Office Worker Forgets His Meds, Goes on Rampage

Published on June 6th, 2008

Posted by McCullough in General

This guy is having a real bad day. Bonus: It looks like he gets tased at the end.

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# 1 tdkyo said, on June 6th, 2008 at 11:23 am

That’s why we need yoga.

# 2 John C Dvorak said, on June 6th, 2008 at 11:27 am

That’s why we need bigger offices..this place is ridiculous. LET PEOPLE WORK FROM HOME!!

# 3 peter_m said, on June 6th, 2008 at 11:28 am

I blame working in cramped cubicles!

But seriously it’s sad.

Peter

# 4 peter_m said, on June 6th, 2008 at 11:31 am

Anyone know the background on this guy’s story? Any links?

# 5 Improbus said, on June 6th, 2008 at 11:31 am

Wow, my cube is palatial by comparison.

# 6 TatooYou said, on June 6th, 2008 at 11:33 am

His co-workers inaction is just as bad as the hit and run clip. The first guy he hit over the head should have opened a can-O-whoop-ass on him.

# 7 Olo Baggins of Bywater said, on June 6th, 2008 at 11:35 am

Never seen a monitor come loose from the VGA connector that easily….twice!

# 8 andy said, on June 6th, 2008 at 11:47 am

it gets better. notice the guy filming everything on his phone? well check this out:

# 9 Les said, on June 6th, 2008 at 11:51 am

#7, exactly what I was thinking. That kinda made me think staged.

# 10 jim h said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

If it’s staged, it’s well done. But those cubicle partitions are heavy and normally locked together pretty well. I have doubts when I see the guy just grabbing them and flinging them around.

# 11 Dave T said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Fake – there’s a bunch of these going around. The just showed a similar one on Diggnation a couple of weeks ago.

# 12 framitz said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Not partitions he’s throwing around, it white boards and black boards. More clear on the Utube video linked by Andy.

It took long enough for anyone to actually try to stop him.

# 13 Brandon said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Yeah, when I saw the original video the first thought that popped into my head was that it was staged, (the guy starts out in the middle of the frame, seems to be doing things so that the camera can see it, etc.). The second video, however, suggests to me that it could be more real, someone genuinely gone berserk, especially since they seem to be yelling in some sort of Eastern European language. It could still be fake, but I’m definitely leaning more towards a genuine crazy person now.

# 14 Gary, the dangerous infidel said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

At least with the rampage at this link, there’s no doubt that it’s staged…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayeuHFe6dhw

# 15 Russ said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

They are talking in Russian in the second video. All I heard was the guy screaming, “Help me!” and the woman screaming “Stop it! You’ll kill him!” Then the security guard in the end says, “Alright, that’s it, take the phone away…”

# 16 jim h said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

#12, at 1:53 he grabs a cubicle “wall” and throws it. But they look like crappy, temporary partitions.

What the heck is that sledge-hammer or croquet mallet or whatever it is he so conveniently gets ahold of?

# 17 jim h said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

I guess it’s a coat rack. Funny that there’s a break in the video exactly at the point where he apparently grabs it.

# 18 Jim said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

TOTALLY FAKE!! Give me a break! If someone were going on like that, a bunch of guyes would be all over him. Please.

# 19 The Monster's Lawyer said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

Whatever. He’s my hero.

# 20 gquaglia said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean?

# 21 echeola said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

When I worked in the cube farm, I totally wanted to tear it apart.

# 22 Neal at Into Your Head said, on June 6th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

Why does somebody always have to spoil the fun by pointing out that it might be staged? Who cares?

# 23 Jägermeister said, on June 6th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

Here’s the translated version.

# 24 chuck said, on June 6th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Ok, I admit it.
It was me.
I wasn’t off my meds.
I had just installed Vista.
User Account Control was just driving me up the wall.

Allow? Cancel?
Kill! Kill! Kill!

# 25 framitz said, on June 6th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

I doubt it’s staged, note the monitor hitting the woman in the face and chest. The monitor’s weight looked about right based on the way the guy threw it.

# 26 ridlr said, on June 6th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

fake – camera date in corner says 6/2008. how come everyone is using crt displays? there may be one (or two)

# 27 Mister Ketchup said, on June 6th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

My kinda guy! Jeez, I wonder what meds he missed. Maybe it was a tranquilizer gun.

# 28 Jägermeister said, on June 6th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

#26 – ridlr – how come everyone is using crt displays?

There are quite a few offices who still got the good old CRTs.

# 29 Mister Mustard said, on June 6th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

http://eyegas.com/cubiclefreakout/

I got 82% for destruction, 100% for distance throwing the monitor. I could give the guy in the video a run for his money, even if I don’t have access to a pickaxe.

# 30 Ron Larson said, on June 6th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

I saw that video, which game me two observations.

(1) They cubicles are tiny! What a horrible place to work.

