American Coal Company and was feeling extremely down about the whole situation. At home one day, Murray was sitting on his back porch, contemplating his future, when he was approached by a squirrel. Murray says the squirrel hopped up next to him, looked him square in the eye and said "Bob Murray, you should be operating your very own mines." Unfortunately for UMWA miners, this seemingly intelligent rodent wasn't too keen on fairness, so it neglected to add the words "and make sure you treat your workers the way you would want to be treated." ...

http://www.umwa.org/journal/VOL112NO4/july1.shtml

[burrowowl]

1. If they were doing retrieval mining

may God have their souls!
Very dangerous for little return.

[Name removed]

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[originalpckelly]

3. Does anyone else think the guy looks like an overgrown leprechaun?

[mountainvue]

4. I listened to his press conference this morning.

He is colorful to say the least. Some of the more tasteless things he said I chalked up to being over tired and stressed.

[pinto]

5. I watched his press briefing today and thought, Whaa?

Telling the sheriffs dept. to stop the traffic noise - "This isn't an emergency" - so he could be heard. It was simply incredible.

[mountainvue]

7. Yes. The "this isn't an emergency"

thing blew my mind. I thought he was probably being a bit delusional from lack of sleep and stress. I kept thinking someone should get him off the air. But as I read more this evening about him I think maybe the guy's just another asshole.

[Ilsa]

6. Sounds like the salamander story.

Does this meet the DU rules if I don't use the M religion word? I didn't think there was anything wrong with my other post which was deleted.

[mikeytherat]

8. kick

mikey_the_rat

[HeeBGBz]

9. If a squirrel approached him

It was only because he was the biggest nut he had ever seen.

[peekaloo]

10. It worked for Bullwinkle!

personally I don't trust the lil buck toothed bastids.

[Vinca]

11. After listening to the press conference, I believe every word of the

squirrel story. Did the squirrel tell him if there was a collapse to blame it on an earthquake so he wouldn't have to pay settlements and lawsuits?

[MiniMe]

12. Well, the guy is a bit squirrelly

[Enrique]

13. then he put a raccoon in charge of mine safety