Posted on 06/10/2018 7:24:32 PM PDT by Hugin
A pig farm in Saskatchewan caught on fire and caused millions of dollars in damage, including the deaths of 12,000 pigs. The volunteer fire department responded to an emergency call to fight the blaze, but when they got there, an employee of the farm didn't let them in.
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Insurance money?
Liability drives a crazy amount of thinking these days.
Probably running a Gus Fring-style drug lab out of the farm.
Insurance money?
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Sounds like it.
Liability from the fire department? madness!!
Same here. Can’t imagine their suffering.
The employee responsible (McIntosh) has been fired. He still thinks he did the right thing.
Couldn’t have been worth his job. He wasn’t the owner.
The real story. The volunteer firemen were Muslims and when they saw what was burning, went back to their firehouse screaming, "Allahu akhbar!" The employee's refusal to let them in was a cover story for their religious ecstasy.
Maximizing the insurance payout?
Was this employee Muslim?
I hadn’t thought of that angle. Something to hide?
How absolutely horrible, to be burned alive. And most of the 12,000 were piglets. Their squeals of pain and terror must have been horrible. I’m glad that employee was fired. Should have been shoved into one of the burning buildings. Probably instructed to fire the building for insurance. The company that owns the burned building AND pigs had a very similar fire at another pig farm in 2014 with 3500 pigs killed. That was just a warm-up to this, no pun intended.
Avoiding the frying plan — but not the fire.
This is the problem with putting genuinely incompetent people in positions of authority. They are incapable of believing anyone is able to do more than they can do. The employee is undoubtedly correct. If he had tried to fight the fire e could have died.
Unfortunately, for the pigs in the sort term, he was incapable of considering the likelihood that the professionally trained fire fighters knew how to deal with the fire. This is a classic example of an asshole.
damn the b@stard to Hell.
It’s Canada. Let them deal with it.
Wonder if Justine Trudork will ask for some pork to be imported. Bet he’ll drop tarriffs for back bacon shortage!
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