(2) What kind of business sets up a surveillance camera of their office workers?

Based on these two observations, I think it was a crappy place to work and they might have had it coming.

# 31 Miss_X2b said, on June 6th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

The date on the camera is 5/23/2008 and the time stamp starts at 12:10 p.m. and continues to change until the end of the video when it reads 12:13 p.m. This might be real, the time lapse of the camera is consistent with the length of the video. Those people are packed in like sardines in a can. No wonder the guy flipped out.

# 32 Arous said, on June 6th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

Well, it’s official then; this is just some sort of elaborate hoax.

# 33 drben said, on June 6th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

I vote for “real”. People got hurt with the thrown monitors. “Weapon looked to me like a T-Square used in drafting.

Psychotic Break looked pretty real especially the second camera. God bless cell phones. Anyone have luck finding the original?

# 34 LtJackboot said, on June 6th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

If that woman who got hit in the chest with the crt monitor was acting, I’ll eat my hat AND vote for her at the Oscars.

# 35 satman said, on June 6th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

#23 Jäger, Thanks a lot . I snorted diet coke up my nose….

# 36 jim h said, on June 6th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

The “weapon” is a coat rack that is originally standing by the door in front of a file cabinet in the far corner. During the brief interruption in the video, the guy gets ahold of it and you’ll see it’s no longer in front of the file cabinet. There’s something fishy about that interruption.

# 37 BigBoyBC said, on June 6th, 2008 at 5:42 pm

# 23 Jägermeister,

Thanks for the translation, made my day…

# 38 Jägermeister said, on June 6th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

#35 – satman
#37 – BigBoyBC

I’m glad you enjoyed it. Diet Coke up the nose… that got to get the tears going…

# 39 jccalhoun hates the spam filter said, on June 6th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

ever so fake.

# 40 Aaron said, on June 6th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

Fake? Real? Do I care? No, because I was entertained.

# 41 Ikon said, on June 6th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

Reminds me of the old one of the guy throwing stuff around and you could see that the computers, keyboards, and monitors were not plugged in. Didn’t anyone else notice that the first monitor he throws has absolutely no cables attached? I watched it a bunch of times in slow-mo and there is no hesitation or jerking at all when he picks up the monitor. My vote is complete fake. The woman getting hit with the monitor could be part of the act of an accident during shooting.

# 42 FlexiJoe said, on June 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

I’ve always said that nothing good ever comes from showing up at the office.

# 43 Libertican said, on June 6th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

Fake or not, here are more things that put it in the fake column:
-no women leave the room, not even the initial CRT throw victim, as a guy I would have been overly protective of the women and escorted them out if they were willing
-the cubicles are sardined together with chairs back to back even with no one sitting in them
-the camera date/time graphic has a background, I am no video expert but aren’t they usually superimposed over the video image, could be wrong
-I know its not the US, but the business dress attire is a little too formal for a sardine cubicle farm with CRT technology
-what company approved the release of a security camera feed so soon after the incident, if the phone video was released to youtube, I wouldn’t release more damaging video for people to critique

# 44 RadioNed said, on June 6th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

@23… Jager, that translation rocks! just needed some Heat Vision & Jack to the rescue.

Hi larious

# 45 ChuckM said, on June 6th, 2008 at 8:09 pm

Complete total Fake. I’ve watched it twice and I can still list from memory the problems.

1. Guy knocks over paper, steps back on purpose.
2. Women barely get’s hit yet is hurt.
3. Guy has no troubles picking up monitors, not plugged in.
4. All the dividers are not connected, so easily pulled out.
5. Has to be the worse ‘stage fight” with the small guy somehow managing to grab the bar and wrestle it off him. Worse than high school play. If you wrestle a bar off someone, he keep holding and maybe use it on the guy yourself.
6. Small guy gets hit in the head with what? Paper? Oh my, he’s holding his head he too must be hurt. Ya, right.
7. Everyone is doing a good job standing out of the way of the camera.
8. Overhead camera is dead center on the guy freaking out. Thank goodness it all stays in frame.
9. Guy’s “slip” at the end before being “taken down” is the worse fake slip I’ve seen. Good thing they wait till he lands before the “rough” him up by putting him on the floor.
10. I doubt two guys would wait for him to fall, he’d be taken out while he’s standing up there.
11. Guy gives up way too easily.

# 46 zzzzz said, on June 6th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

I used to put those partition together. They are screwed in tight, and they don’t easily come apart.

What a dump place to work for. I would have gone out like him on 2nd in that place!

# 47 FrRalphZ said, on June 6th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

Obviously what happened here is that they upgraded this guy’s PC with Vista. That would explain everything.

