The Revolution has started...

[Agathon]

Former Lehman CEO Richard Fuld was attacked and knocked out cold while on the treadmill the day after announcing that Lehman had gone bankrupt.

“From two very senior sources – one incredibly senior source – that he went to the gym after … Lehman was announced as going under. He was on a treadmill with a heart monitor on. Someone was in the corner, pumping iron and he walked over and he knocked him out cold. And frankly after having watched this, I’d have done the same too.”

It’s about time these corporate thugs suffered some kind of punishment for running their companies into the ground at tax payer’s expense, then walking away with millions.

http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/06/lehman-brothers-ceo-attacked-at-gym-knocked-out-cold/

Good job.

I can't for the life of me work out why he'd put the heart monitor on? What was he expecting?

[gwillybj]

to find his?

[Velociryx]

Must put a face with the name for a story this good! GREAT find, Agathon!!

-=Vel=-

[Velociryx]

and no...I didn't sift through a big collection of pics. This is the first one I found.

He just really DOES look like a total tool.

-=Vel=-

[Kidlicious]

"Someone was in the corner, pumping iron and he walked over and he knocked him out cold. "

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[OneFootInTheGrave]

tool???

the guy lost a billion in all this... well I am sure he is still well funded in other ways, but he is surely one of biggest individual losers in all this...

[Velociryx]

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it, OneFootInTheGrave....after he gets out of the private hospital I'm sure he's been checked into, I doubt he'll be missing any meals...

I'm with the guy who coldcocked him. Why do we treat these people like folk heroes?

-=Vel=-

[Arrian]

Christ. Are you guys going to make me defend this *******?

-Arrian

[Velociryx]

Sure, punching him was a moral wrong. No denying that.

But I can *definitely* understand the frustration that led to the act, and this tool's wrongs, and all the lives he has impacted by playing fast and loose (then whining and b*tching for a rescue!?!?)....that goes way beyond whatever wrong was done to him via a solid right. IMO, of course.

-=Vel=-

(but that's about as close as I can bring myself to defending him)

[Arrian]

Oh, of course. My wife was watching the news last night and there was a little bit about Fuld. She was not kind to the man, and I agree.

Hell, he may deserve prison time (doubt it, but possible). If so, fine by me. Nation of laws and all that, what what.

-Arrian

[Velociryx]

Heh....I dunno Arrian....put him in prison and he'll prolly get WAY worse than a punch to the jaw....

-=Vel=-

[Arrian]

That's another matter that should be dealt with, btw.

Also, probably not really, as his prison would be a "white collar" prison.

-Arrian

[Velociryx]

GRRR....yes, and that gripes my @ss too! These guys lose billions, squander other people's futures, and typically, our response is to:

a) Ride to their rescue
b) Slap their wrists (if that)
c) IF we imprison them, we send them to a country club style place, and make sure their golden parachutes are waiting for them when they get out.

Which goes back to what I mentioned before 'bout treating them like folk heroes.

They're crooks!

They've redefined criminality and taken it to heights I can barely even dream about.

And we idolize them?

That makes me sad to think about.

-=Vel=-

(wasn't it Andrew Jackson who had "I beat the bank!" put on his tombstone? Maybe he had the right idea after all...)

[Arrian]

Commie.



-Arrian

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Arrian
Christ. Are you guys going to make me defend this *******?

-Arrian

Why would you want to? Our society is hopeless at punishing this sort of crime. If a doctor had caused the death or disablement of a patient through malpractice, he would lose his license. Yet this man has probably caused the early deaths of hundreds, if not thousands of people, whose retirement savings have been depleted or wiped out by his negligence, and who now will not be able to afford the standard of health care they could previously have afforded.

We live in a society that punishes people for small scale murder, but once you get up to killing or maiming hundreds or thousands it is really hard to get jail time.