Fired workers burn company executive to death

[joeybee12]

BHUBANESHWAR, India — Indian police detained two people after an angry mob of fired workers burned to death a senior executive of a steel factory, an official said Friday.

After learning they were laid off, about a dozen workers attacked a vehicle carrying Radhey Shyam Roy as he was leaving the factory in eastern Orissa state on Thursday, dousing the Jeep with gasoline and setting it on fire, said police Superintendent Ajay Kumar Sarangi.

Two other people in the vehicle were allowed to flee but Roy, 59, was trapped inside and later died of severe burns, Sarangi said.

Police were questioning two workers and their formal arrest on murder charges was likely, Sarangi told The Associated Press. The steel factory is in Bolangir district, nearly 250 miles west of Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa state.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41901617/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

[HughBeaumont]

1. Should we title this story . . .

. . "Just Sayin."?

:evilgrin:

[joeybee12]

4. E-mail tot he Koch Brothers with your note? nt

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. If you do that, PLEASE use a fake e-mail created in a cyber café that doesn't have cameras.

That'll be considered a threat.

[snappyturtle]

2. As horrendous as this act was, I can understand that desperate people

resort to despicable measures.

[joeybee12]

3. You can almost understand it...

it's horrific, but for many people, the job is a matter of life or death.

[snappyturtle]

7. Yep. I suppose when one has nothing left to lose, a heinous act can make sense. nt

[Raksha]

5. I agree. I want our own American outsourcers to know this story.

NOT that I could ever condone something like that in a million years, but I want a few CEOs to know it's possible. They don't fear the people enough yet. I want them to realize there's a limit to what they can get away with.

[Q3JR4]

6. This is what happens when workers feel they have

no other choice.

I hope that the U.S. isn't heading in the same direction...

Q3JR4.

[Occulus]

9. I thought this was an article from about 1920 or so.

We are heading in that direction again.

[Renew Deal]

8. I had a feeling this wasn't in the US

That sort of thing doesn't really happen here.

[Vincardog]

10. That sort of thing doesn't really happen here. YET

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Not now. But it did, and will likely happen again if Walker et. al. keep going.

[Lastactiongyro]

13. give it time. The Repukes have no clue what they are playing with.

[Sal Minella]

12. Yet.

@ Vincardog. GMTA. But I'm old and slow.

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. Got to love that capitalism.

Byproduct of outsourcing nobody could foresee.

[BobbyBoring]

16. Now we're talkin!

Fear works both ways doesn't it?

[AlabamaLibrul]

17. Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash,

we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do. Not. Fuck. With. Us.

[onethatcares]

18. what the hell were they suppose to do?

go home and drink poison like so many do?

as weird as this tale is, I guffawed at it. The exec probably thought he had it made and those little people were just numbers in his mind.