# 48 Ooboontoo said, on June 7th, 2008 at 4:49 am

I did a bit of searching on Russian websites for info about this. Here’s what I found:

http://ricn.ru/?p=1220 – Mentions that it’s at the Moscow-based offices of The Yellow Pages. Ownership and top management have been changing, as well as listening in on employees and reading their personal letters to other employees. The guy who blew his top wasn’t paid his commission by the company. The article refers to a LiveJournal post, but I haven’t found it yet. Anyway, it all starts when the guy was frustrated after not being paid his commission and a coworker named Igor came over to rub his face in it a bit, saying, “Well, it looks like you’ll be vacationing in the Crimea instead of Thailand this year!”. Some of the comments in Russian are from people who think it’s a PR campaign to get the name Yellow Pages on people’s tongues (I doubt any company would encourage PR about how horrible management is, though).

# 49 Ooboontoo said, on June 7th, 2008 at 5:08 am

A bit more about this from Live Journal. http://puzzloy.livejournal.com/21182.html (this guy seems to post a lot about the horrible working conditions at Yellow Pages). This basically sums up what I mentioned above, but adds a bit more about the company. It seems that newspaper Kommersant has recently singled out Yellow Pages as a place with a very poor “psychological climate”, as well as a financial mess. Swedish businessmen have taken over and barely speak any Russian.

It should be noted that the employees in the cellphone clip are actually speaking with Moscow accents.

# 50 Ikon said, on June 7th, 2008 at 6:24 am

Well, no wonder he didn’t get his commission: none of his computer equipment is plugged in !

# 51 Eden said, on June 7th, 2008 at 6:39 am

Fake. No one tried to stop him? No one ran away? It was entertaining, but clearly staged. What office has big pie charts and graphs on the wall? Not buying it.

# 52 eyeofthetiger said, on June 7th, 2008 at 7:43 am

People often disassociate when in a sudden violent situation, therefore, people standing around with a dazed glare not sure what to do is not uncommon. The fact that there are crt’s and cubicles that are not screwed in tight does not mean the event is staged. Only reason I get the quaint feeling that this was a staged event is that in Russia strange staged events are a huge fad. In any case if I seen someone throw a monitor at a lady like that they would not be walking out of that office.

# 53 Robert Barr said, on June 7th, 2008 at 8:38 am

I’ve done that!

# 54 Ooboontoo said, on June 7th, 2008 at 9:40 am

So you’re saying that you’d run up and try to subdue a raging maniac? You’re a heck of a lot braver than I am.

I don’t know if I can believe it or not. The first monitor doesn’t seem to have the cord attached at all (unless it’s just not screwed in – come to think of it, I never used to screw those cables in either), the second (?) that he throws actually seems to be attached to the cable, as it flies a bit and then seems to meet some resistance. Oh well, real or fake, it’s got us talking.

# 55 Geoffrey said, on June 7th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

Why did you entirely censor my last comment on this topic, Dvorak?

Your excessive moderation is evil.

[Probably got caught in the spam catcher. If we remove something, we let you know. Sorry. - ed.]

# 56 briantw said, on June 7th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

As much as everyone likes to yell, “staged!” this is clearly real. Too much damage to property, and the people’s reaction is very realistic. The stunts are also too dangerous for a silly farce vid.

# 57 Mister Ketchup said, on June 7th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

#55 – Uh Geoffrey, where have you been? This is Dvorak Censored, don’t let the title fool you. And for God’s sake don’t call James HIll a flaming asshole.

[Just because you get censored all the time is no reason to get pissy. - ed.]

# 58 CubicleDweller said, on June 8th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

Never understood why people hated working in cubicles until I got a new job in march. It is so bad I had to start my own blog, but have been too depressed to be creative enough to add more content. (I’d love to feature guest cubicle bloggers) Even if that video is staged, I totally understand anyone who would lose it like that (not that I ever would of course http://www.caffeinatedcubicle.com

# 59 bobbo said, on June 8th, 2008 at 7:16 pm

#58–Cubicle==nice website.

Makes me appreciate the fact I have liked all the jobs I have had.

My first real job was cleaning out the poop underneath chicken cages. Did that for 3 years and worked my way up to driving the dump truck to the field where we dumped the chicken shit.

After that another 3 years with the USPO–both jobs were basically “outside” with many details left to my own discretion.

Maybe that is what is lost in the cubicle world–giving the worker freedom to select details?

If you don’t like your job, find another one, although indeed, it can be a challenge. Learn to daydream while looking intent?

I would delve into your website, but I don’t want to get depressed.

# 60 Leo said, on July 3rd, 2008 at 6:21 am

That is real. I have been a police officer and that is exactly how people act when they go off the deep end. The reaction of everyone around him is typical. Some will say to let him alone, others will want to approach him but not want to get hurt. If that happened if from of you, trust me you would hesitate to react as well. Having detained many crazies in New Orleans, I also hesitated at time to walk up to someone like that to stop them. Crazy people often have higher level of strength when ramaging. It is very scary and dangerouse to confront these people. I know because I have did it. Sometimes police have to kill them because they can not be controlled before they attempt to kill someone.

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