Guardian:
Thieves haved raided a Samsung electronics factory in Brazil during the night shift, subduing workers and guards before making off with about US$6.3m worth of mobile phones and computers.
The gang of heavily armed men captured eight plant employees as they neared the factory in a company bus just before midnight, said civil police in São Paulo state.
They stole the workers’ ID tags and took two of them with them as hostages as they entered the factory in the college town of Campinas. The remaining six employees were taken to an unknown location.
Once inside the gang overpowered security guards and spent more than three hours in the plant trucking out the electronics.
A real black eye for Brazil as a home for future electronics manufacturing.
How is it a black eye for Brazil, exactly? Seems like these guys were well organized, had plenty of resources, and planned everything in advance. Could happen in many places.
True, but it didn’t happen anywhere. It happened in Brazil.
Hopefully the hostages will be rescued before the thieves discover they need to give away at least half the phones with their stolen Samsung fridges and washing machines.
Er, it happened in Brazil? They’ve been trying to attract manufacturing there?
If they don’t stop this and other types of piracy, the country is likely to fail.
In the US it’s just done on a much larger scale with suits and scotch and the whole country is taken hostage.
It couldn’t have been that well planned, considering they chose a Samsung plant.
Are you suggesting that Brazil is somehow safe? That that is the reason companies are there?