Man Lights 1.2 Million Square Foot Warehouse on Fire for Not Paying Him Enough
In an unforgiving labor market, many workers’ wages have been effectively frozen. no significant increase was seen in wages for decades. Meanwhile, the cost of living aside, gas price – continues to rise, making it harder for low-income households to get by.
We are a strategy I wouldn’t The recommendation is to set fire to a 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse filled to the brim with toilet paper and other highly flammable paper products — which is exactly what a disgruntled employee at a paper products facility in Ontario, California, did earlier this week. Los Angeles Times reports.
The fire, which started just after midnight local time on Tuesday, was so large that 175 firefighters and 15 fire trucks were required to extinguish it.
And if really Really If you can’t stop watching the world burn, we do not recommend filming yourself doing it under any circumstances. Moreover Which is what 29-year-old Highland resident Chamel Abdulkarim is now accused of doing.
The NFI Industries employee was immediately arrested in connection with the fire after a video broke showing a man setting long stacks of toilet paper on fire. viral online.
“All you had to do was pay us enough to live on,” the man is heard saying in the video.
“There goes your inventory,” the same voice says in a follow-up clip.
Ontario Police Cpl. “We have received reports that he gave some information on social media,” he said. Emily Williams he told the Los Angeles-based broadcaster KTLA. “We can’t go into detail about what that information is.”
Alex Montero, who claimed that he met Abdulkarim in the warehouse, said that he obtained the screen recordings of the videos through a mutual friend.
“He was the one who declared that he did it,” Montero said. Los Angeles Times. “If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t have put it there like that.”
Abdulkarim will appear in court today after being charged with arson.
The incident took place very close to some netizens.
“This is the shit,” one user said wrote in the r/antiwork subreddit. “People are reaching their breaking points. When people can’t see a way out of debt, into retirement, into a life to live for themselves, when they have nothing left to lose, what else are they supposed to do?”
Another user said, “I think companies sometimes forget that a strike is a peaceful option but not the only option…” added.
Others predicted that toilet paper would soon become difficult to find due to the massive fire.
“I think I’ll move the bidet from my Amazon savings back to my cart,” one user said wrote.
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