Car Dealer Accused of Killing Two Workers

[Mike Taylor]

This happened right up around Jennie and Leffy's neck of the woods. The guy says he was "stressed out" when he allegedly shot two employees who had been asking for raises.

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[Wayne]

That is a bit disturbing.

[Mike Taylor]

One of MANY reasons I'm glad I got out of selling cars.

[Wayne]

I am just worried cause this is something that can happen anywhere. I know that when I was teaching in an inner city school I almost had a few times where I thought about getting a gun myself to bring in. But thankfully I had friends around that I could vent to.

[Plunder Down-Under]

Hey give the guy a break he was stressed out! You cant blame him for that.

:d/: [/Sarcasm]

[Ruestir]

Stress is certainly no excuse, but a reasonable explanation. There's probably much more to the story when it comes to "financial difficultys". You can infer a lot when his only two employees thought they deserved a raise, but the owner was so financially strapped that their "reasonable" requests pushed him over the edge. I could see the scenerio something like this;

The employees, being the only 2, could see the kind of business the company was doing noting it's success or failure to gain capital. Noting the company's apparent success, they go and ask for raises expecting a reasonable response. Perhaps this goes on for a while because they don't understand the owner's resistance to their request. The owner now is filtering the profits of the company elsewhere. Could be any number of things, porn, prostitutes, drugs, alcohol it really doesn't matter, only that it's something that his employees don't know about, but he has an addiction or a gambling debt to feed. Because he's unable to face whatever it is that's dragging him under, what should be a reasonable request from his employees is now another stress to his life. He hadn't accounted for it, and they won't take no for an answer. Maybe he even thinks they should be rewarded for their hard work, but now he can't because he's stretched himself beyond his personal and business means, and now because they don't understand and he won't explain what's going on, he loses control and kills them both.

Unnerving that it could lead a person to take the lives of others, but at least he turned himself in, in the end. Yes, lots of speculation on my part and maybe way off the mark, but I could certainly see it turning out to be something like that.

[Leffy]

my friend actually got a car from that dude like a week before he did it. said he was twitchy but that he needed the car and it was a better deal then most.

[Sehson]

well ofcourse it was a good deal.. it had been used to transport dead bodies:skull::skull::dp::neener:

[Wayne]

Trunk space is a must in a car for me. Ya need to be able to fit at least three bodies in there.

[Leffy]

another reason i love the '77 Chevelle Malibu. a good 5 bodies flat on their backs, 8 if they all spoon. made sneaking extra people into the campground and various other places fun

[garfalk]

i want a car with a huge trunk... i always wonder if a body in the trunk allows one onto the car pool lane.

[Seolta]

i want a car with a huge trunk... i always wonder if a body in the trunk allows one onto the car pool lane.

As I've seen signs that specify "Two or more LIVE persons..." probably not;)

Granted, I know a girl who dressed up a blow-up doll, stuck it in the passenger seat, and drove from California to South Carolina and back...

[Compton]

i deal with enough dealerships everyday, I am not surprised at all. I half expected it to be someone I'd dealt with.

[Ecchi_Kitty]

Knew a guy who kept his mom's ashes in the car so he could use the carpool lane...

[Mike Taylor]

i deal with enough dealerships everyday, I am not surprised at all. I half expected it to be someone I'd dealt with.

That's a high stress environment if there ever was one. You gotta battle with the customers to keep your paycheck at a decent level. The customer has to battle with you to get the best price possible. You have to fight with other sales people to get the sale in the first place. You're there working stupid hours sometimes seven days a week just to get ONE sale for the whole week.