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File this under “careers you don’t want”
Posted by: | CommentsI just read the strangest news story about six men who broke into a man’s hotel room earlier this month and beat him and his best friend with baseball bats, a golf club, and brass knuckles because they were trying to leave the crew.
This wouldn’t be unusual if the “crew” the men were trying to leave was a street gang or the Mafia, but it was a magazine-selling crew. Even stranger? There have been 86 (!) deaths connected to magazine crews over the last several years.
Apparently, the magazine-selling industry, which includes about 200 of these crews, is “unregulated and thrives on violence and coercion.”
There’s even a watchdog website called Parent Watch that tracks the violence associated with these crews, and tries to educate parents and the media about how they lure young people by promising a life of travel and good times, and then trap them in 14-hour workdays, low pay, and apparently, beatings if they try to leave.
Um, what?!
Forget Global Warming, this is the real proof that the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
Stay tuned for an expose on the dangers of selling Amway products.
