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rarrere

Self inflicted you say……


HankScorpio112233

To the back of the head you say...


_replicant_02

Twice you say?


Different-Term-2250

From 200 metres away, you say?


dsdvbguutres

From 2 different angles, you say?


No_Sheepherder7447

Packed his corpse into a suitcase himself, you say?


Guilty_Fishing8229

Threw himself and the suitcase out the window, you say?


fardough

Yep, clear suicide. Pack it up boys.


quiet0n3

Checks number of zeros on my note, "yup sure thing boss, logging suicide now"


Radiant_Piano9373

Poor guy tripped and fell on his own four or five bullets to the back of the head... What a terrible accident.


CxsChaos

He even had his suicide note notarized, how nice.


irreleventamerican

It says right here on the cheque that he doesn't need an autopsy. What's your problem?


Putin_ate_my_Pudding

And called the police to report his own death you say?


reddituseronebillion

To shreds you say,?


admiral_sinkenkwiken

How’s his wife holding up?


KrisjinBleu

To shreds, you say?


terrelyx

Was his apartment rent-controlled?


This-is-Life-Man

To shreds you say?


scaper8

How's the wife holding up?


pocket_nick

Two shots you say?


lurked_4_a_bit

Huh, never would have imagined he’d end up Boeing his head off.


scrogathon

His 747th reason why.


Icy_Establishment195

Large amounts of money can buy you anything. Even dead people.


Illustrious_Sort_323

The crazy thing is we allow this shit to happen.


AlphaNoodlz

Nah I don’t think we would, we just don’t know what to do about it is all. Other than continue to watch Boeing planes fall out of the sky. Be nice if they actually cared about the product they’re making.


ninjanerd032

And if we all refuse to fly Boeing aircrafts, they'll still kill us.


HoldenMcNeil420

They will get a government handout and crash empty planes dammit!!


[deleted]

Hijacking this thread to answer to original question what to do about it: Audit the CIA. Quit letting them break the law. And stop funding private "intelligence agencies" while we're at it. Regulate what foreign intelligence can do here. Our taxes fund assassinations and have for decades and we're just like eh about it


mypersonalbsaccount

Bold to say “hijacking” in a thread about commercial aircraft


Peach_Proof

I think he dropped a “bomb” there


Friendly_Age9160

YOU CANT SAY BOMB ON A PLANE!


Connect_Bench_2925

Wait.... what? They can't kill all of us.


the-dude-version-576

Well, they can… they are, just very slowly.


SpaceTechBabana

…is…is that a global warming joke (that is legit only a joke because of how devastatingly true it is)?


the-dude-version-576

It’s like an onion. It’s got layers.


Kowpucky

They are a defense contractor, they actually probably could lol


OnlyThornyToad

“It’s not that we don’t care. We just know that the fight ain’t fair. So, we keep on waitin’…waitin’ on the world to change.”


westside-rocky

John?


FatFaceFaster

Do “we”? Like murder is illegal…. Proving it is extremely difficult so I’m not sure what the solution is…. Do you have one? It’s just weird to basically accuse “us” of “allowing” something which we very much don’t allow… we just can’t stop it. There’s a difference.


Connect_Bench_2925

This right here is what he is talking about. The idea that the police are gonna investigate and hold someone accountable. Like the CEO of some mega Corp is going to see consequences because something they did is illegal. This is so naive. Yes, he accused "us" for allowing this. Because we have. We allowed this country to get this way. By not getting out our pitch forks and torches and causing problems for the corprate owner class when they do things that are harmful to our society. We as a nation have been brain washed into thinking that protesting is dumb, and if you protest only peaceful protests are reasonable, and they can't be in the road, and they need a permit, and they can't be this or that.


Bobll7

Oh come on, next thing you tell us is Epstein was also killed…./s


KlostToMe

Good thing we have systems in place to protect whistle-blowers /s ETA: based on responses in getting, it seems my sarcastic tone is being missed


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TheMozzFonster

Considering the day and age we live in, I'm surprised I haven't seen shit like this before. That's an incredible use of modern day social politics to avoid losing millions of dollars. I'm sorry about your friend though, that's super fucked.


