Extraordinary video footage of HS2 night-shift workers firing a powerful air rifle inside a workshop led to a police investigation, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Five workers were sacked from the £100billion rail project after a whistleblower came forward with allegations concerning the 'dangerous and unethical' behaviour of his colleagues.
No one likes a Karen (though as this is a bloke, perhaps a Kevin?):
Footage captured by Aminadab Enos de Souza Dias, 42, showed mechanics at HS2's construction site in West Ruislip, London, whiling away the early hours blasting targets with an air rifle while listening to heavy metal music.
Clearly determined to ruin their hearing!
Mr Dias, a fitter's mate from Brazil, also submitted a dossier of maintenance and safety concerns, including photographs of his colleagues asleep on the job, and alleged he was subjected to 'verbal abuse, xenophobic comments and intimidation'.
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The Government ordered an investigation after Mr Dias emailed the then Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to warn him that the gun had been smuggled into the West Ruislip site, where an 8.4-mile tunnel is being dug.
Bet his SPADs loved that!
Mr Dias claims the air rifle – owned by mechanic Keith Mewes – was kept at the site for more than two months in the spring of 2025. He said the gun was 'frequently' used on site, adding: 'I left Brazil looking for a safer and better life. Ironically, I was forced to return.'
You were forced to return to a country where street gangs rule the streets because some people were whiling away their spare time with some target practice after hours?
4 comments:
"Powerful air rifle": about as powerful as any other legal air rifle. The Stoeger X20 S2 is not anything special. Entry to mid level.
On the other hand a Weihrauch HW100 is a different animal, truly excellent, and accurate.
He thought a 'powerful air rifle' was such a threat he returned to Brazil? Its a good thing he didn't come to America - I routinely carried a 9mm pistol while working and my boss would take a pellet gun and shoot pigeons that had infested one of our large unoccupied buildings.
Plus the air rifle in question is actually low powered. Break-action piston in .177 cal. We have air rifles here that can take down deer. .50 to .72 caliber.
Still not powerful.
At least the snitch has fucked off home now. Can't for the life of me understand that getting people fired lead to him becoming unpopular.
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