Deutsche Banker Suspended For Taunting Protestors With A £10 From His Office Window

[chill_wind]

Deutsche Banker Suspended For Taunting Protestors With A £10 From His Office Window
Katya Wachtel | Mar. 14, 2011, 10:11 AM | 2,854 | comment 11

A Deutsche banker has been suspended after TV reporters caught him taunting protestors who were demonstrating against the National Health Service in London last week.

According Here is the City, a group of Deutsche bankers were captured at the window of the firm's London HQ, pointing and laughing at demonstrators.

One of them was waving around what appeared to be a £10 note, and allegedly mouthing "get a job" at the protestors.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/deutsche-banker-suspended-for-silly-taunt-2011-3#ixzz1GatVBu6V

Pic at the link.

[aquart]

1. And still no defenestration.

[somone]

2. The French had a simple solution for this Deutsche problem

[gratuitous]

3. I'll bet Louis XVI courtiers thought the crowds in Paris were funny, too

At least they did at first.

[chill_wind]

8. Mmm.

[roguevalley]

11. Rockefeller used to get out of his limo and throw dimes at the

people around him, then watch them pick them up. I would have put my foot through his scrawny face.

[gratuitous]

12. I read Chernow's biography of John D. Rockefeller

According to Chernow, Rockefeller handed out dimes to children he met, and counseled them to put their money into savings accounts. Of course, even in those days a dime didn't go very far, and when every penny you make has to go to keeping body and soul together, it's unrealistic to expect that someone can put something away in savings. Although I would be very happy nowadays to find a savings account that paid 5% like they used to.

[Drale]

4. Wow what a dick

I mean thats just openly being an asshole.

[PA Democrat]

5. These bankers had better quickly realize that the worm will turn.

It is not a good idea to taunt the people you have screwed.

[hatrack]

6. Maybe CNBC can hire him to replace Kudlow . . .

:puke:

[chill_wind]

7. Yeah, this.

[Dappleganger]

9. Cockroaches.

Can't kill 'em, they keep coming back.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Not "demonstrating against the National Health Service"; Business Insider is ignorant

They were demonstrating in favour of the NHS, and against cuts to it, and against its privatisation:

Mistaking medics chanting “Save Our NHS” and “No More Cuts” for an ­unemployed mob, he ­sneeringly mouths: “Get a job.” A laughing friend shares his sick joke.
...
“If it wasn’t for the greed of bankers the economy wouldn’t be in such a mess and there’s a good chance the NHS wouldn’t have to be making devastating cuts.

“We were marching for the rights of ordinary people. To be abused like this was sickening.”
...
The 1,000-strong march was staged to protest against David Cameron’s plans – never ­mentioned in the Tory manifesto last year – to tear up the structure of the NHS to bring in more private enterprise.The protest passed Deutsche Bank’s City base en route to world-famous St Bart’s hospital.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/03/13/banker-suspended-after-sunday-mirror-challenges-deutsche-bank-over-10-taunt-to-nurses-and-doctors-115875-22985602/#ixzz1GbYrgDLt

Or, alternatively, Business Insider was purposely putting capitalist spin on it.

[chill_wind]

13. Good catch, That blew right by me, because it's not the first time

the UK bankers have made the news doing this to protesters. I wish I could the pics on DU, because I remember there were threads on them.

http://groovedamage.blogspot.com/2009/04/reprinted-from-ap.html

(G-20 protests)
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2009/04/01/barack-obama-in-london/us-president-at-downing-street-as-police-battle-g20-demo-protestors.html