Posted on 08/05/2006 8:49:55 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
By all accounts, this was an unusual tactic in a labor dispute, even for Boston.
Thursday night, right in the midst of the dinnertime rush at one of the city's fanciest steakhouses, The Capital Grille on Newbury Street, a local labor leader allegedly walked into the dining room, opened a white shopping bag, and let three white rats loose.
A commotion ensued as the varmints scurried about and diners slicing $40 cuts of dry aged sirloin and other succulent entrees scattered. Out the door, police say, ran Louis J. Antonellis, a business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103, pursued by the restaurant's manager and a parking valet.
Officers caught Antonellis a few blocks away and marched him back to the restaurant, where employees identified him as the man who had released the rodents. A police report suggested that Antonellis's motive had nothing to do with the food, which diners often rank among the best in Boston.
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Union thug alert. Why even some on FR defend these band o bandit throwbacks to the 19th century is beyond me.
In terms of what labor unions have done to Boston, this is nothing. They and their communist allies in the state gov't are responsible for the Big Dig.
"Look for the Union Label when you are buying rats for your lab."
"He said rats symbolize nonunion contractors who do not provide fair pay and benefits."
Horsefeathers! Union contractors just help support the union bosses' vacations in the Bahamas and the union is just another boss for the employee, only one he has to pay!
The tactic speaks volumes about the spirit behind unions.
Might have?
Well, at least the cops caught the rat bastard union thug that tried to ruin the peoples' dinners at a really nice restaurant. The IBEW is a good group of folks and I have dealt with them for many years, and they are great negotiators but bend over backwards to be fair. It is clowns like this guy that will be their undoing as a union.
Dang. Now I'm hungry for steak.
What kind of loser gets excited about three rats let out of a bag? Are they vicious flying Mongolian attack rats, or cute little balls of soft, white fur?
More than anything else, you want to pick them up before they get hurt.
Now if they were nutria-sized New York sewer crack rats with 3" fangs instead of teeth, or Iraqi camel rats...
What this story doesn't tell you is that the rats were on the union payroll. They were journeyman electricians. "Willard" was the lead project supe for all the wiring on the Big Dig, and he has the paycheck stubs to prove it.
Good point. The white fur should have been a tip off that the poor rats were tame pet stock creatures probably terrified by all the commotion and the bright lights.
I'd force him to eat the rats.
Because they are idiots...period.
Preferably before some cold heartless a-hole like me stomped them into pink mush.
The prices at the restaurant might prompt me to run out screaming, but some silly little mouse ain't gonna make me cringe.
Funny no one even knows what the disagreement is.
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