I wonder if he belonged to a church. It’s an incredibly pathetic story.
Who knows where they were when he died, but I can assure you they will be seen at an attorney's office very soon.
A young person may have been able to survive the low temperatures. Elderly folks don’t have a chance.
We’re from the government and we’re here to help.
What a sad story.
There is no excuse for this.
How hard could it be to look at the file of this guy and see that this was a very old man who most likely needed a little help and some kindness?
I guess that's another mistake I've made.
Very sad.
But I wonder. When the press is in multicultural mode, they defend the practice among some tribal peoples in the far north of senilicide by hypothermia, saying that hypothermia is a peaceful and painless death.
Now, when it happens in the lower 48 thanks to government malfeasance (can you imagine the firestorm if it had been a private utility?), hypothermia is described as a slow, painful death.
Anyone reading the thread ever have an near brush with death by hypothermia and care to comment from experience?
Article says he had no children and his wife passed several years ago. He owed $1,100 and the neighbor that found him found the bill on the table with cash clipped to it.
IMHO, cutting someone power when temps are that low just shouldn't be done.
How could such a tragedy happen in a state and city run by do-gooder Democrats?
Hey, the real story is that this man had no family. The GOVERNMENT run utility installed a device on his electricity that limited the amount of power he could draw into his house. If he went over, it shut it off like a circuit breaker. His furnace did not run! He froze! The city run utility did this to him!
He had money on his kitchen table clipped to utility bills, it sort of sounds like he had the money but just had not paid the bill. Sometimes people in their 90’s forget things. For sure no one should have expected him to remember how to go out and reset his limiter device on the power pole.
It is a little different write-up in the local paper and explains a few more details:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172273/posts
If this had been Consumers Energy, the big utility in the area, I’m sure heads would be rolling. This is a small town that does not let Consumers provide power, they have their own city run utility. The city is run by clowns, for the most part.
Granholm hates old people!
Dreadful. RIP. Heads need to roll for this, someone at the utility company should be held criminally liable for this death.
93 years old huh? Are they sure this person didn’t die of old age?