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Doomed nursing home had offer of bus transport
Times-Picayune (New Orleans) ^
| Saturday, September 10, 2005
| Paul Rioux
Posted on 09/10/2005 10:07:46 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Sidebar Moderator
oops i screwed up, title parens should say OWNER refused help, not coroner!
To: Mount Athos
Coroner Bryan Bertucci made an urgent call to the owner of St. Rita's Nursing Home near Poydras. "I told her I had two buses..."
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Coroner snubbed help? Sounds like he offered help.
To: Grizzled Bear
Dang. You're too fast for me.
To: Mount Athos
Stupid, stupid people. It's one thing for the owner not to want to leave...that's her choice...but to make that choice for the people who live there is unfathomable.
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:12:06 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: Admin Moderator
hey could you fix title parens for me, should say "owner refused help" not "coroner refused help".
Sorry for mistake in posting.
To: Mount Athos
My guess: nursing home owner decided that per-diem fees would stop if they were evacuated, and they had a generator, so ...
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:15:34 PM PDT
by
ikka
To: Mount Athos
5 nurses + generator vs. 1 wall of water.
wall of water wins.
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:16:40 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
To: Mount Athos
Wow - nursing home admin is culpable here and disgusting...sounds like involuntary manslaughter. She should be thrown in jail pronto...
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:21:48 PM PDT
by
Danno
To: Mount Athos
oops i screwed up, title parens should say OWNER refused help, not coroner! Maybe the coroner was a co-owner.
To: HiTech RedNeck
Wall of water always wins.
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:22:45 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(I'm paraphrasing someone else's tagline: Read comment, think, then post reply...always in that order)
To: Mount Athos; Happy2BMe; Memother; chesty_puller; Bigun; JohnHuang2; mhking; ...
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:24:54 PM PDT
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(secus acutulus exspiro ab Acheron bipes actio absol ab Acheron supplico)
To: Mount Athos
As far as I'm concerned that was a criminal choice.
These people were in her care. She was grossly negligent in that care that resulted in the death of 30+ people.
Manslaughter at a minimum.
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:25:39 PM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: Mount Athos
Once we start punishing poor decisions, we'll run out of wardens.
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:26:21 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(Some infinitives deserve to be split.)
To: Hildy
Ask yourself this...if you had the buses...where would you go with 100-odd old geezers? This is a situation where a state-mandated plan should have existed for every hospital and every old-folks home. The interesting thing here is that in Florida...most old-folks homes evac to the local shelter...they don't drive clear across the region.
I can see a massive lawsuit on this case...the place will be out of business and face millions in court. Again, that pure Louisiana attitude about not running or getting away. What else can you say?
To: Old Professer
Some decisions are extraordinarily poor and have real consequences.
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:27:36 PM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: Hildy
Stupid, stupid rat creatures!
That's more like it.
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:27:44 PM PDT
by
spinestein
(Forget the Golden Rule. Remember the Brazen Rule.)
To: Danno
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:28:44 PM PDT
by
flowergirl
(Trust in the Lord with all your heart)
To: DB
That ought not make them criminal.
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:30:46 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(Some infinitives deserve to be split.)
To: Old Professer
Poor decisions are one thing, poor decisions that kill 30 people are another.
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posted on
09/10/2005 10:39:12 PM PDT
by
SengirV
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