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LOOKING
FORWARD
IN ANGST
JASON
LINKINS
HUFFINGTON
02.02.14
GETTING AWAY WITH
IT IN WEST VIRGINIA
OU KNOW, if I were
to walk out of my office right now with a
couple of cans of spray
paint and a ball peen hammer, and
set about vandalizing the local
Citibank branch across the street,
those actions would carry some
natural consequences. It’s pretty
much a given that I’d be arrested
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on the spot, earn a no-brainer arraignment, and get convicted in
a fairly open-and-shut case. I’d
have to make legal and financial
restitution, and maybe do a little
time. I’d certainly be stripped of
a lot of privileges. It would be really hard for The Huffington Post
to continue to extend the courtesy
of continued employment to me.
My life, in other words, would get
a lot harder to live, and deservedly
so. Those sorts of actions bring a
Work
continued
around
storage tanks
at Freedom
Industries
storage
facility in
Charleston,
W. Va., on
Jan. 13.