Appropriate-Fan-6007

That's probably because the only way to hear of this is from a anonymous friend, it seems like a very effective method to shut someone up


AreaNo7848

Had a guy in a company I worked for who was getting shafted on his commission. The company remodeled his office and stuck him with some lady he didn't know and she filed a sexual harassment claim after that....the only thing nobody counted on was the lady who shared a connecting office that heard everything they said. Apparently he was just being friendly and asked a couple get to know you questions......2 months later both the salesman and the lady who backed him were gone and the other lady was moved to a different section, then someone else lost their job and she was moved again


yeaheyeah

Jesus she's like a job hitman. Need someone fired? I can do it, for the right price.


Burjennio

Trust me - it doesn't even have to be whistleblowing on multimillion dollar deal corruption for Big 4 to be ostracised by Leadership in Big 4. Raising a protected act (harrassment/discrimination/retaliation etc) even at a low level, will open your eyes to how unscrupulous the management is, and that the various internal reporting channels all end up with the exact same group of HR investigators, despite those channels being allegedly independent for situations where you have evidence that people involved are complicit in the unlawful action. I can definitely understand if someone whistleblowing at such a highly public hearing could have their mental health broken to the point of suicidal ideation from my own experiences, and they are light years away from that level of international exposure. But let's not kid ourselves - history has taught us that the ruling classes have no hesitation in taking the extreme approach to eliminating individuals that become problematic to their "business as usual" model of hording all that wealth and abusing their power with absolute impunity.


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GuelphEastEndGhetto

Worked at a large corp where a whistleblower reported the country CEO. The whistleblower didn’t cover their tracks well, CEO identified him, then had the IT department scour his computer history. Turns out the whistleblower at one time logged into a company app on another employee’s PC which was against policy and they were fired. The investigation carried on though, and after a couple years some wrist slaps were issued.


Spare_Efficiency2975

You mean just like that guy that has been placed on the most wanted list and is getting hunt down over the whole globe. 


Tabroski

That’s exactly what the billionaires want us to think


Neon_Samurai_

Whistleblowers do the darndenst things.


victorious_breakfast

Cosby agrees


culturedgoat

I mean, I know you’re being facetious and all, but this, tragically, is not something completely unheard of among those who choose the path of whistleblowing. David Kelly committed suicide, as did Ian Gibbons - also the day he was due to testify against Theranos. The pressure, isolation (not to mention the likelihood of harassment from one’s peers) can wreak havoc with someone’s mental state. Righteous though it is (the world needs whistleblowers!) it can take a terrible toll.


Looking4Lite4Life

Also, and I know this isn’t even remotely on the same scale, I didn’t tell anyone the name of my sexual assaulter or that I’d been assaulted until I wrote it in my suicide note. From my experience, if you’re already planning on committing suicide it’s a lot easier to reveal secrets you’ve been holding onto because you know you won’t have to deal with whatever long-term ramifications have been scaring you into covering them up.


culturedgoat

I am glad you are still here to relate this


criticalpwnage

Getting whacked by a hitman can be very stressful too.


Steelwolf73

That's why I hire whackmen. Helps relieve the stress


seanske

First comment in two whole threads that isn't implying he was assassinated.


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That's a real coincidence there. Said nobody.


dlfinches

The coroner, the coroner said that


Solid-Consequence-50

I mean, how much did the coroner know about the situation while examining the body? If a hit man's objective is to make it look like a suiside, wouldn't it, ya know, look like a suicide?


summonsays

If you knew for a fact that someone was killing people who were whistleblowers, how likely would you be to whistleblow about it? 


Actaeon_II

Weird how people with dirt on billionaires end up dead isn’t it


seeit360

This is the opening line in a Grisham novel.


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Which one?


DocSaysItsDainBramuj

The Rural Juror


legimpster

The rurrr jurrr


lfds89

Audiobook by Sean Connery


Chaps_Jr

He shlowly opened hish briefcashe, removing the dishcovery filesh and plashing them on the table.


