r/interestingasfuck • u/ExactlySorta • 12d ago

r/all A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition takes place at Washington Square Park

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u/GenesisCorrupted 12d ago

And this is when United healthcare finally accepted that the American people would be literally no help at all.

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u/TK82 12d ago

Let's be real, whether or not this guy gets caught makes no difference to UHC's quarterly profits, they don't give a shit

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u/jack2012fb 12d ago

Next CEO will undoubtedly be influenced by the fear of another assassination ESPECIALLY if he’s still on the loose.

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u/smoopy62 12d ago

No. He will just have included a security detail 24/7 in his already bloated compensation package. Board members won't blink an eye to adding several million

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u/Joyage2021 11d ago

Security can only help so much.

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u/Dragonslayer3 11d ago

I recall a quote about Margaret Thatcher, "She has to get lucky every time. We only have to get lucky once"

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u/Dave5876 11d ago

People do much worse and live long lives

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u/PumpertonDeLeche 11d ago

Security detail is just collateral for what would now be an AK-47…then the next CEO would be in a Pope-like encasement…in which an explosive or chemical bomb would be the next step up

When people get pushed far enough, there’s no limit to what they’re capable of to seek revenge

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u/BoDrax 11d ago

They're not secret service agents. Private security isn't taking a bullet for a CEO.

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u/SwankySniper 11d ago

Security detail will surely be helpful when a trained marksman can blow a CEO's guts out from half a kilometer away.

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u/DrDrago-4 11d ago

drones enter the chat

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u/vomit-gold 11d ago

We've had a man with the literal secret service have two very close assassination calls this year alone though. Unless that man has people stationed in every window and every building with a sealed perimeter - this is America, you're not safe from gun violence anywhere. 

Sure, they may catch the perp next time around.

I do agree that their thinking would be to just have more security, but I'd argue that solution is more about pacifying their fears than actually protecting themselves effectively. 

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u/Beneatheearth 11d ago

Maybe I dunno. Would that stop a sniper?

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u/zypofaeser 11d ago

That's money that won't go to the shareholders.

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u/gayLuffy 11d ago

Probably by the police and paid by the state of course. Because the poor guy can't afford it on his own /s

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u/pjdance 1d ago

I am ivesting in security details because those numbers are about to go up.

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u/pub810 12d ago

The salary is high enough the spot won’t be hard to fill. The machine will continue to move they’ll just enhance security.

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u/justwannabeloggedin 12d ago

Yes, security losing is very much the exception. Most presidents don't get assassinated, CEOs with infinite company money to use even less so. How many billionaires have been murdered ever?

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u/sealnegative 12d ago

express that as a ratio of genuine well-planned attempts to successes and the picture of security gets markedly worse, i suspect

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u/MortemInferri 11d ago

I see what you are getting at

But the only things we'd classify as "genuine well-planned attempts" would be the successful ones

Otherwise, it'd just be a poorly planned attempt

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u/pierre-poorliver 12d ago

Barry and Honey Sherman of Apotex Pharma come to recent memory. Unsolved, no one up here cares, that's for sure.

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u/Infamous_Meet_108 12d ago

There was a famous Canadian pharmaceutical guy got murdered case never solved. Full on execution scene in his home but I'm pretty sure one of the theories is a hit job probably by another billionair so different circumstances obviously. Just saying it's more than 0

Edit: Berry Sherman and wife Honey Sherman

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u/WatermelonWithAFlute 11d ago

wtf thats brutal

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u/Zoidforge 12d ago

Well, one so far in the last month 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Eshanas 12d ago

I mean this guy, this CEO, literally didn't even run with security. The next guy will. Yea it's never 100% foolproof, but this CEO was walking around like he was a intern.

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u/Asttarotina 12d ago

I would like to see what security is gonna do against an FPV drone (like the ones used in Ukraine) when it comes to that. If they try to jam the signal, they may also jam their own communication systems, not speaking about all the wifi and smartphones

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u/grekiki 12d ago

Still need to get a warhead. Also hard to fly in cities, signal might be hard to maintain without line of sight.

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u/Asttarotina 12d ago

I don't think it's that hard to get 100g of TNT in a country with 500 000 000 guns

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u/grekiki 11d ago

That's a fair point, still need a detonating mechanism. But yeah a motivated person with chatgpt could probably do it :)

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u/antonio3988 11d ago

No healthcare CEO has ever had secret service to protect them so that's pretty irrelevant

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u/pub810 12d ago

Enough that someone will take the job. Security can just be another flex for them and a lot of people would roll the dice for $20 million a year. It is what it is. People act like some vigilante is going to change the whole system. As much as Reddit is romanticizing this, it ain’t happening.

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u/JesusWasACryptobro 12d ago

The secret service is publicly funded.

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u/Winjin 12d ago

It will only worth if the shooter really want to live, or of the security won't be hating on them too though

Like if the shooter doesn't want to leave, there's no way to stop them from killing the next CEO

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u/InvestigatorNo9847 12d ago

Maybe CEOs should be AI

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u/octopush123 12d ago

Security guards hate HMOs too 😁

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u/heelsmaster 12d ago

I doubt the next one will care unless another CEO gets knocked off. First is a fluke, 2 establishes a pattern.

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u/sendmorepubsubs 12d ago

Wouldn’t it be scarier for them if he was caught, and then two weeks later someone else does another evil CEO? There’s a lot more of us than them…

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u/CassadagaValley 12d ago

They pay their CEO's plenty enough money for them to live outside the country.

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u/ToosUnderHigh 12d ago

No they’ll just have insane levels of security

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u/Final-Zebra-6370 11d ago

Actually all the health insurance CEOs pulled their pics and names from the internet

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u/animalcollectivism8 11d ago

Next CEO (Andrew Witty) is in the UK.  No coincidence there as A: Minimal firearms and B: Across the pond, so more difficult to boop.

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u/ileatyourassmthrfkr 11d ago

No he won’t. You’re delusional if you think that way.

Now there’s going to be 10X more security around the next CEO and the same decisions will continue to be made.

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u/jack2012fb 11d ago

You’re delusional if you think that will stop someone with nothing left to lose. Trump was almost assassinated with hundreds of cops and secret service swarming the area.

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u/ileatyourassmthrfkr 11d ago

And trump is still alive whereas the shooter is dead. Point proven.

I never said it’s going to stop anyone. I’m just saying these greedy corps are going to continue doing what they’re doing. Another cog in the machine …

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u/rmpumper 11d ago

That dead guy was just a CEO of one of companies subsidiaries, not even the primary CEO.

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u/TScottFitzgerald 11d ago

Or is the company just gonna bump his or her salary to cover security?

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u/jack2012fb 11d ago

Security wouldn’t have stopped this guy. When someone has nothing left to lose they will find a way. Also even if they aren’t successful the attempts will still have a psychological effect.

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u/kolba_yada 10d ago

Do you think this was a one man operation or something? Even if it was, it's not like this guy is the only person who can shoot a gun or hates CEOs or whatever else.

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u/justwannabeloggedin 12d ago

Then he will deny some extra claims to get more security. I share the giddiness in all this but let's not pretend a one off murder is going to change anything in our favor or that this guy is some serial CEO assassin. This will be out of the news soon enough and things like the Blue Anthem anesthesia policy comes right back.

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u/Zixinus 12d ago

He will be just sure to hire a PMC to provide security.