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cantproveidid t1_jaaoa1n wrote

That should be easy. Identify all stockholders, the board and executive officers. Divide the amount of waste by that number, deliver the wasted to each of the above's homes.

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meowzedong1984 t1_jaapbqg wrote

Let’s be honest their short sighted greed driven mindset would just drive them to dump it down the nearest storm drain

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JohnSpartans t1_jachfo7 wrote

They are def those neighbors who's downspouts just pour right into their neighbors yards with no regard for mitigation.

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KevinTheSeaPickle t1_jae5hef wrote

Easy solution, just break a basement window and pipe that shit right back where it came from.

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iksbob t1_jaeatal wrote

Spread it over their lawn. The solution to pollution is dilution, right?

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WirelessBCupSupport t1_jad4pch wrote

FEDEX driver in my neighborhood ALWAYS fails to deliver to correct address. Might consider USPS with COD...

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somereallyfungi t1_jaclxsf wrote

The board and c-suite, sure. But going after stock holders is a pretty futile idea as blame is so distributed. Norfolk Southern is an almost incomprehensible large company, in terms of ownership. The single largest shareholder is the mutual fund Vantage (in turn owned by some 30 million private investors) and they only hold about 8% of Norfolk.

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HandsyBread t1_jacpvtf wrote

It’s more likely then not that most people who have any money invested into an index fund, 401k, retirement savings account owns some of the company.

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somereallyfungi t1_jacrm30 wrote

There is a silver lining to this distribution, though. Norfolk could be driven to bankruptcy without a significant hit to most portfolios. Unfortunately, this doesn't actually solve the problem at hand. But, the punishment could be so severe as to actually be a deterrent for cost cutting.

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HandsyBread t1_jactqpm wrote

This accident will not bankrupt Norfolk, let’s assume they had to purchase in full every single house (which won’t happen) you would be looking at $250M-1B at most, and then let’s say the total clean up cost was $1-2B. And let’s add another $500M-1B for other misc legal fees, damages, political bribes, etc. the total damage your looking at is $2-3B maybe $4B if they are able to squeeze them for every possible thing and the courts slap on additional fines. Heck even if they needed to give $1M per person to cover life long health costs, and other personal damages that would tack on other $4-5B at most.

That would just mean that they would take a loss of profits for 1-2 years. This won’t bankrupt the company or get close to bankrupting the company. And that outcome is likely to never happen, we would never see a company held responsible to this degree, but even if we did they would still be fine in the long run.

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Squire_II t1_jadbf54 wrote

> That would just mean that they would take a loss of profits for 1-2 years.

5 billion isn't even a year of profit. They're spending more than that on stock buybacks and shareholder dividends this year.

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