January 30, 2005

Scary Stuff, Kids...

We were dismayed to see that somebody in Ohio shot his supervisor and a couple of other co-workers, then killed himself. Violence is never the solution to your problems (that's our theory, and we're sticking with it!).

But here's the unusual part. The supervisor who this melon offed was named Roy Thacker. Probably a common name - although we haven't heard it for some time. Not since we were living in Toronto in the eighties, and (hopefully a different) Roy Thacker was one of our co-workers at Tilden Car Rental (now a wholly owned subsidiary of National Car Rental). The Roy Thacker we knew was also a bit younger than us; the guy in the article is a few years older than we are. So we fervently hope that our old friend was not offed by his interaction with yet another mentally unbalanced individual residing in Ohio. And Roy, if you are within viewing distance of this post, give us a shout one of these days. We can reminisce about old times and catch up on our activities since we went our separate ways...

Posted by (: Tom :) at January 30, 2005 11:43 PM