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He’s a ruh-TARD.
The clueless CEO in charge of the upstate Indian Point nuclear plant had a stunning meltdown in judgment when he kicked off an investor meeting by displaying the quote from the movie “The Hangover,” “By the way, we’re all gonna die!”
In a bonehead attempt to ease fears about potential disaster, Wayne Leonard, the boss at New Orleans-based energy conglomerate Entergy, littered his 111-page presentation with pictures and lines from the hit 2009 movie.
The slides, making up the first five pages and then randomly scattered throughout, included the characters discussing how to pronounce “retard” and the question, “Would you please put some pants on? I feel weird having to ask you twice.”
He also stuffed the pages with the film’s funniest moments, including three frames from the scene where Mike Tyson knocks out Zach Galifianakis and the classroom Tasering of the three main stars.
Leonard — whose April 29 presentation came just seven weeks after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear disaster — said his point was that worries about safety are sinking the stock price of his highly profitable company.
“It’s a comedy of how one things leads to another when you lose control of what’s taking place,” Leonard said of the movie, about a bachelor party in Las Vegas that careens wildly out of control.
He also dismissed the risks of nuclear energy by offering a bizarre array of more probable ways to die, including fireworks, legal execution, bee stings and lightning.
Entergy’s earnings have broken records in 10 of the past 11 years, but Leonard complained the stock price remains too low.
“Everything seems to be going well,” he said. “Then you look at the stock price and all of a sudden it’s a very bad day. You feel like you’ve woken up with a hangover when the stock market closes that day.”
Company officials struggled yesterday to explain Leonard’s “Hangover” obsession.
“Wayne’s a movie buff. He often uses movies in his presentations,” said company spokesman Chanel Lagarde.
The spokesman then inexplicably declared that “no one has died as a result of a nuclear accident. Not at Japan, not Russia, not Three Mile Island.”
No one definitely knows how many victims might ultimately die from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the then-Russian region of Ukraine — though some authorities put the figure at 4,000.
Some workers at the tsunami-stricken Japanese nuclear plants are believed to have received lethal radiation doses.
Federal officials are in the midst of a years-long review of the Indian Point reactors.