Six months ago, Maurice Taylor Jr., the American CEO of Titan International, responded to a request for his company to buy a failing Goodyear tire factory in France with: “How stupid do you think we are?”

More evidence has come to light that Taylor was right to avoid this place like the plague: the workers, facing layoffs because they and their factory just aren’t very good, decided to kidnap several of the managers and hold them for ransom:

French Workers Hold Goodyear Managers Over Jobs