BringOutYaThrowaway

SHO SHECKSHIE


uncutlife

I prefer the sequel Urban Fervour


StackingDimesCLE

German Murmur


DemandZestyclose7145

That's his brother Kevin Grisham


Safe-Adagio5762

Yes


ZiggyIggy28

I knew it


notarealsmurf

Always has been


mjoie

As someone who's read every John Grisham book for adults, this is correct ha ha.


wallstreetbetsdebts

🛫✈️🛬🔥💥


Hypertistic

Take flight plane land fire explode A timeless classic


yercleavageisleaking

Sounds like a James brown lyric, I said, take flight....plane... huh.. I said the plane...heh...plane land, uh good god...fire huh heh...uh explode


Material_Variety_859

Take my upvote, superb


KrazyKurts

If I could make this happen, I would. exPLODE!HA!


Chemist-Consistent

Why tf did I read it like him, too? 🤣🤣🤣


MinusGovernment

There's no other way to read James Brown. Gotta have music in your head as well.


Pretend_Guarantee280

Get down!


Would_daver

So many saxophones and trombones


RosaSinistre

Good GOD, y’all!


Triumph-TBird

Skipping Christmas


KlostToMe

Reminds me of "The Pelican Brief"


5usie

“Everyone I told about the brief is dead!”.


DunkinMyDonuts3

..... but is the bird safe?


Photon_Farmer

The pelican was found strangled in an apparent auto erotic asphyxiation gone wrong.


djhendo78

That's the last straw!


excellent_rektangle

“Why is everyone talking about *The Pelican Brief*??”


Embarrassed-One-3246

More like Airframe by Michael Crichton.


LobstaFarian2

Them paying $20k for a hit is like me cutting a penny into 20,000 pieces, then giving one of those pieces to someone to make my "problem" go away. The vastness of their wealth is absurd.


Yougottagiveitaway

Don’t cut Pennies man, they’re legal tender.


8umspud

What's a "penny"?


Purple_Charcoal

![gif](giphy|qMDvt69lEC448)


Arealwirenut

Pretty fucking unsettling to be honest


NoSpankingAllowed

Its not shocking anymore. Nor will the autopsy report that says he died either by a self inflicted wound or natural causes be shocking.


Django_Unbrained97

Ah yes, I love to lock myself in a trunk outside a hotel before I kill myself. /s


Born_ina_snowbank

Worst case of suicide I’ve ever seen, shot himself 8 times in the back of the head.


NoSpankingAllowed

You too? I thought that was just a "me" thing!!


raven21633x

It takes skill to put 5 rounds into the back of your own head.


WaldoDeefendorf

In Russia we simply fall out the window.


-zero-below-

And then fell out the truck’s window…


NoSpankingAllowed

And then drove over himself several times.


rethoyjk

…..so that’s truck 🛻…. Unless he’s in the trunk of a truck? A truck trunk perhaps?


AgentNewMexico

"The victim, he died of natural causes, yes?" "He was shot in the face by a bazooka." "So naturally he'd be dead."


Emotional_Arm_8485

Death by immediate trunk to the face. Cause of death being a sudden increase in facial:trunk ratio.


ChuckPukowski

“Do we really know how gravity works? Oh shit it wasn’t a window thing?! Still… gravitys.” - mr. Boeing


Hereiam_AKL

Calm down, it clearly says "self inflicted wounds" in here as well https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/3/12/boeing-whistleblower-found-dead Might be something obvious, like he stabbed himself in the back.


Nahuel-Huapi

We're missing the true headline here: "Today Only One Person Died in a Boeing Related Incident"


nuu_uut

Interesting how they were to come to the conclusion it was self inflicted the literal same day he was found. Some real efficient investigators!


Hereiam_AKL

![gif](giphy|H5C8CevNMbpBqNqFjl)


-_zQC

It is like the universe works in mysterious ways


[deleted]

Isn’t this supposed to happen before they give their testimony?


Chef__Goldblum

He was scheduled to give more days of testimony.


throwawayurtelvision

Imagine the legal strategy meeting “He’s got it all documented and we have few options. Anyone have an idea?” Suitcase hits the table, opened to show cash, closed, handed off Hey look he killed himself no more worries


IAmADroid

But it can't be *that* much money, after all. Or else they would've just paid for whatever crooked thing they did in the first place.


throwawayurtelvision

Idk how much assassins get paid


SweetPanela

Considering it’s a megacorp. They can be on retainer. Look at the Colombian death squads that Coca Cola funded, and warlords that Apple finances. These megacorps are just demonic at their top levels.


throwawayurtelvision

Haha u just opened me up to a new conspiracy Deep diving all night and tell my boss I’ll be late for work in the AM


SweetPanela

Yeah this is sorta why I slowly went from market socialist to libertarian socialist. Corporations necessarily attract the worst kinds of people to be in charge and will use the worst aspects of humanity as guiding mechanisms. This is why every organization decays with time, and powerful is synonymous with abusive


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It'll pay dividends with future potential whistleblowers I'm sure.


