Andy_Copland 0 #1 March 11, 2009 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5884862.ece Wonder who's to blame? Must be the economy after he lost his job.1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chuckakers 426 #2 March 11, 2009 Quotehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5884862.ece Wonder who's to blame? Must be the economy after he lost his job. Or maybe just a freak that freaked out. Doesn't make him a freak brother, though.Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kbordson 8 #3 March 11, 2009 We definitely need more information on this situation before anything "logical" can be said. At first it seems like it was calculated, starting at his mothers house... but then becomes more random (per the press and our understanding) We don't know if the firearms were legally owned or if he stole them or if he "borrowed" them from his parents house. We don't know what instigated this attack and why drive to the other town? Sometimes we can learn from sad situations.... I'm sure that more info (or speculation) will be revealed in time. Let just hope we learn something helpful. (very sad about the child though ) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
timmyfitz 0 #4 March 11, 2009 Quotehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5884862.ece Wonder who's to blame? Must be the economy after he lost his job. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Unstable 9 #5 March 11, 2009 HAHAHA That's hilarious. Maybe Rosie should apply to have her body guard carry eating utensils.=========Shaun ========== Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #6 March 11, 2009 Also, she has a fondness for beer even has her kid fetch it for her! Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #7 March 13, 2009 Quote Wonder who's to blame? Must be the economy after he lost his job. perhaps this... QuotePilgrim's Pride, the company that the Alabama investigator first named as the possible motive for the massacre. You might have heard of Pilgrim's Pride before, not only because you've bought their chicken, but because of the notorious undercover video shot in one of the company's chicken slaughterhouses in 2004. When you look back at that video, and you place future-rampage-killer McLendon and his mother in that environment, the gory, sadistic details take on new meaning: PETA says its investigator witnessed workers "ripping birds' beaks off, spray painting their faces, twisting their heads off, spitting tobacco into their mouths and eyes, and breaking them in half -- all while the birds are still alive." In one shot, workers jump on live chickens with their entire body weight, sending blood and innards splashing on the lens of the hidden camera. Mostly, the workers appear to have been acting either out of sheer boredom with their jobs or out of anger with management, sometimes for making them work too many hours. One sequence filmed on 6 April this year [2004], shows workers amusing themselves by throwing 114 birds against a wall, their stunned bodies collecting beneath it. At one point, a supervisor walks past and shouts "Hold your fire" so he can safely pass. Once out of the way, he tells the workers to "carry on." So this is the vicious world that McLendon spent some two years working in, and his mother far longer. The way the company treats its chickens is a good metaphor for how Pilgrim's Pride treats its workers, shareholders and American taxpayers. In 2006, Pilgrim's Pride, then the second-largest chicken processor in the world, made a huge gamble that will seem familiar to anyone who's been following the financial crash: the company borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars, leveraging itself well beyond its means, in order to acquire a rival company and become the nation's No. 1 chicken processor, slaughtering 45 million chickens per week. That might have given the executives a nice, big hard-on, but it also meant they would have to come up with more money to pay for all that debt. So the company did do what every post-Reagan company has done and gotten away with: They made the workforce pay for the executives' mistakes. That meant squeezing them for more work for less pay, or in Pilgrim's case, more work for no pay: In August 2007, the U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Pilgrim's Pride accusing them of grossly undercompensating their employees. That same year, 10,000 Pilgrim's Pride employees launched a class-action lawsuit demanding compensation for their work. http://www.alternet.org/workplace/131201/workplace_massacre_in_alabama%3A_did_endless_downsizing_and_slashed_benefits_cause_the_rampage/?page=entirestay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #8 March 13, 2009 Guns don't kill people. Chicken processing plants do. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Capt.Slog 0 #9 March 13, 2009 Quote Guns don't kill people. Chicken processing plants do. Old news www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27034940/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
