Outrageous video: CEO hides behind milk crates to avoid TV cameras

A local television reporter wanted to know why Mr. Fleming earned $1.8 million in salary and bonuses over a two-year period—even though job growth in the region has remained flat during his tenure.

So, the reporter followed Mr. Fleming to a speech at a local hotel and tried to talk to him before and after his talk.

Mr. Fleming tried to avoid the interview with a toxic mix of belligerence, anger, and defensiveness. But it was Fleming’s creative method of dodging a reporter—hiding in a hotel’s back hallway near a stack of milk crates—that will help this story jump the local fire line and turn it into national news.