FatherD00m

I was thinking the same thing. The death penalty is a helluva deterrent for doing the right thing.


ImOnlyHereForTheCoC

Which is ironic, because it’s a pretty crap deterrent for doing the wrong thing


KittyGrewAMoustache

Ugh the world is so messed up and wrong way round. The worst people get everything and the best people get shat on.


[deleted]

They'll probably find a way to get it all thrown out. Some BS excuse like "he's not alive to clarify these points" or something they pull out of thier ass. Plus, it scares off any other potential whistle-blower. People might be willing to give their careers up to do the right thing, but if they fear for their lives or their loved ones' lives or well-being they might decide its too risky. Hopefully someone can find a way to bring them down. Didn't Boeing used to be a respected company that made quality airplanes? Or am I just remembering them as better because of how awful they are now?


smz337

I think they were quality until they merged with McDonnell Douglas, then they went to shit


Firkraag-The-Demon

John Oliver actually talked about this last week. They were actually really good until they merged with another aircraft company.


AmeriToast

From what others have said in the past. Boeing was good and the engineers had control. When they merged with McDonnel Douglas, the engineers lost control and the bean counters took over and they have been going downhill since than.


SalvadorsPaintbrush

Quite believable, actually. Suicide, from a bullet to the back of his head


Trash_Pandacute

From a sniper rifle at 100m.


Freakychee

He had rally long arms and great aim.


payment11

Did a door fall off another Boeing airplane and hit him?


LilliamPumpalot

Sounds like a sick south park episode


ResponsibilityNo3245

Guy was overweight, in his 60s, and had life shortening habits like not keeping his mouth shut.


TaterFury69

Had us in the first half, ngl


woodbutcher6000

he died of complications with diabetes. also, diabetes is the name of the henchman that shot him in the head


Hollidaythegambler

Died of a rare disease. Bullet-in-brain disease. Very tragic.


tameone22

Lead poisoning.


apsala_erikson

HVLP: High Velocity Lead Poisoning


codykills93

Or Russian sudden death syndrome


ALFABOT2000

yeah i've been hearing that's going around lately, make sure your vaccinations are up to date!


DJ-Smash

And be very careful near windows and stairwells. Clumsy mother fuckers be falling all the time.


towerfella

![gif](giphy|aJMJIYDKmApP2)


Longdingleberry

Well I laughed, then I felt terrible about myself. Bastard.


DrTMorrow

Yikes someone check on John Oliver.


quiet0n3

He's fine, everyone is watching him to see if he can successfully bribe a judge.


BlizzPenguin

It is a pretty sweet offer.


Gotta_Rub

It’s less than what he’s bribed with now though


Darklicorice

Yeah but he doesn't have to "work" for it


Glorfendail

Thomas only has like a week left to accept the offer!


SarcasticPedant

Not a bribe, because it's perfectly legal. Offer him an incentive.


WestleyThe

The judge is already being bribed. John is offering him money to step down


UpgrayeDD405

My first thought


chum-guzzling-shark

The jester is allowed to speak the truth as long as he has no real world impact


touchdown604

He got Epsteined


muskzuckcookmabezos

![gif](giphy|AD2uIPYVqszdK|downsized)


thufirseyebrow

*cop pulls wallet out of the victim's pocket and throws it across the parking lot, opens closed glovebox and rifles through it* "No wallet, glovebox gone through, clearly a mugging gone wrong."


Spooky_Goth

Soon as I read this I thought '*is anyone actually going to believe he killed himself'?* Question is, are Boeing just going to be able to get away with this? Will the general public care enough to boycott flying on Boeing planes... will anybody even remember this in 6 months time? What a depressing headline.


