Your Money or Your Life

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There’s an old Jack Benny skit in which the comedian is approached by a thug who demands, “Your money or your life!”  Jack Benny hesitates, then finally says, “I’m thinking it over…”  The audience roars with laughter.

What’s show-biz funny can be tragic in real life.  When workers at the candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky recently heard tornado sirens, some asked to go home.  These requests were allegedly “rebuffed,” and many remained on the job.

The factory was subsequently reduced to rubble.  Employee McKayla Emergy wound up in the hospital with serious injuries after being "trapped for six hours."  Coworker Mark Saxton stated, “It hurts, ‘cause I feel like we were neglected.”

Resources

https://news.yahoo.com/factory-bosses-workers-tornado-leave-214937404.html 

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