A gang of old age pensioners who kidnapped and tortured their financial adviser because he had 'taken us for a ride' were jailed in Germany today.
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During the trial the court also heard that [the financial adviser] himself is now under investigation by authorities in Karlsruehe for suspected fraud.
[The financial adviser] was ambushed outside his home in Speyer, western Germany, where he was bound with masking tape and bundled into the boot of a car after being hit over the head with the walking frame of one of his kidnappers.
According to the prosecutors, [two of the pensioners] attacked [the adviser] outside his home and bundled him into an oversize cardboard box which they wheeled to the boot of a silver Audi saloon car.
Read more here. Makes me proud for people everywhere who are mad as hell and aren't going to take it any longer. Now if only Americans would descend on the Goldman Sachs HQ and exact similar justice.
6 comments:
I bet there are just a whole bunch of folks who would like to have a one on one chat with Bernie Madoff whilst the guards take a lunch break...
That is hilarious! In a satisfying sort of way.
Refresh my memory, is the "boot" the trunk? Or the hood?
Kyle, are you reading?
EA - Madoff may be safer in prison than any other place he could be.
Shug - Boot is trunk.
Hope for insurrection of the middling classes.
I like their approach to resolving their anger issues. I'd like to see some of that here. Maybe even extending into the arena of politicians as well. We'd need more jails though.....
I'll get my walker...
Pilot - Or backhoes, maybe.
Chats - You think I carry that stick to help me walk? How else can you go along with a sturdy cudgel in hand?
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