His excuse was that he wasn’t paid enough. A 1-million-square-foot warehouse has been totaled, along with the contents, and thankfully none of the 20 employees were injured, including the arsonist.
Social media and crime mix poorly. It’s bizarre how some people literally document their crimes. If it was just this once I’d write it off as an oddity of the individual, but it just keeps happening.
I recall the recent quote from a Discord channel owner making the rounds, from memory “I can’t believe this has to be said, but please don’t voice stream robbing someone at knife point.” Because somebody did.
Also, once you let loose fire, you no longer control it and it does its own thing. A wage dispute doesn’t justify endangering some arbitrary number of people. Even a large bomb would be less irresponsible.
Obviously a mentally disturbed, dysfunctional employee who must have believed that in some capacity he was sending a message to corporate America. Its just the wrong message. Corporations will use it to justify weeding out problem employees instead of assisting them, that’s how corporations deal with things like this.
One hell of a lot of Americans are being force-fed anger rage with a firehose. Some of them choke on it.
Whether this suspect has diagnosable mental problems, substance abuse problems, anger management problems, or is just real bad at cause and effect, is yet to be seen.
Yup, that’s why arson is its own crime separate from vandalism, and a much more serious one.
Yeah. And as a practical matter I live in California and even had to evacuate to an emergency shelter a few years back while a good chunk of my hometown burned. That kind of thing makes it hard to ignore just how dangerous a wildfire can be.
And according to a story on the fire itself linked in the article, the place was near a residential neighborhood. Close enough they felt the heat. If things had gone differently this could have been a much worse story than one about a burned warehouse.
Yeah… here in PR we’re sensitive to this. Do a search for Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire. Disgruntled strikers wanted to set off nuisance fire alarm. The property’s fire safety was obsolete to nonexistent —result, mass death and destruction
Nasty. Yeah; fire is not a toy. Like the old line goes, “Fire is great servant but a terrible master”.
A lot less applause than I expected, bit disappointed to be honest. And obviously he streamed it because the point was the message, not getting away with arson.
Why did the fire do so much damage? I would have expected a warehouse like this to have sufficient fire suppression capability to minimize the damage the fire could do. A warehouse full of paper could catch fire for any number of reasons other than arson. It seems like the sprinklers or whatever should have been designed to handle this kind of situation.
There’d be more if he’d just shot his boss, instead of endangering so many people.
We just had our fire department inspection at work, according to the lady the sprinklers are only there to help people get out, its not enough to control a fire.
That was a lot of toilet paper and paper towels. Not to mention all of the wood that was chipped to make them. They will be replaced by chipping up new trees. Great ecological move.
I don’t have a source for this other than Reddit, but supposedly this is a 4-building warehouse complex. He set the fire in one warehouse, which triggered the sprinkler system. Once the fire was under control, the fire department disabled the sprinkler system to avoid further water damage. The perpetrator then set fires in the other three warehouses.
This happened in my old town. (Copying and pasting) This was arson, committed by a 15-year-old who livestreamed himself setting the fire on a gaming website. Enough people saw this, and alerted the webmaster, that the site was temporarily taken offline and the device located. This approximately coincided with the truck driving seeing the fire and calling it in.
AFAIK, he was never publicly identified, but he was a boy who attended that church and also went to the accompanying school. The buildings had been severely damaged by a tornado a few months earlier, and reconstruction had just been finished.
This footage is no longer, to my knowledge, available on YouTube, but it first appeared on a true-crime cable show about people who videotaped their crimes. Not in this footage is the scene where one of them happened to turn the camera around, and found out they were being trailed by a police car.
On top of all this, I’m surprised he didn’t asphyxiate himself with the fumes from that burning plastic. It takes surprisingly low concentrations to do this.
And the comments on THIS video have to be seen to be believed. In short, they see him as Luigi v. 2.0. From my own POV, not only did he leave a lot of people out of work, it’s because of things like this that insurance premiums are so high, and adjusters can often be total butts about paying claims.
Mangione harmed one specific person, who was specifically (if indirectly) responsible for the suffering he’d experienced.
This guy harmed hundreds of people, and could have harmed or killed thousands more, most of whom had no hand whatsoever in anything bad that happened to him, and the ones who did have a hand in whatever bad happened to him weren’t harmed at all.
Yes, the two compare poorly both ethically and practically.
I’ll also add that Mangione didn’t film himself committing a felony.
It would have been pointless without the video. The one thing I’ve been hearing over and over again since this happened is “all you had to do is pay us enough to live”. Without that this would just be some crazy guy who set fire to a warehouse. The message is resonating strongly, just as much as Luigi did.