Angry Worker Who Destroyed A Travelodge Over Unpaid Wages Actually Just Forgot To Check His Bank Account

Metro- The digger driver who destroyed the entrance of a newly built Travelodge in an alleged dispute over pay might just have needed to check his bank balance, colleagues have said. A crowdfunder was set up for the builder after video showed him smashing through the reception on Monday when it was claimed he was owed money for work. At the time, a colleague said he hadn’t been paid for multiple days but it has now emerged that the driver had been paid – he just hadn’t checked his account before the rampage.  In the video the builder is heard shouting: ‘I told you 600 f***ing quid’, as he ploughs through glass windows, wrecking the ceiling and front desk. He is said to have caused extensive damage to the hotel in Liverpool Innovation Park which has not yet been opened to the public.

Aw damn. I was fully on this guy’s side about getting angry over unpaid wages until he simply forgot to check his bank account and it turned out he actually had been paid. Up until that point though, I couldn’t have been more pro-destroying that Travelodge with a digger machine. It was an extreme measure but extreme measures are necessary when the pay check doesn’t hit your bank account. I’m certainly not saying that unpaid government workers should start driving construction machinery into buildings but it might not be the worst idea. Maybe start a fire or two to speed up the process. Just a thought.

The fact that a GoFundMe was started for the guy is a little much. The bar for what needs a GoFundMe is impossibly low. I think I could trip and fall and scrape my knee and people would start a GoFundMe. There needs to be a GoFundMe Common Sense Committee and I volunteer to be on it. A family dog needs heart surgery to survive? Approved. A little boy needs to raise money after losing a limb in a tragic playground accident? Approved. A guy is pissed because he thought his company forgot to pay him so he goes all Rampage King Kong on a travel agency? Denied.