Insurance company CEO assassinated in New York

[xenon]

He certainly knew what he was doing in the shooting and in evading capture since. Same time, he's been a bit sloppy letting pretty much his full face get filmed and it was very risky (to him) carrying out the hit on a New York street. Maybe personally motivated, as you say, to the point where the act was more important than fears of getting caught.

Maybe diagnosed with a terminal illness.

 

[Indeliblelink]

He certainly knew what he was doing in the shooting and in evading capture since. Same time, he's been a bit sloppy letting pretty much his full face get filmed and it was very risky (to him) carrying out the hit on a New York street.

Left his DNA on the coffee cup too.

 

[Flavour]

There's no way he's still in the US. I'd have gotten a bus to Toronto/Montreal and then a flight to Switzerland

 

[two sheds]

does switzerland have an extradition treaty with USA?

 

[Flavour]

does switzerland have an extradition treaty with USA?

no. that's the point. see Roman Polanski

 

[two sheds]

In that case there's no way he's still in the US. I'd have gotten a bus to Toronto/Montreal and then a flight to Switzerland

 

[keybored]

no. that's the point. see Roman Polanski

There's a world of difference between someone fleeing to Europe for being a nonce in the 70s and someone fleeing to Switzerland for murder today. Unless he's a Swiss citizen they would send him back on request.

 

[petee]

we're choc-a-block with memes over here right now.



i have UHC. they haven't denied me anything but they're certainly paying out less than they used to.

 

[Spymaster]

There's no way he's still in the US. I'd have gotten a bus to Toronto/Montreal and then a flight to Switzerland

The Swiss would arrest him and send him straight back to the US.

Countries that might grant safe haven are the ones you wouldn't want to go to. Russia, China, Iran, some African states, etc., and even they would probably return an American murderer after some negotiation unless they could make some other political capital out of it.

Nowadays, non-extradition usually only applies to a country's own citizens or political asylum seekers. Not foreign assassins.

 

[Serge Forward]

UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooter's Possible Jacket Flying Off Shelves After Sleuth Speculation

 

[Spymaster]

UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooter's Possible Jacket Flying Off Shelves After Sleuth Speculation

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I'd like it in blue.

 

[Petcha]

He seems to have changed his jacket three times within the space of an hour, unless the cops have got some of these sightings wrong

 

[tommers]

 

[Yossarian]

UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooter's Possible Jacket Flying Off Shelves After Sleuth Speculation

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[existentialist]

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Interesting that nobody needs to buy a gun to complete the look, just the suppressor - perhaps the assumption is that everyone already has the gun.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

You get one free in cereal packets I think

 

[two sheds]

Nothing about paying out out on claims promptly and fairly then to make people generally less angry.

 

[tommers]

Nothing about paying out out on claims promptly and fairly then to make people generally less angry.

If it's real. But it kind of rings true, I could imagine them saying this.

 

[MickiQ]

The sad thing about this is it probably won't make them change their behaviour but just spend money on extra protection for the executives.
The good thing if it turns out to be someone who has lost a loved one to being denied healthcare then catching him won't make them any safer. The idea is out there and is clearly very popular. We need a couple more to be bumped off to get the ball rolling.

 

[Spymaster]

The sad thing about this is it probably won't make them change their behaviour but just spend money on extra protection for the executives.

I'm not so sure.

Hopefully the pushback will come from the executive themselves, who will realise that protection is a pain in the arse and can never be guaranteed.

The best way to guarantee safety is to not make people want to shoot you in the first place.

 

[existentialist]

I'm not so sure.

Hopefully the pushback will come from the executive themselves, who will realise that protection is a pain in the arse and can never be guaranteed.

The best way to guarantee safety is to not make people want to shoot you in the first place.

OTOH, $$$$$$

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Not sure how they can make people not want to shoot them though, the system is utterly broken and with a new Trump administration coming along it won't get fixed any time soon.

 

[MickiQ]

I'm not so sure.

Hopefully the pushback will come from the executive themselves, who will realise that protection is a pain in the arse and can never be guaranteed.

The best way to guarantee safety is to not make people want to shoot you in the first place.

Good point bodyguards following you around increases the chances of you getting caught if you're cheating on your wife or otherwise up to less than saintly behaviour.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Good point bodyguards following you around increases the chances of you getting caught if you're cheating on your wife or otherwise up to less than saintly behaviour.

Plus there's the hassle of doing all the checks to make sure your company hasn't just denied your new bodyguard's mum's cancer treatment or something.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Not sure how they can make people not want to shoot them though, the system is utterly broken and with a new Trump administration coming along it won't get fixed any time soon.

Never underestimate the power of crisis management tests to enact change.

 

[Petcha]

The sad thing about this is it probably won't make them change their behaviour but just spend money on extra protection for the executives.
The good thing if it turns out to be someone who has lost a loved one to being denied healthcare then catching him won't make them any safer. The idea is out there and is clearly very popular. We need a couple more to be bumped off to get the ball rolling.you

Back during the financial crisis, I worked for AIG, who were widely credited with creating it. There were literally tour buses you could get on to throw shit at senior AIG execs houses around NY. It was mental. Like those weird Hollywood celeb spotter buses but with a slightly different motive.

I know it's petty but I hope this weird little incident might start a similar movement. Maybe not the buses, but some kind of action against the fucked up system the yanks have. A George Floyd moment?

 

[Nylock]

Plus there's the hassle of doing all the checks to make sure your company hasn't just denied your new bodyguard's mum's cancer treatment or something.

Oh, they'll make sure that the bodyguard's extended family will get the best coverage money can buy at no cost to them. How else can you assure the loyalty of your hired henchmen/meatshields?

 

[Brainaddict]

If there were loads of assasinations like this it might even remind the US ruling class that one of the reasons many rich countries made a lot of social democratic concessions was because the ruling classes disliked the feeling that people might rise up and kill them at any time. Then again, they might just go down the Brazilian route of living in guarded houses, flying around by helicopter, never interacting with the feral masses etc.

 

[gosub]

There's a world of difference between someone fleeing to Europe for being a nonce in the 70s and someone fleeing to Switzerland for murder today. Unless he's a Swiss citizen they would send him back on request.

UAE wouldnt

 

[beesonthewhatnow]