Summary

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The gunman, who arrived in New York City on November 24th, shot Thompson on December 4th outside a hotel hosting an investor conference.

Investigators believe the gunman, who concealed his identity with a mask, fled the city on a bus, leaving behind a backpack in Central Park.

  • Lenny@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I met him in the woods and he said he wanted to dig the world’s deepest dirt hole.

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    11 months ago

    They’d have better chances if they offered the former CEO’s one month’s pay.

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        I think they’d publicly wave around a vague concept hinting at the potential sum, then if the shooter was caught, they’d really come out and give a $1 reward to a whistleblower if only just to make a mockery of the concept.

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          Sounds about right. The peasants do what the rich want because the rich think everyone should do what they say and the peasants think they will get rewarded. Neither is true.

          A $1 reward would just be the punchline.

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    The least I would do it for is 1 million, or a little over 1 single month of his outrageous salary. You would think 1 month of pay is easy to offer.

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    11 months ago

    I thought it was OK to Cross State Lines with Weapons? Or is it only OK if you Kill Poor Democrats?

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    There was “gunman”, Thompson was killed by his own greed. You should arrest him, but you can’t because he’s dead.

    Money please!

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      It’d be a little macabre, but I feel like it’s pretty easy to handcuff a corpse…

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 months ago

      Preferably the one you hate the most. For example Tesco. In my country they as much as doubled the prices without their Clubcard, and they have these “discounts” on almost all products. I haven’t been there as a customer for quite a while. Most likely over a year or two.

      But it’s also a bit personal.
      They schedule inventories in the shop overlapping with the opening times. Now, this isn’t just the mistake of Tesco, but they do decide on the times. What I mean by in-shop is not in the warehouse, but actually where the customers are.
      We are required to be accurate, sort the products on the shelves if there was a mess and face it. This is then checked by someone else. Facing needs to be done well, but slight inaccuracies in counts are accepted (1 or 2 items). Your speed is also measured, by the way.

      This is all OK, except that now there’s customers to fuck with it. They can take items, put them back, or just make a plain old mess. Plus you can’t guard all the shelves. Because of that, I was shocked when I was in Tesco like this for the first time. “If the customer takes something, ask them for barcodes and count of each item they’re taking, write those down on a piece of paper and report them to me.”
      So… you’ll give me a piece of paper, right? RIGHT? (no.)

      Imagine that as a customer. Let’s say you take a few pens and are about to put them into your shopping cart, suddenly someone very much not from Tesco runs up to you “WAIT!! Can I see the items first? I need to write down the barcodes. Is this all you took? Ok. Um… do you… do you have some paper? No? Shit, please wait here, I’ll be right back! (One eternity passes) …”

      THANKFULLY, I avoided that. There were only 2 parents who talked about having to buy some of those plastic book covers ASAP as the school year was just starting, but my scared and startled look, probably/hopefully looking like “Please don’t take those. Please…”, made them change their minds. I’ve heard one of them say something like “It’s busy here, let’s not bother them. We’ll try elsewhere.”

      I assume this discouragers a lot of night-time customers. But I’ll be fair, Billa also schedules such inventories.

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    11 months ago

    They might want to add a few zeroes to that number of they expect to actually get anywhere.

  • MellowYellow13@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    I saw him get on a jet ski at Rehoboth Beach, they should concentrate their searches in the Atlantic Ocean.