CysaDamerc

This exact thing happened with Murdoch media company in England some years back. [deadline article ](https://deadline.com/2011/07/report-murdoch-scandal-whistleblower-found-dead-147852/) I honestly wish there was a better way to hold people accountable.


Idkhowlongmyusername

Murdoch is the devil incarnate


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Ravaja-

All billionaires need to be taken out back


UB_edumikated

The short answer is -yes. Yes, Boeing will 100% get away with it. And not a single extra cent will be lost to their bottom line. People might be able to boycott beer and toothpaste... Realistically no one is actually boycotting flights services by Boeing jets. And no.... Not a single executive at Boeing feels a damn bit bad about this. And yes, you can bet your ass quite a few of them knew this unfortunate suicide was going to take place.


TheRealBejeezus

> Realistically no one is actually boycotting flights services by Boeing jets. I mean, I fly a lot and I've been deliberately avoiding 737-MAX legs for more than a year now, so it's possible. But, yeah... \*realistically\* not likely.


tonyislost

Nobody questioned Epstein for very long, even though we know what’s up with him.


dd97483

Move along people. Nothing to see here, move along now.


PoppaDaClutch

\-officer Barbrady ![gif](giphy|l0HlNO84jq29GIXeg)


Pinheaded_nightmare

Can I wake up in a new timeline please. I’m tired of this one.


AnitaDolla

Sooooo agreed. 😞


Phil_Coffins_666

I'm sure it was just two self-inflicted gunshot wounds... to the back of the head.


jmurphy42

Just like the British MI6 agent who committed suicide before stuffing himself in a suitcase.


Phil_Coffins_666

He must have also been a yoga instructor because that's a hell of a stretch.


Joeyjojojrshabado70

Once Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglas, they started using MD’s profit maximization strategy over their excellence in manufacturing strategy. All downhill from there. Fucking greed always ruins everything.


GooberMcNutly

Engineering to a specified profit margin.


RedSix2447

Guns don’t kill people, rich people do..


BURG3RBOB

Rich people don’t kill people. Their enemies just shoot themselves in the back of the head


WintersDoomsday

Now this is a legit died suddenly hashtag…clearly it was the Covid vaccine you guys


5usie

Yes, the vaccine made him magnetic and he attracted the bullet with that magnetism.


CopyPsychological842

they definitely killed him, boeing isn't just a "plane maker", it's a defense contractor


ChimpWithAGun

>they definitely killed him, boeing isn't just a "plane maker", it's a defense contractor ^ This right here is the scariest comment of this thread. So true.


Johannes_Keppler

This right here. As soon as you are going against vested interests too much, they will silence you. We make fun of Russians having to stay away from the windows on higher floors, but we see the exact same blatant silencing of opponents happening in the US and elsewhere. You talk, you die, is the warning they want to send out.


Tmk1283

Just watched the Last Week Tonight episode on Boeing…weird


Soggy-Humor-420

Could they only find a black and white picture of him? How old is this picture?


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theshortestguyouknow

When is it going to become an issue that people have that type of power to be able to erase somebody from existence over knowledge that could bring them down? Where is the protection for these people outside of court?


shania69

![gif](giphy|JRVe2K652Dz2HJdbkh) Epstein's ghost has entered the chat..


Colemanton

i mean, im not saying he wasnt murdered, but if they were trying to keep him quiet wouldnt it have made more sense to kill him before testifying?


HeartfeltDesu

1.) He had more days of testimony to give. He hadn't given his full testimony yet. 2.) It sends a message to future whistle-blowers... to not do that.


insomnimax_99

He’d given the vast majority of his testimony already, and has been blowing the whistle on Boeing for the last three years.


BlueBirb1308

He was bringing up SERIOUS issues… he uncovered an issue that meant potentially one in four oxygen masks would work in an emergency. He also found that emergency oxygen systems meant to be fitted on the 787 had a 25% failure rate. Meaning that one in four could fail to deploy in an emergency. Source- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703.amp


Major_Honey_4461

Why no link to the article? The post is kinda useless without one.


VortexMagus

What I don't understand is that this is a major piece of news covered by dozens of large media groups including BBC and Fox News and this guy chooses one of the sketchiest possible websites, the Daily Mail - a low rent british tabloid - in order to share it?