S. Korea: Boiling Water, Home-made Flame Throwers, and Union Goons

Donga Ilbo ^ | 07/20/06

[TigerLikesRooster]

Boiling Water, Home-made Flame Throwers, and Union Goons

Employees of a construction company, a subcontractor to a steel giant, POSCO, barricaded themselves at POSCO headquarter and have been battling riot police for several days. They poured boiling water to riot cops, and also fired home-made flame throwers (made out of garden hose and LPG in portable containers) at them. In the following video, you can see riot cops pinned at the stair well, their shields up to protect themselves from flames, while some others are busy putting out fire using fire hose. The pictures below show the "weapons" they kept(note: you can see gas containers with hose attached. They are their flame throwers) and the mess they left behind, after many strikers broke rank and the strike was eventually called off.

Click here for the video(the video is in upper left corner)

[TigerLikesRooster]

They show what it takes to be the nastiest "union goons."

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[claudiustg]

That's some championship union goon stuff there! If it ever becomes an Olympic event South Korea has it in the bag, same with student demonstrations.

[Sax]

Should've gassed them suckers!

[ChiefJayStrongbow]

"Home made flame throwers"

I instantly thought of Mr. T. on the A-team. If these union thugs get attacked by a bunch of guys in surplus Army jeeps, they can keep causing the jeeps to flip over until the attackers run out of jeeps and surrendur.

[GOPJ]

thanks for the ping

[MD_Willington_1976]

Wonder how quickly it would end if the riot cops were issued remington 870's?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #7

In a few minutes.:)

[Zeroisanumber]

Suprised that the cops didn't just back off and gas the hell out of the building.