Pickering wrote that he was "regularly held up at gunpoint" by employees who demanded higher pay, in the form of bonuses, to prevent them being lured elsewhere.
He had been strapped into a van packed with explosives and was forced to drive the vehicle towards an army vehicle checkpoint while his family were held at gunpoint back in their Derry home.
I've also contended with quicksand, nearly drowning in rapids, being held at gunpoint, and been made to sing (terribly) for our local hosts.
Yukos was the largest oil company in Russia when, in 2003, Khodorkovsky was arrested at gunpoint on an airport runway in Siberia.
At gunpoint, blank-faced SS officers manhandle the twisted bodies of the prisoners they starved to death, slinging them into gigantic burial pits that will eventually be filled with thousands of corpses.
But the part of this tale that most visibly affects Ernesto is the memory of looking on helplessly as many of his classmates were bundled into police vehicles at gunpoint and driven away.
Forced onto a ship at gunpoint by the military police in Cooktown, McIvor remembers the tears in elders' eyes as the sight of their tropical northern homeland receded.
In the last three years, Edinson Cavani, Samuel Eto'o, Wesley Sneijder and Mario Balotelli have all had their homes broken into, while Marek Hamsik has been robbed at gunpoint.
A man filming his bike ride with a GoPro camera captures the moment a man on a motorbike tries to rob him at gunpoint.
The second two, in the 80s, told a much darker story of her being raped, beaten, prostituted and forced into pornography at gunpoint by Traynor.
Human Rights Watch documented cases in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including a female headteacher who was briefly abducted from her school at gunpoint and subjected to a "people's tribunal", before being released.
