17/11/05 Leathered up in an Irish Novemberfest

http://www.smh.com.au/news/cbd/leathered-up-in-an-irish-novemberfest/2005/11/13/1131816806880.html?page=2
There was more security than your average G8 meeting at the Brambles annual meeting on Friday. Chairman "Our Don" Argus left it to many security guards to give a few keen shareholders a polite "don't argue" when they got too close to the stage at the end of proceedings.

The pallets may have been found but Brambles still finds ways to entertain shareholders. This year it was a giant screen beaming a slide-show behind the directors. The idea worked well when Our Don stopped at 11am and asked everyone to stand for a minute's silence. Big poppy field behind him.

But the other slides were more questionable. At one point there appeared a picture of an elderly man (looking surprisingly like Don Argus) at his country home putting out the rubbish - directly on to Don Argus' head. Then there was the forklift bearing a huge pile of pallets about to dump on chief David Turner and chief bean counter Michael Ihlein.
Controversy brewing