[HN Gopher] Executives at eBay sent live spiders and cockroaches...
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Executives at eBay sent live spiders and cockroaches to critical
bloggers
Author : ethbr1
Score : 40 points
Date : 2024-01-11 21:20 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
| ethbr1 wrote:
| Apologies for titling from deeper in article, but to do otherwise
| would be burying the lede.
|
| Also, life mirrors fiction: https://xkcd.com/325/
| heads wrote:
| [delayed]
| riley333 wrote:
| This is some cartoon villain type of stuff.
| LarsDu88 wrote:
| What's more surprising to me is seeing a story about Ebay that
| shows the date 2024 rather than 2004
| thebruce87m wrote:
| > The acts of intimidation included sending live insects, a
| foetal pig and a funeral wreath to the Steiners' home in Natick,
| Massachusetts.
|
| If someone I knew claimed that eBay execs were sending them
| things like this I wouldn't believe them. It's like something
| from a TV show.
| arcastroe wrote:
| Curious, how were the executives caught? How was it proven that
| the harassment came from the executives?
| kulahan wrote:
| eBay cooperated fully with the investigation and had no
| interest in protecting the ones who were caught. Maybe none of
| them, iunno the eBay office culture at all.
| arcastroe wrote:
| Ah, seems they were able to get the plates of a van that was
| following them.
|
| I keep being impressed by ai's ability to perform research for
| you. It answered my question here:
|
| https://www.phind.com/search?cache=xzz0am8o9ruxo4wztcc4v7xp
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